Ringo Video

[JoJo]

The video is called "Weight of the World", and I noticed something curious; how much the scene where the "strong man" is juggling the world is reminiscent of the MPL Communications logo: (The McCartney video production company)

You carry the weight, the weight of the world,
It's breakin' you down on your back like a boulder.



Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4E4VJJWJdM

[fourthousandholes]

I agree. There seems to be a lot more going on here than it would seem at first, but I'll have to
spend some more time on this when I have a chance.
Let's see... that would probably be after Christmas some time.

More about the song, and the album it came from.
It wasn't written by Ringo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Takes_Time

[DarkHorse]

A clue seems to be in Ringo's songs when he says "she" or "girl" he is talking about Bill or Paul.

[JoJo]

Another one, It Don't Come Easy. (no argument there)

Of note is Ringo playing a guitar left handed, hmmmm..

Oh yes, and a few frames from the Blue Jay Way video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLlE9pprhg

[plastic paul]

I was under the impression that Ringo was left handed. He learnt the drums on a right handed set because that was the way he saw everyone else playing them and it stuck. I'll try and find it somewhere.

[ Edited to make sense! ]

[DarkHorse]

Did anyone notice the pig mask? Hey didn't they have them in the Free As A Bird video also? Can't be just a coincidence....

[JoJo]

plasticpaul said:

I was under the impression that Ringo was left handed. He learnt the drums on a right handed set because that was the way he saw everyone else playing them and it stuck. I'll try and find it somewhere.

That has a familiar ring to it Plastic Paul, but he did play right handed in Help! when they performed "Another Girl"

[JoJo]

Watching Don't Come Easy again, I noticed that he doesn't use footage from Blue Jay Way, unless this is an unreleased outtake. I assume he did his own lookalike version..

[lili]

That's strange looking alright. [img src="http://galeon.hispavista.com/akostuff/img/Dunno2[1].gif"]

[TotalInformation]

A clue seems to be in Ringo's songs when he says "she" or "girl" he is talking about Bill or Paul.

I think you'll find this a recurring motif among any number of rock bands. No matter what topic the rockers were really writing about, the female pronoun is used to give the appearance of a "love song" which was the record labels wanted... this trend seemed to continue even after the labels were less single-minded about releasing only "silly love songs".

[DarkHorse]

totalinformation said:

A clue seems to be in Ringo's songs when he says "she" or "girl" he is talking about Bill or Paul.

I think you'll find this a recurring motif among any number of rock bands. No matter what topic the rockers were really writing about, the female pronoun is used to give the appearance of a "love song" which was the record labels wanted... this trend seemed to continue even after the labels were less single-minded about releasing only "silly love songs".

I agree Totally.

[plastic paul]

jojo said:

That has a familiar ring to it Plastic Paul, but he did play right handed in Help! when they performed "Another Girl"

Joe, i've edited my post so that it means that although Ringo is predominatly a leftie, he plays drums as a rightie due to how he learned.

Any other instrument (such as guitar), he may play left-handed because they knew he was a leftie.

[JoJo]

Right, I edited my quote to reflect your edit, so all is alright..

Of course it's quite rare to see Ringo with a guitar, (an instrument where handedness is apparent) but as I said, he played it right handed in Help! (or faked it, more likely) I've probably seen a few clips where he signed an autograph, but I don't remember..

[yellomattercustard]

I've seen a few pics of Ringo playing guitar right handed. Here's one....

www.momes.net/dictionnaire/s/ringostarr.jpg