Ringo Plays The Falls

Ringo Starr kicked off All-Starr Band Tour #10 Thursday night in Canada.

"After the first few songs, Starr went behind the drum kit and gave the floor to his band – Billy Squier, Gary Wright, Edgar Winter, Marvin Hamish of Average White Band and Colin Hay of Men at Work. The format is the same for every All-Starr band tour: Everyone plays a few of their own hits in-between Starr’s songs.

For a band that has been rehearsing barely ten days, they were remarkably tight. Hay’s “Down Under” and “Who Can It Be Now” were lively crowd-pleasers (highlighted by the spastic dance moves of one die-hard fan in the front row); Squier cut loose on “Lonely Is the Night” and “The Stroke,” while Wright got the crowd pumped with his ‘70s classics “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive.”

If the audience wasn’t familiar with Hamish, they sure recognized the groovy “Pick Up the Pieces” – a full-blown jam which had the Avalon bopping. It was topped by Winter’s “Frankenstein,” which had him racing around the stage playing sax, keyboards and drums. As always, it brought the house down.

“Being in this band, you wish you’d done all those numbers,” quipped Starr."

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