"Bad, Funny, and Martin: TFW  1:00 PM  vulture.com  Share  hat were your first impressions of the  Beatles?  That they were the worst musicians in the world.  They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was  the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo?  Don't even talk about it. I remember once we  were in the studio with George Martin, and  Ringo8 had taken three hours for a four-bar  thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn'it  get it. We said, ""Mate, why don't you get some  lager and lime, some shepherd's pie, and take an  hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit."" So he did  and we ca .  Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up.  Ringo comes back and says, ""George, can you  play it back for me one more time?"" So George  did, and Ringo says, ""That didn't sound so bad.""  And I said, ""Yeah, motherfucker because it ain't  you."" Great guy, though  lled Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer  95  Were there any rock musicians vou  thought were good?  360,605  People talking jumex:  I haven't finished it yet but this is so funny"
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