![]() "I knew him before he quit drinking and, you know, he could be a touchy guy," he explained. Van Zandt admitted it had taken time to get comfortable with Ringo Starr. Luckily he spoke enough for us both and played some of the best rock ’n’ roll music I’d heard in years.” I had to remove myself because I wouldn’t have been able to speak. I couldn’t come over like a starry-eyed 13-year-old kid with a bunch of Beatles records. “The thing I realized was I had to get some distance. Recalling that his first conversation with Paul McCartney was to compare notes about running a radio show, he said, “I only knew him to say ‘hello’… we’d never talked face to face, but we spoke for an hour and he was amazing. See, it does matter – heroes can let you down."īut he spoke more warmly of many other influences, including two members of the Beatles. Van Zandt added that "to this day I don’t play any Freddie King licks. 45, which he grabs and gives me a fucking dirty look and tells me where to get off.” So my friend pushed me inside and said, ‘Let’s go in and meet him.’ Like a fool, I asked, ‘Could we have your autograph?’ He picks up a pillow off his bed, and underneath is a big fucking. “One of us noticed that Freddie King, who had opened the show, had his door ajar.
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