Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band had solely performed 9 gigs earlier than COVID-19 put the musicians on pause. Now, months later, the group is again on tour with a model new EP and expertise from an sudden interest discovered whereas quarantining.
"You play it secure as a result of then you definately're protecting different individuals secure," Starr informed CBS Information senior tradition correspondent Anthony Mason.
Whereas at dwelling, the 82-year-old former drummer for the Beatles recorded two EP's, and just lately launched considered one of them titled EP3.
However together with creating music throughout lockdown, Starr stated a TikTok video he noticed impressed him to delve into spin paint — an artwork kind the place paint is poured onto a rotating canvas. He stated he is turned his dwelling gymnasium into an artwork room and remodeled a visitor home into a house studio in order that he can "splash paint round."
"I find it irresistible," he stated. "That is the magic of portray, you do one thing after which, 'Wow, look what got here out of it.'"
He in contrast the artwork kind to music however famous that whereas performing with others, "you all should play in the identical key."
His Band of All-Starrs is at the moment in its fifteenth lineup since Starr first assembled the group. He stated altering the members "retains it now."
The band now contains Edgar Winter, Steve Lukather of the band Toto, Colin Hay of the group Males at Work, Gregg Bissonette of David Lee Roth's band, Hamish Stuart of Common White Band and saxophonist Warren Ham.
"The rehearsals are at all times laborious the primary day," Starr stated.
The musician additionally mentioned the current Disney+ movie, "The Beatles: Get Again," directed by Peter Jackson. The three-part documentary sequence covers the making of the band's 1970 album "Let It Be." Starr, who was an govt producer for the documentary, praised Jackson.
"I like what he did," he stated.
The musician's ardour for the drums started on the age of 13, when Starr — whose actual identify is Richard Starkey — was hospitalized with tuberculosis.
"To maintain us busy, this girl got here in with a variety of triangles, tambourines, drums this huge that you simply hit and I hit that drum and I wished to be a drummer from that second," he stated.
At 20, Starr give up his job in a manufacturing facility to play with a band in Liverpool referred to as Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
"However each member of our household got here to our home to inform me, "Are you loopy?" he recalled.
Then in 1962, Ringo left the Hurricanes to affix the Beatles. In 1989, Starr created Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band.
"It labored out nicely," he stated.