McCartney Times

One had to wonder, just days after the second weekend of Desert Trip, the California festival that gathered classic rock’s mightiest heroes for two era-concluding concerts, why Ringo Starr didn’t get the call. He is, after all, still touring and still the essential drummer who made the Beatles the most important musicians of their time—and a good chunk of the time after. Desert Trip was produced by Goldenvoice, the promoters behind Coachella, a festival known for reunions. Why not Ringo and headliner Paul McCartney, together again? It wouldn’t be the Beatles and it wouldn’t have to be. But it wasn’t at all.That all seems fine by Starr, whose All-Starr Band is its own traveling rock ‘n’ roll summit. On the third night of its latest tour, the group showed no signs of jealousy or FOMO at Keller Auditorium on Tuesday night. (No mention of old pal Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win, either, though his “It’s All Good” did make the pre-show playlist.) Instead, Starr, in his signature tinted glasses and punk-black pants with a remarkable amount of zippers, was a fountain of dry humor and peace sign gestures. They hadn’t come all this way, he explained before “It Don’t Come Easy,” “to be miserable.”

Source: Ringo Starr in Portland: An All-Starr evening with the Beatles legend | OregonLive.com