JUNE 16-22, 2016 WWW.WHATZUP.COM FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- June 16, 2016 whatzup Volume 20, Number 44 t’s not often (okay, it’s nearly never) that we feature a sold-out event on our cover. After all, we’re all about what there is to do, not what you missed – or are going to miss. But we’re talking Ringo Starr here. A Beatle. One of the most iconicI performers of the past 100 or so years. Hell, yeah, we’re putting him on our cover. No, he didn’t deign to talk to us, but Steve Penhollow talked to a lot of other people about him, and the results are some mighty fine reading on page 4 of this issue. If you can’t make the All-Starr Band show on Tuesday, June 21, the next best thing may be James McCartney’s show at the Brass Rail two days later. Two things you’ll want to know about this show: (1) The Orange Opera open, and (2) while his music sensibilities may differ from his famous father’s, James sounds a whole lot like that other Beatle. You know, the cute one. You can read up a bit on James McCartney on page 11. And if you can’t squeeze into the Rail for that show, you might want to consider catch- ing one of comedian/actor Brian Posehn’s two shows at CS3 that same night. If you don’t recognize the name, you’ll certainly recognize the face. Read Deb Kennedy’s feature on page 6. There’s more. Like Make Music Day 2016 which Michele DeVinney writes about in her Fare Warning column on page 16. Or Buskerfest, which is bouncing back after last year’s rain out, on Saturday, June 25. Michele has details on page 5. And Michele also profiles All Fired Up, a brand new band with some very familiar players, on page 6. That’s a lot of stuff. So read on, enjoy your week and remember to tell ’em whatzup sent you. inside the issue • features CURTAIN CALL ................................ 15 South Pacific RINGO STARR & HIS ALL-STARR BAND .......4 FARE WARNING ............................. 17 A Little Help from His Friends Make Music Day BUSKERFEST ..............................................5 FLIX ................................................. 18 Pitches & Circles Love and Friendship ALL FIRED UP ..............................................6 SCREENTIME ................................. 18 Reunited Brothers Horror Dominates the Box Office BRIAN POSEHN ..........................................6 ON BOOKS ...................................... 19 Living la Vida Nerd Seven Brief Lessons on Physics • columns & reviews • calendars SPINS ................................................7 LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ....................8 Secret Mezzanine, Mythic Sunship MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 12 BACKTRACKS ...................................7 ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 14 Styx, Equinox (1975) ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 15 AIRING THIS WEEKEND • JUNE 18 OUT AND ABOUT ...............................8 Trubble Brewing Holds Re-Opening STAGE & DANCE ............................ 15 PICKS ............................................. 11 THINGS TO DO ............................... 16 James McCartney Cover by Greg Locke Ringo Star Photos on Cover & Page 4 by Scott Ritchie Jake Shimabukuro ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 12 & Shawn Phillips AIRING NEXT WEEKEND • JUNE 25 WBOI Live Broadcast June 16, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ----------------- Feature • Ringo Star and His All-Starr Band ----------------- Allen County Public Library/Rock the Plaza .....................9 Allen County War Memorial Coliseum/Jim Gaffigan .......3 Arena Dinner Theatre/South Pacific ................................15 Beamer’s Sports Grill ..........................................................8 C2G Live/The TV Show .........................................................3 A Little Help from His Friends C2G Music Hall...................................................................14 By Steve Penhollow civilian was driving a state police vehicle,” whole time. Humphrey wrote. “Apparently, Ringo drove “In a band situation,” Simon said, Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits .........................11 Popular local drummer and drumming down an alley and hid there while the other “you’ve got drummers who can do that, who instructor Todd Harrold said his young stu- cop was trying to find them.” will go in and just lay time and play super Columbia Street West .........................................................9 dents care about exactly two bands that had Starr and George Harrison also got to solid. None of them get the credit. It takes a Downtown Improvement District/Buskerfest .............17 their heydays in the 1960s and 1970s: Led ride around the Indianapolis 500 track dur- lot to play simple and be disciplined and just Zeppelin and the Beatles. ing their visit, he wrote. make the music work.” Embassy Theatre ...............................................................14 The Rolling Stones no longer register A half-century has passed, yet the 75- There were a number of flashier rock Fort Wayne Dance Collective ...........................................17 for some reason, he said. year-old Starr (thanks, no doubt, to a combi- drummers than Starr in the 1960s, he said, The music of Led Zeppelin and the nation of good genes, good living and good but their flash wouldn’t have worked in the Fort Wayne Musicians Association ................................17 Beatles will live on indefinitely, of course. hair dye) looks very much the same. Beatles. But Led Zeppelin has no “face” at present, To this day, Starr is dogged by accusa- “Can you imagine what the Beatles Fort Wayne Parks Dept./Free Movies .............................14 Harrold said. tions that he isn’t a very good drummer, but would have been if Ginger Baker or Keith Fort Wayne Parks Dept./Osmond Brothers ..................17 “There’s nobody playing those songs, Harrold and fellow Fort Wayne drummer Ja- Moon would have been their drummer?” Si- really,” he said. mon said. “I really The Friendly Fox ..................................................................19 “But there’s still think they would Hamilton House Bar & Grill .................................................8 Ringo (Starr) and have sunk the (Paul) McCartney ship.” Hot 107.9/Summer Jam ................................................18 out there doing Harrold said Beatles stuff and I music history is IPFW/Community Arts Academy ....................................17 think that’s incred- awash in timeless Latch String Bar & Grill .......................................................8 ible.” drumming from Harrold said musicians who Nick’s Martini & Wine Bar .................................................11 Starr and McCart- were not master NIGHTLIFE .......................................................................8-11 ney are two of the technicians. last representatives “Ringo is Northside Galleries ..............................................................3 of an artistic renais- kind of the same sance that started in thing as the old Pacific Coast Concerts ........................................................2 the 1960s and end- Chess recordings PERFORMERS DIRECTORY .............................................10 ed in the late 1970s. with Odie Payne He believes that we and Fred Below,” he Riverpalooza ..........................................................................5 have not seen their said, “the old Chuck like since, and we Berry and Muddy Sweetwater Sound ....................................................... 9, 20 may never see their Waters recordings. Wagon Wheel/Joe Bachman ................................................5 like again. So it is If you go back and important for young listen to those, they Wooden Nickel Music Stores ..............................................7 people to see them RINGO STARR AND still sound great. If WXKE 96.3 .........................................................................18 live while they still you listen to ‘Forty can. HIS ALL-STARR BAND Days and Forty Young people and other people will 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 21 Nights’ by Muddy Waters – that came out, get their chance (or one of those chances) I think, in the late 40s. It was recorded in when Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band Foellinger Theatre Chicago with a drummer named Fred Be- whatzup performs at the Foellinger Theatre on June 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne low, and it still feels awesome. My god, it Published weekly and distributed on Wednesdays and 21. SOLD OUT feels awesome. Thursdays by AD Media, Incorporated. Starr has been joined on this tour by “Or Bobby Blue Bland’s ‘Further Up 2305 E. Esterline Rd., Columbia City, IN 46725 Phone: (260) 691-3188 • Fax: (260) 691-3191 Todd Rundgren, Santana’s Gregg Rolie, To- mie Simon say that such critiques don’t hold the Road’ with Jabo Starks, who later played E-Mail: [email protected] to’s Steve Lukather and Mr. Mister’s Rich- water. with James Brown,” Harrold said. “Those Website: http://www.whatzup.com ard Page. While it is indeed true, Harrold said, that still feel awesome. Those (drummers) were Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whatzupFortWayne Starr’s first visit to Indiana came in 1964 Starr is no master technician on that instru- not technicians. That didn’t come along