Many thanks for posting. Please listen to the show sometime?
Pete

--- In beatlesandbeyond5@..., "gerryyork"
<gerryyork@...> wrote:
>
> I am a lawyer in Tallahassee, Florida. As a 12 year old, I turned
on
> to "Let It Be" and never stopped listening. I have enjoyed this
group
> for a number of years, but have not posted. I finally saw Paul
> McCartney in 2002 and crossed Ringo Starr off my "bucket list"
this
> year. I thought some of you would enjoy my posting to the Yahoo
> Spooky Tooth Group.
> Regards
> Gerry York
> Tallahassee, Florida
>
>
> July 3, 2008
>
> About 9:30 yesterday morning I got an e-mail from a kind soul that
> there were two tickets waiting at the will call at Eckerd Hall in
> Clearwater, Florida for the Ringo Starr All Stars show, so my wife
> and I dropped everything – I was in the middle of a meeting at my
> government agency in Tallahassee, Florida! – and drove the five
hours
> from North Florida to the Tampa Bay area. It was great and there
was
> even a Spooky Tooth tune*** – sort of!!!!
>
> Here's the setlist:
>
> 1. With A Little Help From My Friends Introduction (Ringo vocal)
> 2. It Don't Come Easy (Ringo vocal)
> 3. What Goes On (Ringo vocal)
> 4. Memphis in My Mind (Ringo vocal)
> 5. Lonely is the Night (Billy Squier vocal)
> 6. Free Ride (Edgar Winter vocal)
> 7. Down Under (Colin Hay vocal)
> 8. Dream Weaver (Gary Wright vocal)
> 9. Boys (Ringo vocal/drums)
> 10. Pick Up the Pieces (Hamish Stuart vocal/guitar)
> 11. Liverpool 8 (Ringo vocal)
> 12. Act Naturally (Ringo vocal)
> 13. Yellow Submarine (Ringo vocal)
> 14. Tobacco Road (Edgar Winter vocal!)***
> 15. Are You Lookin' At Me? (Colin vocal/solo acoustic)
> 16. Frankenstein (Edgar keyboards/alto sax/drums)
> 17. Never Without You (Ringo vocal)
> 18. Choose Love (Ringo vocal/drums)
> 19. The Stroke (Billy vocal)
> 20. Work to Do (Hamish vocal/acoustic guitar)
> 21. I Wanna Be Your Man (Ringo vocal/drums)
> 22. Love is Alive (Gary vocal)
> 23. Who Can it Be Now (Colin vocal)
> 24. Photograph (Ringo vocal)
> 25. Oh, My My (Ringo vocal)
> 26. With A Little Help From My Friends (Ringo vocal)
> 27. Give Peace a Chance (Everyone vocal)
>
> It is a pity that Gary Wright and Edgar Winter didn't
> perform "Tobacco Road" together. I am biased but I have always
> preferred the Spooky Tooth version to the White Trash one. My wife
> and I were able to meet with briefly with Gary before the show –
he
> signed my "Extraction, " "It's All About" and "Nomad Poets"
jackets.
> Gary seemed like the serene and spiritual person I had heard
about –
> "Dream Weaver" was a spiritual moment in the show, as Gary
explained
> the title of the song he drew from a Hindu text.
>
> Beatles fans were not disappointed: Ringo performed a number of
> Beatles songs: "With A Little Help From My Friends" (Sgt.
> Pepper) "What Goes On" (Rubber Soul), "Boys" (The Early
> Beatles), 'Act Naturally' (Help), 'Yellow Submarine' (Revolver)
> and 'I Wanna Be Your Man'" (Meet The Beatles). Gary reminded the
> crowd he met Ringo while working on George Harrison's "All Things
> Must Pass." (He subsequently performed on Ringo's "It Don't Come
> Easy" and "Back Off Boogaloo" among others.) Ringo performed his
> memorial to George – "Never Without You" from 2003's "Ringo Rama"
> as well as older solo hits and material from his sadly
> overlooked "Choose Love" (2005) and "Liverpool 8" (2008)
>
> A night I will never forget. Thank you!
>