Bonus Track: Stan Lynch on Ringo Starr

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02/24/22 • 45 min

On the heels of our conversation with David Wild regarding Ringo Starr's Time Takes Time album, which turns 30 this year, we went a bit deeper. (As if David's great interview with Don Was in that same episode wasn't impressive enough....)
Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch (a talented producer and songwriter himself) had the pleasure of co-writing a song for the Ringo album called "Don't Know a Thing About Love." He got on the phone to share his memories of writing the track with Richard Feldman, enlisting Sheryl Crow to sing on the demo and lots more.
Stan has new music on tap for release this year from The Speaker Wars and also, The Chefs, his band with Dan Baird, is readying a second course (read: second album). He gives us an update on both pending releases.
Show Notes:
Our conversation with David Wild regarding Ringo Starr’s Time Takes Time (with David’s bonus interview with Don Was regarding his work on the Ringo album).
Thanks to Dan Baird for connecting us with Stan
Georgia Satellites - Lightnin' in a Bottle: Live in Cleveland 1988
Stan is organized.
Stan’s parents
The Speaker Wars, Stan’s latest band.
The Speaker Wars and Andy Timmons
The Speaker Wars - "Never Ready to Go"
Andy Timmons - Electric Truth album
The 30th anniversary of Ringo Starr’s Time Takes Time album
Stan’s song on Ringo’s album, “Don’t Know a Thing About Love”
Richard Feldman
Eric Clapton - “Promises”
June Pointer - “Love Calling”
The birth of “Don’t Know a Thing About Love”
Writing for Ringo
Sheryl Crow
Stan’s history with Don Was
Was (Not Was) = awesome
Going to hear the finished song
Meeting Ringo
All roads lead to Ringo
Stan sitting in with Ringo and the All-Starr Band
Ringo Starr, the drummer
Stan’s impression of the Get Back documentary
The demo of Stan’s song vs. what ended up on Time Takes Time
New music from Stan and Dan Baird - the second album from The Chefs
Someone/Anyone Todd Rundgren tribute
Was Stan a Rundgren fan back in the day?
Stan and The Speaker Wars have recorded different versions of “No Matter What” for a Badfinger tribute

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Ringo Starr - Time Takes Time (1992)

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Legendary rock scribe David Wild joins Matt and Jeff to discuss Ringo Starr's Time Takes Time on the brink of the album's 30th anniversary. But that's not all -- David came armed with audio from Ringo Starr and additional audio of a conversation he had with Don Was to revisit Don's experience as one of the producers on Time Takes Time.
While David's wife just wants him to listen to more Rick Springfield (that's our flimsy tease for one of the subjects of this episode), we somehow convinced him to tell us about working with Ringo on the new book, Lifted. The book is available now in two different editions, with profits benefiting The Lotus Foundation charity.
David has also teamed up with Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond) for the forthcoming podcast, Naked Lunch. He shares plenty of details on that exciting endeavor as well.
No worries, he tells plenty of rock and roll war stories also. We had so much fun chatting with David and we're already plotting to get him back.
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Show Notes:
David’s famous experience trying to interview Van Morrison
David’s Bob Dylan story
Bob Dylan’s Hearts of Fire movie
Ringo Starr - Time Takes Time EPK
David’s experience working on Ringo Starr’s new book, Lifted.
Ringo Starr on Jimmy Kimmel
David spoke with Don Was for this episode
David’s Flowers in the Dirt story
Paul McCartney - “Figure of Eight”
Paul McCartney - “Distractions”
Ringo Starr - “Weight of the World”
The Ringo audio
Ringo Starr - Don’t Go Where The Road Don’t Go
Paul McCartney - “1985”
David’s Paul McCartney Grammy story
Ringo Starr - “Don’t Know a Thing About Love”
Ringo Starr - “Golden Blunders”
Ringo Starr - “In a Heartbeat”
Mickey Thomas and Robin Zander are, in fact, awesome.
Matt’s defense of “We Built This City”
Starship - “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”
Mickey Thomas - Alive Alone
Elvin Bishop - “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”
Jeff’s UCR article regarding Jefferson Starship and Starship
David Wild’s 1992 Rolling Stone profile on Time Takes Time
Ringo’s Old Wave album
David’s new podcast with Phil Rosenthal
David’s appearance on Jimmy Pardo’s Never Not Funny

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Peter Cetera - One More Story (1988)

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Podcasting pioneer, funny guy and fellow music nerd Jimmy Pardo (Never Not Funny, The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien) is our guest to discuss Peter Cetera's third solo album, One More Story.
A fellow lifelong Chicago fan, Jimmy has seen the band a zillion times and appeared in the documentary film, Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago. He also wrote liner notes (with fellow Record Player guest David Wild) for the 2021 box set, Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete.
But his real credentials for being on this episode are that he once spent actual time writing up setlists for Peter Cetera that he did not actually deliver to Peter Cetera. In all seriousness, we had so much fun discussing Peter Cetera and all things Chicago with Jimmy for this episode. We'll look forward to speaking with him again soon to continue our music nerd session.
Until that happens, check out Never Not Funny and for a whole bunch of music nerdery, Jimmy's Records and Tapes.
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