Ringo Starr & His All Star Band played twice at ACL Live (pics from Night 2; setlist from Night 1)
photos by Sarah Frankie Linder
Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band - ACL Moody Theater - 10/12/2014
Scale: two nights by Paul McCartney at the Erwin Center in May versus Ringo Starr's pair of performances at the Moody Theater this week. Call it a difference of 20,000 fans. And yet, when the Beatles drummer touched off "Yellow Submarine" halfway through a two-hour set Wednesday night at the Moody Theater, it was equally - and literally - breathtaking.
Your breath caught - powerless to whatever personal nostalgia came dislodged by 1966's psychedelic U-boat. McCartney's "Blackbird" - aired this spring on Red River - evoked hush by design, but was no less as piercing as a funner Beatles ditty, "All Together Now," also boogied locally by Sir Paul. "Yellow Submarine" transcended novelty somewhere along its lifeline. Now, it simply stops you in your tracks. - [Austin Chronicle]
Ringo Starr & His All Star Band played two shows at ACL Live's Moody Theatre (October 8 &12), part of their current tour. The former Beatle played most of his hits, turning the spotlight over periodically to the other bandmembers -- including Todd Rundgren, Toto's Steve Lukather, and Mr Mister's Richard Paige -- for some of their songs. Pictures from the second ACL Live show are in this post, along with setlist from the first.
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SETLIST: RINGO STARR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND @ ACL LIVE 10/12/2014
Matchbox (Carl Perkins)
It Don't Come Easy (Ringo Starr)
Wings (Ringo Starr)
I Saw the Light (Todd Rundgren)
Evil Ways (Willie Bobo)
Rosanna (Toto)
Kyrie (Mr. Mister)
Bang the Drum All Day (Todd Rundgren)
Boys (The Shirelles)
Don't Pass Me By (The Beatles)
Yellow Submarine (The Beatles)
Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen (Santana)
Honey Don't (Carl Perkins)
Anthem (Ringo Starr)
You Are Mine (Richard Page)
Africa (Toto)
Oye como va (Tito Puente)
Love Is the Answer (Utopia)
I Wanna Be Your Man (The Beatles)
Broken Wings (Mr. Mister)
Hold the Line (Toto)
Photograph (Ringo Starr)
Act Naturally (Buck Owens)
With a Little Help from My Friends (The Beatles) (with Christopher Cross)
Give Peace a Chance (The Plastic Ono Band)