Ringo co-wrote Waiting For The Tide To Turn with his engineer Bruce Sugar, adding Tony Chen and his extensive reggae roots “This was something my engineer Bruce Sugar started, but it didn’t have a lot of words, so we wrote it together. What was great was when I was doing my vocals (Sam lives in New York so I did my part in my home studio here in LA), was there was one part of it and I felt there has got to be a drum fill there! So the credits now read ‘Ringo vocals and 1 drum fill’”, Ringo laughs. I told him he could produce it and put it together. He sent me two songs and I chose this one. Sam Hollander wrote and produced Teach Me To Tango, sending Ringo a nearly completed track onto which he added vocals and, of course, drums, “I called Sam Hollander because I had so much fun with him on the last CD I made. And we are all making the same plans – I’ll see you after the pandemic!” I love living in LA because so many fine musicians live here and you can do collaborations like this. For this record, I wanted to get people I hadn’t worked with before, so for this track we invited Robby Krieger.
So I wanted to call this ‘Zoom In,’ which I think is great for this day and age. Ringo recalls, “Zoom In is all we do, if we do anything, these days during the pandemic. The title track, Zoom In, Zoom Out, was penned by Jeff Silbar and features The Doors‘ Robbie Krieger on guitar. Watch the official video for Here’s To The Nights Below. We wanted to add a lot of voices singing on the chorus and so she asked her friends and I asked mine, and not only did we get a lot of people singing on the record, we had a lot of fun, which is how I think it should be, and I got to know a few new friends.” She sent it in a chord I like to call ‘F demented’, it was very high, so Benmont Tench transposed it into a key human beings can actually sing - that’s how we started with that song. As Ringo recalled, “Diane sent me this song - she sent two actually - and I loved the sentiment of it. Joining Starr were musicians Nathan East (bass), Steve Lukather (guitar), Bruce Sugar (synth guitar), Benmont Tench (piano), Charlie Bisharat (violin), Jacob Braun (cello), and Jim Cox (string arrangements and synth strings).ĭave Grohl, Ben Harper and Jenny Lewis also joined Starr in the home studio, and all contributed to the first single, Here’s To The Nights. “It just unfolds,” Ringo said of the recording process, “when I start making a record here in LA at home - somebody knocks on the door, or I reach out and ask someone if they want you to come play, it’s like magic really how it all comes together.”
As often happens in the recording process, the circle of friends grew to include friends of friends and created something that has a unique chemistry. The Beatles‘ drummer collaborated with songwriters and producers and an ever-widening group of musicians playing on the songs - some socially distanced and joining him safely in his studio, always exercising an abundance of caution, and others working on their parts remotely. Ringo Starr has released a brand new, five-track EP of songs, called Zoom In, recorded in his home studio between April and October 2020.
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