Ringo brings Staff band to Spokane

It’s starting to feel like a band. A real band.

After 27 years of putting together assorted musicians to play with on the road, Ringo Starr has found a group of guys that clicks. This latest – and longest tenured – incarnation of Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band lands at the INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane on Sunday night.

Joining the legendary former Beatle is guitarist-producer Todd Rundgren, Gregg Rolie (Santana, Journey), Steve Lukather (Toto), Richard Page (Mr. Mister), Warren Ham (Donna Summer, Olivia Newton-John) and Gregg Bissonette (Steve Vai, David Lee Roth). It’s a group that’s played with Starr for more than four years.

“We don’t know what it is. We get to rehearsal and we hit it off. We support each other. That’s the main thing,” Starr said in a recent phone interview from Los Angeles, where he was busy packing for the next leg of the tour, which is taking the band to the Western U.S., Japan and South Korea. “We do it because we love it. And on those nights when you, the band and the audiences are just together. … You can’t plan it. It’s very beautiful. That’s why we keep doing it – for those nights”/ Caroline Lamberson , SR. More here.