This is a personal video message from Ringo and Chips Moman to Pete Drake, wishing him the best for an unnamed award circa 1987. Ringo and Chips Moman were in Memphis preparing to record Ringo's Memphis album, which would soon be aborted and end in legal problems.the 'Pete' Ringo refers to, regarding finding country tapes in his car, is indeed, Pete Drake, who was the nashville record producer reponsible for convincing Ringo to cut a country record in nashville with nashville players, all on the basis of his coincidental discovery of Ringo's country music collection discovered while picking him up at the airport. (their record became "Beaucoup of Blues", winning more than a few top 10s, as well as critcal accolades.)
The remainder of the clips document about a memphis commercial writer caused when she denigrated Ringo in one of her columns just as the famous Beatle was arriving to give the dying Memphis music scene a shot in the arm, causing Chips Moman disgust (Memphis musician and studio genius from the '60s and '70s) to picket in front of the CA's office.
Ringo and Chips Moman send a video message to Pete Drake
congratulating him on an award, 1987 + Moman´s commercial appeal protest over Ringo slander:
congratulating him on an award, 1987 + Moman´s commercial appeal protest over Ringo slander:
In 1987, after the The Commercial Appeal ran a column about Ringo, whose album Moman was producing, Moman fought back.
The
Commercial Appeal column disparaged Ringo (saying "the aging Beatle was
yesterday's news...least talented of all the Beatles"). Moman
retaliated by staging a protest in front of the newspaper's offices.
Despite recording, Ringo eventually abandoned the project and sued Moman to stop the album's release.
One place he doesn't visit is Memphis. "I've stayed away," says Moman, in an easy drawl.
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