Ringo was pretty loyal to Ludwig during the early Beatles years. In June of 1963, having gone to a music store to order another Premier kit similar to the one he had been using at the time, he saw a drum kit with a Black Oyster Pearl finish and fell in love. Upon finding out that you could only get that finish on a Ludwig kit, Ringo had to have one. Ludwig didn't put their logo on drumheads back then, but Ringo insisted that the drumhead have one. They agreed to it, as long as Ringo agreed to also have a Beatles logo put on the head, bigger than the Ludwig logo.
He says that his best recorded drumming is in the studio recording of the song Rain, which was released as a B-side to Paperback Writer. It was recorded during the Revolver sessions, the album that would eventually rank #3 in the 500 Best Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003. This song is notable in that it was the first song to use a tape played backwards.
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