Ringo Star first show in Brazil: He came from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his first night in Brasil was in Porto Alegre. He played here on thursday, 11/10. He brought together a band of great musicians and nice persons. From here they went to São Paulo (12 and 13/11), then Rio de Janeiro(11/15), Belo Horizonte(11/16), Brasilia(11/18), and finishing his brazilian tour on sunday in Recife(11/20). Seeing each one of the Beatles individually we understand why the Beatles were so great. In 7 years (from 1963 to 1970), they did a revolution in contemporary music. Pearl Jam also played here the following day, 11/11, and Jean Luc Ponty 0n 11/22.

One year ago Paul McCartney played here, on 11/07/2010. He stayed at the Sheraton Hotel, http://www.sheraton-poa.com.br/ ,one block from a bar called Sgt.Peppers, http://www.peppers.com.br/site/ , where we play with a band sometimes. That bar have the same name of the Beatle's album.
We also played in this bar last year, one day before Paul McCartney's show here. We came to know later that the members of Paul McCartney band came to the bar one night after we had played there and they got onstage!  
This year we played at the Sgt.Pepper's pub on 11/09, one day before Ringo's show, that was 11/10.
We will play again at the Sgt.Peppers next 12/07/2011 and you're wellcome!      
The All Star band show was delicious & the band was:
Wally Palmar(The Romantics)guitar: "Talking in your sheets", "What I like about you" and more. 
Rick Derringer( The McCoys) guitar:"Hang on sloopy" and an incredible guitar solo.
Richard Page (MrMister), bass guitar, sang "Broken Wings" with Ringo Star and Greg Bisonette on the drums doing a tribal beat to that song that was fantastic.
Edgar Winter, keyboards, "Free Ride", "Frankenstein" & others.
Gary Wright, keyboards, sang "Dream Weaver" and more. Gary Wright played on some George Harrison solo first Lps. 
Greg Bisonette, recorded with David Lee Roth the great album "Eat them and smile" and many others, drums. 

Olê, olê, olê, olê, Ringo, Ringo! Ringo said that he like to hear that. He presented Edgar Winter: The "first man on earth in musical history" to put a strap on a keyboard and use it like a guitar!

Jean Luc Ponty:

Jean Luc Ponty played New Country when he returned for the bis at the final .During the show he played parts of the albums: "Imaginary Voyage", "Enigmatic Ocean" and "Cosmic Messenger".

Pearl Jam: Eddie Veder, worring with the integrity of a 8 year old boy in the first row, called him onstage, plus his sister and her boyfriend, and put chairs for them on the stage!:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbyUWoYhS6A 

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STEVIE WONDER appearing on a TV show in Brazil in 1970 singing a popular brazilian song called "Sá Marina" (the name of a girl). He has a flirt with brazilian music, so it was no surprise that we saw him singing "The girl from Ipanema" in Rock in Rio/2011. Some of his songs like : "Superwoman", "My cherie amour" and others have some kind of a bossa-nova beat. They can be played on a guitar with the bossa-nova fingerpicking style and chords and they fit perfectly. This "genius" recycles the information that he gets and brings us a better thing.

Stevie Wonder, his daughter and the crowd singing Tom Jobim - Garota de Ipanema in Rock in Rio 2011.

Stevie Wonder Live in Brazil '71: breaking it all!