RIP Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts

The Stones, voodoo lounge tour ,don valley stadium, 1995.
By far and away the best act I’ve ever seen.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
They resume their delayed tour in September with a stand in drummer, I think it will go ahead.
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His mate Steve Jordan is doing it. The drummer in the Blues Brothers film, and tour, among many other things.
Imagine that will be the end of it all now.
 
My favourite Charlie story:
After a gig he retired to his hotel room for the usual quiet night in, but Jagger was determined to keep the party going and wanted the entire band to attend. Jagger was banging on everyone's door, shouting "where's my drummer?". Charlie got up, got dressed and went to Jagger's room.
When Jagger opened the door, Charlie punched him and said "I'm NOT your drummer - you're MY singer."
 
grumpyoldgit said:
My favourite Charlie story:
After a gig he retired to his hotel room for the usual quiet night in, but Jagger was determined to keep the party going and wanted the entire band to attend. Jagger was banging on everyone's door, shouting "where's my drummer?". Charlie got up, got dressed and went to Jagger's room.
When Jagger opened the door, Charlie punched him and said "I'm NOT your drummer - you're MY singer."
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My favourite is a slightly different version of that tale. It's essentially the same, but with the inclusion of the F word and Charlie in a pork pie hat.
 
Was privileged to see the Stones at what was then the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on their 2018 tour. 2nd June to be precise, which was, as Mick Jagger announced to us all, Charlie's 77th birthday. Mick Jagger was a spritely 74. They were all 20 somethings when I bought my first Rolling Stones record in 1965. To think they'd still be around doing live concerts well into their 70s. True legends. And they were brilliant that night. RIP Charlie.
 
norfolkngood said:
Quite a few comments about one of the Stones dying, and never thought it possible!

Charlie is of course the second to die. Brian Jones beat him by over 50 years.
RIP Charlie and Brian.
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Charlie Watts is the third to die actually. Brian Jones died in 1969 and Ian Stewart in 1985. Jones and Stewart actually formed the band, all the others came later.
 
Sad news indeed.
I used to buy the NME in the 70's. It had a column called "The changing face of" . It would pick a musician and show pics of them leading from their teenage years to what they looked like then.
Charlie's was the same pic repeated over and over.
Hardly seemed to change much Charlie.
RiP
 
Another of the 60s/70s pioneer groups to loose an original member.... with every passing of an icon ( last was Dave Greenfield) this year brings mortality a tad closer... and on that happy note I bid Good Morning to you all from sunny Thailand
 
guisborough_rob said:
The cowbell on Honky Tonk Women. Immense.
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Another example of The Stones fortuitous studio happy accidents occurred at the opening of “Honk Tonk Women” as explained by drummer Charlie Watts when he said—“We’ve never played an intro to Honky Tonk Women live the way it is on the record. That’s Jimmy playing the cowbell and either he comes in wrong or I come in wrong – but Keith comes in right, which makes the whole thing right. It’s one of those things that musicologists could sit around analyzing for years. It’s actually a mistake, but from my point of view, it works.” Charlie Watts further discussed Jimmy Miller’s cowbell preamble when he said: “The intro to Honky Tonk Women was like, if you wrote musically that down and played it properly, it wouldn’t have the same thing as the actual take does. But that’s what’s good about being in a band like this, there’s room for things like that.”
 
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