Music RIP Charlie Watts

[bleedred]

Charlie Watts: Rolling Stones drummer dies at 80

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[led_scholes]

My favourite drumming by him:


RIP

 

[djembatheking]

RIP Charlie Watts

 

[Red Stone]

This has fecked my day up. The Stones are one of my favourite bands and Charlie was truly one of a kind. Such a cool, understated style, and proof that you don't need a massive fancy kit to drum in a rock and roll band.

One anecdote relates that in the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Mick Jagger phoned Charlie Watts's hotel room in the middle of the night, asking, "Where's my drummer?" Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs, and punched Jagger in the face, saying: "Don't ever call me your drummer again. You're my fecking singer!"

Legend.

 

[Old Ma Crow]

RIP Charlie Watts

 

[Wilt]

World’s Greatest Rock n Roll Band

RIP Charlie Watts

 

[Sweet Square]

Been listening to the Once Beyond A Time In Hollywood soundtrack and it has this banger on it

 

[Glaswegian]

Pretty gutted about this. Love Charlie Watts.

Second only to Levon Helm for me, those two are by far and away my favourite drummers of all time.

 

[Red Dreams]

The drum into.

RIP Charlie.

 

[Tarrou]

what a life he had, over half a century in one of the greatest rock bands in history

RIP

 

[njred]

Very sad. Unfortunately we are goin to see more of these rockers from the 60s and 70s go away. Seen the Stones so many times and each time it was like walking into a party with thousands of people. “Get Yer Ya Yas Out” is still my fav live album. The beginning of Honky Tonk woman off that album where Mick shouts out “ Charlie’s good tonight isnt he?” is just classic. RIP

 

[Raoul]

Keith Richards is going to outlive all of them isn't he.

 

[Red Dreams]