Vale Charlie Watts

[pop058]

Never been a huge Stones fan but sad news none the less.

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80, Mick Jagger pays tribute - ABC News (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-25/rolling-stones-drummer-charlie-watts-dies-at-age-80/100404658)

[incisor]

very sad news

wonder if they heard him knocking....

[V8Ian]

He only had one drum set, almost from when he joined the Stones.

[BradC]

I've always been a fan of the Stones. The pairing of Richards & Watts always seemed ideal. Charlie liked to sit down the back and drive the band while Richards was enough "rockstar" for both of them.

I always figured Charlie would go first, Keith has been embalming himself since the 60's. He'll probably go forever. End of an era.

[bob10]

Here is an interesting story about Charlie. He was his own man, this is a book excerpt from Mike Edison, the Stones were in Amsterdam, 1984.;

Mick Jagger decided — at 5am — to ring Watts’ room and demand to know where “my drummer” is. As Keith Richards tells it, Watts turned up at Jagger’s door 20 minutes later. He was dressed head-to-toe in a Savile Row suit and tie, shaved and smelling of cologne. “I opened the door and he didn’t even look at me, he walked straight past me, got a hold of Mick and said, ‘Never call me your drummer again.’ Then he hauled him up by the lapels of my jacket and gave him a right hook,” Richards recalls. Jagger reportedly flew back onto a platter of smoked salmon and began to nearly slide out the open window. Richards’ quick thinking saw Jagger pulled back in, saved from a possible death-by-canal, soaked in salmon juice. It was only that Jagger was wearing one of Richards’ favourite jackets that Watts didn’t get a second slug in.

[NavyDiver]

Here is an interesting story about Charlie. He was his own man, this is a book excerpt from Mike Edison, the Stones were in Amsterdam, 1984.;

Mick Jagger decided — at 5am — to ring Watts’ room and demand to know where “my drummer” is. As Keith Richards tells it, Watts turned up at Jagger’s door 20 minutes later. He was dressed head-to-toe in a Savile Row suit and tie, shaved and smelling of cologne. “I opened the door and he didn’t even look at me, he walked straight past me, got a hold of Mick and said, ‘Never call me your drummer again.’ Then he hauled him up by the lapels of my jacket and gave him a right hook,” Richards recalls. Jagger reportedly flew back onto a platter of smoked salmon and began to nearly slide out the open window. Richards’ quick thinking saw Jagger pulled back in, saved from a possible death-by-canal, soaked in salmon juice. It was only that Jagger was wearing one of Richards’ favourite jackets that Watts didn’t get a second slug in.


Welfare Check Anyone seen or spoke to Bob?

Last post was 26th August 2021

[4bee]

Welfare Check Anyone seen or spoke to Bob?

Last post was 26th August 2021


Bob 10 is taking a well earn't break from here, he says. That is the 2nd person doing that, I wonder if they are trying to tell me summat?[bigsad] [bighmmm][bigrolf] Sometimes this place gets a tad heavy & folk need to draw breath IMHO.

[Saitch]

Bob 10 is taking a well earn't break from here, he says. That is the 2nd person doing that, I wonder if they are trying to tell me summat?[bigsad] [bighmmm][bigrolf] Sometimes this place gets a tad heavy & folk need to draw breath IMHO.

Thank you.

[4bee]

Thank you.


Welcome. My pleasure.