Thread: Vale Charlie Watts

very sad news

wonder if they heard him knocking....

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

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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

Welfare Check Anyone seen or spoke to Bob?

Last post was 26th August 2021

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

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? Sometimes this place gets a tad heavy & folk need to draw breath IMHO.

Originally Posted by 4bee

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? Sometimes this place gets a tad heavy & folk need to draw breath IMHO.

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