SteveFord Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/entertainment/charlie-watts-dead/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Yeah, just heard a few minutes ago. One hell of a drummer. RIP and prayers for his family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHenry Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Charlie will be missed, in my opinion one of the top four drummers in rock, alongside Ginger Baker, John Bonham and Cozzy Powell. RIP Charlie, and thanks for everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Well.... That's three in a week.... it can stop now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 This one hits home... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 This is very sad news. I have always liked his drumming style and feeling. R.I.P. Charlie, I will miss you. Here I link one of my all-time favourite songs by the Rolling Stones in memoriam of Charlie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Dam... another sad day for rock and roll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Wiki listed this anecdote: I just HOPE it's true! An intoxicated Jagger phoned 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 f**king singer!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 R.I.P. Sad that our Rock and Roll generation is dying off rapidly! Charlie Watts was a great one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 1 hour ago, DanvillRob said: Wiki listed this anecdote: I just HOPE it's true! An intoxicated Jagger phoned 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 f**king singer!" It's in the Keith Richards "Life" book. Think it was breakfast time. Charlie was the best of them. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 RIP Charlie. Thanks for decades of solid, sometimes understated, and always classy drumming. We're losing too many. I also realized that many of the early rappers are old enough to live in the +50-year-old communities that have been my bread-and-butter since we had to play Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra tunes to please the crowds. I know sooner or later it gets us all, but I'd like it to be much, much, much later. Insights and incites by Notes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Very sad news. Always an elegant and lovely gentleman. Class was his middle name, I think. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx-ogre Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Sad news. RIP Charlie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Congratulations on living one heck of a great life and thanks for sharing your talent Charlie!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNJ Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Wow, sad news! Hope he didn't suffer. I'm sure the band will give him the memorial he deserves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 7 hours ago, jdgm said: It's in the Keith Richards "Life" book. Think it was breakfast time. Charlie was the best of them. R.I.P. Amen brother! Charlie was the best of the lot, and a damn good drummer, rock solid. RIP Charlie, they may hire a fill in, but nobody will replace you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 7 hours ago, Notes_Norton said: RIP Charlie. Thanks for decades of solid, sometimes understated, and always classy drumming. We're losing too many. I also realized that many of the early rappers are old enough to live in the +50-year-old communities that have been my bread-and-butter since we had to play Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra tunes to please the crowds. I know sooner or later it gets us all, but I'd like it to be much, much, much later. Insights and incites by Notes Well said, I think we are the same vintage, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 16 hours ago, DanvillRob said: Wiki listed this anecdote: I just HOPE it's true! An intoxicated Jagger phoned 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 f**king singer!" This actually played out for me exactly to same way but without the punch. The singer from a another band (speaking to our singer) referred to me as 'your guitarist'. I had to put him straight of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 11 hours ago, 'Scales said: Congratulations on living one heck of a great life and thanks for sharing your talent Charlie!! Well stated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Ack. No sooner did I go offline yesterday, then get in my car to run to a store, I barely got to the first stop sign(5 houses down the street from mine) when the all news station I keep my vehicle's radio on made mention of this. Well, in typical forum fashion(not just this one, but all, in my experience) many came in and claimed Watts to be the "best" of the rock drummers, as they did when Moon, then Bonham and then Mitchell passed. But that's not saying I didn't think he was a very good drummer. I do know and think he was up there with the others. But I liked him for another reason as well. It would always amuse me, whenever the Stones made an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that while Jagger was going through his histrionics, and the others were boppin' and shaking to the tune they were playing, there sat Watts, very relaxed and still, barely moving and looking into the camera with a very deadpan, nonplussed and almost bored expression on his face. Tell the truth, there's plenty who thought perhaps the older former bassist Bill Wyman would go first, and for sure, anyone would think Keith Richards would have been gone LONG before Watts. And like drummer Ringo of The Beatles, Watts was the Stones member who many thought would be the coolest to hang out with. You certainly do deserve to Rest In Peace Charlie. Whitefang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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