Charlie Watts

Lee Warren · Post by **Lee Warren** » 24 Aug 2021 8:55 am

We lost another legend today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58316842

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 24 Aug 2021 9:02 am

Rest In Peace, Charlie Watts

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 24 Aug 2021 9:12 am

WOW!!!!.....I was not expecting this......sad.....

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 24 Aug 2021 9:14 am

Very sad news, indeed! It's been a rough week. Tom T Hall, Don Everly, and now Charlie Watts.

Doug Earnest · Post by **Doug Earnest** » 24 Aug 2021 10:11 am

RIP Charlie. He was a fine musician who proved that less can be more. I have enjoyed the Stones all my life.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 24 Aug 2021 10:24 am

Very sad news indeed, what a great player and person! Rest in Peace, Charlie Boy!

Ross Shafer · Post by **Ross Shafer** » 24 Aug 2021 10:52 am

RIP Charlie!

Fred Martin · Post by **Fred Martin** » 24 Aug 2021 12:16 pm

RIP. Charlie sure had a run at livin. What a legacy !

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 24 Aug 2021 1:00 pm

Very sad. I also didn't expect this, although I heard that he was ill. I've got the Aftermath record more than fifty years ago.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 24 Aug 2021 3:29 pm

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 24 Aug 2021 5:25 pm

Another bit of terrible news. I hate looking at this section, I can only take it once or twice a week. Charlie was a class drummer all the way! RIP Charlie.

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 24 Aug 2021 6:02 pm

So unorthodox in style... Yet so effective, and always a class act...

Wanted nothing to do with the "sex,drugs rock and roll" life style.. No groupies, stayed with his wife since 1964 from what I have read.. , Just a great drummer... One of my favorites.. RIP Charlie...

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 25 Aug 2021 1:31 am

Wow, such a shock, and so sad. I bought my first Rolling Stones record in 1966 when I was 10, and my last one a few years ago when they put out a sort of "under the radar" raw Chicago blues album.

The only thing that kept them interesting to me musically was the magical rhythmic interplay between Keith's guitar and Charlie's drums; that's the defining sound of the Stones in my opinion. Back in the 60s and early 70s of course they were right in the middle of the whole rock-centered cultural scene, along with the Beatles and Bob Dylan and a few others; those times are long past of course and in my opinion it's been decades since Jagger and Richards have written more than the occasional interesting or compelling song. But that indescribable chemistry with Keith and Charlie was always there and made them sound different than anybody else. Worth hearing live even if you had to go to a stadium to see them, something I've never done for any other band but have done twice for them.

About 15 years ago Charlie was playing a few nights with his jazz band at the Blue Note in NYC; he and the guys came across the street and hung out at the soundcheck we were doing at another club for a one-night show with the Derailers, who I was doing a brief tour with at the time. He was dressed immaculately in a three piece suit and overcoat, and couldn't have been nicer to talk to or more humble, not a hint of rock-star arrogance. A really class act for sure...

RIP Charlie Watts

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 25 Aug 2021 3:22 am

RIP Charlie, thx for the tunes and memories.

I was able to catch the Stones a couple of times, one was the very first tour to the USA, NYC in the Village, I think the RKO Theater around 30th. To this day we still don't know what the 1st couple of songs were . As soon as the show started the audience stood on the edge of the seats and screamed at the top of their lungs. The sound system was the HOUSE PA system . LOL !

Plus they had really small VOX amps, probably AC 15's at the time.

WHO KNEW

Chris Boyd · Post by **Chris Boyd** » 25 Aug 2021 4:14 am

RIP Charlie,and thank you for all the great rhythm and heartbeat..

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 25 Aug 2021 4:40 am

Back in 1965 we (Eden Kane & the Downbeats) headlined a tour in the UK. Our guy (EK) had had all the hits at that point so we closed the show.

Closing the first 'half' was a new band who'd had a minor hit - the Rolling Stones. We paid them scant attention at the time (it sounded out-of-tune and a bit ragged to me) but I've never forgotten our drummer (who far preferred playing jazz to pop music) saying: 'That drummer's really good' and the pair of them got to know each other.

I can't now claim to have struck up any sort of relationship with any of them but I do remember that, during that tour, their new single, 'Not Fade Away', went to number-one on the chart and we had to ignominiously change places with them on the show's running-order!

RIP, Charlie; you managed to live a sane and decent life despite the mayhem all around you.

G Strout · Post by **G Strout** » 25 Aug 2021 6:20 am

Damn.... my favorite rock band. Charlie was the pillar that held it all together IMHO. A life well lived Charlie. RIP.