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Charlie Watts RIP

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  • Really sad to hear this. A gentleman who never took the Rock and Roll circus too seriously.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    RIP Mr Watts
  • RIP Charlie.  Great drummer.

    Rolling Stones gig
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Think Charlie crammed a lot into his 80 years…… RIP
  • Valleysarr
    Valleysarr Posts: 1,098
    Very sad. They can’t go on forever but the greatest band from Dartford will alway be legends 
  • The heartbeat of the Stones. RIP Charlie
  • barstool
    barstool Posts: 1,351
    I met him at the 606 club a few years ago, nice bloke. Sad news 
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    RIP Charlie,  always my favourite Stone.
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    RIP to one of the coolest men in rock. 
  • UEAAddick
    UEAAddick Posts: 512
    Top bloke in a top band. RIP
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,338
    Almost certainly apocryphal, but it's a great story nonetheless.  

    Mick Jagger once called Charlie Watts' hotel room and, when someone picked up the pone, asked to speak to his drummer.  Instead of answering the call, Charlie went to Mick's room and banged on the door.  When Mick answered it, Charlie punched him in the face, and reminded him "don't you ever call me your drummer: you are my fucking singer". 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    RIP, have been lucky enough to see them a few times, a very under rated drummer.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    Remember a documentary where he said something like he hates touring but loves drumming and his wife won’t let him drum at home so he has to go on tour. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    RIP Charlie. 

    Thanks for being part of the greatest band of all time. 
  • Another legend gone,so soon after Don Everly,what a crap few days,RIP Charlie,thanks for the memory.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Out of all the Stones I didnt think he'd go first......Keef must have made a pact with the devil.

    RIP.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    RIP, a legend from my teenage years.
  • By far my favourite of The Stones. Coolest man in the band and a terrific drummer to boot. The video of It's Only Rock & Roll with Charlie disappearing into the foam behind them always raises a smile.

    RIP. 
  • red10
    red10 Posts: 834
    So very sad, the stones have been with me all my life. RiP Charlie, loved rock and roll and very respected doing jazz.
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    edited August 2021
    Out of all the Stones I didnt think he'd go first......Keef must have made a pact with the devil.

    RIP.
    2nd after Brian Jones, who was probably the original founder. But that is nit picking RIP
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  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    Very sad. They can’t go on forever but the greatest band from Dartford will alway be legends 
    Yes but you do realise Charlie wasn't from Dartford. In fact only Mick and Keef were 
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,170
    Sad, sad news.  Great bloke, great drummer…another piece of my youth gone.  RIP.
  • redman said:
    Out of all the Stones I didnt think he'd go first......Keef must have made a pact with the devil.

    RIP.
    2nd after Paul Jones, who was probably the original founder. But that is nit picking RIP
    Brian…… Think Paul Jones was in Manfred Mann 
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited August 2021
    redman said:
    Out of all the Stones I didnt think he'd go first......Keef must have made a pact with the devil.

    RIP.
    2nd after Paul Jones, who was probably the original founder. But that is nit picking RIP
    Brian…… Think Paul Jones was in Manfred Mann 
    Correct, Paul turned the Stones down IIRC.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    edited August 2021
    Chizz said:
    Almost certainly apocryphal, but it's a great story nonetheless.  

    Mick Jagger once called Charlie Watts' hotel room and, when someone picked up the pone, asked to speak to his drummer.  Instead of answering the call, Charlie went to Mick's room and banged on the door.  When Mick answered it, Charlie punched him in the face, and reminded him "don't you ever call me your drummer: you are my fucking singer". 
    Richards tells the story in his autobiography:

    “Mick and I got back to the hotel at about five in the morning, and he called up Charlie. ‘Where’s my drummer?’ No answer. He puts the phone down. We were still sitting there getting pissed when about 20 minutes later there was a knock on the door. It was Charlie — Saville Row suit, perfectly dressed. Tie. Shaved. The whole bit. I could smell the cologne. He walked straight past me, got ahold of Mick and said, ‘Never call me your drummer again.’ He held him up and gave him a right hook.

    “Twelve hours later he was saying f**k it, I’m going to go down and do it again. It takes a lot to wind that man up.”

    As I claim - the coolest one of them all. 

  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,637
    RiP. Saw him drumming for The Blues Brothers at The Bridge House Canning Town, probably 1980. Sad loss. 
  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 767
    He was a great dummer and his passion was playing jazz, like some have mentioned… RIP.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,794
    RIP Charlie
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    Charlie Watts was a far better drummer than people gave him credit for, he just wasn’t flashy or flamboyant. RIP Charlie just don’t get off of that cloud.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,297
    Charlie was a class act; a top drummer, underestimated by many. A privilege to have seen him live on e few occasions, including at The Marquee Club where he and Bill Wyman were part of a band put together by Alexis Korner.

    RIP Charlie. You'll be missed.