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Mick Jagger: "Charlie was an incredibly open-minded musician, and there was a real subtlety about his playing. He was so catholic in his taste, through jazz, boogie-woogie, blues, classical, African music, dance, reggae and dumb pop songs that just happened to be good. People always say he was a great jazz fan, but he wasn’t just that. It’s over-simplifying his musical tastes, and what he liked to play.It’s a bit of a myth that Charlie didn’t go out. Of course he did. We used to go to watch sport, and to lots of fashionable places, to eat and to hear music. In the studio we would often play just on our own, every kind of music, after everyone had gone home or before people turned up. Sometimes he’d play these African beats, and some of the things he did were amazing. He wasn’t super-technical, but he was very adaptive, so when he got a new beat, he got very excited about it.He was a classical music fan, too. He liked Dvořák, Debussy, Mozart, and he and I used to listen to Stockhausen and Mahler. We listened to modern composers and tried to figure out what the hell they were on about.He was intelligent, and softly spoken, but he could be direct and say what he thought. He would keep his private life very private, but we understood each other’s thought processes. Charlie was a very quiet person, but he had a great sense of humour and we laughed all the time. I miss him in so many ways."
Think it’s called love . . . .right there . . . . . . we all did too! Sharp dressed man ask his wife! Shirley
“Charlie’s good tonight, inne?"
Charlie had a quite unique style of playing drums and I have heard it discussed elsewhere but simply he never let the two hands strike at the same time, it is simple and yet almost impossible to mimic
Frustrating and almost irritating to some it appear somewhat primitive but he could hold the back beat with it till the cows come home
Hit it, Charlie!
The Rolling Stones - Jumpin’ Jack Flash - Charlie Watts Drum Cam (Shine a Light / 2008)
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