If Charlie wasn’t doing what he’s doing on drums, that wouldn’t be true at all. Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones. He’s the only white drummer who can swing, Keith Richards swears: “Charlie’s always there, but he doesn’t want to let everybody know. I play songs.”Īccording to the rest of the band, Watts is indispensable, one of a kind, the “engine” of the Rolling Stones, says Ronnie Wood. “It’s terribly simple what I do, actually…. “You have to be a good drummer to play with the Stones,” he later remarked in 2000, “and I try to be as good as I can.” But he admits he’s not a technical player it’s all about the feel. “I sit there, and I hear what’s going on, and if I can make it, that’s fine,” he said in 1973. Update: Two weeks after bowing out of the upcoming Rolling Stones tour, Charlie Watts has sadly passed away at age 80.Īccording to Charlie Watts - the Rolling Stones’ drummer and rock’s best dressed man - his playing is nothing special.
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