RIP Charlie Watts

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Stones passing deserve their own thread.

Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones, dies at 80

"He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family," his publicist said.

www.nbcnews.com

Him being the first of the last original three to die seems really bizarre and kind of unfair given Mick & Keef's lifestyles.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Really puts into the perspective that the other members are on borrowed time. The foundations are starting to crack. I can't imagine a life without Mick Jagger or Keith Richards.

RIP.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I should have figured things were bad when they announced Steve Jordan was replacing him for their fall tour.

The Rolling Stones pretty much died today. They might as well just call it Jagger-Richards-Wood (or Jagger-Richards depending on how much credit they want to give rock's wackiest, friendliest second banana)

 

[OldSchoolWrestling]

So glad I got to see them shortly before Covid. And I love that my last memory of him was watching him perform on a Covid money raising show where heart-drummed the whole song while the rest of the band took it seriously.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Kicking myself for passing up on multiple opportunities to see them during the Bigger Bang era (once at Gillette in '05/'06ish with KANYE WEST and once TD Gardem in '07/'08ish with Sleater-Kinney opening). The show with Kanye opening up was a rare poorly attended Stones show and they were trying to unload tickets for like $20 too.

Incidentally, in Life, Keef says that Charlie Watts personally selected most of the Stones opening acts so it's fun to imagine him driving around in his Aston-Martin in the '00s listening to Late Registration or Sleater-Kinney with a stoic but impressed facial expression.

 

[Fall of Epic]

I too had foolishly passed up opportunities to see them in the early 2000s. One show being their 50th anniversary in 2012ish.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Got to see them in 97 on the Bridges to Babylon tour (third eye blind opener) Those old timers crushed. Very sad day for me. It’s just not the Stones now.

I’m 40. Getting to the age where these people are just dying, and it shouldn’t surprise me, but it always catches me off guard.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

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Classy gesture from the lads to their fallen friend.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

âNot just a drummer â a genreâ: Stewart Copeland and Max Weinberg on Charlie Watts

The Police and Bruce Springsteen drummers share memories of their late Rolling Stones counterpart, explaining his technical brilliance, his verve – and his clothes-folding skills

www.theguardian.com

 

[Valeyard]

It's really hard to wrap my head around him being gone. The Stones have been one of the biggest consistencies of my life, so this is pretty sad. The wave of posthumous genius thing, though, always annoys me.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Keith Richards just said that Rolling Stones are going to record an album with Steve Jordan as drummer.

Genuinely surprised by this considering they haven't done an album in six years (and haven't done an album of original material since 2005!). I assumed they'd keep touring until Mick or Keith died but had no expectation of another album!