2021年8月25日 · Drumming is often ugly—belligerent and combative, all jerky elbows, exaggerated grimaces, and sweat-soaked shorts—but Watts looked so beautiful when he played. His style was not animalistic...

2022年1月21日 · For more than 50 years, Charlie Watts made playing drums in the world’s biggest rock band look easy. Stoic, solid, and completely unflappable, Watts was the anchor that held The Rolling Stones together through their most tumultuous ups and downs.

For 58 years, Charlie Watts manned the drum kit behind Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the unflappable bedrock of the Rolling Stones sound. Compared to his British Invasion contemporaries,...

2022年1月17日 · The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts explained how he learned to play the drums. When asked by the interviewer if it was true that he started out drumming on a banjo whith the neck of the instrument twisted off, Charlie Watts said: “Yeah, I bought a banjo, and I saw all these dots in a book-did you ever see a banjo book or a guitar book ?

2021年8月25日 · Mr Watts, who died on August 24th aged 80, did not have rock and roll coursing through his veins. He was brought up on the jazz music of Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan. Indeed it was hearing...

2021年8月30日 · Here’s how Clearmountain explains Watts’ drumming style. “Like you were in a fast car, and you’re driving right at the edge of a cliff. You’re so close, you’re just brushing the railing there.

2021年8月25日 · In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to match, Charlie Watts remained the quiet man behind a modest drum set. But Watts was not your typical rock...

Initially a graphic artist, Charlie Robert Watts became the drumming heartbeat to this legendary band since 1963. With a successful 58 year career of playing different styles such as rock, jazz, and blues with them, Watts has earned his right to be …

Nicknamed "the Wembley Whammer" by Jagger, Watts cited jazz as a major influence on his drumming style. Aside from his career with the Rolling Stones, Watts toured with his own group, the Charlie Watts Quintet, and appeared in London …

2021年8月25日 · Watts's technique involved idiosyncratic use of the hi-hat, the sandwiched cymbals that rock drummers usually whomp with metronomic regularity. Watts tended to pull his right hand away on the...