RIP Charlie Watts .

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RIP #CharlieWatts

Per all the critics, one of *the* most important parts one of *the* most important rock n' roll bands of all time. Me? I'm no critic, but I loved that guy.

Ever since I was a kid, for whatever reason(okay it was #TheBeatles cartoon and finding out how funny #RingoStarr was!) I always loved the drummer. And Watts was such a cool-cat customer, especially compared to his histrionic bandmates, how could you not love that guy?!

After growing up hearing all about #TheRollingStones, the first CD(yeah, I'm *that* old) I bought of theirs was #VoodooLounge, only to discover, to my horror, that the version of "Love Is Strong" QBS had been playing was, in fact, a super-awesome remix, and the version of the album was nothing like it.

But I gave the whole CD a listen(back then you had to listen to the *whole* thing), and it was actually pretty good…and then, snap-zoom/flash-cut forward *many* years and there's Ralph Fiennes in Guadagnino-Land, giving a frenzied dissertation of the awesomeness of "Moon Is Up" all based on Watts playing "drums" on a couple of buckets in the hallway!

True? Who knows?! But Watts was a *legend*, and man, the truth(whatever it may or may not be) is no match!

Rest in Jazz, Charlie…

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#Watts #RollingStones #drummer #drums #rocknroll #rock #legend #music
@therollingstones

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The Charlie Watts Quintet
12 x 5 (1964)
Out of Our Heads (1965)
Aftermath (1966)
Between the Buttons (1967)
Beggars Banquet (1968)
Let It Bleed (1969)
Sticky Fingers (1971)
Exile on Main St. (1972)
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974)
Some Girls (1978)
Emotional Rescue (1980)
Tattoo You (1981)
Undercover (1983)
Steel Wheels (1989)
Blue & Lonesome (2016)

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