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Aug 28, 2021Liked by Brad Weed

Charlie Watts!  

Wow, this passing struck me hard in so many unexpected ways.  I've always appreciated Charlie's understated elegance, dapper ways, and jazz sensibilities - but (after days re-immersed in Stones music with my ears focused on the drums) I have such admiration and respect (adoration?) for the ways he drove the band.  

The evidence is clear that the Stones knew that Charlie was their Special Sauce:  As Keith Richards said in 1979: “Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones. If Charlie wasn’t doing what he’s doing on drums, that wouldn’t be true at all. You’d find out that Charlie Watts is the Stones.”    

All those years of dancing wasn't "dancing to the Stones" - it was dancing to Charlie Watts!

And yes, without a doubt, "the world could use a [great] drummer right about now."

Do the hip shake baby!

// Greg Gunther

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Aug 28, 2021Liked by Brad Weed

I will take away two insights from this article: 1) people bringing children into this world are exasperating global warming, nobody could have predicted that and 2) my trumpet playing sucked… predictable without complex math. Thanks Bradley for the article.

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Charlie Watts!  

Wow, this passing struck me hard in so many unexpected ways.  I've always appreciated Charlie's understated elegance, dapper ways, and jazz sensibilities - but (after days re-immersed in Stones music with my ears focused on the drums) I have such admiration and respect (adoration?) for the ways he drove the band.  

The evidence is clear that the Stones knew that Charlie was their Special Sauce:  As Keith Richards said in 1979: “Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones. If Charlie wasn’t doing what he’s doing on drums, that wouldn’t be true at all. You’d find out that Charlie Watts is the Stones.”    

All those years of dancing wasn't "dancing to the Stones" - it was dancing to Charlie Watts!

And yes, without a doubt, "the world could use a [great] drummer right about now."

Do the hip shake baby!

// Greg

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