RIP Charlie Watts (1941-2021)

[ideologyhunter]

Charlie Watts died on Tuesday. I always liked his cool, unaffected style, working in a band with one of the all-time extroverts in rock. Also his taste in music, which ranged from the Stones to big band jazz. Charlie at all times looked like the hip guy who enjoyed his life and didn't have any need to go on the record about it. And who knew that a band with that public image would have all but one of its founding members reaching the upper limits of longevity?

 

[Tars Tarkus]

If after 1969 when Brian Jones died, if you had told someone that the next Rolling Stone to die(past or current) would be 52 years later, who would have trusted that prediction? Ian Stewart their pianist did die in the mid '80s but he wasn't official.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Or that Keith and Mick would want to hit the stage at ages 77 and 78?