25 August 2021

Charlie for ever


In view of a most recent event, please join me in celebrating youth and rock and roll, and especially the coolest of all drummers.

8 comments:

Marty said...

Very cool post. Thanks!

am said...

Él tocaba la batería. La bateria. Drums. He played the drums.

Coincidentally, my Spanish lessons this past week introduced a new word and numerous sentences about drums and drummers.

Charlie tocaba la batería.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAfh7wsnK4

Someone on YouTube called him the best timekeeper on earth. Yep. For so many songs that moved me then and move me now. Yep. And I have always found Charlie's expressive face to be deeply reassuring, deeply grounding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkAfh7wsnK4

Ms. Moon said...

Oh, Sabine! I love, love, love that. You know, they wrote that song after Keith and an American named Gram Parsons became very, very good friends. Gram wrote beautiful songs in that same vein and he was, at the very least, an inspiration for it. You probably already knew that. I love watching their faces as they listen to what they achieved in the studio. I would say they are well-pleased and they should be. Charlie could do it all, couldn't he? He seemed like such a private person, even using his eyelids to protect his privacy from the camera. Beautiful eyes. Beautiful man.

ellen abbott said...

we thought they were all immortal.

Anonymous said...

When I heard the news that Charlie Watts had died, I cried. I don't cry very often, and the tears just flowed.

37paddington said...

Rock and roll in paradise, lucky them.

Steve Reed said...

RIP Charlie. Sounds like he was an important bit of "glue" for the band.

Joared said...

His background in jazz ca be thanked for what he brought to rock.