RIP Charlie Watts

[Jersey Girl]

Variation on a theme. Love obscure videos. MeDot if you are reading this, look at the band members.

Keith Richards watches as Bernard Fowler sings Jumping Jack Flash at the Knitting Factory 5/19/09.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crrXRUAJGRQ

[Jersey Girl]

https://rollingstones.com/

[Jersey Girl]

This is SO cool. The camera is on Charlie for all but a few seconds. It's filming him from the sides, in front, or right behind him. You can see the show from his perspective. Ignore the stupid title. The video is AWESOME.

Really showcases his work.

GOD.

Charlie Watts / All Down the Line / You aren't too old, Chalie !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiswNgUYD4M

[Jersey Girl]

I used to play the drums, and in some ways Charlie Watts plays drums the way Keith Richards plays guitar: Not flashy, It is always in service to the song. He had a jazz background. Think about the drums at the beginning of "Honkytonk Women". He sets in all up with 4 strokes of the sticks. But I'd bet dollars to donuts that 40 years ago, the idea of Keith, Mick and Charlie just being ALIVE, let alone playing together, would have seemed impossible. A longer and stranger trip than the Grateful Dead.

Here is exactly what you were describing, MeDot. I found this deconstruction youtube channel--I'm in heaven!


The Rolling Stones | Honky Tonk Women | Isolated Tracks | Deconstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHj-TmMAsRE

[Jersey Girl]

The Rolling Stones dedicate first show in 2021 to Charlie Watts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vphl1VReYX0