Story Always just the quiet guy in the rear, letting Mick and Keith soak up the limelight.
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Story Always just the quiet guy in the rear, letting Mick and Keith soak up the limelight.
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That's it. It's over.
Just a couple of days ago I heard that he wasn't going on the road with the Stones, following advise from his doctor. If they knew he was dying it wasn't said.
Man, that was so sad. I was always impressed how he always able to stand apart from all of the drug use, and turmoil in the Stones.
One dude on the radio said the surviving members of the Beatles and Stones should go on tour together. You still have a drummer, bassist, guitarist, and lead singer.
I've long said that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr should get together with Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey. They could call themselves The Whootles.
I can’t believe Keith Richards survived Charlie Watts. My brain refuses to accept this information, which is contrary to all evidence and logic.
That's for sure! Keith Richards has looked like Death for decades now.
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There are a great many jokes about Keith Rivhards out living everybody. For instance, it's said the only survivors of nuclear war will be cockroaches and Keith Richard's.
I was always more of a Beatles fan than one of the Stones (I liked the Stones, I just liked the Beatles more), but Watts was definitely a good, solid drummer, always seeming unruffled by whatever nonsense was going on around him (although I did read an anecdote today about one of the rare times he got angry). He'll be missed.
My feelings are much the same, Randy. I got into the Beatles in a big way in the mid-70s (I was born in 1962, but don't recall being aware of them in the 1960s, maybe in part because my family moved to Japan a couple of months before I turned 5 in 1967 and although my parents were in the same age range as the Beatles and my mom was born on June 18, 1943, a year after Paul McCartney, their musical tastes were more towards lighter pop or country, and included the Supremes and Ray Charles but nothing that really qualified as rock. So once I started collecting albums, several were Beatles' studio albums. I loved the Rolling Stones too, but initially started off with the two Hot Rocks collections, only later, in the '70s, getting their studio lps. At any rate, by the time I was 16, I rated my 3 favorite bands as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who, and I had books about each of them. Charlie Watts seemed an unlikely rock star, one who didn't even particularly like rock music but was a talented drummer. His face and typical expression looked rather unusual, especially in the period when he kept his hair stubble-length short, but then so what? Aside from his drumming, he really was in many respects the quietest rock star of them all, more so than George Harrison or John Entwistle, the respective "quiet ones" of their bands. He also had one of the longest marriages of any major rock star, nearly 57 years, having married in October 1964. Saddened by his loss but at least he had a fairly long, successful life, surrounded by loved ones as he died, unlike too many of his contemporaries. All kidding aside, I know eventually Keith Richards himself will cease rolling on, but for all the turmoil of his younger years, he actually seems to have been living a much healthier lifestyle over the last few decades. Whether he'll make it to 80 himself, in December 2023, nevermind to 90 or 100, remains to be seen, but he's already lived longer than most people might have expected back in the late '70s when he was often in the news for various ailments and busts related to his overindulgence in illicit drugs.
Beatles, Stones and Who were my trifecta as well.
Add Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd to those and you have my "British Heavyweights."
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