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I was a big Stones Fan, some brilliant albums and they really were the best Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World in the 70's.....but time moves on, l have never liked Stadium gigs either. I feel if they still want to keep performing, l reckon they should be playing small European Blues Joints akin to Ronnie Scott's and the like.... Back to the clubs where it all started...and for a Fiver entry too.
I reckon Jagger would be up for that...
I was baptised by 90's britpop and went sideways into the interesting, creative and excellent dance music that was being made at the time. From there - like many music fans I guess, I worked back, finding out what had influenced the records I loved.
That was when I understood that for a time - 68 to 74 perhaps, the stones really where a truly incredible band. They looked and sounded amazing and lived like outlaws. Charlie's drumming was at the core of Stones sound. His influence is under-appreciated. He's often descried as a 'solid'... but I think his playing was hugely varied, always in service of the song and occasionally funky.
Tracks like Can't you hear me knocking, Loving cup, Can't always get what you want, Wild horses, ventilator blues and sympathy for the devil are powerful demonstrations of how he held the often loose Stones together and kept them swinging. Considering he watch such a reserved chap his drumming could be paradoxically strutting and full of vim'....
RIP Charlie Watts - legendary drummer
No doubt, plenty of top session drummers can do an approximation of Charlie's style, but to find one of them who would want to take that on full-time, as a kind of tribute act?