Charlie Watts - RIP
: tirs 24. aug 2021 20:19Trist, trist nyhed: Trommeslageren i The Rolling Stones - Charlie Watts - døde idag (tirsdag) i en alder af 80 år.
Dels er det trist for hans nærmeste familie og pårørende - og dels betyder måske at Stones ikke laver flere turnéer/koncerter (i Europa) kan man frygte, selv om han ikke skulle have deltaget i den planlagte USA-turné.
Som en tilbagetrukket ankermand holdt Watts fast i rytmen og pulsen i rullestenene i utrolige +50 år. Og man skulle nok have troet, at Keith Richards havde tjekket ud som den første (med dét liv han har ført…).
Men nej - det blev Charlie Watts der forlod rullestenene og os andre først.
New York Times bragte her til aften denne korte notits - meget mere kommer HELT sikkert i de kommende dage/timer.
Charlie Watts, whose strong but unflashy drumming powered the Rolling Stones for over 50 years, died on Tuesday in London. He was 80.
His death, in a hospital, was announced by his publicist, Bernard Doherty. No other details were immediately provided.
The Rolling Stones announced earlier this month that Mr. Watts would not be a part of the band’s forthcoming “No Filter” tour of the United States after he had undergone an unspecified emergency medical procedure, which the band’s representatives said had been successful.
Reserved, dignified and dapper, Mr. Watts was never as flamboyant, either onstage or off, as most of his rock-star peers, let alone the Stones’ lead singer, Mick Jagger; he was content to be one of the finest rock drummers of his generation, playing with a jazz-inflected swing that made the band’s titanic success possible. As the Stones guitarist Keith Richards said in his 2010 autobiography, “Life,” “Charlie Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically.”
PS: Jeg kan i øvrigt - stærkt - anbefale Richards’ selvbiografi “Life” (findes også i dansk oversættelse som “Livet”).
PPS: Er man på Facebook, kan man læse denne fine nekrolog - https://facebook.com/groups/spinningvin ... ef=tn_tnmn
Dels er det trist for hans nærmeste familie og pårørende - og dels betyder måske at Stones ikke laver flere turnéer/koncerter (i Europa) kan man frygte, selv om han ikke skulle have deltaget i den planlagte USA-turné.
Som en tilbagetrukket ankermand holdt Watts fast i rytmen og pulsen i rullestenene i utrolige +50 år. Og man skulle nok have troet, at Keith Richards havde tjekket ud som den første (med dét liv han har ført…).
Men nej - det blev Charlie Watts der forlod rullestenene og os andre først.
New York Times bragte her til aften denne korte notits - meget mere kommer HELT sikkert i de kommende dage/timer.
Charlie Watts, whose strong but unflashy drumming powered the Rolling Stones for over 50 years, died on Tuesday in London. He was 80.
His death, in a hospital, was announced by his publicist, Bernard Doherty. No other details were immediately provided.
The Rolling Stones announced earlier this month that Mr. Watts would not be a part of the band’s forthcoming “No Filter” tour of the United States after he had undergone an unspecified emergency medical procedure, which the band’s representatives said had been successful.
Reserved, dignified and dapper, Mr. Watts was never as flamboyant, either onstage or off, as most of his rock-star peers, let alone the Stones’ lead singer, Mick Jagger; he was content to be one of the finest rock drummers of his generation, playing with a jazz-inflected swing that made the band’s titanic success possible. As the Stones guitarist Keith Richards said in his 2010 autobiography, “Life,” “Charlie Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically.”
PS: Jeg kan i øvrigt - stærkt - anbefale Richards’ selvbiografi “Life” (findes også i dansk oversættelse som “Livet”).
PPS: Er man på Facebook, kan man læse denne fine nekrolog - https://facebook.com/groups/spinningvin ... ef=tn_tnmn
Meget meget trist. Det er jo musiken fra jeg var 10 år og til nu,og så var han en fantastisk trommeslager.