Charlie WATTS: Why We Can't Get ENOUGH This Drum BEAT?
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2025
- The Rolling Stones:
When it comes to iconic drumming in rock music, Charlie Watts’ beat on The Rolling Stones' classic “Honky Tonk Women” stands as one of the most celebrated examples. Though often understated in comparison to the more flamboyant drummers of his era, Watts' drumming style, rooted in jazz, brought a unique, laid-back sophistication to the band’s music. On “Honky Tonk Women,” Watts delivers a groove that’s both deceptively simple and profoundly effective. Here’s why it remains one of his finest moments behind the kit.
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I remember back when Honky Tonk Women were released and I brought it home to play it for the first time. Immediately I got hooked on that loose beat! It was outstanding! Many critics said that it wasn't even a song! But it turned out to be one of rock and rolls best one ever! Listening to the original version and it's outstanding drumbeat in coordination of the cowbell and Keith's guitar is so great. To have lived in a lifetime where Charlie Watts has played his music is just an wonderful experience! Thank you Charlie and RIP. This video is great to watch. Thank you for this great one!
Thank you so much for your kind words! It’s wonderful to hear how much Charlie's music means to you. His legacy will always live on through tracks like this! Thanks for watching! Glad you love it!
You're welcome! Charlie is a legend and still by many an underrated drummer! To me though he's the greatest!
i think jimmy miller did the cowbell but i agree with you 100%
Honky Tonk Women WAS released
1st song I learned on the drums & still diggin' it 60yrs on.
Keep rockin' Charlie!! 💥 🍻 🤙🏽🍻 ✌🏽
I’m a drummer in a Stones tribute band. I wasn’t nessecarilly a Stones fan before but the more I learn about Charlie, the more I appreciate his drumming style.
For every great Stones song their is an equally great Drum track right there with it.
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Greatest band of all time. Keep on rocking in better places Mr. Watts!
Charlie Watts - the heartbeat of the Rolling Stones. Thank you for this portrait.
Thanks for watching! Glad you like it!
RIP Charlie Watts. You are missed dearly
Absolutely
Charlie was and will always be my favorite member of my all time favorite band. A true gentleman.
Charlie Watts, master of the groove , a cat with more feel and spirit than many , many others . He sat in the music , held it all together , damn i miss him .
Charlie Watts, what else is there to say , one of the few drummers who actually listen to the band, and only played what is needed.
The ability to serve the song. A rare talent in any band, respecting the music. With no need to draw attention to himself. Totally unique. Kick and snare, knowing when to stop, knowing how much is enough. total feel . X
Charlie Watts....we miss you So much!
You were the Best Drummer of the world!!❤
A GREAT DRUMMER who rarely got the recognition and credit he deserved! RIP SIR
Magic, thanks for putting this up. It's made my day🥁🙏👌☘️
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
At school was this guy from another class always talking about Charlie Watts...
And he was right 👍
Mr. Charlie Watts, Yes !!! So missed !
Certain UA-camrs try and fill up 16:36 minutes of video with as many different ways of saying the same thing as possible- this guy's the champ.
Exactly!!! Maybe it's an AI product?
Yes....well said.....I notice most posts like this are padded with AI.....the wording and phrasing are all from the same source......
My absolute favorite song startvis when he turns the beat around on Start Me Up.
I love it!.
And im a retired old fuck.
I cant think of the songs but there's a lot of them where you can hear him switch the downbeat from the snare to the base drum. He was a great jazz drummer, too.
Dieser Bericht war so ergreifend, das er mich zum weinen gebracht hat...mir war, als ob Charlie aus seiner Sphäre zugehört und zugesehen hat 🌌
What a fantastic video have a great weekend also happy first week of October and also RIP to Charlie Watts ❤😢
Thank you! You too!
This video brought back a memory from my band teacher back in 71 " the rests are a part of the music sometimes your not supposed to play".
Great watch, well put together and Charlie is right , less is more and as a bassist you want a groove
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate your kind words! It's great to hear that you resonate with Charlie's philosophy.
That entire generation of English drummers raised on Jazz are my all time faves. Baker, Bonham, Watts, Mitchell, Ward, Moon
Paice? And the kinks drummer?
Doug Clifford
What a great tribute package 👍
Thank you kindly! Glad you love it!
I have been lucky to have seen the Rolling Stones live 53 times, and as a drummer I am always watching Charlie , as Mr watts said, its all about the groove, thanks Charlie.
Ich finde dieses Gedenken an die wunderbare Zeit mit den meisterhaften Drummer Charlie sehr gut...sogar verstehe ich jetzt, warum sein Schlagzeug-Spiel diese Leichtigkeit besaß, der Jazz hatte ihn geprägt...
Aber seine Persönlichkeit war auch herausragend und seine Fairness vergisst man nie...
Danke für diesen großartigen Bericht...Charlie, man vergisst dich nie...🌹🌹🌹 🕯⭐💐
Honky Tonk Woman was the 1st song I learned on the drums & I'm still diggin' it 60yrs on.
It's so cool, so clean and so strong
Keep rockin' FOREVER Charlie!! 💥 🍻 🤙🏽🍻 ✌🏽
Stones have not been the same since Charlie passed away, he was the glue of the band...God Bless him...
I can say the same for Bill Wyman too
The thing that has always fascinated me about that beat is how much it fluctuates in tempo. Nowadays most producers would rush to their DAW and "fix it". But it was never broke. Each time he picks up the tempo into the chorus, he only ever-so-slightly relaxes the new tempo into the following verse and its plenty. And tho the song starts at 98bpm or so, and finishes somewhere in the low 120's - you barely notice really because its so gradual and the lifts are serving the song so well in bringing a brand new excitement into each chorus. An absolute thing of beauty.
Keith's understated 2 note chords and the impact of Wyman's minimalist approach on this one are a thing of beauty as well. (I don't think we hear bass until the first chorus starts!) This song is a perfect example of less being more. The Stones at their best.
Yes. Also check out the incredible drum guitar interplay on sympathy on the get yer ya yas out album
Thank you so much. It is so Wonderfull. 🥁🎷🎸
Thank you for your kind words! So glad you enjoyed it! Have a wonderful day!
It's great that this documentary focused so much on 'Honky Tonk Women', because I remember being blown away the first time I heard it. Charlie Watt's drumming just made the song, I still rush to the radio to turn up the volume every time it comes on, I love the use of the Cow Bell and the laid back power of the drums, Charlie nailed it perfectly.
Excellent work,please keep it up ⬆️
Thank you! Cheers!
Charlie's drumming on Let It Bleed is sublime!
What's the song that starts at 1:15?
It's Charlie Watts' isolated drum track from "SLAVE"...Thanks for watching!
@@RockinRollinOne fantastic thank you.
Slave from Tattoo You Album
Thank you for the memories Charlie...😢
Charlie Watts IS a master in his craft indeed. Thank You for doing this.
Everything in this video is perfectly stated.
Without Charlie's Beat on Honky Tonk Women (& the song itself), Free's 'All Right Now' would have never happened. RIP dear Charlie Watts.
The Kinks discovered this, too. Mick Avory was another jazz-rooted drummer (he'd actually auditioned with the Stones in 1962, but thought to himself "this lot's going nowhere" and stuck with his day job, carrying hod for a construction crew) and jumped at a second chance to be a rock-band drummer when the Kinks placed an ad in Melody Maker to replace Mickey Willet. Mick's endearing (to Ray) or infuriating (to Dave) ability to drop a beat, add a beat or simply syncopate and force the band to follow his lead - "Dead End Street," anyone? - made him a low-key star. Keith Richards once said if Charlie Watts hadn't come around he'd have been just as pleased to have Avory on the kit but was leery that he (Avory) could take over. Mick considered his kit an instrument by itself. Watts himself enjoyed Avory's skill. He once said something to the effect that Avory could do things he couldn't, and that he could do things Avory couldn't do - but that both wound up with the bands they belonged in.
I caught a performance by the Kast-Off Kinks several years ago in the UK when Avory was almost 80, and he hasn't lost anything.
Back in the day all my friends and I had the Sticky Fingers album and we grooved to it whenever we got together ❤️.
Charlie you are loved and missed beyond measure. 😢
A true legend, Charlie never missed a beat
Don't Want to Be Your Slave is at 1:16
I was told a long time ago that I looked like Charlie watts
Where is his mate Bill Wyman?
Prodigal son is one of my faves due to the drumming
Ow yay t’ Charlie ....The Rolling.. tempo... Cool...groovy...fabulues ..blues...jazzy...funky.. stones ...style..
WITH CHARLIE AND DARYL, THE BACKLINE OF THE GREATEST ROCK N ROLL BAND EVER WAS PURE JAZZ!!
Phantastic Drummer ! A true Groovemaster ,yeah thats realy true !! 🥁🥁🥁👍👍
Muscle Shoals, Alamaba is where Honky Tonk Women was arranged and producer Rick Hall deserves some credit too for that groove to work.
and just like that he was one the best drummers in the world.
A drummer once told me . Charlie knew when not to play .
Charlie Watts....the Best Drummer of the World....we miss you.....❤
Charley watts, Phil Rudd, John Coghlan, Mick fleetwood, 4 of the luckiest people in music.
In New York City , 2001 - shortly after 9/11. Charlie brought over a Band of some of the Best Jazz Players in Britain. Of course, Charlie on Drums. The venue - "The Blute Note" in 'the village'. Through some dumb luck, I had a "ringside"table. Of course the Music was Great. Charlie Watts ? I've Never Seen a Happier Man.
Charlie on his Gretsch drum kit. I believe Tony Williams also played a Gretsch kit. Amazing.
Charlie Watts……Drummer GENIOUS!!❤
Charlie is one of the greatest!! With all due respect, you missed it. Charlie didn't start the hi-hat thing until the early to mid 1970s. He didn't do it from the very beginning.
BTW, Honky Tonk Women does speed up, in a good way, especially toward the end. SO human!!🙏
I thought honky tonk women was jimmy miller on drums (?)
You're thinking of 'Its Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)'. That's drummer Kenney Jones playing on it.
Fun fact: the tempo of HTW is not steady but slowly accelerates, then rapidly charges toward the end. And there is only one (1) cymbal crash in the entire track.
Charlie 🖤
'Painted Black' is the best drum song by Watts.
Charlie has always been my favorite Beatle. Even though he was in the Stones...
This is a bit repetitive, long (25 mins), and focuses on only one song (i.e., "Honky Tonk Women"). But if you like the Stones -- and drummers -- you'll dig this. Yet, that the video could spend 25 minutes talking about how great Charlie Watts was without any comments from Bill Wyman, the other half of the Stones' rhythm section, is a baffling sin of omission, especially when whoever produced this video got just about everyone else except Brian Jones to comment both inside and outside the band. But the thing I took from this was that restraint, less is more, and rootedness in jazz were keys to Watts' drumming.
@@oskala7 if it takes an hour you need to get the groove in ya head mate👍
Probably because the whole video was thrown together by ChatGPT
色々、あったけど最期迄『ロック』だっただろ? 😮
Charlie Watts and Phil Rud simple and great.
Watts was doing The Lord's Work.
Believe me I got more than enough. No more please.
Most rock, blues, pop and R&B tunes will have the snare on two and four, eighth notes (or fourths or sixteenths) on the hi-hat. What this video is calling "the drum beat" is actually just the kick drum pattern. It's the kick drum pattern that gives you a movement inducing feel... or not. It needs to follow, sync up with and support the base line. It needs to be simple. It needs to be repetitive and it needs to be consistent and in time with real time, i.e., the metronome/click track. All of those amateur club-level drummers dropping in kick drum beats whenever and wherever, suck. Period. They suck. And they infest nearly every club-level band in the world. You can call it less is more or whatever. Frankly, it's not understanding the basic elements of music. Snare on two and four, eighth notes on the hi-hat, all these drummers really have to worry about is the kick drum. And, amazingly, they fuck it up.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -- Leonardo DaVinci
Sip Charlie xoxo
While you often have these oversized Drummers Huffin' & Puffin', way Over-Playing (too Loud/too much Follow-Through/too many Licks/Paradiddles/double Bass etc), looking like an enraged, tantrumming Ape/Monster/Bully who just got his Candy Bar taken away from him, pounding away angrily with Big-Hair flying around, mouth wide open etc - here's Cool, Calm, Collected, Well-Dressed, quietly Confident, Relaxed & ever smiling Charlie Watts playing a simple, non-complicated infectious dancible Groove with only a basic Drum Kit & a Cow-Bell.
RIP dear Charlie - Rock-On 🤠 !
I’m a rock drummer and I love Charlie. But jeeez how long can you stretch out “Honky Tonk Women”? Enough already.
Quite a few Spinal Tap-worthy quotes in here…
this docu is to drummers what the bible is to christians
iykwim
Too much talking not enough drumming.
Repetetive repetition repeating itself.
Top shelve bullshit: It's just a drumbeat.
Wake up.
Wanker!