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Thursday, 1 October 2009

Charlie Watts

Playing with Jools Holland, and others:



And on playing for jazz, playing rock and roll, and dance sounds.



I like the way the musicians work together. The bit where he says he's winging it, I think that's what people call 'musicality'.
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5 comments:

  1. Jo A1 October 2009 at 22:16

    My other half admires Charlie Watts for always wearing the same sort of thing, and pretty much sticking with the same sort of music too. There is something to be said for knowing what suits you and ignoring fashion.

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  2. Tangocommuter1 October 2009 at 22:39

    Many thanks, for linking that interview with Charlie Watts, Ms H. Must be one of the few successful rock musicians who has real respect for musical masters: 'I've made a living from it... but I can never become as good as the people I watch'. & he's always been able to function as a musician outside a rock band. & he says: 'I should have gone to school and learned how to do it. I should have gone to classes, and had tuition... I learned by watching...' Loved that; reminded me a bit of that interview with Maria Nievas where she says she's against learning tango in schools and classes...

    (OK, all very well for her, and for him too...)

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  3. msHedgehog1 October 2009 at 23:21

    @Jo A - that is true style.
    @TC, I knew you would like it ;) But I think that respect for musical masters is generally known to be true of the Stones; they grew up listening to the great Blues men, like my Dad.

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  4. Captain Jep2 October 2009 at 10:56

    Drummers really interest me. There's the basic contradiction : they are there to keep the time and essentially "not to be noticed", but on the other hand they give a tune backbone and can lift it from being bland to something exciting.

    Isnt this in a way what musicality is all about?

    Nice link Ms H (I hadnt noticed BTW the similarities between Charlie Watts and that oh-so-annoying character that Paul Whitehouse plays in the TV ads) ..

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  5. ghost2 October 2009 at 15:05

    http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206552&postcount=13

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