{"id":24449,"date":"2021-08-24T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24449"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:44:59","slug":"rip-charlie-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-charlie-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Charlie Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/God?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#God<\/a> bless Charlie Watts we\u2019re going to miss you man peace and love to the family Ringo \ud83d\ude0e\u270c\ufe0f\ud83c\udf1f\u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udfb6\u262e\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3tSFg7EMQG\">pic.twitter.com\/3tSFg7EMQG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; #RingoStarr (@ringostarrmusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringostarrmusic\/status\/1430214308101705730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve made my share of Charlie Watts jokes around here, including one running theme that I honestly think I may be right about, but learning just now that Charlie Watts has died at 80 is sad. He gets credit for my core sense of a rock &#8216;n roll beat: the 4-on-the-floor beat driving &#8220;Satisfaction,&#8221; the song I feel best lives up to the objectives of rock &#8216;n roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie gets credit for contributing to possibly the smoothest, snakiest groove in rock &#8216;n roll, on &#8220;Under My Thumb.&#8221; As with so many legendary Stones grooves, it&#8217;s a team effort. There&#8217;s no showy performance in his repertoire that dominates a particular Stones song. In fact, I&#8217;m not even sure there&#8217;s a legendary fill to cite, since Jimmy Miller plays those excellent fills at the end of the choruses on &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beat that I think most typifies the greatness of Charlie Watts &#8211; and a beat that even I wouldn&#8217;t suspect was played by some other drummer in my most trolling moments &#8211; is &#8220;Beast of Burden.&#8221; It is the beat that appears when you look up &#8220;in the pocket&#8221; in the dictionary. It&#8217;s another team effort, as everyone is locked in. Charlie must have had a lot to do with keeping that lot locked in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rolling Stones - SNL rehearsals 1978\/10\/06 - Video\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-KiVKNNBBw?start=484&#038;feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made my share of Charlie Watts jokes around here, including one running theme that I honestly think I may be right about, but learning just now that Charlie Watts has died at 80 is sad. He gets credit for my core sense of a rock &#8216;n roll beat: the 4-on-the-floor beat driving &#8220;Satisfaction,&#8221; the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-charlie-watts\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}