April 2024 News

2024年4月のニュース


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Hitting more than just snares: The night Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger came to blows

Date : 2024,04,02 Tue. 19:30

Source : FAR OUT

After a night out, the band rolled into their hotel room at about 5am. Jagger and Keith Richards were sharing a room, and in a drunken haze, Jagger decided to ring Charlie Watts’s room and yell at him down the phone. “Where’s my fucking drummer?” He said over and over, to not much of a response, before hanging up.

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The drummer Charlie Watts considered the greatest: “There’s only one of him”

Date : 2024,04,10 Wed. 18:30

Source : FAR OUT

Text : Tim Coffman

In the grand scheme of rock history, drummers tend to come and go throughout every band. If they didn’t write any of the songs and their only job was to just keep the time throughout the song, most fans would give a passive shrug if they found out their favourite band let go of someone behind the skins. In the genre’s golden age, every band member was important, and Charlie Watts knew he was seeing something special when he saw Keith Moon for the first time.

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Why Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman quit the band before his surprising career change

Date : 2024,04,27 Sat. 14:31

Source : Daily Record

With a laugh, he says: "I left in 1991 but they would not believe me." Bill ended his 30-year hiatus to play bass with late drummer Charlie Watts on the Hackney Diamonds album track Live By The Sword.

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ROLLING STONES QUOTES -Charlie Watts about the Stones’ career (2013): “We’re very, very fortunate. I’ve always felt that…”

Date : 2024,04,27 Sat.

Source : ROLLING STONES DATA

Charlie Watts about the Stones’ career (2013)

“We’re very, very fortunate. I’ve always felt that folks have liked this combination of people. Mick, Keith, Brian, and Bill: People turned up to see them. First it was 100 attending, then it was 200, then it’s a lot. 

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ROLLING STONES QUOTES -Charlie Watts on The Rolling Stones then and now (2000):”We tour very well now…”

Date : 2024,04,28 Sun.

Source : ROLLING STONES DATA

Charlie Watts on The Rolling Stones then and now (2000)

“We tour very well now – first class and Rolls-Royces, and that’s the only way to do it. Those first years were valuable times, though, because that’s how you became a working band. And we still are. There’s bigger gaps between work, but we’re still a working band.”

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Sir Mick Jagger makes heartbreaking confession about performing without the Rolling Stones' late drummer Charlie Watts as band embarks on tour

Date : 2024,04,30 Tue. 01:33

Source : Mail Online

Text : Owen Tonks

Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger says he still struggles to perform with out the band's drummer Charlie Watts behind him after he died in 2021. 

Charlie sadly passed away in August 2021 aged 80, following complications from emergency heart surgery.

The Rolling Stones performed the first night of the US leg of their tour in Texas on Sunday night as they show no signs of slowing down.

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The Rolling Stones song Charlie Watts struggled to perform: “I can’t play that”

Date : 2024,04,30 Tue. 15:30

Source : FAR OUT

The Rolling Stones have never been known for some of the most complicated drum patterns ever. Although Charlie Watts was not going to get the same kind of accolades that Keith Moon and John Bonham got around the same time, his way of locking in with Keith Richards’s right hand every time the band played gave the group a signature swing that is never going to be reproduced again. 

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