May 2024 News

　ライヴに先立ってインタヴューに応じたキース・リチャーズはチャーリー・ワッツが亡くなった後もバンドの活動を止めるという選択肢はなかったと語っている。「基本的に俺たちはお互いのことが大好きだし、自分たちの音楽も大好きだからね。やる時はそういうことは考えてないよね」

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Those expecting an acknowledgement of loss or the passing of time - a comment, say, on the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021 - do not find it on the menu tonight. Having endured death, dope, arrests, fights, falls from trees, cancer, and more death, 

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Charlie Watts was never into anything too flashy with The Rolling Stones. He could have easily tried to lay down some mean drum solo if he wanted, but would that really have worked to put some jazzy freakout in the middle of ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’? Watts was always smarter than that, but he didn’t think the rest of the rock community had the same idea when he saw acts like Cream and Led Zeppelin gaining traction.

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　ザ・ローリング・ストーンズは、今は亡きドラマー、チャーリー・ワッツの「カオスと奇抜さ」が懐かしいという。先月２８日、２０２１年６月に８０歳で他界したチャーリーのいない２度目のツアーとなる「ハックニー・ダイアモンズ・ツアー」を、テキサス州ヒューストンのＮＲＧスタジアムでキックオフしたストーンズは、チャーリーの後任スティーブン・ジョーダンのドラムの腕前には感心しているものの、チャーリーがバンドのパフォーマンスに強烈なエネルギーをもたらしてくれたことを今でも懐かしんでいるそうだ。

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Shortly after 1 a.m., in walks Charlie Watts, the famously understated drummer of a band featuring some of rock ‘n’ roll’s largest personas. Watts and a couple crew members pulled up a few seats in the basement bar that co-owner Chris Jones turned into a rock ‘n’ roll clubhouse, plastering the walls with rock memorabilia, including more than a few Stones pieces.

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In an exciting collaboration, Hagerty and Huntsman are set to honor the legacy of the late Charlie Watts, the iconic drummer of The Rolling Stones, with a unique exhibition at the Concours on Savile Row event. 

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　ライヴに先立ってインタヴューに応じたキース・リチャーズはチャーリー・ワッツが亡くなった後もバンドの活動を止めるという選択肢はなかったと語っている。「基本的に俺たちはお互いのことが大好きだし、自分たちの音楽も大好きだからね。やる時はそういうことは考えてないよね」

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“Sure, but I’m cynical about everything, I can’t really help it. I don’t listen to much rock and roll music at all. Yeah, and I don’t consider myself a musician, if you can understand that. I’m a workman and that’s how I approach my task. I don’t think that the Stones are inferior music at all. 

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“But I think with Charlie going, I have realised more and more how special that is. I mean, there is something about the Stones and there is something about us all that sort of says, ‘No, we stick together’. And then you can’t just drop it. You’ve, you got to follow it right down to the end, down the tunnel.”

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“Claro, pero soy cínico acerca de todo, no puedo evitarlo. Realmente no escucho mucha música rock and roll. Sí, y no me considero un músico, si puedes entender eso. Soy un trabajador y así es como abordo mi tarea. No creo que los Stones sean música inferior en absoluto.

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The Rolling Stones in the press: “Charlie Watts: The One-off Merchant…”

*From the Record Mirror, England, Oct. 18 1969

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Watts visited the Screwdriver in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood in 2019.

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At the 2024 Concours on Savile Row, on 22-23 May, the late drummer of the Rolling Stones Charlie Watts, the band’s engine room for just shy of 60 years, will be honoured by Hagerty and Huntsman. In an exhibition celebrating his life and inimitable style, selections from his extensive Huntsman wardrobe will be on display inside the tailor’s VIP Clubroom, 

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‘Ode To A High Flying Bird’, Charlie Watts’ book, which he wrote and illustrated in 1961.

The story of a little bird, but it’s really about jazz great Charlie Parker. In 1961, twenty-year-old Charles Robert Watts was working as a full-time graphic designer and a part-time drummer. He had left art school in July 1960, and after working as a tea boy in an advertising agency he got his chance to work as a designer. 

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Rolling Stones On Video: Charlie Watts interview on live plans, a new album and the end of the band (from the NME, 2018)

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