RIP Charlie

[langmick]

Played right up til the end.

[AllenS]

The backbeat of the greatest rock n roll band.

Safe passage, Charlie. You will be missed.

[Paul Marangoni]

First 45 I ever bought, at age 5:

Watts said in 2003:

"Street Fighting Man" was recorded on Keith's cassette with a 1930s toy drum kit called a London Jazz Kit Set, which I bought in an antiques shop, and which I've still got at home. It came in a little suitcase, and there were wire brackets you put the drums in; they were like small tambourines with no jangles ... The snare drum was fantastic because it had a really thin skin with a snare right underneath, but only two strands of gut ... Keith loved playing with the early cassette machines because they would overload, and when they overload they sounded fantastic, although you weren't meant to do that. We usually played in one of the bedrooms on tour. Keith would be sitting on a cushion playing a guitar and the tiny kit was a way of getting close to him. The drums were really loud compared to the acoustic guitar and the pitch of them would go right through the sound. You'd always have a great backbeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighting_Man

[Sam]

Goodbye Charlie!

Nice video here of him talking about his gear.

[Pocketplayer]

RIP Charlie

One of the most infectious grooves ever imo

[Christopher]

Another icon, gone.

Who would have thought that Keith Richards would have outlived Charlie?

Let’s all play a few bars of not hitting the hat on 2 and 4 in honor.

RIP

[Merrill Conn]

Say what you will about the Stones...but...they are all class. When you go to rollingstones.com, this is all you see (full screen with nothing else):


On their Twitter feed, they posted a nice video tribute to Charlie.

[Rodge]