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Offline BLeafe

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Rolling Stones' drummer, Charlie Watts, dead at 80
« on: August 24, 2021, 07:50:01 PM »
Well, it's official - all my favorite drummers are gone. Charlie was great without being the least bit flashy.

Of course, being in back, the drummer is hard to get a good shot of, but when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are in front of you, not a lot of photographers are aiming your way............and I plead guilty to that.

This may be the only halfway-decent shot I have of him (with Keith) and I took it in 1975 at Madison Square Garden - the first time I shot the Stones (from 10 rows back).

RIP, Charlie.




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Re: Rolling Stones' drummer, Charlie Watts, dead at 80
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2021, 07:07:30 AM »
Sad day, one of my favorite drummers ever, he never got the credit he deserved...many people didn't understand but those songs wouldn't have sounded the same without him