as great as charlie is, doesnt it seem like almost every song, fast ones,
he plays live has the same beat , and the same attack, again i am not putting him down, i am just asking your opinion

You are correct. I find it the most addictive rock drummer beat there is. It has to do with the way he doesn't hit the Hi-Hat when he hits the snare, which I've never seen any other 'rock' drummer do. By the same token, Keith has a limited bag of tricks, but they work. God bless Charlie Watts.

I agree with those points

his job is to keep the beat and help round out the rhythm section...alone with bill wyman they were the best in the business...
since charlie hates solo's you won't find him doing many....
anyway i look at it as mick has his part, then keith down to woodie/taylor
then bill and then charlie...each giving a little piece to make it a stones album..

poor immigrant Wrote:
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> You are correct. I find it the most addictive rock
> drummer beat there is. It has to do with the way
> he doesn't hit the Hi-Hat when he hits the snare,
> which I've never seen any other 'rock' drummer do.
> By the same token, Keith has a limited bag of
> tricks, but they work. God bless Charlie Watts.

Good observation (and I'm ceratinly not a drummer by anyone's standard-except I can bang a good dashboard!), but isn't it also fair to say that Charlie's style (compact-kit drummer) is very unique to his genre? Which makes what he does with the Greatest R n'R Band seem even more remarkable?