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GasLightStreet
Reading about Charlie not playing the hi-hat on page 2 is hilarious.
The style of playing that made the Stones so huge started with We Love You and on through TSMR to IORR's Dance Little Sister, that double kick beat behind the snare - or in front of it. The way he drummed on the 1969 tour on Jumpin' Jack Flash is a great example. That carried some of their best tunes. He didn't do it on everything - but it's one of those styles that when I hear it it's Charlie Watts.
2000 Light Years, Jigsaw Puzzle, Let It Bleed, Bitch, Dead Flowers, Rocks Off, All Down The Line, Stop Breaking Down, Dance Little Sister, Short And Curlies.
It changed after that to a bit more laidback on BLACK AND BLUE and then oddly tightened up from SOME GIRLS onward, especially on EMOTIONAL RESCUE and UNDERCOVER.
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flacnvinyl
Lifting the highhat on the snare hits is the key to his sound. She's So Cold is the quintessentially example. This clip is killer.
I was lucky enough to be at the Beacon shows and loved it! The problem with Shine A Light is the sound mix. That's a whole post in itself. The snare is mixed poorly so it sounds thin regardless of the tuning.. guitars go from being inaudible to very loud (for sonic/visual effect and very stupidly).. Jagger's vocals should have a low end rolloff at 80-120 MINIMUM.. instead sometimes his vocals end up being in the same sound spectrum as the dang kick drum!
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Doxa
I guess the thing with the Rolling Stones members typically is that they they are pretty hard to 'judge' objectively as players, since they just happen to make so incredible music together, which we Stones fans love so much. The key players of their sound - Keith, Bill, and Charlie - all of them have a certain signature style, that is pretty much suited to serve the music of the Stones, but outside of that scheme, they all are rather mediocre players technicalwise (and the Stones music doesn't need much technical skills).
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MacLaurens
I found this clip on YouTube the other day. A guy covers Dead Flowers from Sticky Fingers Live at Fonda Theatre and he really manage to play it in the style of Charlie. In fact, it's the closest to Charlie I've ever seen.
Take a look!
YouTube - Dead Flowers drum cover
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keefriff99Certainly a nice Charlie imitation.Quote
MacLaurens
I found this clip on YouTube the other day. A guy covers Dead Flowers from Sticky Fingers Live at Fonda Theatre and he really manage to play it in the style of Charlie. In fact, it's the closest to Charlie I've ever seen.
Take a look!
YouTube - Dead Flowers drum cover
However, I always wonder about people who try to so closely mimic their heroes. I mean, this guy isn't just playing like Charlie; he's copying his technique, posture, and quirky head turning motions.
If that's what you want to do, that's fine, but it's VERY limiting if you want to be a musician and develop your own identity...and for a drummer, copying Charlie will SEVERELY limit your growth and you'll develop a lot of bad habits from a technical/technique perspective.
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MacLaurens
I found this clip on YouTube the other day. A guy covers Dead Flowers from Sticky Fingers Live at Fonda Theatre and he really manage to play it in the style of Charlie. In fact, it's the closest to Charlie I've ever seen.
Take a look!
YouTube - Dead Flowers drum cover
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flacnvinyl
Lifting the highhat on the snare hits is the key to his sound. She's So Cold is the quintessentially example. This clip is killer.
I was lucky enough to be at the Beacon shows and loved it! The problem with Shine A Light is the sound mix. That's a whole post in itself. The snare is mixed poorly so it sounds thin regardless of the tuning.. guitars go from being inaudible to very loud (for sonic/visual effect and very stupidly).. Jagger's vocals should have a low end rolloff at 80-120 MINIMUM.. instead sometimes his vocals end up being in the same sound spectrum as the dang kick drum!
I think a song like "Start me Up" with it's isolated snare hit, which is vital to the song begs for that type of snare hit: alone and pure. No Hi Hat. Wasn't it around 81 he started doing it anyway?
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flacnvinyl
Lifting the highhat on the snare hits is the key to his sound. She's So Cold is the quintessentially example. This clip is killer.
I think a song like "Start me Up" with it's isolated snare hit, which is vital to the song begs for that type of snare hit: alone and pure. No Hi Hat. Wasn't it around 81 he started doing it anyway?