Progression was Miles Davis playing modals. “But it hasn’t really progressed musically. “It’s dance music,” he told Rolling Stone in 1978. Charlie took pride in being a jazz fan, not a rock fan. His marriage to Shirley lasted longer than the combined marriages of most bands. He cannot understand what people see in his drumming.” But Keith insists, “There’s nothing forced about Charlie, least of all his modesty. Keith told Rolling Stone in his 1981 cover story, “As far as I’m concerned, I’d just say that I’m continually thankful - and more so as we go along - that we have Charlie Watts sittin’ there, you know? He’s the guy who doesn’t believe it, because he’s like that.” The interviewer finds it hard to believe.
Charlie wasn’t even impressed by himself, let alone his bandmates. The other Stones found Charlie impossible to dazzle. He made the Stones great by conceding nothing to them. Mick just tries to keep up with him, while the guitars try to keep up with Mick, but Charlie is the guy everybody else is working hard to impress. For me, the Charlie mystique is all there in his five-second drum intro from “Let It Bleed.” It’s one of the Stones’ best tunes, yet it’s nothing but the band listening to Charlie play. The Rolling Stones’ legendary drummer got away with nothing but boss moves, for just about 60 years.
There will never be a world without Charlie Watts, because his backbeat changed how the world sounds.
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