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Charlie Watts Dismisses Rolling Stones (always hated Elvis)
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| January 29, 2010
Posted on 01/29/2010 7:30:33 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
Is that why he always looks so bored when he’s playing with them?
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:32:50 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: ConservativeStatement
I discovered the beautiful music of the Renaissance at about the age of 35. I’ve never looked back, and often wondered just what I ever saw in rock music.
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:33:20 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Obey the law, or you'll go to prison and be raped.)
To: ConservativeStatement
“The Stones are merely an annoying pastime.”
But quite a profitable one!!
To: ConservativeStatement
Well that explains his less-than-enthusiastic countenance for the past 40-odd years.
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:35:07 PM PST
by
constitutiongirl
("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
To: ConservativeStatement
The Stones are merely an annoying pastime." That pays the bills.
That is the way I sometimes think of my job.
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:35:25 PM PST
by
Pontiac
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Name some of your fav artists/cds from that era. I’d be interested in checking them out.
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:37:03 PM PST
by
Beloved Levinite
(I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
To: ConservativeStatement
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:40:53 PM PST
by
eyedigress
( now.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
I'm a Baroque fanatic myself. Like you, I find it increasingly difficult to listen to rock music. I'd take Monteverdi, Bach and Handel over the Stones, Beatles and Hendrix anyday.
I'm sure Mick Jagger is tired of the Rolling Stones too. It's been almost a quarter century since they put out anything close to a decent album.
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:41:00 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I am 41 days away from outliving Jim Jones)
To: ConservativeStatement
Honestly, I couldn't care less if it were over. Echoing my sentiments to a tee.
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:44:49 PM PST
by
IronJack
(=)
To: SamAdams76
I'm a Baroque fanatic myself. Like you, I find it increasingly difficult to listen to rock music. I'd take Monteverdi, Bach and Handel over the Stones, Beatles and Hendrix anyday. Well, I've always said, "if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!" :-) I guess if the only thing you've ever known is the swill that's modern music, that's what you're going to enjoy; just as if you've never tasted lobster you might think tripe is the ultimate in culinary delight!
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:45:46 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Obey the law, or you'll go to prison and be raped.)
To: SamAdams76
I’ve kind of gotten bored with rock too. But I’m moving in a slightly different direction from you guys — towards disco. A Chic album spins on a turntable in the background as I type.
To: ConservativeStatement
It’s a pity that the Rolling Stones never cultivated ‘B’ teams of musicians, composers and vocalists. They could have had a complex orchestra, bringing together classical blues and jazz, with the core band as the centerpiece.
Rolled into one, it would be a music academy, a recording studio, and a record label, generating music groups, training composers, cross training performers, etc.
To: Beloved Levinite
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posted on
01/29/2010 7:52:01 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Obey the law, or you'll go to prison and be raped.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
To: Gone_Postal
To: ConservativeStatement
He put out a very good album, ‘The Charlie Watts Orchestra’, a big band recording, in which Courtney Pine got his start.
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posted on
01/29/2010 8:04:14 PM PST
by
real saxophonist
(The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
To: Gone_Postal
What goes around comes around, I guess. But this is illustrative of the modern trend in music which has steered itself toward the purely rhythmic and percussive—the primal elements of music, the simplest, and the least refined.
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posted on
01/29/2010 8:12:19 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Obey the law, or you'll go to prison and be raped.)
To: SamAdams76
Their appearance at the Super Bowl was simply horrible. I was never a big fan but did see the Stones live back in the 60’s.
To: ConservativeStatement; a fool in paradise
Watts is a riot! He may be the best rock'n'roll drummer that's ever lived, and with Wyman (no relation to Mrs Reagan, and not his real name) one half of the best rock'n'rolly rhythm section evah, but he's a drummer boy, boy!
Chet Baker, who often recorded and appeared without drummers, said it best: "A good drummer is better than no drummer at all."
Did Elvis' first recordings on Sun had a drummer? Anyway, Charlie's good tonight, I luv him!
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