Charlie Watts has died
bbc.com
bbc.com
"One anecdote relates that in the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Jagger phoned Watts's hotel room in the middle of the night, asking, "Where's my drummer?" Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs, and punched Jagger in the face, saying: "Don't ever call me your drummer again. You're my fucking singer!"
"Mick and I weren’t on great terms at the time, but I said, c’mon, let’s go out. And I lent him the jacket I got married in. We got back to the hotel about five in the morning and Mick called up Charlie. I said, don’t call him, not at this hour. But he did, and said, ‘Where’s my drummer?’ No answer. He puts the phone down. Mick and I were still sitting there, pretty pissed – give Mick a couple of glasses, he’s gone – when, about twenty minutes later, there was a knock at the door. There was Charlie Watts, Savile Row suit, perfectly dressed, tie, shaved, the whole fucking bit. I could smell the cologne! I opened the door and he didn’t even look at me, he walked straight past me, got hold of Mick and said, ‘Never call me your drummer again.’ Then he hauled him up by the lapels of my jacket and gave him a right hook."
Lots of Britishisms require context to disambiguate.
It's an extreme for "irony" - dissimulation (so extreme that I should add a /J). In other regions it would be "to fuck with someone".
I never understood the exact source of the expression. It could have been the mockery of stealing urine from the poor (who could actually sell it - I believe for example it is still used in tanneries around the world).
I've watched for it in most videos and live perf since then and yep, didn't seem to change much. Unsure if it was a jazz-flavored thing or what, but distinctive.
— Charlie Watts
The Stones were a pretty early adopter of some tech, and were 'streaming' back in 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
'A November 1994 Rolling Stones concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas with 50,000 fans was the "first major cyberspace multicast concert."'
They were all happy to be there. Well, except maybe Dylan. Not sure if he's ever been "happy" but they were all having fun and thrilled to be there together.
We all knew we're getting close to moving on. And we all felt like we did back then together. Each time one of them leaves the rest of us are all step closer. But, damn... our generation still rocked the house.
Rest In Peace.
same thing applies for 60s cultural icons. so it goes.
It is an objective fact that the centralization and scarcity of mass-media broadcasting, back then, effectively acted as a funnel towards certain works, amplifying their influence well beyond their merit.
No doubt in my mind that the Stones or the Beatles would be big in the 21st century if they were upcoming bands nowadays.
How is that claim 'objective'?