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Charlie WattsCharlie Watts is a drummer best known for his many years behind the kit as a member of the Rolling Stones. His father was a parcel deliveryman for British Railways. Watts shared a love of jazz with his childhood friend and neighbor Dave Green, who played bass in his various combos. He was inspired to begin playing drums after listening to Chico Hamilton play on a Gerry Mulligan recording. His first drum was actually a banjo head-he had originally wanted to play banjo-that Watts played with brushes guild wars 2 gold. His treasured jazz records by Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington were among the first in what would become an extensive collection. Watts eventually began playing in skiffle and Dixieland jazz groups. At the age of 21, Watts established himself in the advertising profession, while playing drums part time. He did not officially join the Rolling Stones until January of 1963 at the prompting of Korner, who told Watts he was likely to get regular work with them. Watts is frequently touted as the Rolling Stones' first drummer, but he was, more accurately, the band's first permanent drummer. Their first hit single in 1963 was "I Wanna Be Your Man," written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon of the Beatles. But the band quickly began recording original material, most often the product of a Mick Jagger-Keith Richard collaboration. The group quickly became popular, and Jagger attributed their success in large part to the different style of drumming-more jazz than blues-that Watts contributed. "That's why the Rolling Stones was a more interesting band than bands like Freddie and the Dreamers, Herman's Hermits, the Searchers or the Hollies," Watts said, in the book According to the Rolling Stones. "We had a much broader, much deeper, musical background."Watts was never enamored of the rock world. He told London's Guardian that he was accustomed to playing with many different bands, "and the Stones were just another one. I thought they'd last three months, then a year, then three years, then I stopped counting." Watts was painfully shy, and the attention he garnered during the early years of rock wasn't his style. "Girls chasing you down the street, screaming … horrible! … I hated it," he said, in an interview in the Guardian. "Playing the drums was all I was ever interested in."Watts met Shirley Ann Shepherd, an art student and sculptor, while he was playing with Korner's group, and the two were married in a private ceremony held in Bradford in 1964. Their daughter, Seraphina, was born in 1968. A 2004 cover story in Mojo pictured Jagger, Richards, and the late Brian Jones on the front. Watts got no mention in two feature articles, and is seen sulking in the background of the interior photos."You'd be hard pressed to find anybody with a bad word to say about Charlie Watts," noted Barbara Ellen in an in-depth interview with Watts that appeared in the Guardian in July of 2000. She added that he is a drummer's drummer-"the stick-wielding colossus by whom all others should be judged. … Charlie's the Stone who is so universally well liked that he commands instant respect without even trying.""It all seems to boil down to a certain quality which is as rare as hen's teeth in the music business, but which Charlie Watts is perceived to have in abundance. In a word, decency," Ellen wrote. "You've got to hand it to a … man who's played with the world's most infamous rock 'n' roll band … and stayed happily married to his wife, Shirley. … A man who, moreover, remains resolutely determined not to take his elevated position too seriously."After Richards, Jagger, and other bandmates were well over their years of indulging in narcotics and bad behavior, Watts began drinking to excess and using amphetamines and heroin, but credited his solid relationship with his wife for putting him back on track Watts commented in a Rolling Stone interview that "I was warring with myself at that time." He reportedly has remained sober since that time.Watts has played jazz independently as often as possible, in public and in the studio. He has also occasionally performed with Ian Stewart, the keyboard player and "fifth" Stone, in a group called Rocket 88, and with various Stones for charitable causes. In 1986 Watts assembled a 32-piece jazz orchestra that bore his name. The group performed chestnuts from the swing era, and also ventured into the early be-bop of Lester Young and Charlie Parker. A live recording from Fulham Town Hall captured one of the band's performances. "Despite its potentially cumbersome size, Watts's orchestra turns out bright ensemble work, even when all 33 pieces are going full tilt," wrote Mary Shaughnessy in a People review of the live CD.Horses are one of the Watts's interests, and he and his wife own and operate a stud farm in Devon. The Watts menagerie has also consisted of numerous dogs, including rescued greyhounds. Watts has had a lifelong interest in American history, particularly the Civil War and Wild West eras, and has been an avid collector of toy soldiers and antique silver as well as jazz records. The group included Peter King and David Green, both of whom had played previously with the Watts big band, and Brian Lemon and Gerard Presencer. The quintet then released Long Ago Far Away, an album of lush vocal standards. The band featured the best British jazz musicians, including King, Presencer, and Evan Parker. They began touring in 2004 and released a live album that same year. The Guardian 's John Fordham praised the recording, which "celebrates jazz-making without swamping its creativity in nostalgia, or getting in its way."When the Rolling Stones will disband for good is a question that interviewers love to ask. In 1996 Watts told People that the end would come "when Mick or Keith say that's it. We couldn't go on without them. Maybe as the Keith Richards All Stars, but it would be a different band-which I wouldn't mind playing for." In 2004 Watts was treated for throat cancer, but was expected to have a full recovery. He has no fear of aging. "It'd be nice to be rich and grow old," he told Rolling Stone. "I'd hate to be shuffling 'round Brixton Market in a pair of slippers. Then again, I'll probably be shuffling 'round the garden."Watts has been involved in many activities outside his high-profile life as a member of the Rolling Stones. In 1964, he published a cartoon tribute to Charlie Parker entitled Ode to a High Flying Bird. Although he has made his name in rock, his personal tastes focus on jazz; in the late 70s, he joined Ian Stewart in the back-to-the-roots boogie-woogie band Rocket 88, which featured many of the UK's top jazz, rock and R musicians. In the 1980s, he toured worldwide with a big band that included such names as Evan Parker, Courtney Pine and Jack Bruce, who was also a member of Rocket 88. In 1991, he organised a jazz quintet as another tribute to Charlie Parker. 1993 saw the release of Warm And Tender, by the Charlie Watts Quintet, which included vocalist Bernard Fowler. This same group then released Long Ago And Far Away in 1996. Both records included a collection of Great American Songbook standards. After a successful collaboration with Jim Keltner on The Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon, Watts and Keltner released a techno/instrumental album simply titled, Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project guild wars 2 gold. Featuring the names of his favourite jazz drummers, Watts stated that even though the tracks bore such names as the "Elvin Suite" in honour of the late Elvin Jones, Max Roach and Roy Haynes, they were not copying their style of drumming, but rather, capturing a feeling by those artists. Watts At Scott's was recorded with his group, "The Charlie Watts Tentet", at the famous jazz club in London, Ronnie Scott's. In April 2009 he started to perform concerts with the ABC of Boogie Woogie together with pianists Axel Zwingenberger and Ben Waters plus his childhood friend Dave Green on bass.Besides his musical creativity, Watts contributed graphic art to early records such as the Between the Buttons record sleeve and was responsible for the 1975 tour announcement press conference in New York City. The band surprised the throng of waiting reporters by driving and playing "Brown Sugar" on the back of a flatbed truck in the middle of Manhattan traffic; a gimmick AC/DC copied later the same year. (Status Quo repeated the trick for the 1984 video to "The Wanderer" and U2 would later emulate it in the 2004 video for "All Because of You".) Watts remembered this was a common way for New Orleans jazz bands to promote upcoming dates. Moreover, with Jagger, he designed the elaborate stages for tours, first contributing to the lotus-shaped design of that 1975 Tour of the Americas, as well as the 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, the 1997 Bridges to Babylon Tour, the 2002-2003 Licks Tour, and the 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour.There are many instances where Jagger and Richards have lauded Watts as the key member of The Rolling Stones. Richards went so far as to say in a 2005 Guitar Player magazine interview that the Rolling Stones would not be, or could not continue as, the Rolling Stones without Watts. An example of Watts's importance was demonstrated in 1993, after Bill Wyman had left the band. After auditioning several bassists, Jagger and Richards asked Watts to choose the new bass player.[citation needed] Watts selected the respected session musician Darryl Jones, who had previously been a sideman for both Miles Davis and Sting.[citation needed]In 1989, the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the July 2006 issue of Modern Drummer, Watts was voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame along with Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Steve Gadd gw2 gold, Buddy Rich, and other highly esteemed drummers.[citation needed]Private life and public imageOn 14 October 1964, Watts married Shirley Ann Shepherd, whom he had met before the band became successful. Still married after 47 years, they have one daughter, Seraphina Watts, born on 18 March 1968. Watts also has a granddaughter, Charlotte.Watts has expressed a love-hate attitude toward touring. In the Canadian magazine Maclean's, he told interviewer Brian Johnson that he has had a compulsive habit for decades of actually sketching every new hotel room he occupies - and its furnishings - immediately upon entering it.[citation needed] He stated that he keeps every sketch, but still doesn't know why he feels the compulsion to do this.Watts' personal life has outwardly appeared to be substantially quieter than those of his bandmates and many of his rock-and-roll colleagues; onstage, he seems to furnish a calm and bemused counterpoint to his flamboyant bandmates. Ever faithful to his wife Shirley, Watts consistently refused sexual favours from groupies on the road; in Robert Greenfield's STP: A Journey Through America with The Rolling Stones, a document of the 1972 American Tour, it is noted that when the group was invited to the Playboy Mansion during that tour, Watts took advantage of Hugh Hefner's game room rather than frolic with the women.Watts has spoken openly about a period in the mid-1980s when his previously-moderate use of alcohol and drugs became problematic: "[My drug and alcohol problems were] my way of dealing with [family problems]. Looking back on it, I think it was a mid-life crisis. All I know is that I became totally another person around 1983 and came out of it about 1986. I nearly lost my wife and everything over my behaviour".[9]A famous anecdote relates that during the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Jagger phoned Watts' 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!"[10]Watts is noted for his personal wardrobe: the British newspaper The Telegraph has named him one of the World's Best Dressed Men. In 2006, Vanity Fair elected Watts into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame, joining his style icon, Fred Astaire.[11]In June 2004, Watts was diagnosed with throat cancer, despite having quit smoking in the late 1980s, and underwent a course of radiotherapy. The cancer has since gone into remission; and, he returned to recording and touring with the Rolling Stones.Watts now lives in Dolton, a rural village in Devon, where he and wife Shirley own an Arabian horse stud farm.[12] He also owns a percentage of The Rolling Stones' various corporate entities.EquipmentWatts plays Gretsch drums and a variety of brands of cymbals, mostly UFIP. His drums include a 1956-7 Gretsch Round Badge, a 22" (56 bass drum, a 16" (41 floor tom, a 12" (30 tom and a 5-by-14-inch (13 × snare drum. Cymbals he is known to use include an 18" UFIP Natural Series Fast China, a UFIP Rough Series China with rivets, a very old UFIP Flat Ride, an Avedis Zildjian Swish, and a very old set of hi-hats, brand unknown.[13]
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