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Charlie Watts - legend.
« on: January 14, 2019, 10:01:39 AM »
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During the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Mick Jagger phoned Charlie 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!”
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Re: Charlie Watts - legend.
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2019, 03:28:14 PM »
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During the mid-1980s, an intoxicated Mick Jagger phoned Charlie 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!”
Like it bigly.
Reminds me of the time Lennon was asked if Ringo starr was the best drummer in the world.
He answered that he wasnt even the best drummer in the Beatles.

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Re: Charlie Watts - legend.
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2019, 10:20:33 PM »
Ringo was the least talented beatle, but the nicest. He was the only other Beatle who turned up for George Harrison's 'Concert for Bangladesh', Paul and John being squabbling prima donnas.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane