.amandapetrusich reflects on the understated genius of the Rolling Stones’ drummer, Charlie Watts. His drumming style “was not animalistic but, instead, almost pointedly reserved.”
.” “We cut down on our rations, we wanted him so bad, man.”) Rock and roll was still a relatively new music—it had been only a decade or so since Black musicians from Mississippi and Tennessee had started mixing up elements of rhythm and blues, gospel, country, and jazz, performing with a kind of lunatic urgency—and Watts wasn’t especially well acquainted with its particularities. It didn’t matter. He and the Stones instantly became foundational to the genre.
Watts expressed little interest in celebrity, and, though he struggled with addiction in his forties , he didn’t aspire to a debaucherous life. He quietly married the sculptor Shirley Ann Shepherd in 1964, and they had a daughter, Seraphina, in 1968. When the Stones weren’t on tour, Watts and Shepherd bred Arabian horses on a farm in southwestern England. Onstage, he provided a staid counterpoint to Mick Jagger, who squirmed around in jewelry, leather, and fur, magnetic, flamboyant, electric.
Drumming is often ugly—belligerent and combative, all jerky elbows, exaggerated grimaces, and sweat-soaked shorts—but Watts looked so beautiful when he played. His style was not animalistic but, instead, almost pointedly reserved. His posture alone suggested a preternatural elegance. He quickly became known for his effortlessness and discipline, the way he never did too much—there is always poetry in restraint, and one miracle of Watts’s playing was how it called so little attention to itself.
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