Thanks, Charlie. “Cloud” starts with Watts setting the syncopated rhythm out of the gate, bass drum, high hat, snare all working in harmony followed by a rat-a-tat fill that brings in the band ...

Without stretching the comparison too far, Charlie ... Watts anchors the song with characteristic subtlety, his busy brushstrokes contrasting with gentle rimshots and unhurried bass drum.

By Gavin Edwards Charlie Watts, whose strong but unflashy drumming ... he removed the neck and converted its body into a snare drum. He discovered jazz when he was 12 and soon became a fan of ...

In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to match, Charlie Watts ... I didn't have a snare drum, so I put the banjo head on a stand." Watts' first group ...

Seven songs into the vigorous new Rolling Stones album, and there it is: the instantly identifiable thwack of Charlie Watts’ snare drum. A slinky yet propulsive disco-rock jam, “Mess It Up ...

Watts’s rat-a-tat 16th note snare drum pattern gives the verses an insistent pulse almost as hooky as the chorus. Between the Buttons is arguably the only Rolling Stones album where Charlie ...

It’s possible to find Watts’s isolated drum tracks online ... talk about the particular way he made contact with the snare (“Charlie Watts’s snare sound is the Rolling Stones,” Bruce ...

Charlie Watts, the drummer who anchored the Rolling ... He bought a banjo, took off its neck and used the banjo head as a snare drum, teaching himself with a pair of wire brushes.

Without stretching the comparison too far, Charlie ... Watts anchors the song with characteristic subtlety, his busy brushstrokes contrasting with gentle rimshots and unhurried bass drum.

Seven songs into the vigorous new Rolling Stones album, and there it is: the instantly identifiable thwack of Charlie Watts’ snare drum. A slinky yet propulsive disco-rock jam, “Mess It Up ...

I didn't have a snare drum, so I put the banjo head on a stand." Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has died at the age of 80. Here, Watts is seen performing on October 2, 2011 in Paris.

Charlie Watts, the longtime drummer of the Rolling ... He drew maximum sound from a minimal drum kit, consisting of one snare, a bass drum, two tom-toms, four cymbals and a high hat.