Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo
rush capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the
times in which they lived and a wide-eyed reflection on why the
Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's
greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones
drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house. Charlie
Watts, the anti-rock star an urbane jazz fan with a dry wit and
little taste for the limelight was witness to the most savage years
in rock history, and emerged a hero, a warrior poet. With his easy
swing and often loping, uneven fills, he found nuance in a music
that often had little room for it, and along with his greatest
ally, Keith Richards, he gave the Stones their swaggering beat.
While others battled their drums, Charlie played his modest kit
with finesse and humility, and yet his relentless grooves on the
nastiest hard-rock numbers of the era (Gimme Shelter, Street
Fighting Man, Brown Sugar, Jumpin' Jack Flash, etc.) delivered a
dangerous authenticity to a band that on their best nights should
have been put in jail. Author Mike Edison, himself a notorious
raconteur and accomplished drummer, tells a tale of respect and
satisfaction that goes far beyond drums, drumming, and the Rolling
Stones, ripping apart the history of rock'n'roll, and celebrating
sixty years of cultural upheaval. He tears the sheets off of the
myths of music making, shredding the phonies and the frauds, and
unifies the frayed edges of disco, punk, blues, country, soul,
jazz, and R and B the soundtrack of our lives. Highly opinionated,
fearless, and often hilarious, Sympathy is as an unexpected treat
for music fans and pop culture mavens, as edgy and ribald as the
Rolling Stones at their finest, never losing sight of the sex and
magic that puts the roll in the rock the beat, that crazy beat! and
the man who drove the band, their true engine, the utterly
irreplaceable Charlie Watts.
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