For example, the drummer wrote a short note to the magazine in 1967 Rolling Stone. The Stones just released their album ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request; released, but reviewer Jon Landau was not very impressed with the record. He did, however, praise Charlie’s drumming. He decided to send him a thank you note. “Thank you for the things you said about me,” the drummer wrote. “The others, I’m sure, will do their best on the next one.”
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An alleged argument between the drummer and Mick Jagger is also rekindled. The singer is said to have called Charlie at a party at the hotel where the Stones were staying. “Where is my drummer”, he is said to have asked him. Watts then went to the party neatly dressed to punch Jagger in the face. It ended up in the snacks. “Don’t ever call me your drummer again,” he is said to have said. “You’re my fucking singer.”
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The late musician was a good live drummer in all circumstances. Still, he didn’t like playing in the open air, he said in an interview he gave just before the Stones appeared at the Glastonbury festival a few years ago. The drummer didn’t like it. “Glastonbury is old junk. I don’t like that hippie thing anyway. It’s not something I want to fill my weekend with,” he said about the performance. Moreover, he feared the wind during open air concerts. “That is disastrous for a drummer. The cymbals move. It is then very difficult to hit them.”
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