At 08:15 PM 9/17/2003 EDT, MCGaudio@aol.com wrote:
>Except the key aspect of Charlie Watts is not that he plays the bass drum on 
>the one and three and snare on two and four like ten thousand other rock 
>drummers, it's the subtle way he doesn't play it exactly on the beat. 

Charlie Watts is hardly the only rock drummer who has ever played in the
pocket. Al Jackson Jr., anyone?  Again, I'm not saying that he's not really
good at it -- frankly, Charlie is the only one of the Stones who ever had
serious chops, except for Mick Taylor -- I'm just saying that it's probably
harder to move away from that style of drumming and learn something new or
different than it is to stick with the backbeat.

S