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&B—the soundtrack of our lives.
Highly opinionated, fearless, and often hilarious, Sympathy is 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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Gracias por compartir todos estos libros!!! No hay excusas para no leer...
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WOW.....I have been wanting to look at this. Thank you so much!
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Un libro dedicado a Charlie Watts aunque esté en inglés lo voy a bajar, pocos muy pocos ha habido como él. Muchas gracias querido amigo, siempre proporcionando buen material.
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