Questlove explains how Charlie Watts' less-is-more approach to drumming inspired him and so many others: 'Only real drummers know.'
[Producer] Don Was told me a really awesome story that I still refuse to believe to this day. He said he would play
for the Rolling Stones, kind of taunting them, like, “This is who y’all need to be sounding like.” I believe he was working onat the time. And I was like, “Wait, you what?” And he’s like, “Yeah.” He told me how many times he played it for them.record, there was a certain raw sound that I wanted to that drum tone of “The Seed.” And in my mind to get raw, I felt like I had to pretend I was my younger self and undo the things that I learned in the last 10 years of drumming.
Oftentimes, when hip-hoppers or rappers try to approximate rock music, the first thing in their mind is always the “Smoke on the Water” riff or “Iron Man” or “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Like, whatever will make Beavis and Butt-Head want to headbash, that’s the rock they think of.
The average amateur or newbie will probably think, “The less that I do, the more it will reveal that I’m not as skilled as the next person.” And that’s absolutely, positively not the case of Charlie Watts. His level of drumming, especially the fact that it was so unorthodox, I definitely could hear a difference in my drumming, once I stopped depending on the hi-hat for a lot. Like with
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