Quick Salute to Charlie Watts

Sad day for Rock ‘n Roll, and a reverent one. I can’t say that Charlie Watts was a huge influence on my drumming or anything remotely close to that, but he remains a notable influence nonetheless. Who hasn’t covered a Stones song? Uncomplicated grooves that weren’t exactly simple. Nuance. It was quite easy to get Charlie’s feel wrong, too. So many players struggled either with or eschewed that often-missing fourth hi-hat beat. (guilty!.. okay sometimes guilty. :)
He laid into his rhythms in a very peculiar way—discernible immediately upon hearing. Charlie was simply one of those iconic drummers with a signature who happened to play for one of the world’s most famous and loved rock bands.

#RIP Charlie
Good Show

Twitter Axed

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Had to deactivate my Twitter account today. This decision was a long time considered.
The issue is simple: I cannot, in good conscience, support a business that engages in selective censorship that silences American political accounts while providing a global soapbox for foreign militant organizations who have historically supported terrorism, harbored murdering fugitives, suppress women's equality to the point of public shame, mutilation and execution, and vow the extermination of those who worship the same deity differently than themselves.

Until there's a wholesale policy change that countermands such hypocrisy, consider me gone.
(No great loss for now, frankly; I hardly used the thing)

Thanks ~
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12/1/2022 UPDATE: And it only took a year to return, thanks to a certain freedom of speech advocate with VERY deep pockets.
Let's see where this goes ...