Happy Happy Birthday Charlie !!!!!!!!

Happy days to my boy. Made me forget all about Moonie as the way drums should be played in an actual r n' r band as a wee nipper (the Who were always more like a jazz combo live, weren't they?).

Turned me on to the elegance and power of Al Jackson, Benny Benjamin, Jerry Nolan, Topper Headon, Max Weinberg, Steve Jordan - all those heavy back-beat and song oriented, cool-fills "hook" drummers.

I'll not be seeing you tomorrow, but I've got a couple mates working the show at TCF.

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS, MR DRUMMER.

74 and counting!!

"Work five years & twenty years hangin' around !"


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr Watts!!

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Happy birthday Charlie, you're the best!!!


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New study claims that drummers are more intelligent than everyone
According to a collection of studies, drummers are super smart, due to a variety of factors relating to being in the rhythm section.

The news comes courtesy of Polymic, who have compiled a series of reports from Oxford and Harvard universities to name a few. What they found was that that dude at the back of the band isn’t the head scratcher that you might think he is, in fact he is more likely to be the smartest of them all.

For example, researchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet found that drummers who kept a tighter rhythm also scored better on a 60-question intelligence test. This is a reflection of better problem solving skills, which creates a positive impact on those around them.

If that wasn’t enough, other studies added that rhythmic music actually makes people smarter. A University of Washington study showed better results from participants who undertook rhythmic light and sound therapy. Additionally research from the University of Texas tested the same process on children with ADD, finding that it not only had the same effect as Ritalin, but their IQ’s actually went up.

Going further than simple intelligence, Oxford University found that drummers produced a “natural high” when playing together, which heightened both pain and happiness thresholds. On top of this, at Harvard, they discovered that drummers who missed a beat were actually tapping into the rhythm of the earth, which moves in waves rather than like a clock.

So there you go, drummers are not only smarter than everybody ever, but they are also at one with the earth and happier than you are. Time to take up some lessons.
http://3tags.org/article/new-study-claims-that-drummers-are-more-intelligent-than-everyone

Charlie proves this point always! IMO

  New study claims that drummers are more intelligent than everyone!  I believe it! Happy Birthday Charlie! 

P.S. Does the tambourine count?  I used to play the tambourine in church.  Yes!  Church!  It was a born-again Christian church! 

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Yes I believe Tambourine Players Count as Long as they're good ones.
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