Charlie Watts at the Iridium Jazz Club NYC for 2 shows a night (8 & 10 pm) from Friday June 29th thru Monday, July 2nd.

presale code is: wembleywhammer

http://www.ticketweb.com/...=2&resultsPerPage=40

Ronny''s exhibit closes on the 30th...I feel something special gonna happen during this period!!

I wonder if Bitch knew about this and was trying to keep it quite? 

First of all YOU'RE WELCOME, FELLOW RO'ERS  

Link is working for me Bingo but most shows look to be sold out; wait the Sunday 10 pm show just pulled up a ticket.

This is a presale only though so more will become available.

Its already sold out and I was unable to get a ticket! Damit! I am really upset about not getting in on time for this! It sucks! I'm having my 19th Nervous Breakdown over this, a mini-meltdown! FVCK! I need a ticket if anyone has an extra! Begging!!!

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 11^th, 2012 at 3:58pm:


Slim chance but I'll try anyway.

Bitch wrote on Apr 11^th, 2012 at 4:02pm:


good luck then!!

The-Worst wrote on Apr 11^th, 2012 at 7:06pm:


No blimps...no flat beds...no trains...just a nice CLASSY one like at Juliards (May 2005)...maybe on the 50th floor of The Empire State Building...
or at the Rockefeller Ice Rink or a quick one-off show at Radio city...both of which are on 50th street

Pdog wrote on Apr 11^th, 2012 at 4:33pm:



by playing jazz?

The-Worst wrote on Apr 11^th, 2012 at 7:06pm:


The thing is, the actual Anniversary DATE is non-existant due to the fact that they are moving the Anniversary Year to 2013 to signify the year that Charlie joined, essentially saying the Rolling Stones did not officiate until Charlie joined. So what date was that, exactly? Gazzapedia??

You are 100% correct Gazza, KEEF cant re-write history but what was the date Charlie joined the band, is it documented?

They just opened up more tickets for the Charlie gigs! I got one for Friday night! YAY!

[quote author=Gazza link=1334151827/0#19 date=1334270495]His first gig was 17.1.63

They're not 'moving the date' at all - its a lot of revisionist bullshit from Keith to shut up a journalist and a few rabid fans and to mask over the fact that for some reason they wont allude to publicly they're not up to playing this summer.

Considering theyve been talking up 2012 as their 50th anniversary for about two years now and released a greatest hits album in 2002 called '40 Licks' to commemorate their 40th anniversary as well as starting a tour in 2002 to commemorate it, its absolute crap to suggest that they dont consider themselves to have existed as a band until Charlie joined them.  They even had their first recording session in October 1962!


Not the first time Keith's tried to re-write history in the last couple of years and I doubt it'll be the last. They played about 40 shows in 1962 as 'The Rollin' Stones', they'd also had a Marquee residency under that name on that night of the week with different drummers sitting in before Charlie started playing with them and no amount of nonsense from Keith can change that.


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The only way they could "spin" them not being physically up to playing this year would be to calculate Licks as a 2002-2003 extravaganza (..which it was... in all fairness) and then say... well if your truly counting...50 years would really be more 2013 so ... . However I do not think they are going to tout next year as an anniversary thing. The releases and celebrations for all that is going on this year.  Next year will be live shows / some type of tour and new album. I'm not convinced they are going to try and call it a 50th anniversary thing next year. The greatest hits package...documentary.... book..... and bootleg releases for their 50th anniversary celebration is happening this year. I think next year could very well be a new thing on it's own.  Whether you want to think it's their 50 by the time next year rolls around or not will be up to you but I honestly think next year will be a year with an album and tour or some sort of live shows and not a continued 50 th celebration. How can you release a book and movie one year in celebration of your 50th anniversary and then tour next year saying it's your 50th anniversary that year...? Next year very well may be a new thing all on it's own. That would make more sense and seems to be what is to take place.


Ian

Ian makes a good point, the Book & possible Imax movie that will be released this year is for the 50th Anniversary and if we get a tour next year it will not be an Anniversary tour.

LadyJane wrote on Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:45am:

Great news that you are going to see Charlie!  I'm going Friday night, but when are you getting into the city on Saturday? I can pop over for a pre-show drink and say hello if you have time. Who knows maybe there will be an extra ticket floating around for Saurday night.

Spliced it into the existing thread which had fallen down to page three.

(There's a separate thread on the live album too - http://rocksoff.org/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1335810087)

Thanks for posting the article though - it's a good way to revive the thread in case some of you are thinking of going to these shows and/or meeting up.

Plus, I'd forgotten about the live record!

Bingo wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:55am:


IT'S DIM FROM CLOCKWORK ORANGE!

A video

Bitch wrote on Jun 29^th, 2012 at 12:57pm:

SO JEALOUS, HAVE FUN, BITCH

Bitch wrote on Jun 29^th, 2012 at 12:57pm:

Best Bitch ever!!!

ABC+D sounded GREAT on JimmyFallon last nite !!!!

Enjoy Ladyjane 

have a lot of fun LJ and Bitch tonight!!!
Great to see Charlie:) And when you'll get back all the details for us.. dont forget.   

It was interesting to see Charlie play Boogie-Woogie style and he clearly enjoys it. I've never seen Charlie smile so much in my life! Not very often does he smile playing with The Stones, maybe that work is harder on him. Charlie was smiling almost the entire time at The Iridium, and was very engaged with the other musicians, much more so than with The Stones. I really do understand now that this is Charlie's musical preference, and he's damn good at it too! As far as the show went, I was a bit disappointed that Charlie was not on stage for the first 2 songs, then when he did come out the show wasnt very long. The talent of the other musicians was superb, maybe that was the point, to showcase them and promote the new CD. Before or after the show, Charlie did not come out and greet the guests, nor did he sign anything or stand around so we can snap a pic with him. I'm glad I went to see Charlie, but I would of liked a little more from him. I guess he doesnt feel he owes us anything extra, and he doesnt really. I left there feeling slightly unhappy, I wanted more of Charlie's personality and he didnt give it, he didnt interact much with the crowd.

Gazza wrote on Jun 30^th, 2012 at 6:16pm:

Well Bitch can speak for herself Gazza. But I don't think anybody was expecting Charlie to come out and play Jumping Jack Flash, or try and work the crowd into a sing along and I wasn't there. But,still a "Hi,how you doing". A few words,a thank you to the audience. Something would be nice. Always leaves me a little cold when I see an act and they don't interact with the crowd at all. No matter how good they are.

Full broadcast now on Youtube and viewable for everyone :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWnRo9gBQ-c&feature=player_embedded#!

ABCD of Boogie Woogie's performance can be seen around the 36:48 mark.

Well at least a few of our regulars got to see him and he looked great. Could of been much worse...imagine the poor slobs stuck next door at that ABBA musical thing......

LadyJane wrote on Jul 1^st, 2012 at 8:47am:



Lovely! Ben didnt play at the Fallon show, for some reason. Wonder why that was.

Heres some short footage, but I'm not sure what songs they are, and we werent allowed to video!

http://youtu.be/Z-r2ZcWvEPA

http://youtu.be/wXEv-54gUjE

http://youtu.be/0k9op5JrOvE

Gracias Bitch! Merci

You rock

Good photos Bitch!  Glad you guys had a great time!

Gazza wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 7:18am:




I certainly didn't or you would have heard me screaming in Belfast.
From a report I just read, well here, let me copy and paste.

From Shidoobee's west 8:

"I was lucky enough to be sitting at the same table as Keith. It was exciting to see him ! People cheered when he came and sat down and when he left as well. That was it. No one came over to him and asked for an autograph or anything. It was interesting to watch Keith watch Charlie and the band. I never saw Keith from that view point. A fan like myself. He was really enjoying the show. The best Keith moment of the night was at the end when Charlie was leaving the stage Keith gives him a big hug and Big smiles between the two of them. It was a great moment between 2 friends still there for each other after 50 years. Keith smile was saying "You done good old friend" Aside from that Wow what a great show. They were just so on. I am so glad I had the chance to see this show"

LadyJane wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 7:47am:





Wow! Cool picture!  Here's what the NY Times said about Monday:

Just Waiting on a FriendBy JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.

Keith Richards showed up at the Iridium on Monday night to see Charlie Watts, his band mate in the Rolling Stones, play a set of jump blues and boogie woogie songs. There were rumors before the 8 p.m. set that Mr. Richards, the famed guitarist for the Stones, would sit in with Mr. Watts and his band, but it became clear halfway through the set that Mr. Richards was there only to provide moral support. He gave Mr. Watts a big hug as he came off stage.

Mr. Watts and his band, the ABC & D of Boogie Woogie, had just finished a four-night stand at the Iridium, a relatively small jazz room on Broadway, after playing one night at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing series. The band is led by the German pianist Alex Zwingenberger, but has a secondary pianist and vocalist, Ben Waters, a stalwart Englishman who literally lifted the piano with his legs when he got swinging to the beat. They were joined by the bassist Dave Green, who is a longtime friend of Mr. Watts, and the vocalist Lila Ammons, the granddaughter of the famed boogie-woogie player Albert Ammons.

It was an oldies set. Indeed it was a set of songs that would have been considered oldies back in the 1960s when Mr. Watts and Mr. Richards were young. The songs were all hot 12-bar blues tunes with a wicked walking bassline, drawing from R&B, jump blues, swing and early rock’n’roll. Mr. Watts and the band blazed through tunes like Ray Charles’s hit “What’d I Say,” Charles Calhoun’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll” and W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues.”

They rocked several blistering, obscure boogie-woogie tunes, and slowed down only once in a while for some lazy blues, often with a comic twist, like Mr. Waters’s rendition of “Oreo Cookie Blues,” which is about a man fighting his addiction to sugary snacks.

Mr. Watts, silver-haired, rail thin and fit at 71, seemed content and Zen-like behind the drums at center stage, where he used brushes, mallets and sticks to beat out the shuffle rhythms and swinging triplet-based figures of the musical era that preceded his own. Though he is most famous for his work with the Stones, Mr. Watts has always done jazz side projects, going back to the 1970s when he joined the back-to-basics boogie-woogie group Rocket 88. He started performing concerts with the ABC&D of Boogie Woogie three years ago, and in 2010 he recorded the album “The Magic of Boogie Woogie” as a trio with Mr. Zwingenberger and Mr. Green

Nice report - great pic too! he's looking well.

Some of my pics. Hope you enjoy.
I am still on cloud nine after this magic night.
If you get the chance to see The ABC&D of Boogie Woogie, RUN to the ticket office!!!

Charlie's Drums aka The Holy Grail


Charlie and Dave Green



He smiles!!!!


Axel Zwingenberger, Lila Ammons and The Wembley Whammer


Ben Waters


Final Bows




LJ before the show


And a special treat. This pic was taken by my dear friend Blue Lena. It is one of the best shots I have seen yet!!

excellent reporting!!! thanks to all!!!

Charlie only shook 3 hands at the 8 PM Sunday show. Mine, Hollies and Lynns. It was so awesome to be front dead center for the man. Just the facial expressions. he kept looking toward Sherlie and smiling. The show was awesome. i really don't care if I see the Stones again.

Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts shines a light on 50th anniversary while playing with jazz band

By Associated Press, Published: July 6




NEW YORK — Even though he’s played in the same rock ‘n’ roll band for nearly 50 years, Charlie Watts still prefers playing jazz.

The Rolling Stones drummer learned how to play it by imitating his favorite jazz players as a teenager.


So during his breaks with the Stones, Watts has played jazz, not rock, and that legacy continues with his latest venture, The A, B, C, and D of Boogie Woogie. The quartet recently released “Live in Paris” from one of their shows during a recent 10-show run at the club Duc des Lombards.

Watts recently spoke to The Associated Press about the project, as well as what’s being planned for the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary next year.

AP: Tell me about the comfort level of this band.

Watts: I’ve known Dave (Green) for 65 years. We’ve lived next door to each other. He’s always in bands that I’ve been in besides the Rolling Stones. Axel (Zwingenberger) I’ve known since ‘80-something. And Ben (Waters) I’ve known for three years, but I’ve known of him from many years before that because he’s a progeny — his aunt and uncle were friends of a guy called Ian Stewart who used to play piano with us. And I used to play in one of Stew’s bands in this county called Dorcet. That’s how I know his aunt and uncle. And I know of Ben because he loved Stew and tried to emulate his playing.



AP: Is there a big difference in playing drums in a jazz band from playing in a rock band?

Watts: I don’t play power drums; they just turn the knobs up now. Yes, it’s much more physical to play rock ‘n’ roll, especially with the volume that you play at — that they play at, they being guitar players as opposed to playing this with a tenor saxophone player or trumpet player. The volume is all the same, particularly with the A, B, C, and D of Boogie Woogie, obviously two are piano players. To play well with a piano player, you have to be able to play — there’s a lot of control needed. And you’re playing almost acoustically.

AP: So what’s next for you?

Watts: I think we’re going to be doing a lot of 50th anniversary stuff, we, the Rolling Stones.

AP: Like a tour or an album?

Watts: No, just other things. Fifty years of things. A documentary, well, they haven’t approved it yet. I haven’t seen it, but we worked on that earlier this year. Books and things like that. There will be other things that the 50 years mean. And touring, we haven’t gotten that far. We’re still talking about the color of the back page of the book, so we’ll see what happens.

AP: Fifty years? Marriages don’t often last that long.

Watts: Actually mine lasted 49 years. ... When I joined the Rolling Stones ... I thought it would last a few months, because that’s what bands last. I’d been in a lot of bands up until then that last two or three months. Then it became three years. I thought that’s it, it won’t. ... We’re very fortunate. One of the ways that it lasted so long because we have a huge fan base, and I don’t mean that in a conceited way, but it is that. ... With the Rolling Stones it’s people saying, “It’s the fans,” people saying, “Yes, you should.” And indeed it’s us saying, “We’ll play New Haven,” and if people come, you know, that keeps it going on and on.