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Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals.
May 15^th, 2013 at 11:39am

Rolling Stones Drummer Cites Hippies And “The Wind” As Reasons He Doesn’t Want To Play Glastonbury

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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts can barely contain his excitement contempt for the band’s upcoming performance at Glastonbury 2013, telling The Guardian in a recent interview that despite his bandmates’ enthusiasm he does not want to play festival:

“I don’t want to do it. Everyone else does. I don’t like playing outdoors, and I certainly don’t like festivals. I’ve always thought they’re nothing to do with playing … [but] when you’re a band … you do anything and everything.”

In fact, the 71-year-old Watts doesn’t particularly care for festivals in general nor, for that matter, the ‘hippies’ who frequent these savage outdoor gatherings, with foliage in their hair and no footwear, allowing their scent to be dictated by the amount of sweat caught in their armpit fur, wafting over the stage, overpowering even the stench of the festival latrines:

“Glastonbury, it’s old hat really. I never liked the hippy thing to start with. It’s not what I’d like to do for a weekend, I can tell you.”

It’s not all hippie hate, though. In fact, the unemployed, unbathed throng of treehuggers aren’t even on the top of Watts’ shit list at festivals. No, public element number one is that unseen bastard ‘The Wind’:

“The worst thing playing outdoors is when the wind blows, if you’re a drummer, because the cymbals move… It really is hard to play then.”
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Edith Grove Rocks Off Regular Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #1 - May 15^th, 2013 at 11:47am Charlie ?
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Edith Grove Rocks Off Regular Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #2 - May 15^th, 2013 at 11:57am Damn hippies: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103809/hippie-infestation
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ijwthstd Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,068	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #3 - May 15^th, 2013 at 12:05pm Something tells me he is too polite to come right out and say it's the paltry $2 million paycheck the band is receiving. I mean, Mick's the only one who cares about the money, right?
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Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals.
Reply #4 - May 15^th, 2013 at 12:45pm

I totally agree with his statements...about festivals and the posing neo-hippies

and as far as the money thing goes...IF 2 mill is what they are getting...sure that cool and all...but like
Charlie said...the rest of the band wants it..."when you’re a band … you do anything and everything."
Charlie is no diva!!

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Edith Grove Rocks Off Regular Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #6 - May 15^th, 2013 at 2:19pm Charlie's just afraid of that helicopter ride to the site.
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WaiteringOnAFiend Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,595	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #7 - May 15^th, 2013 at 5:45pm Son, son! Hair-cut by first thing in the morning. No excuses boy.
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #8 - May 15^th, 2013 at 5:58pm Edith Grove wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 2:19pm: Charlie's just afraid of that helicopter ride to the site. And rightly so, after almost vomiting over Mick and Keith live on air whilst riding that blimp in 2002.
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Edith Grove Rocks Off Regular Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #9 - May 15^th, 2013 at 7:08pm Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 5:58pm: Edith Grove wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 2:19pm: Charlie's just afraid of that helicopter ride to the site. And rightly so, after almost vomiting over Mick and Keith live on air whilst riding that blimp in 2002. Any video of that exists?
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nankerphelge Rocks Off Regular Offline Maybe being bad is more fun than being good... Posts: 2,775 Sweet Virginia Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #10 - May 15^th, 2013 at 7:17pm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHFL9VNaM9E Actually the fan club disc from 2005 has some of Charlie in the blimp I think. For just a second tho.
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Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals.
Reply #11 - May 15^th, 2013 at 7:28pm

Edith Grove wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 7:08pm:

Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 5:58pm:

Edith Grove wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 2:19pm:

Charlie's just afraid of that helicopter ride to the site. you made a grown man cry

And rightly so, after almost vomiting over Mick and Keith live on air whilst riding that blimp in 2002.

Any video of that exists? LOL

Yes. Dont see it on you tube but theres a satellite feed of a couple of hours worth with the whole thing, including the press conference (which opened with our own Riffy - sitting beside none other than Albert Maysles - mentioning Rocks Off and G*sland and asking the Stones about rumours that they'd be inviting Taylor to play some shows with them)

Charlie is incredibly uncomfortable throughout the Blimp ride (whereas Mick appears to be having the time of his life) and bears the facial expression of a man who is having his haemorrhoids removed. Without anaesthetic.

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WaiteringOnAFiend Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,595	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #16 - May 17^th, 2013 at 3:56am A bit of ol' flower power... http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/10415960.Dartford_florist_owners_remember_when...
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Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals.
Reply #18 - May 17^th, 2013 at 9:07am

I embrace LSD, like the common hippie. I like to fry. Our mutual interests end there.

Hippies, man. How many of these scurrilous bastards ever really existed? A media-overblown subculture if there ever was one - significantly fewer adherents than outraged detractors. Shades of Fox's and its galvanizing persecution theme.

Get the hell off my lawn!

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Joey Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 20,651 Omaha , NE Gender:	Re: Charlie Doesn't like Hippies & Festivals. Reply #19 - May 17^th, 2013 at 9:12am " They both tend to smell a bit. " Gazza ............... what are the restrooms like at Hyde Park and Glastonbury ? Are they clean , pristine and beautiful ? Developing ...................................................
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Reply #20 - May 17^th, 2013 at 9:22am

Joey wrote on May 17^th, 2013 at 9:12am:

" They both tend to smell a bit. "

Gazza ............... what are the restrooms like at Hyde Park and Glastonbury ? Are they clean , pristine and beautiful ?

Developing ...................................................

They're er...'portable'.

Never been to Glastonbury and have no intentions of ever going there. Its just too far from civilization, decent beds and toilet seats that havent had 20,000 smelly arses on them.

Was only ever at Hyde Park for a gig in 2009 when I saw Neil Young headlining one day and Bruce the next. As far as festivals go, it was very well run with facilities that were actually a notch above Third World standard for a change.

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Reply #22 - May 17^th, 2013 at 1:23pm

Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 7:28pm:

Edith Grove wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 7:08pm:

Gazza wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 5:58pm:

Edith Grove wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 2:19pm:

Charlie's just afraid of that helicopter ride to the site. you made a grown man cry

And rightly so, after almost vomiting over Mick and Keith live on air whilst riding that blimp in 2002.

Any video of that exists? LOL

Yes. Dont see it on you tube but theres a satellite feed of a couple of hours worth with the whole thing, including the press conference (which opened with our own Riffy - sitting beside none other than Albert Maysles - mentioning Rocks Off and G*sland and asking the Stones about rumours that they'd be inviting Taylor to play some shows with them)

Charlie is incredibly uncomfortable throughout the Blimp ride (whereas Mick appears to be having the time of his life) and bears the facial expression of a man who is having his haemorrhoids removed. Without anaesthetic.

The one moment of Charlie wincing while in the blimp was in the "Tip of The Tongue" doc on the Four Flicks set. Here's poor Charlie in agony @ 1:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwaMlludhA

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Reply #24 - May 17^th, 2013 at 1:37pm

Edith Grove wrote on May 17^th, 2013 at 1:30pm:

Justin wrote on May 17^th, 2013 at 1:23pm:

The one moment of Charlie wincing while in the blimp was in the "Tip of The Tongue" doc on the Four Flicks set. Here's poor Charlie in agony @ 1:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwaMlludhA

Looks like that suit coulda been ruined with skid marks. Shit!

It was a close call as to what was going to happen first. The blimp 'touching down' or Charlie 'touching cloth'.

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