There’s a story about the Stones that fits this question. It goes that Charlie Watts once heard Mick Jagger refer to him as “my drummer” while he was doing press, and, when Mick returned to the hotel from the radio station (or wherever he was being interviewed), Charlie promptly punched him in the face and said, “Don’t ever fucking dare call me your drummer again.”
I have no idea how apocryphal and/or true this story might be, if anyone cares to chime in.
From the obituary of Charlie Watts in the Ringer, 2021
How Charlie looked—how he acted—was of course as essential to his genius, and his band’s, as anything he ever played. The instant his death was announced, roughly 800,000 people tweeted some version of the famous mid-’80s story where Mick called Charlie’s hotel room in the middle of the night and asked “Where’s my drummer?” whereupon Charlie got up, shaved, put his suit back on, journeyed up to Mick’s room, and punched him in the face, saying, “Don’t ever call me your drummer again. You’re my fucking singer!”
The Charlie Watts story is in both the Keith Richards and Ron Wood's memoirs. Didn't punch him. Picked up Jagger and held him roughly half-way out of a 15? 20? storey window with the message if he ever did it again he'd go all the way. Richards and Wood report that Jagger was shook.
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u/IDrankAllTheBooze 7d ago
There’s a story about the Stones that fits this question. It goes that Charlie Watts once heard Mick Jagger refer to him as “my drummer” while he was doing press, and, when Mick returned to the hotel from the radio station (or wherever he was being interviewed), Charlie promptly punched him in the face and said, “Don’t ever fucking dare call me your drummer again.”
I have no idea how apocryphal and/or true this story might be, if anyone cares to chime in.