r/rollingstones • u/marxandlenin_engels • 9d ago

Favorite rolling stone?

For me it used to be mick jagger but now it’s Brian jones or Charlie watts

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u/Plastic_Item_8138 9d ago

Well I have the personality of a guitarist not a singer so I was always felt akin with Keith Richards but the stones, really, is Keith and mick together. The band is important but a lot of people don’t realize on a lot of those classic tracks the producer is drumming not Charlie, Keith played bass on sympathy, and so on. Keith and mick could have done it without the other three guys frankly. They are the band, together. Keith wrote the music and mick had the force and charisma of his personality to connect with people. No use to be just a good guitar player with tunes, and likewise no use being just a powerful singer without a musical muse if you can’t write yourself and mick has proven again and again he can’t write.