'If I were a millionaire, I’d buy vintage cars just to look at them.'
not that long ago, on an exclusive, 600-acre, 16th-century countryside estate near a small village in the English county of Devon. Winding peastone-gravel roads lead past pendunculate and Spanish oak and walls with rose arches, pines and parterres, rhododendrons and flowering shrubs to Halsdon Manor, the main house. There are a variety of outbuildings, including a stud barn for Arabian horses.
The Lagonda is a masterwork of W.O. Bentley, whose company had gone bust a few years earlier. His work at Lagonda produced a striking drophead that is both elegant and aggressive . It is somehow a perfect match for the drummer.And there he sits, upright as if at a drum kit, though the stadium stage and blues rock couldn’t be further from his mind. He is listening to another kind of music altogether: The purr of the 4.
As a drummer, Watts was known for his effortlessness and his economy—he never played too much, seeming to revel in the poetry of restraint. Watts’s playing, like Watts himself, called little attention to itself. The only reason the jazz drummer joined the Stones in ’63, according to Keith Richards , was for the money. Richards wrote, “We cut down on our rations, we wanted him so bad, man.”
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