Charlie Watts vs John Bonham

A rock drummer who learned from jazz, I'd say. He talked elsewhere about working early on with "eccentric old men" who were really into Mingus, for instance.

for instance

I’m so happy my dumb ass question got so much discussion going

Prediction : Bonham

Thanks for posting that, dow. Watts also mentioned digging Cecil (and Ornette) in an early '90s TV interview. And Roy Haynes is still out there playing. I saw him in 2018 and was completely blown away.

And thank you, Tarfumes,for making me think of that concert, and leading me to that piece, which I hadn't seen before---here's another one I just came across, haven't read the whole thing yet:

In a previously unpublished interview from 2013, Watts goes deep into his favorite drummers, what the Stones do better than the Beatles, and outlasting almost every band
By MIKAL GILMORE

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Hell yeah
The people have spoken

So many Watts apologists itt

Charlie Watts b.1941
John Bonham b.1948

I think this is the big difference.

Uh no

xp i don't really buy into that but if anything it's when they died