Bill Wyman amazed why the Stones continued without Watts

Bill Wyman said he was surprised when i Rolling Stones they moved on after the drummer’s departure and death Charlie Watts.

The former bassist, who left the group in 1993, speculated that the Rolling Stones only continued because they had nothing else to do.

Watts was replaced by Steve Jordan in 2021, initially on a temporary basis while the owner of the stool behind the “drums” recovered from heart surgery; but the octogenarian drummer’s passing in August of that year made the change permanent.

“When Charlie left, I thought they were going to close,” Wyman told Classic Rock in a recent interview. “I really thought so. They could replace the bass, but I didn’t think they could replace Charlie and his charisma and the great man he was.” “But they continued, which surprised me. I wouldn’t say it disappointed me, but it surprised me. I think it would have been a good time for them to finish. But I don’t think they have anything else to do, otherwise they would, right? “.

She continued: “I have six different things that I do all the time, and I’m so happy to do them, but I don’t think… Well, Ronnie Wood it has art as its second thing. AND Mick Jagger he tried to make films and things like that, but he couldn’t; he also did solo stuff that didn’t work as well as it should have. “And so… it’s always just the Stones.”

Wyman also recalled how it took the band two years to accept that he had actually left the band, which he said he should have done much sooner.

Recalling his doubts about returning after the band’s period of inactivity in the mid-1980s, he said: “I started playing with them again just in the hope that it would be a couple of years, because I had all the other things that I wanted to do.

“I wanted to do archaeology, write books, take photography, play cricket for charity – confessed the former bassist – I wanted to do all these other things. And 30 years later I still want to do them, to tell the truth. So in the end I was very happy to leave. Which they didn’t like at all and refused to accept. They said, ‘You’re not gone.’ When they were making the plan for the next year, I said, “There’s no point in talking about it, because I’m leaving.” And they responded. “You’re not leaving.” I said, “I’m leaving, I’m gone.” And they didn’t believe me.”

“Two years went by and in ’94 they were getting the band back together to make a new record. They asked me, ‘Are you still in the band?’. I said, ‘I left two years ago.'”