I agree with you - he is very interesting.
Have you ever noticed how how dresses off stage?
He was voted one of the 10 best dressed men in the world a few years back.
I still chuckle at the story Keith tells of the group partying excessively one night - except for Charlie, who had gone to bed much earlier.
Mick called him at 3:00am and said he “wanted to party with ‘his’ drummer.”
Charlie got out of bed, shaved, took a shower, put on a custom made suit and Italian shoes and met Mick in the stairwell where he slapped him and said
“I am not “your” drummer”.
Beautiful.
Yep, his dress is one of the things that first makes you suspect Watts is quite different from the rest of the band. Kind of a James Bond without the spy part...although that would give him the perfect cover, like Julia Child. Then when you find out that he was a serious jazz drummer before joining the Stones it makes sense. In fact you wonder how he managed to stay with them. Maybe he only stays with them on stage.
That story is good.