#while mick and keith and charlie loved to tease each other. including about these sorts of things

[waugh-bao]

I was rewatching the "My Life as a Stone" show and I'd forgotten about the part where they discuss his OCD and Charlie and Mick are walking to the stage and Mick says something like "why is he doing that?" Keith is immediately there. "He's timing the walk. That's a normal strolling pace." Its so cute how Keith immediately jumps in to explain.

I imagine that there will be a later talking to for Mick where Keith reminds him not to make fun of their husband's unusual ways and that it is part of why they both love him so much. Mick feels bad and messes up his own sock drawer just so Charlie can have the pleasure and satisfaction of putting it back in order.

I love that moment so much:

And, not that we ever doubted it, but it really does prove that Keith was always totally fascinated by and besotted with every single one of Charlie’s quirks:

“They say he's a dying breed, but with people like Charlie, they must always have been rare. Genuinely eccentric in the sense of having his own way of doing things. Just to put it on a very physical plane: At the end of the show, he'll leave the stage, and the sirens will be going, limousines waiting, and Charlie will walk back to his drumkit and change the position of his drumsticks by 2 millimeters. Then he'll look at it. Then if it looks good, he'll leave. He has this preoccupation with aesthetics, this vision of how things should be that nobody will ever know about except Charlie. The drums are about to be stripped down and put in the back of a truck, and he CANNOT leave if he's got it in his mind that he's left his sticks in a displeasing way. It's so Zen. So you see what I mean about who the hell can I possibly play with after this guy with such a sense of space and touch. The only word I can use for Charlie is deep.”

But yes, I’m sure Mr. ‘Talking to my drummer is like being visited by Jesus Christ himself’ made certain Mick made amends for not falling all over himself to praise this behavior like Keith.