The Wonderful Keith Moon

DEFTLEFTHAND · 04-05-2015 09:30AM #1

What a brilliant man, he only lived 32 years but pioneered the throwing of televisions out of hotel bedrooms and the blowing up of toilet bowls. Also gave Led Zeppelin their famous name after a gig which they opened for The Who while they were still going under the name The New Yard Birds.

He was a good drummer to boot as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqnkTLViO8o

fryup · 04-05-2015 09:32AM

mad bastard, that made ollie reed look like a choirboy

Banjo String · 04-05-2015 09:40AM

Legend , Keith Moon makes 'badasses' like Liam or Noel Gallagher look like altar boys.

Didn't I read somewhere that he actually had ADHD, or so they reckon.

There's a good documentary about his final 24hrs.

FluffyAngel · 04-05-2015 09:42AM

He was in my class in School.he was never the full moon....

SEPT 23 1989 · 04-05-2015 09:47AM

He drove a swimming pool into a rolls royce

They dont make them like that anymore

DEFTLEFTHAND · 04-05-2015 10:00AM

fryup wrote: »

mad bastard, that made ollie reed look like a choirboy

They got up to some lovely hell raising when they first met.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl940-3uu9A

donegaLroad · 04-05-2015 10:10AM

strange how John Bonham was also dead by the age of 32.

Free Hat · 04-05-2015 10:14AM

He wasn't just a good drummer, he was a great drummer. Perhaps the best ever?

galljga1 · 04-05-2015 10:17AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

He drove a swimming pool into a rolls royce

They dont make them like that anymore

It took a particular skill set to do that.

padd b1975 · 04-05-2015 10:32AM

He never fell out of a coconut tree and lived to tell the tale.

Keith Richards FTW.

Giblet · 04-05-2015 10:32AM

Free Hat wrote: »

He wasn't just a good drummer, he was a great drummer. Perhaps the best ever?

Not while John Bonham was around.

Mahogany Gaspipe · 04-05-2015 10:41AM

Yeah lets applaud the alcoholic because he was famous and spent his own money on the drink.

The Diabolical Monocle · 04-05-2015 01:27PM

isnt throwing a tv out a hotel window just an extremely reckless and dangerous thing to do.

it could potentially kill a gay Muslim immigrant child.

Filmer Paradise · 04-05-2015 01:50PM

Keith was gas alright.

Went to many Who concerts myself but never saw him live (too young).

Read all the stories about him & had a good laugh about it all.

Having said that, it must have been an absolute living Hell for anybody unfortunate enough to live with him.

Birneybau · 04-05-2015 02:01PM

Mahogany Gaspipe wrote: »

Yeah lets applaud the alcoholic because he was famous and spent his own money on the drink.

Narc

Discodog · 04-05-2015 02:52PM

Free Hat wrote: »

He wasn't just a good drummer, he was a great drummer. Perhaps the best ever?

Certainly the most unique. The Who never sounded as good without him. Pete Townsend described him as a nightmare to play with & that no two takes would ever be the same.

The Who's bassist, John Entwhistle, did it in style. Again totally unique, an incredible player & died in bed with a stripper after taking cocaine. It's fun to watch the Who's current bassist trying to copy Entwhistle.

LeBash · 04-05-2015 02:56PM

Class drummer. None of the replacements really covered what he did. Ringos nipper being the closest ive seen.

Filmer Paradise · 04-05-2015 03:16PM

Discodog wrote: »

Certainly the most unique. The Who never sounded as good without him. Pete Townsend described him as a nightmare to play with & that no two takes would ever be the same.

The Who's bassist, John Entwhistle, did it in style. Again totally unique, an incredible player & died in bed with a stripper after taking cocaine. It's fun to watch the Who's current bassist trying to copy Entwhistle.

I had to laugh at Roger Daltrey's reaction to it.

*Cockney accent* 'It's not a death any man should be ashaymed of!':D

Cold War Kid · 04-05-2015 03:45PM

Mahogany Gaspipe wrote: »

Yeah lets applaud the alcoholic because he was famous and spent his own money on the drink.

Yeh I don't get this "Legend" stuff about rock-stars whereas junkies/winos would just be deemed junkies/winos.

I'm not saying I don't think to myself "That person would have been some craic on a night out" in relation to Moon et al, or that I wouldn't be a bit "Wow" in relation to the punishment they could inflict on themselves and still function away grand, and perform brilliantly as musicians, or that I wouldn't piss myself laughing at some of the stuff.

But they ultimately died young - conferring "legend" status on them because of their excesses is a bit... teenage?

JupiterKid · 04-05-2015 03:52PM

Keith Moon was a legend alright - a superb drummer but a mad bastard as well. He had serious alcohol problems but I think it was actually an overdose of drugs that killed him in the end?

Jesus Wept · 04-05-2015 04:04PM

full time mad bastard

4zn76tysfajdxp · 04-05-2015 04:42PM

Cold War Kid wrote: »

But they ultimately died young - conferring "legend" status on them because of their excesses is a bit... teenage?

Of course, you don't mean ALL teenagers?

Schwiiing · 04-05-2015 04:57PM

Keith Moon was dead at 32.

A wasted life and wasted talent.

It's sad that people hold up a life of excess drugs and alcohol as something to be admired.

Discodog · 04-05-2015 04:57PM

Kieth puts a little too much gunpowder in his bass drum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVa4q-YVjD8

Mahogany Gaspipe · 04-05-2015 05:37PM

No doubt he left some positive memories; but I think that this thread, like many other re-visionary narratives, venerates the trail of destruction he left in his wake.

His behavior was responsible not only for his own death but that of a colleague of his.

Lesser drug/alcohol fueled behavior that occurs on the streets today by regular folk causes outrage and rightly so! Yet here, because Keithy was a rock and roll star it has become the stuff of legend, bizarre.

anncoates · 04-05-2015 06:00PM

He was a brilliant drummer and It's good to chuckle at the stories but I think there was probably something wrong with him. Perhaps something that might have been more readily diagnosed these days.

The guy caused the death of one of his best friends and beat his wife regularly, among other things. I don't think he was a well person.

The tale that did make me guiltily laugh was the one where Steve McQueen (his neighbor on LA) got a barring order against him to stop him calling in and invading his intense privacy. Moon apparently turned up to the meeting with McQueen's lawyers in full Nazi regalia.

Discodog · 04-05-2015 06:11PM

A lot of it is because we long for authentic real people & not the sanitised "talent show" version. No bands around today will have a 50th celebration tour & sell out.

I think that we have an instinctive bull**** detector that realises when bad behaviour is just faked. We seem to actually like real villains.

kneemos · 04-05-2015 06:12PM

anncoates wrote: »

He was a brilliant drummer and It's good to chuckle at the stories but I think there was probably something wrong with him. Perhaps something that might have been more readily diagnosed these days.

The guy caused the death of one of his best friends and beat his wife regularly, among other things. I don't think he was a well person.

The tale that did make me guiltily laugh was the one where Steve McQueen (his neighbor on LA) got a barring order against him to stop him calling in and invading his intense privacy. Moon apparently turned up to the meeting with McQueen's lawyers in full Nazi regalia.

McQueen was also a wife beater,or am I confusing him with somebody else?

anncoates · 04-05-2015 06:15PM

kneemos wrote: »

McQueen was also a wife beater,or am I confusing him with somebody else?

We'll, that's certainly debunked my entire post.

SEPT 23 1989 · 04-05-2015 06:46PM

Schwiiing wrote: »

Keith Moon was dead at 32.

A wasted life and wasted talent.

It's sad that people hold up a life of excess drugs and alcohol as something to be admired.

Look at the state of music today without drugs and alcohol

these people burned bright for a short time but their art will be remembered and listened to forever

they destroyed themselves but look at what the left

I admire all of them

Cold War Kid · 04-05-2015 06:50PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Look at the state of music today without drugs and alcohol

these people burned bright for a short time but their art will be remembered and listened to forever

they destroyed themselves but look at what the left

I admire all of them

There's still brilliant music today and musicians are still drinking and taking drugs. There's this weird thing of pretending that the only music around today is X Factor shyte.

Drinking oneself to death/overdosing... bit weird to "admire" it but I guess it only affects them. And their surviving spouse if they had one. And their child(ren) if they had them.
As their peers who didn't die demonstrate, it's still possible to have left a brilliant legacy on music and not kill yourself.

Assaulting people and ****ing up businesses isn't admirable.

Bit of a "But it's coooooooool" vibe coming from you.

The Wonderful Keith Moon

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