Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. A sad story indeed.
   The poignant part was said at the end, when someone said he was loved, but he couldn’t see it.

2. In 1973, Keith took an elephant tranquilizer before the WHO’s Quadrophenia Tour stop at the Cow Palace in So. S.F. … yeah … knocked him clean out. They took a 30min. break to revive him … he came back … but then melted into jello again.

   We won’t Get Fooled Again doesn’t sound quite right with no drums. The energy of Towshend’s guitar NEEDS the frenetic energy of Moon’s psycho-tempo.

   WHO takes an elephant tranquilizer?! Keith Moon does … did …

   1. Well tell the whole story they were able to get a talented drummer out of the crowd and the show went on

   2. PCP. It was often sold with claims that it was LSD. Many unsuspecting people thinking they were taking acid took PCP. Not something you’d want to do twice. From what we know about Moon, he took 10 times more than anyone else.
      Moon and Ringo. My two favorite and in my opinion the two best rock drummers. Quadrophenia is amazing.

      1. My favorite (and evidently his too) Ringo drumming … just perfect for the song. Consistent yet wonderfully fragmented and interesting pace. But the constant sideswiping of the closed high hat keeps time. Beautiful.

         https://youtu.be/cK5G8fPmWeA?si=K0WXcp_fNNH6I-jV

         But I love the tune too … cause it’s psychedelic with the twang of a Rickenbacker (actually a Gretsch Nashville). Doesn’t get any better to my ear.

   3. Kenji, here’s a fabulous performance of We Won’t Get Fooled Again (with Keith Moon as his best, ditto John Entwistle):

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

      1. Apparent drumming chaos … but it’s not. Every note and every flail has a purpose. So amazing. Did anyone ever play a bigger kit? He plays like two drummers! Ha.

         But Entwistle is on another planet. What a rhythm section to Townshend’s windmilling.

3. Young, rich, talented and responsible for nothing.. The real deal, right into the morgue.. The meanderings of Jim Morrison or the angsts of Kurt Cobain.. They were not acting.. Neither was Moon the Loon..

   1. Watched the one on John Beluchi.. Extremely funny man. I ran into Kathy Smith after she got out of jail. In a bar in Maple Ridge BC. She was Canadian. Ran into Michael Moriarty,same bar.. around that time.

4. Nothing succeeds like excess.

   1. I had a good friend in high school (early 1970’s) he was great at any sport and the girls loved him.
      But he did have a thing for drugs. Like many at that time.
      He parents went to Vegas for the weekend, so being young men. He had a party at his house.
      He tried LSD and put a shotgun to his mouth. My whole life changed that evening.
      At 17 he had it all.

      1. I worked with a guy who graduated from Berkeley, CA HS in the 1970’s … he was banging on about what a phenomenal HS player Phil Chenier was. And I asked him if he was the greatest athlete who ever attended Berkeley HS. “Nope”, he said. “The greatest two athletes I ever witnessed are both dead.”

5. If only Keith Moon had spent his last 24 hours in Tunbridge Wells.