As much as my heart sunk that day we heard the news of his death, I still smiled at the story of being found on said death bed covered in hookers & blow. Is it true? fk knows but it sure kept the Myth burning!
Here's a Keith Moon story..... On one of their 70s tours they had these two roadies who like to play pranks on Keith. One of them had been a construction worker and helped build some of the motels in this chain they were staying at on tour. These motels were in these prefab buildings that you could put up and take down by using this special multi tool thing. These two roadies used this thing to completely dismantle Keith's room down to bare bones and piled all.the stuff in the corner.
He turned up at Alice Coopers house and dressed up like a French maid and cleaned the house for a week, Alice said he took on several charactors while he was there which lasted about 3 weeks
I owned a hotel in Keith’s hometown of Wembley. And while I love the Who, and us ordinary Wembleyites were proud of a “local lad made good”, if they pulled that crap in my hotel, I’d have beaten the crap out of him and his whole entourage.
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@@markmcnicholas9475 Roger said they found one hotel in NYC that was willing to take them. The hotel ownners gave them the rooms that needed renovating, so when Moon trashed them, he paid for them.
I read a biography of Keith. Apparently during the 70's he went on tour of the USA with The Who. At the end of the tour the money was divided up between the band. Roger, John and Pete all received around $250,000 each, whilst Keith got around $47.50. Why? Because they had taken out of Keith's share all the money that had to be paid for all the damaged hotel rooms etc.
I remember after he died it was announced on the News (that sort of thing happened in England in the 70's !!) that he left an estate of £35,000,which-even back in 1978/9 -was pretty small for a rock icon To give an idea-I guess that would be about £350,000 in todays money allowing for inflation-which is still pretty poor for a rock super group member. I guess it was due to hefty damages bills! I would also imagine that Moons estate today-that his family get-runs into millions from royalties -with none of it going to irate hotel owners !
I have a family friend of mine who grew up with Keith Moon in London, and he has a story about when he robbed a woolworths with a starter pistol that fire blanks, he did this at 15 year old but purely out of boredom
Keith was unfortunately a lost cause. He was trying to save himself towards the end but failed. They pretty much know now that he had run away ADD but they didn't know what that was or how to deal with it then. Just about everybody who knew him loved him but worried about him also. 2 life events that scarred him so deep he couldn't get past was his wife separating from him and the fact that he accidentally ran over his assistant which killed him. He was a brilliant drummer in his own right. He probably wasn't the type of drummer you would use as a studio musician but he knew how to Rock the Who. The Who certainly wouldn't have been the same without him in the 60s and 70s.
In 1966, I got a toy drum kit for my birthday. When I saw The Who on the Smothers Brothers show, I destroyed it. (I was three years old at the time) Fun as fuck! My parents weren't happy, but I've remained a lifelong fan since then
Of course that kid did a great job!!! But when Moon was not too high, he was amazing. Have you seen "A Quick One" from the Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Circus? He was spot on.
My point was that his drumming was simple enough for that random kid to just jump on stage and play no problem. Maybe I'm just spoiled with modern day virtuoso drummers, but the drumming in bands like The Who is honestly just very entry level and basic these days.
I don’t think the kid was playing at Keith moon level bro… He was just a kid who knew how to play the drums that filled in. Keith moon is still recognized as one of the best drummers of all time, and undoubtedly the best of his era. Sure he was a godforsaken absolute mad lad of a party animal and sure that impacted his play from time to time but as wild as he was in life he was wilder with the sticks in his hand 🥁
I can tell you as someone from canada (different from england but similar education) and one of the first things i was taught about cars is that if your car goes into water, attempt to smash a window in between deep breaths. They really taught us everything but taxes
When The Who would leave the hotel, the manager would be paid , ( in cash ), for damages. Then Holiday Inn would make a claim to their insurance company. The Who lost money until Who’s Next ( the album, 1970 ) came out. According to Roger Daltrey’s book The Who were 600,000 pounds in the red during 1968. Miss ya Moonie!
In one case, he was arrested in a small town in Scotland. The police station didn't have a cell available for some reason, so they put him temporarily in a back room that contained extra equipment. He gleefully started putting on hats and started destroying the police station. He was such a pain in the ass they threw him out.
This is on par with the level of production quality that plainly difficult, qixr, biographics, and more of my go to infographic channels. Great work man. Keep it up, you'll hit viewer counts on the same level man!
He also played Uncle Ernie in the film Tommy in 1975 based on their album Tommy made in 1969. He made that role his own. Phil Collins played Uncle Ernie in the Tommy concert. Uncle Ernie was Uncle Frank's clownish and perverted friend. Uncle Frank was Tommy's step father.
Roger has tried to get a script to his liking written but nothing has pleased him yet as he don't want another biopic like many made that toy with the truth.
I’m 66. I enjoy your take on things. There is an old phrase, THE GOOD OLD DAYS. this remains true through time because things slowly get worse. Sorry you missed out on this great era back in time. You seriously will never know how much fun we had.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. God, we all had so much fun. Times like that will never happen again - and probably for good reason. There are so many my age who woulda, coulda’ (and perhaps shoulda‘) been locked up for the nonsense we regularly got away with and ultimately outgrew (in just the past two decades). Memories of a bygone era…
p.s. I met "The Ox" backstage at a music trade fair, many years ago. I was in my early 20's then. He was absolutely lovely and extremely modest. Got his autograph. 🥰 I was astonished when he died, to hear all the stories about how he spent his later years, which was one long round of "ladies of the night" and various substances. Massive shame. I don't believe anyone really finds that fulfilling at a soul level.
I was at the show in Boston Garden when Keith passed out at the 2 and a half song mark. Good thing I held on to my ticket because as long as you had your ticket they honored it when The Who returned a couple month later. Saw them at the Providence RI Civic Center on the same tour where I got to experience because it was🤔 general admission a Cincinnati type of stampeed. I however did manage to survive being crushed against the front door and suffocation from the crowd and got against the stage at center! What a show! What a band! However the real Cincinnati put a end to general admission because of a bunch of kids dying. Sad but it could have been me...I totally get it! Das 😎 all! 👍
Why did Keith Moon do the crazy things he did? It’s easy, he did these things to get your attention! Man, he played the drums(debatably, the best rock drummer of all time),and with ADHD, he played the noisiest instrument there is for a reason. He wanted your attention,and he didn’t give a fuck about what you thought about what he did to get it! They didn’t call him “Moon the loon” for nothing! There were a lot of Moon moments that I never knew of, so that was cool. I don’t think anyone EVER went to the extreme to drive everyone crazy more than Keith did-literally! If you ever saw The Who back in the late 60s and early 70s, you could forgive Keith for his indiscretions-they put on the best live shows ever! Like Led Zeppelin was after losing John Bonham, the WHO were never the same after Keith died…
Nicely done commentary on one of the individuals who set the standards for true rock partying, to the extreme to put it mildly, but Man like what a Drummer!
He was a trailblazer for sure I saw something that he couldn’t even keep time very well (especially when he was fucked up which was constantly) but he just went so crazy on the drums that they didn’t even care that much lol
When Roger Daltrey was guest on the Letterman show he was if what was true that they were banned from the Holiday Inn. Daltrey response was, "Yeah, the did us a real big favor."
I absolutely love your humor! All those wordplays throughout, the editing, everything is golden! You have something good going here! Best of luck with our eldrich TH-cam overlords.
I was born in 94 but when I was 12 and saw footage of Keef wailing away at Monterey Pop in 1967, to that point, I had never seen a drummer look like they were having so much fun and being so good at the same time And within an instant, he became my biggest childhood hero. I come home from school every day and play along to the kids are all right soundtrack until I got as close as I could to playing like Keith or as close as a 12 year old middle American kid can get. After hearing so many stories about Keith from people who knew him, it’s interesting to hear Keef as a subject of rock n roll folklore for future generations who didn’t get to see or hear him in person, and continue the stories of his raving idiotic lunatic genius for years to come
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I really like the picture in the back❣️❣️ so much so, it irritated me, when your head was off the middle of it....couln't listen no longer, until you balanced it out again. Thank you for this entertaining bit of necessaey information🙏🏼
This video made me remember a moment when i said to my friend while we were both talking about the who, keith specifically i said "I feel like he killed a man" jokingly and then my friend responded "yea he did" posting a picture of an article talking about that AND THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED
My dad knew the owner of an indoor arean of sorts back in the 60s(he was a teenager at the time 😅) and The Who came and played. Well, he said they were so loud they blew the main fuse in the breaker box not once but 3 times, so their roadie found a specific size wrench to replace the fuse in the breaker box 😂 He said the whole place could’ve burnt to the ground in minutes but hey, in was the 60s 🤣
‘60’s model cars weren’t difficult to hotwire. No anti theft devices back then. I drove a ‘63 Sedan de Ville and a ‘66 Caprice. Gas was 20 cents a gallon.
Oh, yeah, I remember learning that trick about not opening the door until it equalizes in school. It wasn't in Physics, though. It was in Driver's Ed. It was Florida.
I remember as a kid getting into drums and music..and my dad influenced me deeply on 60s music like the who, Beatles,Hendrix etc..but I just remember thinking how the hell could someone have so much adrenaline through a performance and NOT pass out more then he did like when he took elephant tranquilizer before a show..yea he’s influenced me musically as a drummer, but just a wild wild human being, one of the top in the record books you can’t beat..
i knew a session muso and roadie ,he did work in the same studios as moon the loon ,and some of the epic stories he told of keith and other bands were crazy ,when he worked with the studio back in 1967/8 to 1969,and roadie from 1965to 68
I'll be honest.. if the devil came to me and said, "you get to do it over and live that life" but i'd have already died 8 years younger than I am now. (His age when he died.) It might be hard to refuse that offer. The absolute maddest of mad lads.
I listen to videos with earbuds to help me sleep at night. Tonight just happened to be this video. Strange, as I could hear and understand ever single word while dreaming still. That occasionally happens and it makes me think I’m not dreaming else I wouldn’t be able to understand what I’m hearing. In my dream, I was at a bonfire party and every time someone tried to talk to me, I’d say I had to turn down the volume on my phone to hear them, and I’d try to do so but it obviously wouldn’t turn down since I wasn’t really doing it. Ended up dropping my phone (in dream) in the fire. I got it out, reboots it, but the glass seemed cracked and shattered. Phone was working, but touchscreen wasn’t since glass was shattered so I removed all the glass using my finger and cut my finger causing bleeding. So real I was convinced my phone was shattered in real life. When I woke up for real the first thing I looked at was my finger. Finger was fine, as was my iPhone. Going back to sleep now, lol, to listen to the rest.
I like the Who's music a lot, but I saw them live twice in the early seventies. I've never seen a rock band that had such bad rapport with the audience. It was like an angry standoff.
@@andrewmacdonald3667 The best rapport I ever saw was Neil Young, who was by himself with an acoustic guitar. He had a huge audience in the palm of his hand within five minutes.
I’m surprised! I saw The Who, two nights in 1974 at Madison Square Garden, and they put on the best live shows out of any live act I have ever seen, and I’ve seen many over the last 49 years! They were pushing their Quadrophenia album, and smashed their instruments-the whole nine yards! It was Rock and Roll at its absolute best!!
I remember hearing a discussion with an engineer about how fast Keith was playing the drums and the engineer said that's just not possible there's no way in the. World somebody can play that fast soon the backed up the footage and they found out. Yes Keith was playing that fast.
Funny stories. I remember most of these from reading a great book about Moon years ago called Dear Boy. For all the hijinks though it's worth pointing out that a man lost his life because of Moon's stupid antics. I've read that after that awful event Keith became totally out of control as he (quite rightly) blamed himself for what happened. Maniac drummer and quite simply amazing in his prime. Unorthodox but outstanding. Also as a side note I've heard Animal of the Muppets was based on Moon...makes sense. In fact combine Animal and Crazy Harry = Keith Moon! Great documentary very entertaining!
My grandmother who lived through the 60s told me a lot of fabric was very thin back then compared to now so ripping the jeans off may have been easier than today.
I was in bands in my youth, but we were the sort of musicians who tidied the dressing rooms and ran the hoover round before we left. 😂 Now I'm 50 and to be honest, I think these sort of pranks are a massive entitled waste of money. I'm not sure if I would have found it funny at the time, either. We used to meet musicians from other groups, who were all checked out on acid, or very destructive like this and we just couldn't understand why. I've tried everything at least once, it didn't mean I started doing it on a daily basis. So despite how amusing the tales are, I've not doubt I would have considered him the biggest waste of flesh going. That's ironic though, as I have seen The Who live, twice. Unfortunately after Moon died. I absolutely LOVE his drumming, he was one of the best drummers that has ever lived. I do wish he had lived longer and not thrown his talent away with all the booze and pills. I miss Keith's drumming madly but not sure I would have wanted to be anywhere near him on one of his drunken escapades.
this might be a british thing but a ceramic toilet can also be blown by filling it with toilet roll then burning it, keep feeding the fire loo roll,then shout 'help,i'm drowning' when the guard opens the door,flush the toilet then duck boom! i'd be surprised if it wasn't mooney 'who' invented it
John Entwistle was called "The Ox" because while Keith, Pete and Roger all 3 moved around on stage or performed in various animated ways, John stood still like an anchor which he just wasn't into trying to show off other than his unique style of bass playing which he seemed to burn up all the energy the other members did but in his fingers. As far as when you pronounced Pete's last name as shind, Townshend is actually pronounced Townsend with a silent "H" Thunderfingers also comes from John's finger picking style which he brought to the bass from his days as being a French Horn player in a trad band and boys brigade band in his youth. Being a fan since 1979 and reading books, watching documentaries and reading magazine articles, you learn a great deal.
Back in the day Keith Moons favorite toys were marbles. He used to have them with him as one does.. his shtick was to let them all fall out of the sack at a high staircase at a station or even in class, his teacher got mad at him, when Keith extra excited „failed“ at picking em up, losing them (deliberately) outta hand again after having collected some of them.
Another great video. But, did you really think he was called Pete "Townshed"? And that was "artistically retarded", as it was his grade for Art. And the term "Autism" didn't exist at that point.
From what I read (about 17 years ago), Entwistle was called "The Ox" because "He drank, ate and did drugs more than all the rest"
He’s simply untippable
As much as my heart sunk that day we heard the news of his death, I still smiled at the story of being found on said death bed covered in hookers & blow. Is it true? fk knows but it sure kept the Myth burning!
@@jansmith8872 From what I read, yes it's true. Even his son Christopher said confirmed it.
And how did that pan out ? Oh yeah hes dead
@@Jungleroomreptiles 😂💀
Here's a Keith Moon story.....
On one of their 70s tours they had these two roadies who like to play pranks on Keith. One of them had been a construction worker and helped build some of the motels in this chain they were staying at on tour. These motels were in these prefab buildings that you could put up and take down by using this special multi tool thing. These two roadies used this thing to completely dismantle Keith's room down to bare bones and piled all.the stuff in the corner.
I enjoyed that, thank you, miss footlong hotdog
Was Keith sleeping or unconscious while they did that to his room, to have him wake up and see his room dismantled?! Lol.
@@Godskingdomwithin he wasnt in the room , he was out at a party or something.
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He left the party and went back to his room with his dancer friend. That’s where he did the coke-or more of it, with her.
The Loon used to go into Clothes Shops and cut arms and legs of certain clothes .If that man wasn't famous he would have been put away 😂
He turned up at Alice Coopers house and dressed up like a French maid and cleaned the house for a week, Alice said he took on several charactors while he was there which lasted about 3 weeks
I feel like Alice Cooper’s house would be a safe place to lose your shit.
Can he speak French? If not, what was French about his maid?
LSD was not dosed back like it is now and if your liver doesn’t break it down it can lead to 3 week trips 😢
@stormzycoinlife661 still can, quarter sheet over a week can lead to 3 or 4 extra weeks of tripping
@@tomf4087 ...Really? lol🙄
Keith Moon is the OG Jackass character before handycams. Strictly just for the vibes.
as a hotel house keeper: i have a moral obligation to hate this man
I owned a hotel in Keith’s hometown of Wembley. And while I love the Who, and us ordinary Wembleyites were proud of a “local lad made good”, if they pulled that crap in my hotel, I’d have beaten the crap out of him and his whole entourage.
They didn't clean the rooms, they jsut replaced them.
*OH BOY, YOU'RE REALLY GONNA MUTHAFUCKEN DESPISE MOTÖRHEAD THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND ALOT OF THE EXPLOITED'S SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
But honestly you'd love him as a Musician and person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@markmcnicholas9475 Roger said they found one hotel in NYC that was willing to take them. The hotel ownners gave them the rooms that needed renovating, so when Moon trashed them, he paid for them.
Dude you are a painfully underrated channel
I read a biography of Keith. Apparently during the 70's he went on tour of the USA with The Who. At the end of the tour the money was divided up between the band. Roger, John and Pete all received around $250,000 each, whilst Keith got around $47.50. Why? Because they had taken out of Keith's share all the money that had to be paid for all the damaged hotel rooms etc.
I remember after he died it was announced on the News (that sort of thing happened in England in the 70's !!) that he left an estate of £35,000,which-even back in 1978/9 -was pretty small for a rock icon To give an idea-I guess that would be about £350,000 in todays money allowing for inflation-which is still pretty poor for a rock super group member. I guess it was due to hefty damages bills! I would also imagine that Moons estate today-that his family get-runs into millions from royalties -with none of it going to irate hotel owners !
Keith Moon was the physical embodiment of chaotic neutral
Hell no, chaotic evil all the way
Chaotic good
Chaotic chaotic.
I have a family friend of mine who grew up with Keith Moon in London, and he has a story about when he robbed a woolworths with a starter pistol that fire blanks, he did this at 15 year old but purely out of boredom
thats fxcking wild 😂
Keith was unfortunately a lost cause. He was trying to save himself towards the end but failed. They pretty much know now that he had run away ADD but they didn't know what that was or how to deal with it then. Just about everybody who knew him loved him but worried about him also. 2 life events that scarred him so deep he couldn't get past was his wife separating from him and the fact that he accidentally ran over his assistant which killed him.
He was a brilliant drummer in his own right. He probably wasn't the type of drummer you would use as a studio musician but he knew how to Rock the Who. The Who certainly wouldn't have been the same without him in the 60s and 70s.
In 1966, I got a toy drum kit for my birthday. When I saw The Who on the Smothers Brothers show, I destroyed it. (I was three years old at the time) Fun as fuck! My parents weren't happy, but I've remained a lifelong fan since then
Pete TOWNSHED? aaah, the guy who played with Roger Dalton, John Antwhistle & Keith Mourn in this band called "The Whose"?
The joke is that his teacher labeled him as "ARTISTICALLY retarded", and he went on to be considered one of the greatest musical artists of all time.
If Keith wasn’t the best drummer that ever existed, he would of made a great comedian
Would have made. Please
Neil Peart
He plays Uncle Ernie in The Who’s “Tommy” & somehow makes a child predator downright funny! Comic genius! ✌🏼😂
Oh, and Moon was one of the best drummers who ever lived, and with John Entwistle formed the best rhythm section of it's time, if not all time.
Yet a random 19 yr old kid from the audience with literally zero practice with the band was able to finish his set no problem...lol just saying
Of course that kid did a great job!!! But when Moon was not too high, he was amazing. Have you seen "A Quick One" from the Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Circus? He was spot on.
My point was that his drumming was simple enough for that random kid to just jump on stage and play no problem. Maybe I'm just spoiled with modern day virtuoso drummers, but the drumming in bands like The Who is honestly just very entry level and basic these days.
I don’t think the kid was playing at Keith moon level bro…
He was just a kid who knew how to play the drums that filled in. Keith moon is still recognized as one of the best drummers of all time, and undoubtedly the best of his era. Sure he was a godforsaken absolute mad lad of a party animal and sure that impacted his play from time to time but as wild as he was in life he was wilder with the sticks in his hand 🥁
@@Necessary_Information Thank you!
I can tell you as someone from canada (different from england but similar education) and one of the first things i was taught about cars is that if your car goes into water, attempt to smash a window in between deep breaths. They really taught us everything but taxes
When The Who would leave the hotel, the manager would be paid , ( in cash ), for damages. Then Holiday Inn would make a claim to their insurance company. The Who lost money until Who’s Next ( the album, 1970 ) came out. According to Roger Daltrey’s book The Who were 600,000 pounds in the red during 1968. Miss ya Moonie!
Saw Keith play at Charlton in 1976, loudest concert ever at that time.....and he was superb......great showman!
I knew there was some wild stories, but I really do wonder how he didn't get jailed for many years.
I know right!?! The 60s were wildin'
In one case, he was arrested in a small town in Scotland. The police station didn't have a cell available for some reason, so they put him temporarily in a back room that contained extra equipment. He gleefully started putting on hats and started destroying the police station. He was such a pain in the ass they threw him out.
@@loosilu That's nuts 😂
That picture of that dog at 26:27 was so freaking adorable. I just wanna take a nap right along with that pupper.
This is on par with the level of production quality that plainly difficult, qixr, biographics, and more of my go to infographic channels. Great work man. Keep it up, you'll hit viewer counts on the same level man!
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This man is a legend know him irl the dedication is insane
@@ianlee.3098 I went to highschool with him lmfao can confirm 99% legend 1% spite
I love Qxir, really underrated channel
Roger did say that he believesd that Keith was autistic. He also said that Keith could not help it ... This was no act.
He had BPD and heard voices.
All the crazy stuff he’s done should be told in a movie. Most People of today’s generation would go see it.
Rogers has been trying to get funding for years. Look it up.
He also played Uncle Ernie in the film Tommy in 1975 based on their album Tommy made in 1969. He made that role his own. Phil Collins played Uncle Ernie in the Tommy concert. Uncle Ernie was Uncle Frank's clownish and perverted friend. Uncle Frank was Tommy's step father.
Roger has tried to get a script to his liking written but nothing has pleased him yet as he don't want another biopic like many made that toy with the truth.
Ohhhh how it breaks my heart to see these stars smashing a perfectlyyyyyy goooood guitarrrr
I’m 66. I enjoy your take on things. There is an old phrase, THE GOOD OLD DAYS. this remains true through time because things slowly get worse. Sorry you missed out on this great era back in time. You seriously will never know how much fun we had.
Who would win in a fight Keith Moon vs GG Allin
Depends who’s more fucked up out of their mind at the time but my money’s on GG
No one wants to throw a punch at GG Alin cuz theres no way yr not gettin hepatitis
Hard to know, they were both Virgos.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. God, we all had so much fun. Times like that will never happen again - and probably for good reason.
There are so many my age who woulda, coulda’ (and perhaps shoulda‘) been locked up for the nonsense we regularly got away with and ultimately outgrew (in just the past two decades).
Memories of a bygone era…
p.s. I met "The Ox" backstage at a music trade fair, many years ago. I was in my early 20's then. He was absolutely lovely and extremely modest. Got his autograph. 🥰 I was astonished when he died, to hear all the stories about how he spent his later years, which was one long round of "ladies of the night" and various substances. Massive shame. I don't believe anyone really finds that fulfilling at a soul level.
"a whiskey hurricane". that quote alone demands me to subscribe to your channel
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Necessary Information is a top geezer. Cheers bruv. Well done.
This man’s rhymes are so impressive. Straight bars. Nice. lol.
I was at the show in Boston Garden when Keith passed out at the 2 and a half song mark. Good thing I held on to my ticket because as long as you had your ticket they honored it when The Who returned a couple month later. Saw them at the Providence RI Civic Center on the same tour where I got to experience because it was🤔 general admission a Cincinnati type of stampeed. I however did manage to survive being crushed against the front door and suffocation from the crowd and got against the stage at center! What a show! What a band! However the real Cincinnati put a end to general admission because of a bunch of kids dying. Sad but it could have been me...I totally get it! Das 😎 all! 👍
Why did Keith Moon do the crazy things he did? It’s easy, he did these things to get your attention!
Man, he played the drums(debatably, the best rock drummer of all time),and with ADHD, he played the noisiest instrument there is for a reason. He wanted your attention,and he didn’t give a fuck about what you thought about what he did to get it! They didn’t call him “Moon the loon” for nothing!
There were a lot of Moon moments that I never knew of, so that was cool. I don’t think anyone EVER went to the extreme to drive everyone crazy more than Keith did-literally!
If you ever saw The Who back in the late 60s and early 70s, you could forgive Keith for his indiscretions-they put on the best live shows ever!
Like Led Zeppelin was after losing John Bonham, the WHO were never the same after Keith died…
Even More So When John Died!!..
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Yeah, that too!
I predict this channel is gonna blow up, very funny…
Fkn Love it! No matter the crazy shit we get up to out here, Keith still tops them all, Long live The Who!😎
He was the bloody best!
I know the store.
Nicely done commentary on one of the individuals who set the standards for true rock partying, to the extreme to put it mildly, but Man like what a Drummer!
He was a trailblazer for sure
I saw something that he couldn’t even keep time very well (especially when he was fucked up which was constantly) but he just went so crazy on the drums that they didn’t even care that much lol
Happy to see your channel taking off… you’re great at this! Keep it up
Keith moon also used sticks of dynamite to destroy toilets😂
Ah, Keith Moon. My adolescent idol. I sported a mop top hairstyle in 7th and 8th grade, just like Moon had around 1966.
Dude I swear Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx are just reancarnations of Keith Moon and Sid Vicious
I started drumming because of Keith Moon.
He is intrusive thoughts as a person
When Roger Daltrey was guest on the Letterman show he was if what was true that they were banned from the Holiday Inn. Daltrey response was, "Yeah, the did us a real big favor."
Highly recommend reading Tony Fletcher's biography, MOON....the best deep dive into Keith's madness.
Also FULL MOON by Moon's personal assistant Pete Butler. He tells the wildest stories of all, because he was there. And he's hilarious.
@loosilu I thought his name was Dougal Butler...? Either way I will check it out.
@@Wizardboots He went by Dougal so he wouldn't be confused with Townshend
I love your wordplay! Just hysterical and a fresh way of telling the Moonie stories - thank you for some much-needed giggles!
I absolutely love your humor! All those wordplays throughout, the editing, everything is golden!
You have something good going here! Best of luck with our eldrich TH-cam overlords.
I was born in 94 but when I was 12 and saw footage of Keef wailing away at Monterey Pop in 1967, to that point, I had never seen a drummer look like they were having so much fun and being so good at the same time And within an instant, he became my biggest childhood hero. I come home from school every day and play along to the kids are all right soundtrack until I got as close as I could to playing like Keith or as close as a 12 year old middle American kid can get. After hearing so many stories about Keith from people who knew him, it’s interesting to hear Keef as a subject of rock n roll folklore for future generations who didn’t get to see or hear him in person, and continue the stories of his raving idiotic lunatic genius for years to come
The hand cream?
I bought “who are you” the day it was released. That song still f**king rocks all these years later!
Great video mate bloody well done
In terms of destroying shit, Sam Hyde is the Keith Moon of comedy.
Such a shame that the guy is a crypto nazi
That is a power move right there😂😂😂😂😂
This was awesome dude
Bro You Had My Ass Laughing Right Off On Them Rock Stars Parts 1,2 & 3 ! But This One Takes On The Whole Pie Had Me Creamed 🤣 These Fellas R Quite Interesting Thats Forsure 😭
Had me creamed??😳😳
This video was great. Ive heard some of his crazy stories.👍 🤘🤙
I really like the picture in the back❣️❣️ so much so, it irritated me, when your head was off the middle of it....couln't listen no longer, until you balanced it out again. Thank you for this entertaining bit of necessaey information🙏🏼
That’s why his last name was moon, because he’s a lunatic
I’m so glad that you listened and have embodied the spirit of ranting now in comparison to this
It's all in a book by his personal assistant of 10 years, Kieth "Dougal" Butler, called 'Moon the Loon'
A Great Entertaining Funny Read!👍
Video about Keith Moon: shows clips of Townsend for the first 30 seconds. Marvellous!
00:34 "acrossed?"
It's ACROSS. We learn this in first grade.
This video made me remember a moment when i said to my friend while we were both talking about the who, keith specifically i said "I feel like he killed a man" jokingly and then my friend responded "yea he did" posting a picture of an article talking about that AND THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED
Overreaction to an accident much
That was his good friend and he never got over the horror of that night!
My dad knew the owner of an indoor arean of sorts back in the 60s(he was a teenager at the time 😅) and The Who came and played. Well, he said they were so loud they blew the main fuse in the breaker box not once but 3 times, so their roadie found a specific size wrench to replace the fuse in the breaker box 😂
He said the whole place could’ve burnt to the ground in minutes but hey, in was the 60s 🤣
I LOVE these insane rock and roll star episodes.
You are hilarious.
Subscribed.
And, by the way, why are is British people not real ?
🎉🎉 incredible video, this man is a menace
Drummers are just built different
‘60’s model cars weren’t difficult to hotwire. No anti theft devices back then. I drove a ‘63 Sedan de Ville and a ‘66 Caprice. Gas was 20 cents a gallon.
20 cents a gallon?? get me in a time machine
You absolutely made me laugh out loud. I knew most these stories- so it was your telling and comic timing that won me over- 👍
Oh, yeah, I remember learning that trick about not opening the door until it equalizes in school.
It wasn't in Physics, though. It was in Driver's Ed.
It was Florida.
See now that makes sense to me
Loved this vid man
great vid!
I remember as a kid getting into drums and music..and my dad influenced me deeply on 60s music like the who, Beatles,Hendrix etc..but I just remember thinking how the hell could someone have so much adrenaline through a performance and NOT pass out more then he did like when he took elephant tranquilizer before a show..yea he’s influenced me musically as a drummer, but just a wild wild human being, one of the top in the record books you can’t beat..
i knew a session muso and roadie ,he did work in the same studios as moon the loon ,and some of the epic stories he told of keith and other bands were crazy ,when he worked with the studio back in 1967/8 to 1969,and roadie from 1965to 68
I'll be honest.. if the devil came to me and said, "you get to do it over and live that life" but i'd have already died 8 years younger than I am now. (His age when he died.) It might be hard to refuse that offer.
The absolute maddest of mad lads.
Karl is Karl Greene the bassist for Herman's Hermits. The Who was the supporting band on the Hermits' 1967 North American tour.
The Who were my step mums local band, she once told Keith Moon, if you carry on the way you are you're gonna end up killing yourself.
I listen to videos with earbuds to help me sleep at night. Tonight just happened to be this video. Strange, as I could hear and understand ever single word while dreaming still. That occasionally happens and it makes me think I’m not dreaming else I wouldn’t be able to understand what I’m hearing. In my dream, I was at a bonfire party and every time someone tried to talk to me, I’d say I had to turn down the volume on my phone to hear them, and I’d try to do so but it obviously wouldn’t turn down since I wasn’t really doing it. Ended up dropping my phone (in dream) in the fire. I got it out, reboots it, but the glass seemed cracked and shattered. Phone was working, but touchscreen wasn’t since glass was shattered so I removed all the glass using my finger and cut my finger causing bleeding. So real I was convinced my phone was shattered in real life. When I woke up for real the first thing I looked at was my finger. Finger was fine, as was my iPhone. Going back to sleep now, lol, to listen to the rest.
I miss water beds. They were actually quite comfortable.
id love to try one
Yes, I had a waterbed for years. Turn the heater on in the winter. They were good for sleeping and other things. Waterbeds rocked!
I still have a waterbed bed box
That story of Scot Halpin is like a musician’s dream come true
My favorite drummer
I like the Who's music a lot, but I saw them live twice in the early seventies. I've never seen a rock band that had such bad rapport with the audience. It was like an angry standoff.
Seems like a theme in the 70's that u went twice. "That was a terrible experience, lets do it again!"
Interesting. Townshend has often spoken of the band and their audience becoming one. Not these times obviously.
@@andrewmacdonald3667 The best rapport I ever saw was Neil Young, who was by himself with an acoustic guitar. He had a huge audience in the palm of his hand within five minutes.
@@steveneardley7541 Cool. The last time I saw Neil was at Desert Trip. The next night was The Who. It was quite a pleasant weekend.
I’m surprised! I saw The Who, two nights in 1974 at Madison Square Garden, and they put on the best live shows out of any live act I have ever seen, and I’ve seen many over the last 49 years! They were pushing their Quadrophenia album, and smashed their instruments-the whole nine yards! It was Rock and Roll at its absolute best!!
I remember hearing a discussion with an engineer about how fast Keith was playing the drums and the engineer said that's just not possible there's no way in the. World somebody can play that fast soon the backed up the footage and they found out. Yes Keith was playing that fast.
Great channel.
The term "Chaos Gremlin" is thrown around a lot nowadays, and Keith is pretty much the textbook definition thereof.
Also i love your Bojack Horseman tongue twisters
Yay you started the video with a Gravity Kills Here remix!
I grew up on the Who through my mom. I was always fascinated by Keith Moon.
Loving the stories man. Like Tyson said once “ we all do fugde up things when we’re fudge up “ lol
28:43 lmao 🤣 it’s always the stage techs
Funny stories. I remember most of these from reading a great book about Moon years ago called Dear Boy.
For all the hijinks though it's worth pointing out that a man lost his life because of Moon's stupid antics. I've read that after that awful event Keith became totally out of control as he (quite rightly) blamed himself for what happened.
Maniac drummer and quite simply amazing in his prime. Unorthodox but outstanding.
Also as a side note I've heard Animal of the Muppets was based on Moon...makes sense. In fact combine Animal and Crazy Harry = Keith Moon!
Great documentary very entertaining!
What an epic character Keith was. But probably a pain in the a** to the people around him. 😆
Your English accent was spot on!
My grandmother who lived through the 60s told me a lot of fabric was very thin back then compared to now so ripping the jeans off may have been easier than today.
I was in bands in my youth, but we were the sort of musicians who tidied the dressing rooms and ran the hoover round before we left. 😂 Now I'm 50 and to be honest, I think these sort of pranks are a massive entitled waste of money. I'm not sure if I would have found it funny at the time, either. We used to meet musicians from other groups, who were all checked out on acid, or very destructive like this and we just couldn't understand why. I've tried everything at least once, it didn't mean I started doing it on a daily basis. So despite how amusing the tales are, I've not doubt I would have considered him the biggest waste of flesh going.
That's ironic though, as I have seen The Who live, twice. Unfortunately after Moon died. I absolutely LOVE his drumming, he was one of the best drummers that has ever lived. I do wish he had lived longer and not thrown his talent away with all the booze and pills. I miss Keith's drumming madly but not sure I would have wanted to be anywhere near him on one of his drunken escapades.
This video is a absolute screem I love it I laughed the hole way thru this story is priceless lol😃😃👍👍
Damn son. Very informative
What a bunch of perverted a*******
this might be a british thing but a ceramic toilet can also be blown by filling it with toilet roll then burning it,
keep feeding the fire loo roll,then shout 'help,i'm drowning'
when the guard opens the door,flush the toilet then duck
boom!
i'd be surprised if it wasn't mooney 'who' invented it
John Entwistle was called "The Ox" because while Keith, Pete and Roger all 3 moved around on stage or performed in various animated ways, John stood still like an anchor which he just wasn't into trying to show off other than his unique style of bass playing which he seemed to burn up all the energy the other members did but in his fingers.
As far as when you pronounced Pete's last name as shind, Townshend is actually pronounced Townsend with a silent "H" Thunderfingers also comes from John's finger picking style which he brought to the bass from his days as being a French Horn player in a trad band and boys brigade band in his youth.
Being a fan since 1979 and reading books, watching documentaries and reading magazine articles, you learn a great deal.
Back in the day Keith Moons favorite toys were marbles. He used to have them with him as one does.. his shtick was to let them all fall out of the sack at a high staircase at a station or even in class, his teacher got mad at him, when Keith extra excited „failed“ at picking em up, losing them (deliberately) outta hand again after having collected some of them.
Ive never heard a drummer play the drums like kieth moon it was an extension of his being
Another great video. But, did you really think he was called Pete "Townshed"?
And that was "artistically retarded", as it was his grade for Art. And the term "Autism" didn't exist at that point.
Truly in a class of his own and made madness in2a great big beautiful art form