Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumOn this date 1978, Keith Moon passed away
I never saw Gene Krupa or John Bonham either but to me, missing Keith seems like a bigger loss.
Here is Roger's tribute
And here he is with the lads 4 months before he passed
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)Siwsan
(26,308 posts)This article - WOW - worth a read, that's for sure.
The night The Whos Keith Moon drove his car into a swimming pool
The Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan was the site of one of the most notorious examples of extreme rock n roll behaviour in history.
The Who drummer Keith Moon had already left a trail of chaos on the road, diving into swimming pools from hotel rooftops and blowing up toilets with cherry bombs, but it was in Flint where his behaviour reached its peak.
Following a large-scale food fight, the evenings entertainment reached its climax when Moon steered a Lincoln Continental into the hotels swimming pool. Or at least thats what he claimed he did
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Keith Moon: Half-a-dozen cars were parked around this swimming pool. I ran out, jumped into the first car I came to, which was a brand new Lincoln Continental. It was parked on a slight hill, and when I took the handbrake off it started to roll, and it smashed straight through this pool-surround fence, and the whole Lincoln Continental went into the swimming pool with me in it.
Peter Cavanaugh: I was in a room. I heard the ruckus and I went outside, and the first thing I saw was the vehicle in the pool. Wed all had several beers, and some other stuff too, so things can get a little cloudy, but I clearly remember seeing the vehicle in the pool.
Keith Moon: So there I was, sitting in the drivers seat of a Lincoln Continental, underwater. And the water was pouring in coming in through the bloody pedal holes in the floorboard, squirting in through the windows. In a startling moment of logic, I said: Well, I cant open the doors until the pressure is the same. Its amazing how I remembered those things from my physics class. So Im sitting there, thinking about me situation, as the water creeps up to me nose. When theres just enough air in the top of the car to take a gulp, I fill up me lungs, throw open the door and go rising to the top of the pool. So I went back to the party, streaming water.
John Entwistle: He never drove a car into the swimming pool. He couldnt even drive.
https://www.loudersound.com/features/keith-moon-takes-a-car-for-a-swim
Sneederbunk
(14,314 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 7, 2021, 05:23 PM - Edit history (1)
Casady1
(2,133 posts)is Keith Moon. Funny, I was just listening to Tommy yesterday. What a great album and a great recording. FYI DO NOT BUY the rerelease with the new mix of Who's next. It blows the original is better.
happybird
(4,645 posts)I listen to it at least once a month:
Song titles and time stamps in the description