Official Keith Moon Appreciation Thread

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LET US NOW PRAISE KEITH MOON

[Kire]

1. I appreciate Keith Moon.

there, I said, you can say so too, it won't hurt

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. The man was an unreal drummer.

I wonder if he ever got his wish about being reincarnated as a girls' bicycle seat...

[nosmokes]

3. i'm in.

best rock drummer ever. peerless.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Keith, where'd you park the bloody car??

[madrchsod]

5. the best drummer of that generation

ginger baker is a close second..

[Carni]

6. Directors chair "not to be taken away" on last album

I hate to admit this but in the 10th grade I did my oral communications speech on the theory that he was *not dead*

I am still somewhat embarrassed about that (guess I was wearing a tin foil hat even as a young whipper snapper)

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10. I was in high school then too.

I was heartbroken when he died.

I have a brilliant old friend who did a high school presentation on Jimi Hendrix, and he mentioned Hendrix's to-the-day prophecy of his own death (perhaps apocryphal) in the song "Belly Button Window."

I did things this morning more embarrassing than a high school report based on "Not to be taken away."

I loved seeing the promo film for the song "Who Are You?" (later featured in The Kids Are Alright) on the Midnight Special and Don Kirchner's Rock Concert.

[Carni]

11. I embarrass myself daily as a so called adult lol

Our highschool years were a bad time for icons dropping like flies...Keith Moon then John Bonham (I had excellent tickets for that concert until it was cancelled)I was really in a morning period about John Lennon also. I think somewhere in my basement there is some really bad poetry written about Lennon's death.

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12. My girlfriend when Lennon got shot was the biggest Beatles fan,

She was a fan of John fan in particular.

I wonder if she's over it yet.

Somehow I make it up to the Dakota every time I'm in New York.

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7. They really hit the peak as a performing unit around 1970, right?

Live at Leeds (the original, one-disc headache record, rocked harder and more bluntly than anything preceding (anything by white people, anyway)((not talking about the subsequent Tommy-laden CD reissues of Live at Leeds, with all that regrettable Townsho-hippie mysticism, not that I dislike Tommy - I like it hecka bunches - just that the original track list for Live at Leeds was stunning for not only its very dirty musicianship ((courtesy the usual suspects, and Moon was certainly peaking also)), but also for its crudity, harshness, and volume (especially if you turned it up))).

Consider this post hash, if you hadn't already on the basis of author ID.

Have not had enough amino acid supplements to be able to wrestle with parentheses on such a small amount of sleep.

Excuses, excuses.

[Dudley_DUright]

8. As a drummer myself, I shamelessly stoled Keith Moon fills

when I was growing up. He ranks up their with John Bonham and Neil Peart in my pantheon.

[hickman1937]

9. But John Entwhistle actually was the one who kept the beat.

Which allowed Keith to go his full genius length. At least that was what I was told back in the day.

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13. Certainly seems to be true on some of the recordings of live performances.

But constrained Keith was extraordinary, unconventional, animalistic, and ferociously organic, even on the earliest recordings.

[Gold Metal Flake]

15. Keith was no D.J. Bonebrake

He was certainly no atomic clock. What he was was....free. He was joy and enthusiasm and youth and insouciance and outrageous and FREE!

The early recordings, the early film footage, the Monterrey Pop Festival footage, it's pure joy and aggression. We'll never see the like again.

[Trajan]

14. Most amazing drummer live ....

He was nonstop high energy rock perfection ....