Sad, but a really neat story;

[Itchinjim]

From the QC Times 2/19/2008

Thomas Scot Halpin dies at 54

A Muscatine, Iowa, native who became a part of rock history by stepping forward from the audience to play the drums for The Who after a band member passed out has died at his home in Bloomington, Ind

At age 19, he and a friend were watching The Who perform at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. After drummer Keith Moon passed out for the second time in the night, Pete Townshend called out, “Can anybody play the drums?” Halpin and his friend and fellow Muscatine native Mike Danese were already at the edge of the stage and ready to perform.

“Townshend and Daltrey look around and they’re as surprised as I am because (concert promoter Bill) Graham put me up there,” Halpin recalled in a 1996 interview with the San Francisco Examiner



How many musicians have fantasied about something like this happening to them?


http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/02/18/news/iowa/doc47b9f4fbc9ad2712391415.txt

[bbinacan]

1. Wow. n/t

[NC_Nurse]

2. I wonder why he died so young.

He sounds like a really cool guy. :-(

[TomInTib]

4. Brain tumor nt

[NC_Nurse]

5. Oh shit. That sucks.

Godspeed. :patriot:

[TomInTib]

3. The first time I saw Jethro Tull...

was at the Catacombs in Houston.

The bass player pulled a faceplant during the first song and Ian Anderson asked if there were any bass players in the house.

Local character and hanger-on Kenny Rogers (yes, that Kenny Rogers) took the stage and they proceeded to rip the roof off the place.

[NC_Nurse]

6. Cool.

"Really don't mind if you sit this one out..." :P

[TomInTib]

7. Oh, yeah...

Hell, I was almost praying that the guitar player would pass out, too.

[hootinholler]

8. Too cool! k&R