Keith Moon: The Craziest Musician Of All Time
June 18, 2007 by Jo Minor
‘The production of our records has nothing to do with sound. It’s got to do with trying to keep Keith Moon on his fucking drum stool.’
Pete Townshend of The Who, 1970.
Keith Moon was a drummer of epic proportions - and more than just musically. He was the drummer of the legendary rock band The Who, who apparently passed his audition for the band in 1962 - at the tender age of only 15 - by totally destroying his drum kit. Right after that, he was on a 16-year spree of utter madness and mayhem.
These are some of his most outrageous brushes with reality.
Moon awoke one night to an unshakable hunger, and had the craving for chicken. Sadly for him, the kitchens of the hotel were closed hours before he decided to feast in the dark of night - that’s when he decided to take matters into his own hands. Moon raided the hotel kitchen fridges, and took several birds back into his hotel room. After stuffing himself, he decides to play football with the remainder of the poultry and calmly places them back in the fridges he raided just minutes ago. The next morning he calmly placed a bunch of bank notes on the reception desk for the birds he preyed on the night before.
Moon never did learn to drive, so he would sit on the front passenger seat and would toy with the car’s functions - just for fun. He’s been known to throw the car into first gear - when the vehicle is zooming through traffic at 190km/h. Moon’s dislike for automobiles didn’t end there. Once he drove his Rolls into an ornamental pond outside his home - in a bizarre case of attempted suicide.
He also once arrived in style at a West End club in London, driven there by his assistants. The problem was that he was on the bonnet of the car - completely naked.
Moon once jumped off a high windowsill directly into the sea - just to give his buds a little scare. Even though he survived that and countless other potentially lethal stunts, Moon succumbed in September 1978, aged 31. He overdosed himself on anti-alcoholism tablets - he took 32 of the tablets one night, more than twice the recognized lethal dosage.
The band was never the same after he passed - The Who did hire another drummer and record several more albums but they slowly slipped into oblivion from the day their greatest band member decided to pull the stunt of his life.
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