THE WHO: Keith Moon & His Catalogue Of Carnage

Joe Walsh “The single most frightening thing in my life,was when Keith Moon decided he liked me”

I was at the Cow Palace performance, the show started out ok, but then I saw the double pass outs. After the first pass out, there was a short time out. Then with a cheer from the audience, Keith came out crabbed Pete’s hand like a brother, got back to his kit, and the band was off again, but slowly Keith started to lean on a large gong behind him, clearly out again. A roadie pushed Keith from behind and Keith’s head hit the snare drum with a loud thud! That was it, he was out cold. The roadies picked him up like a sack of potatoes, and took Keith way, with the band leaving the stage too. In just a few seconds later, Pete came back out and said to audience “Are there any drummers in the house?” With that statement, a bunch of hands shot up in the air, my dummer was sitting next to me and he didn’t put his hand up. Anyway, they picked a fellow up out of the audience, and the guy had the time of his life, performing live with The Who, and he was pretty good too. It was all in the local papers the following day, with a photo of the stand in drummer The Who pulled to the stage to play with them finishing up the show. Great stuff. 😂

I actually admire Roger for trying to pretty much be the straight one in the band. It's probably why he's in great shape even today. The story of John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" would be another excellent story to tell in the future.

Keith Moon sounds like a mad bomber who also just happens to play the drums during his down time.

Moon once hijacked a bus on Alexandra Parade Melbourne Australia. I believe he’d been visiting with Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum who lived nearby. It seems Moon caught a bus into the city and told the driver he was hijacking this bus to Cuba. I can’t imagine an Australian bus driver doing anything but roar with laughter at this.

You flatter him. Some may consider he was just criminally insane.

James, dear boy, thank you so much for documenting Mr Keith Moon and The Who. There's not enough talk of them on here. They're my favorite band of all time. He was certainly an unrivaled lunatic, but he was really an unbelievable drummer when he was healthy, and The Who have made some of the best conceptual albums in classic rock history. Not to mention their live act. Aggressive, powerful and loud! There was a point where it was widely acknowledged and accepted that they were the best live band in the industry. In the words of Alice Cooper, "maybe 50% of what you heard about me and other rock stars is true, but literally 100% of what you heard about Keith Moon is true." Rest in peace, Keith. Long live rock!

I saw Keith play four times with the Who. I thought he was the greatest drummer in the world. But I had no idea what he was like off-stage. It wasn't till after his death that I read about what a genius lunatic he was. No one played drums or lived like Keith. Thanks for this great video.

Keith Moon and I were friends in the 70s for a while, I use to drink with him, I would never have known he had this wild side, he was always a gentlemen, he even helped to get a road closed in Battersea for our Family, still closed today in South London near their Studios. He love to tell jokes, and his favourite passtime were bar billiards. Never seen him do any wild things ever, so there were two sides , must be Bi-Polar.

Heard some new stuff, I didn't know, so thanks 👍😁 Saw The Who in Rotterdam in 1975. John Entwistle playing extremely loud, blowing Pete Townshend away. Keith Moon joined the party, so we had a two hour rithme section concert. 😅 The best rockin rithme section I've ever heard. Cheers from the Netherlands. 👍💪😁

53:45 - Can’t believe you didn’t tell the part of the story where they got a guy from the crowd who played drums to finish the set with them.

the coffee beans down the escalator was a new one for me thanx

I fell in love with his drumming and the Who at age 8…I researched about him more in my early teens and was blown away….still my favorite band at age 53 and still my favorite legend. He sadly died when I was only 8 years old…but I still dream about the whirlwind myth and creating havoc and having a blast with him. RIP doesn’t seem quite appropriate, so, Party On in ROCK n ROLL Paradise, Dear Boy….

I found this Keith Moon story from Far Out magazine: Appearing on Conan in 2008, Helen Mirren divulged: “I did a play about the rock ‘n’ roll business, called Teeth’ N’ Smiles, written by David Hare and I was playing a Janis Joplin character,” she explains. “I’m about to go on for my last entrance, and my dressing room overlooks the back alley where the stage door is. I hear this incredible crashing and banging. I look out the back because that’s where all the trash cans are and there climbing out of the trash cans is this completely drunken guy. Totally arseholed, as we say in England. “He’s covered now in trash, and he’s got a pinstripe suit on. He looks a complete madman, and I thought, ‘it’s just some drunk as usual on a Saturday night in London’. So I go waiting to go on for my last entrance and then I hear the crashing and the banging coming in from the stage door. I think, ‘Oh my god, he’s broken into the theatre’. Then I hear the crashing and the banging coming up to the stairs outside my dressing room, then the crashing and the banging stops right outside my dressing room. “Then I hear (knocks animatedly on the floor), ‘Helen, come out’,” Mirren screams in her best Keith Moon impression. “Then I open the door, and it’s Keith Moon. He was just standing there, and he was the man in the trash can. He goes, ‘Hello darling, I hear you’re fantastic in this play’, and I say, ‘Hello Keith, it’s really nice to meet you. I’m very honoured, thank you for coming to visit.’ “I say, ‘I’ve got to leave you now as I’ve got to go on stage’, he says, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll come with you, I’ll come and play in your band it’ll be good’. I’m so idiotic, and this is why I’d say I’m not rock ‘n’ roll, if I was rock ‘n’ roll I’d say, ‘Yeah, come on man’. Instead, I said you can’t as it’s a theatre and we don’t do that kind of thing. One of my great regrets is not having appeared on-stage with Keith Moon,” Mirren said remorsefully. ps: No I didn’t type this. Cut and paste.

Saw an interview with Roger, listening to an album of theirs, "Great drumming. Must have been a bad day for drugs"

What a great video, so much work went into this, thank you James!

My Dad was lucky enough to see the High Numbers, the name of the band before the Who. Moon the Loon, unfortunately I've lived a life similar to him. Without the fame and money!!

Amazing documentary James, thank you so much for making it 😊

He was a cheeky lil bastard wasn’t he

Dont try to attempt any of these antics at home, stick to hotel rooms