Len Cnut Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 This threads just gonna be me havin' a massive wank over Keith Moon, the greatest drummer rock music ever saw (no, you're wrong, I'm right, he was the best). I love the bloke and he deserves his own thread. Thank you, that is all! Check out the fuckin' drumming lunacy from the baddest drummer on the plane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) I could die a happy man if i could play drums like that, I've never seen a more purer expression of joy that Moonies drumming, bless him! Edited April 15, 2017 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 100% Pure Rock Animal!!! Nobody else even comes close to Moon The Loon! One of my all time heroes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) Y'can't come in t'club lookin' like that! Edited April 15, 2017 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Love him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Greatest drummer of all time easily, obviously Bonham and Baker were brilliant but Moon was in a different league altogether, basically turned the drums into the lead instrument. All the little arm flails and flourishes, just brilliant. Animal off the Muppets was based on him as well. Then the whole crazy wild man/comedy aspect. Oliver Reed was his best mate, says it all really. The bloke was just different fucking class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 "Fun one minute and a bit frightening the next" "Full french maid's outfit." "The fact that he got to 32 years old is absolutely astounding." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 I'd say Ginger Baker was a better textbook drummer out of the lot but Moon is just something else, some kind of mad soloist reinterpreting what it is to be a drummer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janrichmond Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 My big brothers' hero 'Moon the Loon'. My brother was 15 when i was born (yes i was an accident) so i heard all his music as i was growing up, The Who,Hendrix,Zeppelin loads of great shit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 My mom saw the Who in MSG in NYC in 1973. Keith Moon broke all his drums at the end of the show and Pete broke his guitar. She said that Roger Daltry was hot and an amazing singer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 (edited) incredible drummer! His beats are like orchestrations. His fills are huge and full of rock n roll spirit while somehow still managing to be very articulate and melodic at the same time. I love when expansive musical knowledge is set with in reckless abandon - and for me thats what I love about Moons playing! Edited April 16, 2017 by soon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 28 minutes ago, soon said: incredible drummer! His beats are like orchestrations. His fills are huge and full of rock n roll spirit while somehow still managing to be very articulate and melodic at the same time. I love when expansive musical knowledge is set with in reckless abandon - and for me thats what I love about Moons playing! Correct. No one else has matched what Keith did on the drums. Totally unique style. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 3 hours ago, janrichmond said: My big brothers' hero 'Moon the Loon'. My brother was 15 when i was born (yes i was an accident) so i heard all his music as i was growing up, The Who,Hendrix,Zeppelin loads of great shit Great shit indeed, the best. Raised on the special stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 This curios that is his solo album is a great deal of fun too: I get this stuck in my head all the time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 4 minutes ago, soon said: This curios that is his solo album is a great deal of fun too: I get this stuck in my head all the time!! Brilliant! May as well get the whole album up! 'Two Sides of the Moon' - which of course famously featured Keith's arse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Dog Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 5 minutes ago, J Dog said: Absolutely unreal he was! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 (edited) Thing about Moonie and Entwhistle is the range of sound they covered, someone up there said it best that it's like orchestration, which is bang on correct...and The Ox was even moreso but in a more classically musical way. But the fuckin' range they covered musically, the reason Townshend could be so physically historionic is that he's basically keeping the beat, it's a crazy fuckin' dynamic, The Ox is soloing but he knows what he's doing whereas Moon just fuckin'...I dunno what the fuck Moons doing, I think thats why he had so many drums, so he would never lose his musical thread and be able to retrieve any idea or direction he took his playing in my virtue of the fact that he actually had so many fuckin' drums. But even if you watch older footage, like The Railway Hotel footage from Harrow, fuckin' hell Moonie son, the drumming is smothering the sound. They're playing fuckin' Motown covers but the songs become something different by virtue of what Moonie and The Ox are doing...I don't even think it was deliberate on Moonies part, he's just showing off basically, thats what his style comes from, it's his personality, showing off, being a flash bastard, i love it Watch what he's doing on Dance To Keep From Crying, it's delightful...and he's what, 16 there, 17 maybe? Fuckin' hell boy. Edited April 16, 2017 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Dog Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 I've always liked Moon and gave him massive respect. Always viewed him as one of the best ever. But I think I love the guy after some of this shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Dog Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 (edited) 6 hours ago, janrichmond said: My big brothers' hero 'Moon the Loon'. My brother was 15 when i was born (yes i was an accident) so i heard all his music as i was growing up, The Who,Hendrix,Zeppelin loads of great shit I'm with you. Thanks to a cool ass older sibling, I was like 12 and rocking out to The Doors and Janis and CCR and all those you mentioned. My friends were listening to whatever was popular on the radio and MTV at the thime, and I was digging into Exile on Main St. Edited April 17, 2017 by J Dog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 4 minutes ago, J Dog said: I've always liked Moon and gave him massive respect. Always viewed him as one of the best ever. But I think I love the guy after some of this shit There is quite literally no man in the history of rock n roll more mental than Keith Moon. I grew and live in places where he's been and he's one of those people if you are in any of the manors he's been around there are THOUSANDS of stories about him knocking about. If he was around nowadays he'd be diagnosed with something, like something wrong with him, some kind of autism or disorder or something because the bloke was fuckin' unhealthily mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 I LOVE this clip, I used to bang out a couple of shots and watch it just before a night on a mad one to get me in the mood 'all of a sudden it's like a jet engine started up in the back of me!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketfoot Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 16 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: There is quite literally no man in the history of rock n roll more mental than Keith Moon. Summed up perfectly. Nor will there ever be again. 18 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: If he was around nowadays he'd be diagnosed with something, like something wrong with him, some kind of autism or disorder or something because the bloke was fuckin' unhealthily mad. That's spot on as well mind, definitely something not right mentally for him to be so off his nut! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 17, 2017 Author Share Posted April 17, 2017 Just now, bucketfoot said: Summed up perfectly. Nor will there ever be again. That's spot on as well mind, definitely something not right mentally for him to be so off his nut! I think he just took partying and pisstaking to the nth degree is all, i dont think he was insane, just a very young kid, got into bands very young and like...didnt really have no framework for a normal life and was just extreme with what he did. And after a while you just get used to behaving like a lunatic...and also you gotta remember the sort of freedom they had in those days, these noveau rich in the 60s could get away with bloody murder, crashing hovercrafts on railway tracks and nearly causing a tragedy, driving a roller through some shop window, there'd be fuckin murders if you did that now, you'd be disgraced and shamed across all the papers...in them days it was just 'carousing' Theres an undercurrent of the police and the establishment working to protect the upper classes in this country and the nouveau rich of the 60s, though not upper class, benefitted greatly from that in that they could get away with anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlsFavoriteRose Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 7 hours ago, Len Cnut said: I'd say Ginger Baker was a better textbook drummer out of the lot but Moon is just something else, some kind of mad soloist reinterpreting what it is to be a drummer. hahahaha did you read "I'm With The Band"? good ole Pamea DesBarres TOLD ALL *blushing* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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