“Master of destruction”, drummer of The Who was a true nightmare of the hotels he passed through while he was active
Between the 1960s and 1980s, the abuse of drugs and alcohol in rock led to the emergence of true living party legends. Keith Moonfor example, became famous not only as a drummer for The Whoas well as for having destroyed countless hotel rooms and doing all kinds of bizarre things. Interestingly, English also had a “student”: Joe Walshknown for his work with the Eagles.
The American guitarist met Moon in 1970, when it was still part of the James Gangbefore joining the Eaglesin 1975. His band toured with the The Who.
With KeithJoe learned the inadvisable lesson of destroying hotel rooms as a way to reduce his adrenaline after a good show. The musician spoke about the practice in a 1981 interview with David Gans (via Far Out Magazine).
He said:
You are turned on, mentally ‘high’. It has nothing to do with drugs or anything like that: you’re just turned on because there’s the energy of having so many people standing around screaming. It wakes you up. So I’d sit in a hotel room wide awake, just powered by the energy of the show, thinking, ‘Hey, where did everyone go?’. So I broke and destroyed things, I had fun.”
Walsh He made a point of giving credit to whoever he called the “master” in destroying hotels. The guitarist also mentioned the 1970 tour with the British:
Keith Moon really taught me how to do it – he was a master at it. THE James Gang toured with The Who and Keith It taught me lessons about breaking things.”
Joe Walsh’s Revenge
To Joe Walshthe funniest occasion came when he had access to the room of a record executive he didn’t like. This time, not even the paintings or the wallpaper were forgiven.
In his own words:
The best one was in Chicago. It was the end of the tour and I was mad at the record company. A vice president left, so I broke down his entire suite.”
Keith Moon and the art of destruction
The curious — and, to repeat, not at all recommendable — skills of Keith Moon they didn’t just include rooms. The drummer also ruined houses – his own and others -, cars and musical instruments, in this last point being accompanied by his colleagues. The Who.
User of large quantities of drugs and alcohol, Moon He was often kicked out of bars and pubs. Because of him, the band was banned from the Holiday Inn hotel chain, after the musician caused mass destruction during his 21st birthday — to the point of throwing a car into a swimming pool.
Amidst the throwing of furniture and TV sets from high-floor windows, Keith I enjoyed blowing up toilets. The drummer started with small homemade bombs, but soon started using sticks of dynamite to destroy toilets.
According to an estimate published by the book “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of The WHO 1958–78” (2002), from Andrew Neill and Matthew Kent, Moon It caused around US$500,000 in damage to the pipes of hotels it passed through.
Keith Moon He died in 1978, aged 32, from a drug overdose. According to the businessman of The Who, Bill Curbishleythe organization of the London Olympic Games, held in 2012, got in touch to talk about the drummer’s possible participation in the opening ceremony — without knowing that he had been dead for 34 years. Apparently, the musician still causes confusion, even in the afterlife.
Collaborated: André Luiz Fernandes.
Source: Rollingstone
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