![]() ![]() Keith Moon attacked Roger Daltrey with tambourine after flushing The Who drummer's pills down toilet -The frontman claims he was thought of as 'the enemy' due to his clean-living behaviour. We brought it back in 2002 for the last tour with John Entwistle, and we rehearsed it, we were going to do it in the show, then John died.”ĭaltrey feels like there is a curse attached to ‘Music Must Change’, and for the sake of his and Pete Townshend’s health, The Who will never perform it again. The singer painfully continued: “We played the song when we got back together with Kenny Jones as drummer, and then we dropped it for a long, long time. You May Also Like "The Who: we start on charity because of Keith Moon"įor Daltrey, the song is a reminder of that painful time close to Keith’s death, and he also feels regretful about recruting another drummer, which must have been humiliating for Moon. Anyway, Keith is not on that recording on the record, and straight after we made that record, he died.” Daltrey revealed: “He just couldn’t do that, so he had to do it with a pair of squeaky boots walking the pavement and do a squeaky walk to do the rhythm. They tried everything with Moon to help him learn the track, including one extremely unconventional method, but that was also to no avail. Keith could play great Moon drums, and that was it.” Every time we played that in the studio, Keith couldn’t play the drums to it. ![]() There’s a song on the Who Are You album, it’s called ‘Music Must Change’. “There is one, and I won’t ever play it again. In 2015, the vocalist appeared on Howard Stern’s programme on Sirius XM and opened up about the negative feelings he holds towards the Who Are You cut. Despite his best efforts, they were forced to recruit a session musician to play the drums on the final recording, which Daltrey regrets. On the LP is one song titled ‘Music Must Change’ which Moon just couldn’t get his head around. The final album that the band recorded before his tragic passing was the 1978 release, Who Are You. One particular track reminds the singer of this time and brings back some memories that he’d rather forget. His declining health took a toll on his relationship with his bandmates, and Daltrey felt helpless. Keith Moon’s final days were not just difficult for him, but they were challenging for his family and friends too. He was the most loving, the most hurtful, respectful, most caring, it was all completely… like fireworks.The Who have an almost unlimited wealth of choice when it comes to selecting the material for their live sets, but there’s one song that Roger Daltrey refuses to sing, and his explanation makes perfect sense. Every facet of his personality was way out there, you know. But he was such a wonderful kid, he was such an enormous character. A lot of the stuff that hed did that people laugh, they think ‘Oh that was really funny’, when you there at the time, some of it wasn’t funny at all. In an interview with Howard Stern back in 2013, Roger Daltrey who was Keith Moon’s bandmate recalled some stories of the drummer, saying: “He was maddening a lot of the time. Of course, within two years, it had all taken off and we had our first hit record.” Keith Moon He doubled the beat, and then Pete started the guitar a bit harder, and it just started what we used to call ‘drive.’ We would drive the music through the fans, and he was the missing link. Instead of it being just like the record… it leaped into another realm, and it was like I said: it was like starting up a jet engine. “I can never forget the song we played… Bo Diddley’s ‘Road Runner.’ Halfway through, it was just the way he was drumming, the rhythms he was playing, just made us drive it. Do you think I could have a go?’ We asked the guy who was drumming, ‘Would you mind if this kid gets up and have a go on your kit?,’ and the guy said, ‘No, no, sure,’ so he had a break and we went back on.” … He said, ‘I heard you were looking for a drummer. ![]() And all of a sudden, he appeared at the front of the stage with bright, ginger hair, and kind of a bright ginger suit on, with these great, big eyes – they were very, very dark, and they were very round. “We were playing with a session drummer that we employed for the night at the huge expense of two pounds. Roger Daltrey recalls the first time Keith Moon played with The Who: ![]()
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