Video: The Genius of Keith Moon in a new footage

By editorial board on October 4, 2023

Keith Moon is one of the most revolutionary and iconic drummers to ever grace the stage.

He was a true genius in the world of rock music. His unconventional and explosive drumming style elevated the drums to a lead instrument, infusing the band's music with energy and dynamics.

Moon's iconic drum fills were instantly recognizable and added a unique excitement to The Who's songs.

He fearlessly abandoned traditional drumming conventions, such as using hi-hats, and instead experimented with various techniques to create distinctive sounds.

Moon's on-stage theatricality, inspired by drummers like Gene Krupa, made him a captivating and influential figure in rock history. Join Brandon as he dives into Keith's legendary drumming with The Who!

 

 

Queen's Roger Taylor: "The influence of Keith Moon on my drumming"

On Keith Moon' birthday, Roger taylor remembers the great drummer: "I always hated drum solos during concerts' I always thought that this was the moment when the public would go to the bar for a beer or a sandwich"
Keith Moon was Born: August 23, 1946, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.

Queen's Roger Taylor Has Never Enjoyed His Drum Solos - Queen drummer Roger Taylor's exacting approach to percussion was apparent to Brian May from before the pair got into their very first jam session.

There was more to his back catalogue than Zeppelin backbeats. He later admitted that The Who’s Keith Moon was instrumental for his musical education.Roger Taylor was the muscle of the outfit. Seated at the back of the stage, Taylor brought raw grit to the band, ploughing through the cymbals like an assassin working through the skull of its latest victim. (Faroutmagazine)

“Keith Moon was another big influence on me,” the drummer revealed.”He was just phenomenal at what he did, and he was another drummer with a great sound. Those tympanic toms were quite revolutionary and his phrasing was just so natural, untutored and brilliant.”
In the latest edition of Queen's retrospective YouTube series 'Queen The Greatest,' May recalled the care Taylor took when loading his drums into their practice space, setting them up and doing something May had never seen before — he was tapping each drum head, began to test every single element, and then turning a bolt with a key. May asked what Taylor was doing. "He said, I'm tuning the drums,' and I went, 'Oh, really? You tune drums?' because the drummers that I'd worked with up to that time just basically put the drums down and hit them."

 

 

Like Moon, Taylor refused to be pigeonholed by the tags the public had in store for him, by virtue of being a percussionist. “I think drummers suffer from a misrepresentation of the image too often,” he said. “Traditionally, drummers have been regarded as the stupid ones in rock bands. It’s a bit unfair, and because of it, being a drummer is a thankless task sometimes. There’s responsibility involved in what I do, but it’s nice to broaden one’s horizon. These days it’s funny, because I think of myself much more as a musician than a drummer.”

Taylor's drum sounds and compositional style at the kit have always been a marked part of Queen's sound onstage and in the studio. And while Taylor has never relished his nightly drum solo, his critical ear has forced him to be more creative when he's in the spotlight.

Keith Moon's isolated drums on The Who 'The Real Me' has been unearthed

Taken from the band’s 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia, the track was written by Pete Townshend, and without Moon’s dextrous ability, there was no way that his expansive creative vision for the song or album would have been fully realised.

Keith He was pure, irresponsible, restless childishness. At the end of early Who concerts, as Pete Townshend smashed his guitar, Moon would kick his drums and stand on them and hurl them around the stage, and this seems a logical extension not only of the basic premise of drumming, which is to hit things, but of Moon’s drumming, which was to hit things exuberantly. “For Christ’s sake, play quieter,” the manager of a club once told Moon. To which Moon replied, “I can’t play quiet, I’m a rock drummer.

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