Friday, 12/3/10
by musicclipoftheday
Is any drummer more exciting?
Keith Moon, August 23, 1946-September 7, 1978
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The Who, “Young Man Blues,” live, Isle of Wight, 1970
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lagniappe
The man is a drummer.
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[N]othing had prepared me for the ferocious energy of The Who. . . . Pete Townshend’s hard, tense suspended chords seemed to scour the air around them; Roger Daltrey’s singing was a young man’s fighting swagger, an incitement to some kind of crime; John Entwistle’s incessantly mobile bass playing was like someone running away from the scene of the crime; and Keith Moon’s drumming, in its inspired vandalism, was the crime itself.
—James Wood, “The Fun Stuff,” The New Yorker, 11/29/10
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this just in
Scientists said Wednesday that the number of stars in the universe had been seriously undercounted, and they estimated that there could be three times as many stars out there as had been thought.
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