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Alrighty, looks like I'm on the board right now...so! With the 54th overall pick, Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution is pleased to select everyone's favorite destructive drummer, the one and only Keith Moon.

Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained fame and notoriety for his exuberant drumming style and his destructive lifestyle. Moon joined The Who in 1964, replacing Doug Sandom. He played on all albums from their debut, 1965's My Generation, to 1978's Who Are You, which was released two weeks before his death.
Moon is known for innovative, dramatic drumming, often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, extremely busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across the toms and cymbal crashes. Moon was one of the first to play the drums as a lead instrument in an era when drums were supposed to only keep the back beat. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most distinctive rock drummers of all time.

At 17, Moon joined The Who (in April 1964), a replacement for their original drummer Doug Sandom. Sandom had left the band less than a month earlier and the remaining members hired a session drummer to fulfill a run of shows that they had already agreed to play. Keith Moon was at one of these shows. Peter Townshend later described him as looking like a "ginger man" with his hair dyed ginger and wearing ginger-coloured clothes. As stated in Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, Keith looked up to Roger Daltrey during the show and said "I hear you're looking for a drummer. Well, I'm much better than the one you've got."[6] The band knew that they needed Moon after seeing him practically smash the drum kit to pieces.[2]
Moon started off on various three - or five-piece drum kits, but made the move to a double bass kit made by Premier in late 1965. Moon decided to simply take two Premier drum kits and put them together. This equipment widened his playing enormously: he abandoned his hi-hat cymbals almost entirely and started basing his grooves on a double bass ostinato with eighth note flams, and a wall of white noise created by riding a crash or ride cymbal. On top of this he would play fills and cymbal accents. This became his trademark style.

Moon was highly destructive. He laid waste to hotel rooms, the homes of friends, and even his own home, often throwing furniture out of high windows and destroying the plumbing with fireworks.[8] He frequently flushed powerful fireworks (Cherry_bombs) down the toilet and was known to detonate toilets for amusement. The acts, though often fueled by drugs and alcohol, were also his way of expressing his eccentricity, as well as the undeniable joy he got from shocking the public.[9] In Moon's biography, Full Moon, Dougal Butler observed, "He would do anything if he knew that there were enough people around who didn't want him to do it."

According to Townshend, Moon's reputation for erratic behaviour was something in which he took pride and cultivated. Once, when The Who was on its way to an airport to catch a flight to their next concert, Moon suddenly insisted that they return to their hotel, saying frantically, "I forgot something. We've got to go back!" When the limo returned, Moon ran to his room, grabbed the TV while it was still plugged in via extension cord, threw it out the window and into the pool. He then jumped back into the limousine, sighing with relief, "I nearly forgot."

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