Keith Moon Parties Today’s Rockers Under The Table
Keith Moon (with giant electric toothbrush in underwear?) and friends backstage
By coincidence, yesterday’s MTV Video Music Awards fell on the 30th anniversary of the death of Keith Moon, the legendary drummer for The Who who was known for pounding skins (kick, snare, tom), drinking champagne and cognac for breakfast, and pounding skins (the two-legged variety).
With host Russell Brand doing his (lame) blissed-out British rocker routine, it got us thinking'could today’s musicians hang with the Notorious M.O.O.N.? See how they measure up to his bad habits below.
QUESTIONABLE “HUMOR”
If there’s one current “musician” who could give Keith a run for his money, it would be Amy Winehouse. But while Ms. Rehab has a cracked out video of her singing a song called “Blacks, Pakis, gooks, and nips,” Moon (above, left) used to get his jollies dressing up like an Adolf Hitler puppet. Since Keith’s hideously poor taste is done with a smirk (as opposed to a drool), he takes Round One.
Advantage: Moon
BAD DRIVING
These days, everyone from Nick Carter to Eve has picked up a DUI charge. But as far as we know, even DMX hasn’t driven a Bentley into a hotel swimming pool, as Keith did on his 21st birthday in 1967.
Advantage: Moon
PASSING OUT ONSTAGE
Keith was running unopposed in this category until Jodeci’s JoJo fell out drunk had an epileptic seizure during the group’s reunion tour this summer. But whereas Jo was able to walk off stage under his own power, Keith had to be carried out by roadies after nosediving into his snare for the second time at a 1973 concert. He also scores bonus points because his band continued to play the rest of the show with some dude from the audience.
Advantage: Moon
LIQUID BREAKFAST
While trying to give up drinking in the mid-’70s, Moon consulted a doctor who told him that his daily breakfast'biscuits and gravy, along with a bottle of Dom Perignon, Courvoisier, and a couple downers'would make it a little difficult for him to easily segue into sober life. On the other hand, so-called “hard-living” Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee recently announced he’s going vegetarian. For a bitch.
Advantage: Moon
UNTIMELY DEATH
Sure, there are plenty of rockers (and even a few rappers) who’ve died of overdoses, but it’s important to note that Keith died not of booze or recreational drugs, but from an overdose of a pill he was given to help him stop drinking. There’s a lesson there kiddies.
Advantage: Moon
