Moon used to get through loads of drum sticks throughout the performance. In 1969 I went to the final gig of their tour and was right under the stage at the very front, so had a brilliant view. Moon had a trick of banging his right hand stick on the rim of the drum so it would bounce into the air and he would catch it again. This often broke the stick, so he had a quiver of sticks attached to the kit so he could just grab another and carry on. Townsend smashed his guitar at the end, breaking the neck off the body and tossed the bits over my head into the crowd. A roadie waded into the crowd and retrieved one bit but Townsend grabbed it off him and threw it back into the crowd again. It was an amazing gig. Townsend was leaping all over the place but the music was as perfect and flawless as is if they had been sitting in a studio.
I wish I'd seen that! I did see The Who in 79 and they were superb, but by that stage of course, Moon was no more so I only got to see a 3/4 performance.
O OK here's my halfpenny worth. Try to drum along with this: I can't help feeling that Sly Dunbar appeared on a zillion songs because he was a genius.
For me Steven Adler Joey Jordison Tommy Lee Jimmy Sullivan - The Rev And if we're going old school Bill Ward Charlie Watts
You are all wrong The best drummer in the world ever is Herman Rarebell <iframe width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZujLE7oLeqg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Melody Maker didn't think so. He asked me to explain their review to him and it wasn't terribly complimentary.
Yes I saw this video last week and was blown over by his skills.. there's another one very similar where a guy is playing a piano ( one that's just there to be played by the public if they're delayed etc) in a French railway station I think... another guy comes over without ever knowing him and joins in absolutely amazing like twins separated at birth..
