The funniest story about Keith Moon

[breakinglight11]

Apparently Animal from the Muppets was based on Keith Moon. I just read this story about him that cracked me up so hard I just had to share it, courtesy of Cracked.com:

"The best Keith Moon story is the time when shortly after leaving a hotel, he sat up in a panic and told the driver to stop and turn around. "I forgot something! We've got to go back!" Upon returning to the hotel, he ran to his room, grabbed the television and threw it out the window and into the pool. Returning to the car, he said with a great sigh of relief, "I nearly forgot!""

You'd never guess how many drugs this man took from the way he looks in this picture. Or how many hotel rooms he destroyed.

Comments

[londo.livejournal.com]

In case anyone ever doubted that we're fundamentally different people, I absolutely believe the man in that picture is on drugs.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Heh, fair enough. I suppose I'm thrown by the notion that anyone on that many drugs could, you know, dress themselves, much less look that neat. But perhaps I underestimate the coping mechanisms of the constantly under-the-influence.

[john-in-boston.livejournal.com]

I'll see your story about the sharply-dressed drummer from an iconic rock band getting crazy at a hotel and raise you this gem:

CHARLIE WATTS PUNCHES OUT MICK JAGGER
(via Cracked.com)

The final straw was Jagger's unscheduled wake-up call to Watts during a band meeting in Amsterdam in October 1984. Richards and Jagger had gone out boozing, returning to Richard's room at five in the morning. Watts was fast asleep. Nevertheless, Jagger dialed his room, bawling "Is that my drummer? Why don't you get your arse down here?"

Watts reportedly got up, shaved, got dressed in a custom-made Savile Row suit, put on a crisply knotted tie and freshly shined shoes, came downstairs, and-in Richards' words-"dished him out a great fucking right hook." Jagger was knocked into a plate of smoked salmon, and Richards had to grab his leg to prevent him from sliding along the table, out the open window and into a canal 20 stories below. "Don't ever call me 'your drummer' again," Watts told Jagger. "You're my fucking singer."

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

<3 Thank you for that, sir.