Keith Moon and John Entwistle talking about Keith joining The Who on the Who’s Who radio show, aired in the UK on February 28th, 1975 (x)
KEITH: I was the last one to join the band. Mainly because I'm the youngest, but we all used to play in the same sort of circuit. When I first met the band I was bright ginger. I- [laughs] I'd dyed the barnet, and I'd been out and bought this goddamn awful sort of... bright ginger suit! And it just so happened that when I first joined the band I was wearing this thing. [Unintelligible] It was horrendous. I mean, the ultimate in bad taste. But then, of course, you know, with the round-neck collar and all that, foam-backed... Terrible! If it rained, you know, the suit stayed wet like it was like a sponge, you know, it stayed wet for like three months! [Laughs] You went out in the rain and it swelled up, looked like the Micheline Man!
JOHN: We were playing in Greenville one night with the session drummer, and this fellow walked up to us and said, "My mate can play better than your drummer." So we said, "Well let's hear him then. Bring him up." So he brought up this little gingerbread man, and it was Keith with- [laughs] dyed ginger hair, and a brown shirt, brown tie, brown suit, brown shoes, and he just looked like a little gingerbread man, and he got up on the kit and we said, "Can you play Road Runner?" Because we actually hadn't come across a drummer that could play Road Runner with us, and he played Road Runner, and we thought, "Oh, well, this is the fellow." You know, he played it perfectly and he fitted in really well, and actually the first gig he actually turned up to with us was, I think it was a wedding. He turned up, and he put his little blue drum kit up, and then got this huge coil of rope, and tied it all together, and we couldn't understand why until he went into a drum solo and everything started like [laughing] swaying backwards and forwards!
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