Fact: I searched for this. Fact: It did not disappoint.

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

thank you much

Wow! I think that this is EXACTLY what Keith would have done. This is superb! Timeless work here which is very well done. Thank you.

@905Alive

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, as I said it's just an experiment, based on his work in By Numbers and Who Are You, as they and the producer Glyn Johns worked to get him to play simpler. He wouldn't have played this like Bargain.

What a great idea! I've thought about this for many years...what would have The Who sounded like if Moonie lived on? Excellent.

@905Alive

10 жыл бұрын

check out the others, this is #5, thanks

I am fascinated by this idea. I love it. Thank you for making my month.

@905Alive

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I did a short series and this was the last one, number 5

I often wonder what would have happened had he not been taken away myself. I would love to have heard what he would have done with "You Better, You Bet", "Another Tricky Day" or even "Athena". No offense to Kenny Jones, but he was more of a timekeper, but Keith not only turned the drums into a lead instrument but to me he was more into playing with the melody of a lot of songs.

@905Alive

7 жыл бұрын

aye, I did a bunch off Face Dances -Vol I - IV, that's exactly what Keith did, he never had any real drum lessons from a strict teacher like most of us who tell you "you can't do this, you don't do that", he did have some music lessons in school, played a horn and took lessons from Carlo Little, but he was a AAAA personality with a streak of ADD and lord knows what else so he played what he wanted how he wanted, he was very melodic, he followed the guitars and played with and around them. Some of his style stems from the early days when they were a 3 piece power trio and with 3 piece the drummer fills a lot of voids like Cream, Hendrix, early Grand Funk RR and he seemed to grow off that. There is definately something to be said for people that did not go to college for music and played from the heart because they make the best music, they aren't bound by rules.

@ronmueller2885

6 жыл бұрын

So true. Good observation. They would have had that added energy and life that would have made Face Dances more in the Who are You category rather than a lesser album.

From a huge Who fan...well done, sir. I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated you doing and sharing this. Thank you!!

@905Alive

6 жыл бұрын

thank you very much

Awesome cover i cant wait to hear more of these type of songs

I love this! Very interesting. Thank you!

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, just an experiment but it came out well

Beautiful. Nailed it.

@905Alive

7 жыл бұрын

thank you very much

Great idea! 👍🏼

What is so great about your cover is that you managed to top the original. It was almost an impossible feat, but you did it! Phenomenal reinterpretation of the drum part. Absolutely fantastic.

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know what to say but thanks

@riccardorubini3078

4 жыл бұрын

@@905Alive if you start doing some session work on Fiverr, drop me a message. Have a nice day.

Thank you for this! I was listening to "Eminence Front" and wondering what it might have sounded like with Keith instead of Kenny. A little Googling and here I am. I think you accomplished exactly what you set out to do here. Excellent job.

@905Alive

5 жыл бұрын

thanks, a lot of people think Keith would have been going crazy doing a Bargain type thing, Pete and Glyn Johns would not have allowed it, as they didn't on the WRU album either

Interesting idea. For me, some passages feel too busy, yet others are much improved. It takes some getting used to, because I've been listening to the official version for 31+ years. This is a good experiment. Thanks for sharing.

Well done!!!

Brilliant concept- fun execution

@905Alive

Жыл бұрын

thank you, tried to approach it as Pete just played the demo once, first take

Now this, I love.

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

thank you much

Dude. This is AWESOME!!!! I also wonder what 5150 would sound will David Lee Roth lyrics, creativity, and attitude. ALWAYS hoped someone would put THAT together. Sorry, a little off subject. Eminence front is a song I listen to at least once a month since it came out so I really enjoye this. One of my all time faves. Great drumming ideas. Perfect. Creativity is the name of the game.

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!!

I like it!😃

I love your work! TheWhoShow does this song- France Decarlo attempts what you do here. Fun to watch

If Keith was never taken away, I don't think this song exist.

@905Alive

Жыл бұрын

Hard to say, it's about the emerging 80's ME generation, ME Me me, it's all about me, Drinks flow People forget That big wheel spins, the hair thins People forget Forget they’re hiding The news slows People forget Their shares crash, hopes are dashed People forget Forget they’re hiding............behind an Eminence Front...........it's a put on

amazing love those fills great cover!!

@905Alive

9 жыл бұрын

Morrisman64-2 thanks, I was just freestyling but I've been playing Keith's work since 1971 so it's became a natural instinct of sorts

@morrisman64-22

9 жыл бұрын

Great job my friend

@905Alive

9 жыл бұрын

thanks

THIS IS GREAT. AHHH TO DREAM..

@905Alive

6 жыл бұрын

thanks........aye without dreams there'd be nothing

@RSTI191

6 жыл бұрын

Word...

Love this song, but it can be a bit machine-like. Your instincts and approach really give it that Keith Moon-esqe energy. Great job!

@905Alive

9 жыл бұрын

OutlawJoseyWaves thanks, this is the way Pete's writing went, using a programmed keyboard arpeggio like in Won't Get Fooled Again, my thinking was Pete and Glyn would be on him to stay on the steady simple beat and he would slip in what he could and then they would splice the tape

thanks all, I am having problems posting responses to all my videos so please understand if I don't reply at times, thanks for all the responses and views over the years, Happy Holidays

You have the right kind of beat that Keith plays for most Who songs. But it's hard to imagine him playing on a song like this.

@905Alive

7 жыл бұрын

not really, during the Jones era Pete was still writing in a style for Keith's type of playing to a degree, WRU was transitional, Pete and Glyn Johns worked very hard to get Keith to drum simple and use the hi hat more, 905 is a signature of that, also a lot of Keith's work is over dubbed and spliced, I'm Free for example actually has Pete and John playing drums to lay down the groove and beat and Keith played over it, it is also rumored that Nigel Olssen (Elton John) did a bit of work on By Numbers and Slip Kid definately has 2-3 drum tracks on it, a basic beat and percussion over

Great drumming, but you didn't kick any equipment or anything else over at the end... LOL!

@905Alive

8 жыл бұрын

neither did Keith after while, I used to, @80 I was in a band that did a lot of Who. last song was WGFA and I would wreck'em, one night I kicked over the bass drum and the pedal came up and hit me in the cajones, and that was the end of that

@RichTerrana

8 жыл бұрын

HaHa!

@scottross617

8 жыл бұрын

nice!!

The Keith style brings a totally different swing that appropriately darkens the mood for this supposed dark song and makes it better. It sort of adds a dark shadow to it. Kenny did a seamlessly clean part with great feel...along with a brighter, glammy mood which also made the song great. I like the Keith version better.

@905Alive

Ай бұрын

wow thanks, great analogy

Very cool. I don't think he would have been that crisp!

@905Alive

8 жыл бұрын

+Twotontessie thanks, it's hard to say, you can see a big drop off after Who's Next, Pete & Glyn Johns worked on him during WRU, I think if he had gotten the right help he may have returned to his former powerful self.

@Twotontessie

8 жыл бұрын

Yep. After around '72 I feel he was just hiding behind the cymbal wash for the most part. I think the playing on Who Are You is underrated. He was at his best when he was building from the bass drum up vs. the other way around.

@robertstefanski9329

5 жыл бұрын

your right moon had a knack for placing octaves with the toms...and add snare fills he clubbed the toms with a lot of attack and had a way of using cybal resonance to fill the timing

Thanks I searched this out love the song what you've brought to it although your a little tight for moon the loon but very close 😎

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks much

this was one of the first songs i covered when i refurbed an old Pearl Forum Series set. when i got a score for this song (drumscore.com plug), and listened to an isolated track, i was surprised at the fact that the drum part had far more complexity and variation than one might think with a casual listen. BUT - other than the end of Song is Over, i've never covered Keith Moon. it would take too much effort to cover it perfectly, if even possible, because of he constant ad-hoc improv nature of the way he drums. who knows...i might try one one day. i like what you did here though. good experiment.

@905Alive

7 жыл бұрын

thanks, Keith never played the same thing twice it seems, he jammed, he's also quite over dubbed, sometimes he played over a demo of John or Pete who would set the initial drum part for him and Nigel Ollson is supposed to be most of By Numbers

Fun experiment. It reminded me there's an officially released recording of Simon Philips drumming on this and that's another way to hear what a version with a mix of disciplined and freestyle playing would be like.

@905Alive

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that, he's a great drummer but I always felt he was too precise/jazz/ perfect for their sound.

He definitely would have played it like this for sure!!!

@905Alive

2 жыл бұрын

possible, just an experiment using some of what he did on many songs

Hope you don't mind me saying there's some John Bonham in there to. Utterly brilliant job. 11/10

@905Alive

5 жыл бұрын

thanks, I was just thinking along the lines of Slip Kid, Keith and John were good buds and there is no doubt they picked things up from eachother and shared drum techniques

I could dig it. (G-MaN)

I can't necessarily say that this was Keith-Moon-Like. However, it is an excellent drum part, much better than the one that Jones produced. Bravo!

@905Alive

Жыл бұрын

thanks, everyone seems to expect Bargain type drums on this, it's not that kind of song, its more like 905, Slip Kid, Love Ain't for Keepin, etc

Excuse my French, but that was a FANTASTIC version (!). Does yr stereo go to 11 ?

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

thanks and it goes to 13

música é perfeita! não precisa estragar com mais barulhos!

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

É apenas um experimento

Good job m8! Always hated Jones' drumming on It's Hard.

@905Alive

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

He also would have filled over s vocal line...classic Keith.

@905Alive

9 жыл бұрын

drummer78 aye would he lad?, ........this came after WRU, WRU was a pivotal album for Keith, having spent the last two years touching nary a drum but plenty of bottles, steaks and drugs they found he could no longer play, note BarbaraAnn in KAAR, that is them trying to whip him into shape, he forgot everything, Pete and Glyn Johns worked hard to reshape his style and to use the hihat again, it's why the drumming on WRU is so different and quite laid back for Keith, they would have kept that formula

@chrismnj

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, he filled during verse and played straight over chorus...

Great work sir, you absolutely nailed it. I still prefer Kenney's version, which I think is better suited to this song.

@905Alive

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, like I said it was just an experiment.

@hashtwo8885

2 жыл бұрын

@@905Alive And a very good experiment. Very high quality stick work sir, I salute you.

I like what YOUVE done big time! Absolutely fantastic, but to be constructive here, it was pretty well known that Keith was not solid at holding a basic straightforward beat. With that said, this song would either have been written differently or Keith would have mucked it up a bit. Think along the lines of behind blue eyes with how he does his patented roll with the Tom and snare. We’d hear that more. I THINK we would. Either way this is amazing stuff

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

thanks, anything is possible, after studying Keith and the band for decades live and studio I have come to the conclusion that many of Keith's drum tracks were spliced and dubbed from different takes and in some cases Kenny Jones was brought in to clean them up, but for this song I see something more of songs like 905 and Slip Kid, but Slip Kid was definitely over dubbed

@watchthegamer73

4 жыл бұрын

@@905Alive hmm, it hadn't occurred to me that his drums may have had dubs and splices over them... That's a great thought. But again, what you did is freaking amazing in itself!

He would have a tad busier even..just a tad.

Dude...do Slip Kid!

Prefer this drum cover to kenny Jones drumming well done sir 👍🏻

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

thanks, I could've gone crazy adding fills but I was thinking how Glyn Johns and Pete got Keith to play simpler on the Who Are You? album. I then decided it would be something akin to Slip Kid

If moon had survived, these, and other future, songs may never had been written and created. Hard to say.

@905Alive

Жыл бұрын

def hard to say, this is one of the songs that is a Who song, like WGF and You Better You Bet and many others it revolves around an organ segment using apreggio, to complete a loop that continues throughout the song, I have never found any info as to when he wrote it, or started the concept, many songs on Face Dances def had been written before at least partly and had Keith's drumming in mind, writers like Pete have a ton of songs and ideas, many not complete that they come back to, a song like this sounds like an idea from before, the rest of It's Hard doesn't, and subsequent Who material off the last 2 albums doesn't sound like them at all.

ok, this dude is not kenny jones, but he even has the lil bee bop that Keith did, plus he certainly is throwing down a better version....I like this one .

@905Alive

5 жыл бұрын

thanks, not sure what the lil bee bop is but glad that I have it

Fun, but more fills!

@905Alive

Жыл бұрын

my thoughts were under orders from Pete and Glyn, Keith would play less like on 905, Squeez Box etc etc

Who would not prefer this?

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@andymassingham

4 жыл бұрын

Simply wonderful work. I was there when this was released and danced to it, but every time I did I was imposing Moon in my brain. You have put this tune right "there" plus you're your own artist. Keep swinging.

Waaaaay better than Kenny's version, but I feel that Moon would have been more active. Pete and Glyn Johns needed a hit hat shoved up their wazoo for trying to tame Moonie!!! RIP King.

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, Pete & Glyn were right and WRU has some great stuff on it, 905 is perfect, listen to the studio stuff with Zak, talk about tame, there's nothing there but a back beat, very disapointing

@Maicoczpenton

3 жыл бұрын

@@905Alive Without Entwistle there is not much of a need for a maniac style drummer...The Who's rhythm section was unmatched. Zak is a good replacement, but even he cannot write Moonies parts.

Gly Johns has also lamented that maybe in retrospect he shouldn't have put a governor on Keith during the recording of Who Are You so hopefully you didn't hold back too much.

@905Alive

4 жыл бұрын

hindsight is always 20/20, I did holdback, I don't think songs like this or 905 or Slip Kid should be too busy, but they should contain that Keith in the moment spontanaiety

great drumming man, great cover...dont necessarily agree with the keith parallel though...he would have been tastfully busier in my opinion

@905Alive

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I've addressed Keiths drumming before, by WRU Pete and Glyn Johns were on him to play simpler and use the hi hat again, like 905 or Slip Kid there is no where to go, I think he would have tried and they may have cut it, hard to say, but this is just a one off, I listened to the song as they would of Pete'd demos and then played it, this song isn't WGFA, even though it's using the arpeggio synth thing

@djtoona

4 жыл бұрын

@@905Alive Yes BUT the restrictions from those two were imposed in response to Keith simply being sloppy by then. I think you did a great job under the given parameters, but I'd also like to see what you think a no-holds-barred Moon from say 1971 might have done with it.

I think that if Keith had been on this song, it would have been looser, and a lot like The Relay. That's assuming that Keith would have been back in full form after Who Are You. I think the drums would have been a bit more "busy".

@905Alive

9 ай бұрын

nope, in wru he was pushed to play simpler by Pete, Glyn Johns and Astley, same would hold true here, it's not that kind of song, Had Enough, 905, etc, slip kid,

@jasonsmith-bm1sv

9 ай бұрын

It's pretty well documented that Keith's playing in Who Are You was diminished because of his condition at the time. Keith didn't play drums on Slip Kid, by the way.@@905Alive

You look like Keith Moon

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Keith, I have a funny feeling we're related because my family ties go way back in England on both sides

This song would have been on a PT solo album.

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

You don't know that, if you can't hear the difference in Keith's playing on By Numbers and Who Are You you're not paying attention, especially on WRU Pete and Glyn Johns worked with Keith to get a simpler method.

Keith would have done a lot more, l feel.

@905Alive

6 жыл бұрын

nope, listen to WRU, the entire album was Pete and Glyn Johns working to get Keith to play less, 905 and Had Enough as well as Slip Kid are prime examples

balls

I love your interpretation of what Keith would of played. Yet when we hear what Pete said in recent years. Keith if he didn't pass away, he would of probably faded away in a pathetic fashion. Just listen to the Who are You record and its not the same drummer from 5 years ago who blew minds with his ability to inspire other drummers....

@905Alive

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Joe, it's hard to tell the future, remember Pete and Glyn worked Keith to play simpler for the album, I think if he had made the tour it could have gotten him back in shape, but he seemed destined to implode, so sad

@BarryMiller2956

6 жыл бұрын

Keith's drumming on Who Are You is brilliant and inspiring and in no way indicative to me of a drummer on his way out. Maybe it took him more time and effort to lay the tracks down, but it's all classic Keith to me.

@joen3992

6 жыл бұрын

I would have to agree with you. It was difficult for Keith to stay sober for a length of time. The videos of him playing in the live studio setting year before. He was sober and he was on fire!

It has been stated on a number of times that Pete said he would of fired Keith eventually. He wasn't up to par and was wasting away. He barely played on Who are you. Basically wasting studio time trying to play simple parts on the songs. He was incapable of going on tour to promote his last record. He drank his talent away. And that is really sad. Very original drummer.

@deborahwright9026

3 жыл бұрын

Keith did not "drink his talent away."

the biggest problem i have people dont think kenny jone was any good. kenny was great and kept the who going!

@905Alive

6 жыл бұрын

I agree, at first I think we all had a shock, this was worse than BOC firing Albert, Keith was dead, the first clip I saw of them was before Face Dances and they opened with Kids Are Alright, and it was superb, when Face Dances came out I think we all still had an attitude but when I drummed to it I found there was challenge there and much of it is possibly Kenny's best recorded work, what we didn't know then was Pete and Glyn John's had worked Keith on WRU and Kenney to play simpler to match the times, the one thing about Jones I will never understand is the way he played Baba, it was all wrong, no cymbals, I also feel it was wrong for the Who to let him go, he was the right fit, Simon was too fusion, too perfect and Zak is great live but on the album falls flat, again, the only song he does on Endless Wire is Black Widow's Eye's, the rest is Pete Huntington who is the drummer for Pete's friend's Rachel Fuller and while he may be a great drummer everyone forgot one thing,.........Keith's rage and emotion, he drove their songs, he knew when to come up, down, lay back, for him it was a natural thing, an emotional roller coaster ride and that's why Tommy and Quad are so great and Endless Wire has no story, there's no emotion there. My video series titled What If Keith Moon Had Not Been Taken Away? is in no way meant to be down on Jones, just an experiment to see what it may have sounded like because through the next 2 albums Pete was still writing somewhat based on Keith's drumming, you can hear it.

@ijali9

6 жыл бұрын

Damn rights...its his fill the flams before the lick...ads made 5-6 million for 7 seconds? that's a hit. Clearly?

Hi 905Alive, your cover is well done, but had it been Keith Moon it would have been one from the beginning to the end. Like all of Keith's rhythms

@905Alive

3 жыл бұрын

sorry don't agree, here's another fan who knows all about Keith, Keith always went babababadbbbabababdbbab all the way through a song............WRONG, go back and listen to Slip Kid, 905, Squeeze Box, Too Much of Anything, Put the Money Down and re think

@TheOutlander111

3 жыл бұрын

@@905Alive The cover is well done, correct. But as you say I'm a Keith fan

Not at all what Keith would have played

@905Alive

2 жыл бұрын

and you know this how?? jonny Keith expert, another one thinks Keith would have gone wild crazy ??? like Bargain?? this isn't a Bargain type song, this was after WRU, Pete and Glyn Johns and Pete's brother in law all pushed Keith on WRU to play simpler

Keith would have been bored out of his skull by this song.

Kenny was a big mistake. He was way way too simple and safe for The Who. Now Zach or Simon Philips did v well

never liked this tune it goes against everything the who were and mooine i am pretty sure would not be playing like this .Those who bitch about his drumming on who are you are losers as well the poor guy was having health issues during the whole recording process as documented and as a drummer i still love every track he played on .IN the end he lived up to his role in the who .when he died the band died until Zak surfaced .To me this the worst who tune ever recorded the energy is non existent and kenny being shoved a song being told to play it safe and i always was bothered by that knowing kenny was and still is a monster drummer .no disrespect here but people who say they study keiths playing is amusing and futile there was never and still not a drummer like him he was not meant to be studied he was meant to be an untouchable legend .

@905Alive

6 жыл бұрын

Well you don't the Who or Moon very well, first off this is a typical Townsend song for the time, using a keyboard arpegio backbeat to set a pattern, like Baba, and over time with each album they and Pete evolved, they never did the same exact style twice, as for Moon he like many drummers, great drummer have always influenced people, Moon himself was influenced by jazz greats and Carlo Little, like I say, if we don't get influenced and learn and then adapt influences to our own style or personality music will die and it's why modern music sucks, it's all dead tech no robot drum beat crap.

@bobbydtv1

6 жыл бұрын

Quad, drummed to that album and music for 40 years now and my friend jon fishman played the entire album on tour with the band Phish for a tour ,his words were you have to be fit as hell to play it ,i reckon it was because moonie was tranked out of his brains on horse pills and brandy IT was moonies habit that pushed his drumming over the edge i have no doubt about that .The older i got the more i realized that and started looking to other drummers like jeff porcaro and Gadd for inspiration as much as i loved moon and he was the reason i started drumming in the early 70s the more i came to see what he was driven by is what killed him .personally i look toward other genres of music like jazz and other cultures theres enough out there to digest and still at my age evolve into something i never though possible electric drumming has allowed me that as well but i will say Quadrophenia might be the best work of rock drumming to this day i ever heard .Thats mostly because of pete, but moonies drumming especially on the rock is so powerful it hits the soul like a ton of bricks .

@905Alive

6 жыл бұрын

also remember Quad was done over many takes over a long period of time, Moon could never do it live and thats why they abandoned it, they altered that tour to cover some Quad, he never played it straight through, I have and it's a ungodly powerhouse aerobic workout the most intense I ever had and I've mountain biked and kayaked, etc etc, as whole it is an incredible piece of art

Keith would never ride those hats. Keith never rode any hats so fail.