Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the wildest rock & roll shows of all time: the day Keith Moon took way too many drugs and was rushed to the hospital and a teenage fan sat in for him and jammed with The Who.
The story is not told enough, though when it is, it’s often told wrong.
November 20, 1973 was not the first night of The Who’s Quadrophenia Tour, it was the first night of the US leg. They had played a half dozen shows earlier across the pond, some poorly.
The first few gigs in October were hampered by technical issues because the band had decided that instead of additional musicians to play the complicated instrumentalization Pete Townshend had layered on the album, they’d play along with pre-recorded backing tracks as well as a click-track for the drums.
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