I just read Mike Stax's post about Viv Prince's passing. Prince made Keith Moon look like a Catholic schoolgirl in terms of both drumming and wildness, partying and lunacy! According to Jimmy Page, the young Keith Moon attended several Pretty Things concerts in order to study Viv's style. Prince was also the one to coin the nickname 'Moon the Loon' for Keith, with whom he was on good terms.
He was the first British rock 'n' roll musician to face a drug-related charge in court. The Kinks repeatedly approached him to become their drummer, but he chose to join the wildest of them all, The Pretty Things. The mayhem culminated in a tour of New Zealand in August 1965, during which he paraded around in a leopard-skin pillbox hat and carried a dead crayfish on a string. He also started plotting pranks and setting fires on stage, resulting in a lot of bad publicity. Following an altercation with the crew, he was thrown off the plane taking the band home after the tour and had to find his own way back to England. He was quite a character, as well as a musician. Safe travels motherfucker!
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