Moon alive in '86?

[Lev Polinsky <polinsky@husc.harvard.edu>]

No, this is not an Elvis sighting-type story.  But...

I'd thought the last recording of Keith Moon playing was made in 1979.  I 
was wrong.  I was listening to Queen's Live at Wembley '86, a rather 
lackluster album, I might say, when, all of a sudden, they break out into 
a jam that sounds like it was lifted off of a mid-70's Who concert.  The 
song is Now I'm Here, and it sounds sort of Naked-Eye-ish.  Roger Taylor 
plays it almost as well as Moon would, and Brian May somehow suppresses 
his usual urge to noodle and use at least a single special effect.  
Freddie Mercury sings more than half the song with his real voice, and 
the one who is least Who-like is John Deacon, but then imitating 
Entwistle is almost as hard as imitating Moon.

To sum up:  Queen sound like the Who for five minutes or so, and my 
opinion of Roger Taylor has just grown exponentially.

--LP.

Taylor and the Stones' Keith Richards, btw, make up the 'I made an 
insignificant change in my name' group--Taylor was Meddows-Taylor for an 
album and Keith has oscillated between Richards and Richard.  I can't 
think of any others...