Re: Moonie's last days

[Joseph <joseph9@home.com>]

Howard Powers wrote:
> 
> Original message:
> 
> > << I just watched the VH1 Legends on Keith moments ago, and I just want to
> >  say that I'm pissed off that he's dead.  I'd forgotten that he had
> >  appeared to be finally coming to grips with reality and his health in
> >  the final weeks of his life... what could have been should have been. >>
> >
> 
> Jimbo wrote:
> 
> > Oh, please give it up already!  Moonie was, at the end, a shell of his former
> 
> > self.  He was not only a pathetic, bloated party boy but also a poor drummer
> > his last couple of years.
> 
> Keith's drumming always had limits.  The only style he could play was Keith Moonstyle.  But how ever his lifestyle affected his ability to drum, he was only 30, and
> had he pulled off a lifestyle change would almost certainly have regained his former
> abilities.
> 
> > The notion that Keith was "coming to grips with
> > reality and his health" is just another myth; sweet reminicences of better
> > days of a deceased.  He died of a friggin' overdose you know!
> 
> I don't think it was a myth.  He had made numerous attempts at change in the past,but so many who knew him felt that it was different this time.  Yes, he did die of an
> overdose, of his alcohol meds.  But his entire life he had ignored it when people
> told him to be careful with drugs (or anything), and amazingly escaped unscathed.
> It's not surprising to me that he ignored doctor's cautions about those meds.  You
> don't make major lifestyle changes quickly.  Who knows, maybe he offed himself;
> but I do believe he wanted to change.
> 
> >  I will remember the photo of Keith on his last
> > night at the McCartney's party with his glass raised high.
> 
> What was in the glass?  Did you smell it?  It could have been booze... perhaps it wasn't.Doesn't much matter now.
> 
> > We CAN have fond memories of Moonie while at the same time be critical of his
> > weaknesses and selfishness.
> 
> I agree, and I'm not one who thinks the Who are gods, and I don't think everythingthey do is great (I personally think the Quad tour was mostly Disneyland), and all
> of their records are flawed in some way (some of them endearingly so).  But it's the
> moments of staggering greatness that makes up for the failures.  And the simple fact
> that they did push beyond the limits of their abilities.  Perhaps Keith was incapable
> of making the changes necessary to become an adult...  he was obviously unable to
> handle things properly the night of his death.  But that doesn't mean he didn't want
> terribly, to change.
> 
> God, it must have been a blast to march in front of Steve McQueen's house dressed as
> Hitler!
> 
> I see your point of view, though, Jimbo, and can see how it would bug you to have
> to listen to seemingly blind defense of the man's personality simply because he once
> was a great rock drummer.  The greatest rock drummer.  I hope people are as
> generous with my faults as they are with Moonie's!
> 
> Long Live Rock!
> 
> Howard P.




	I just wanted to say that I thought that was a VERY good healthy
discussion between you two :)



										Joseph