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In an NME interview from 1972, Keith explains something about his inspiration: I love to see people laugh, and I love it more if I can make them laugh. I think this comes across in my drumming.
I watch a lot of Marx Brothers movies, he continued, and they were doing the same sorts of things. It’s a question of taking somebody else’s music, but not sending it up in a derogatory sense. Just injecting your own personality. Pete Townshend’s music allows me to do just this.
A live version of Baba O’Riley from Houston in 1975 is readily available online, and the drum-less synthesizer intro is a perfect example of Moon’s epic clowning. He stands on his drum stool, strikes absurd poses, points faux-dramatically into the cheap seats, and twirls and spins his sticks constantly, sometimes in sympathetic rhythm with the synth burbles. It’s a brilliant showbiz performance, inserting comedy and farce into the pretension of Townshend’s brilliant composition. Is it a necessary piece of the whole? I’m voting for a resounding yes. As Townshend’s aspirations stray further from the blistering simplicity of their early singles, Moon reframes the tunes with his comedy and joy. As he says above, it’s not derogatory, and clearly Townshend does not take it as such.
The Who - Live In Texas 1975 (Full Video + Stills)

