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Heard "mobile" on the radio, dude was pretty top notch. Bonham may have been the better of the two, but Moon's got more moxie.

Moon was way better than Bonham for 2 reasons.
1)Moon would blow up his drums.
2)Moon never resorted to using some gay-ass symbol on a shitty record that luckily The Who never bothered to try to replicate.

N/C but WF of 5. Moon was good because Entwistle kept the time in the band, freeing up Moon for the best in drum wankery. Bonham dug a trench sized groove of a basement and kept things solid for that God-awful screeching by Mr. Plant...

Keith Moon is so not crap. He's bad ass. Now Roger Daltry- he sucks.

they're both fucking cool and have their own unique badass styles.

i would normally say keith moon. but, after hearing that led zep live 3xcd and how bonham added little things here and there live gives him some more points.

i guess it comes down to which band i'm listening to more at the time. hmm, i 'll say keith moon.

i wish someone could calculate the amount of alcohol both these guys consumed.

Not crap.

Wonderful strings of fills, peppered with occasional beats. Total spaz, in the glorious sense.

Not Crap. His approach was very 3D.

My pal just scored an old mint Premier "Keith Moon" kit, 2 - 24" bass drums, a 16" x 16" floor tom, and 3 - 14" rack toms (!!!).
I'm green w/ envy.

As well as any rock musician I can think of, Keith Moon embodies the spirit of "not crap."

Bonham was sort of the Platonic ideal, the rock drummer that underlies most of rock and who will never quite be equaled (Trainer and Grohl have come the closest, in my opinion). That monstrous kick drum always one millisecond away from coming in late--that's the defnintion of heavy.

But nobody even tries to sound like Keith Moon. What he did was just too weird. It was like he was always playing a fill, even when he wasn't. Somehow he held the songs together (having a rhythm guitarist like Townsend helped), but it's like alchemy--you can never figure out quite how he's doing it. The breathtaking moment that pops into my head is when the drums come in at the end of the synth breakdown in "Won't Get Fooled Again." The only thing I can compare it to is tha moment in Shellac's "Wingwalker" when Trainer kicks the ryhthm back in after the "I'm a plane!" breakdown.

gmilner wrote:The breathtaking moment that pops into my head is when the drums come in at the end of the synth breakdown in "Won't Get Fooled Again."

This was the exact Moon moment I had in my head. That and when the drums finally kick in at the beginning of the song.