Editing Keith Moon (section)

====Destroying instruments and other stunts====
At an early show at the Railway Tavern in [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], Townshend [[Instrument destruction|smashed his guitar]] after accidentally breaking it. When the audience demanded he do it again, Moon kicked over his drum kit.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=125}} Subsequent live sets culminated in what the band later described as "[[auto-destructive art]]", in which band members (particularly Moon and Townshend) elaborately destroyed their equipment. Moon developed a habit of kicking over his drums, claiming that he did so in exasperation at an audience's indifference.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=126}} Townshend later said, "A set of skins is about $300 [then £96] and after every show he'd just go bang, bang, bang and then kick the whole thing over."{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=267}}

In May 1966, Moon discovered that the Beach Boys' [[Bruce Johnston]] was visiting London. After the pair socialised for a few days, Moon and Entwistle brought Johnston to the set of ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'',{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=159}} which made them late for a show with the Who that evening. During the finale of "[[My Generation]]", an altercation broke out on stage between Moon and Townshend which was reported on the front page of the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' the following week. Moon and Entwistle left the Who for a week (with Moon hoping to join [[the Animals]] or [[the Nashville Teens]]), but they changed their minds and returned.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=156–160}}

On the Who's early US package tour at the RKO 58th Street Theatre in New York in March and April 1967, Moon performed two or three shows a day, kicking over his drum kit after every show.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|pp=241, 247}} Later that year, during their appearance on ''[[The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour]]'', he bribed a stagehand to load [[gunpowder]] into one of his bass drums; the stagehand used about ten times the standard amount.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=275}} During the finale of "My Generation", he set off the charge. The intensity of the explosion singed Townshend's hair and embedded a piece of cymbal in Moon's arm.{{sfn|Marsh|1989|p=276}} A clip of the incident became the opening scene for the film ''The Kids Are Alright''.<ref name="stein"/>{{Reference page|7:44}}

Although Moon was known for kicking over his drum kit, Haynes claimed that it was done carefully and the kit rarely needed repairs. However, stands and foot pedals were frequently replaced; the drummer "would go through them like a knife through butter".{{sfn|Doerschuk|1989|p=2}}