Different Drum: The Who Stateside Without Keith Moon

Different Drum: The Who Stateside Without Keith Moon

On September 10 and 11, 1979, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle got on stage in New Jersey, looked behind them and, for the first time at an American gig, they didn’t see Keith Moon. At the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, The Who played their first US concerts since Moon The Loon’s death the year before. The band’s beloved drummer had died in September 1978, from an overdose of the pills he was taking to combat alcoholism. The very n…