Fact #101925
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Short story:
The Mike Cotton Sound play at the 100 Club, London, UK, supported by The Who, whose drummer Doug Sandom quits immediately after.
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Doug Sandom : All the aggravation affected my playing. I was having a lot of problems. My wife had a young baby to look after, and I was out sometimes seven nights a week. Things started building up. All of a sudden, I was supposed to be no good, and one day I was pushed over the top. Incredibly, I said, 'All right, I'll play for another month, because we had bookings to do. But I'm so easy. They said, 'We've got a bloke who'll sit in, but could he borrow your gear?' I let them, then later had to go and get it back myself. They wouldn't even drop it off. The whole thing shattered me. I completely lost all my confidence in my drumming. I just concentrated on being a bricklayer again.
(Source : Mojo, April 1998)
Keith Moon : When I heard their drummer had left, I laid plans to insinuate myself into the group. I went down, and they had a session drummer sitting in with them. I got up on stage and said, 'I can do better than him.' They said 'Go ahead' and I got behind this other guy's drums and I did one song, Road Runner. I'd had several drinks to get my courage up and when I got on stage I went 'arggGGHHHH' on the drums, broke the bass-drum pedal and two skins and got off. I figured that was it, I was scared to death.
Afterwards I was sitting at the bar, and Pete came over. He said, "You . . . come 'ere." I said, mild as you please: "Yesyes?" And Roger, who was the spokesman then, said, "What're you doing next Monday?" I said, "Nothing." I was working during the day, selling plaster. He said, "You'll have to give up work." I said, "All right, I'll pack in work." Roger said, 'There's this gig on Monday. If you want to come, we'll pick you up in the van." I said, "Right." They said they'd come by at seven. And that was it. Nobody ever said, "You're in." They just said, "What're you doing Monday?"
(Source : Interview with Jeremy Hopkins, Rolling Stone, Dec 21, 1972)
Doug Sandom : I went along to one of their gigs after Keith Moon had joined because I still had some of the clothes
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(Source : Mojo, April 1998)
Keith Moon : When I heard their drummer had left, I laid plans to insinuate myself into the group. I went down, and they had a session drummer sitting in with them. I got up on stage and said, 'I can do better than him.' They said 'Go ahead' and I got behind this other guy's drums and I did one song, Road Runner. I'd had several drinks to get my courage up and when I got on stage I went 'arggGGHHHH' on the drums, broke the bass-drum pedal and two skins and got off. I figured that was it, I was scared to death.
Afterwards I was sitting at the bar, and Pete came over. He said, "You . . . come 'ere." I said, mild as you please: "Yesyes?" And Roger, who was the spokesman then, said, "What're you doing next Monday?" I said, "Nothing." I was working during the day, selling plaster. He said, "You'll have to give up work." I said, "All right, I'll pack in work." Roger said, 'There's this gig on Monday. If you want to come, we'll pick you up in the van." I said, "Right." They said they'd come by at seven. And that was it. Nobody ever said, "You're in." They just said, "What're you doing Monday?"
(Source : Interview with Jeremy Hopkins, Rolling Stone, Dec 21, 1972)
Doug Sandom : I went along to one of their gigs after Keith Moon had joined because I still had some of the clothes