Fact #155191
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The Who, Small Faces and Paul Jones kick off a tour of Australia and New Zealand with a concert in The Royal Festival Hall, Brisbane, Australia, Oceania. After the gig, Keith Moon of The Who drives off in a rental car, which he later parks in front of a motel's reception desk.
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Ron Blackmore (tour manager) : He'd been on at me all day to get him a rental car. I said to (production manager) Wiggy, "Should I give him a car, or shouldn't I?" He said "Yeah, give him a car, he'll be alright. It'll be worse if you don't!" I said, "Well, what happens if he doesn't come hack?" And Wiggy said, "No, no, he'll be alright, give him car."
So we got Keith a rental car and he took off. When he came back, he got home about 2:30 in the morning and he'd driven the car in through the doors of the Park Royal Motel. The electric doors have opened and the car has come in, and he's now parked in front of the reception desk. The car's facing towards the elevators, with the headlights on and the door open, and I've got a phone call from some poor night porter in reception. He's rung up and said, "Mr Blackmore, can you come down straight away?" And I've gone, "What's the problem?" And he said, "It's Mr Moon!" I thought, "Shit!".
I've dropped the phone, got my pants on, and shot down there. As I've come out of the elevator, I'm looking at a car. I sized up the situation, looked at this guy and said, "Well?!" And he's stammering, "W – well, Mr. Moon, he's driven in, pulled up there, got out of the car, thrown me the keys, and told me to park it! What do you think I should do?" "Park it!" I said, got back in the lift and went back to bed!
Roger Daltrey (The Who) : It was crazy, because Australia was really a backward country then. We couldn't afford to take our own equipment so we had to hire what was there. We used these systems from, like, World War II. It was the PA. It was unbelievable. And the Aussies at that time had no sense of humour and they threw us out after three-weeks. They didn't like us at all. The Small Faces were fun to be with. We did that whole tour with them.
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So we got Keith a rental car and he took off. When he came back, he got home about 2:30 in the morning and he'd driven the car in through the doors of the Park Royal Motel. The electric doors have opened and the car has come in, and he's now parked in front of the reception desk. The car's facing towards the elevators, with the headlights on and the door open, and I've got a phone call from some poor night porter in reception. He's rung up and said, "Mr Blackmore, can you come down straight away?" And I've gone, "What's the problem?" And he said, "It's Mr Moon!" I thought, "Shit!".
I've dropped the phone, got my pants on, and shot down there. As I've come out of the elevator, I'm looking at a car. I sized up the situation, looked at this guy and said, "Well?!" And he's stammering, "W – well, Mr. Moon, he's driven in, pulled up there, got out of the car, thrown me the keys, and told me to park it! What do you think I should do?" "Park it!" I said, got back in the lift and went back to bed!
Roger Daltrey (The Who) : It was crazy, because Australia was really a backward country then. We couldn't afford to take our own equipment so we had to hire what was there. We used these systems from, like, World War II. It was the PA. It was unbelievable. And the Aussies at that time had no sense of humour and they threw us out after three-weeks. They didn't like us at all. The Small Faces were fun to be with. We did that whole tour with them.
(Source : not known)