Cooking With Keith Moon

Digitised from a crumbling cassette tape, this is Keith Moon performing a comedy routine for an uncompleted album, circa 1974-6. The producer of the piece, John Walters, played this on his BBC Radio 1 show 'Walters' Weekly' in 1981 which is when I taped it.
As far as I can tell, this recording hasn't resurfaced anywhere so here it is in all its hissy medium wave majesty for anyone who wants to hear it.

[@codjh9]

How could I resist clicking on 'Cooking with Keith Moon'?

[@georgedavis2293]

So true!!

[@waynej2608]

I know that I couldn't.

[@dellafenton2417]

I fell for it....

[@thomasbell7033]

Had to...

[@colinwilliams553]

As a black man,I am a huge fan of the WHO I especially liked KEITH MOON not only was he a spectacular drummer,but one of the funniest pranksters ever and one hell of a performer.R.I.P Keith.

[@shame69]

You might be interested in some matey on KZbin who has managed to isolate Keith's drumming from the other instruments on a selection of Who albums. As a taster, here's a Keith-only version of 'Live at Leeds': kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3jKkoCJeKuIeZI

[@tomcarl8021]

I never thought to state the race I belong to when making a comment on a video that has nothing to do with race whatsoever. I have a feeling you are obsessed with race and I would avoid you in real life.

[@salsabil44]

"Before the end of the century a turnip could run for president". LOL. How prescient.

[@tammyphilips4995]

Potato head biden. Close enough.

[@rockerjim8045]

Donald Turnip

[@stoneyboyd]

There’s a vegetable in the Whitehouse right now after

[@nickjohnson710]

Nah, creepy joe turnip

[@jdchd]

Keith moon is my favorite human in all of history

[@briankelley7918]

I agree my other favorite human being is Andy Kaufman.

[@peterfile2185]

Same lol the mad lad

[@patricedhanis3546]

The year 2020 and we still miss him. Keith you were awesome

[@cara7196]

I swear I cried laughing!!! Keith is the funniest!!! I love him so much!

[@briankelley7918]

I like when he was talking about playing a pinball how he like the shiny balls in the playground lol

[@pgiglio1024]

Again keith doesn't fail me! Gone to soon Dear Boy!

[@cronobactersakazakii5133]

Every single Who member was a beast and that was quite unique. Seeing them 4 on a scene was a hell of a treat, I’ll never forget it.

[@nigelcarren]

Keith Moon and Oliver Reed TRYING to cook my Sunday lunch thats what I would have liked. I would have been more than happy to peel the spuds... and offer drinks to all the fireman!

[@waynej2608]

Great shot of Keith and Ollie Reed. Also, Keith with another drinking buddy, Joe Walsh. Yes, I'm down for a cookout with those fellas. Plenty of 'bevvies', to be sure.

[@XspectrumwolfX]

I'm surprised how he stays sounding so serious.

[@briankelley7918]

It would be wrong for him to break character. I'm so thankful for people like Keith Moon in Andy Kaufman. Even though they're dead they'll live forever.

[@natabeanz2975]

Omg this is the best thing ever Keef! I bet if he was still alive today he would be on the Food Network

[@fab208athome]

Comic timing spot on. Sounds like it was written by Peter Cook. Which is a compliment

[@loosilu]

He was drinking buddies with Graham Chapman, and had a part in Holy Grail as a prophet, but died before filming

[@waynej2608]

@@loosilu That sucks. He'd have been awesome in that.

[@denniseldridge2936]

This is amazing! I'm not sure if I should be proud or a little scared that I'm distantly related to Keef lol. I have to say that he surely was possessed of the same mad genius that the likes of Spike Milligan and others had. Indeed, in British humour circles, madness and humour go hand in hand and there's often a very thin line between them. This is pure brilliance. As soon as he said the word p*ssy, I thought it might go a completely different way though lol

[@Sydney-Casket-Base]

well he did say it had a fishy taste....

[@HansonZhang-ri2lj]

You are distantly related?

[@denniseldridge2936]

@@HansonZhang-ri2lj There are Moons on my dad's side, according to my half brother who did some genealogy.

[@kiloechocharlie1342]

Great photos...

[@Denner771]

"Full Moon"

[@moomin3744]

The best drummer ever, 🐐

[@Luileadolfo]

Keith Moon had so many sides and also, so many unexplored and unexplored capabilities. Sad, that he did not have anyone to really help him develop not only his musical, comedy and actor abilities.

[@tirvine9102]

Apparently he tried acting, but he had trouble keeping focused to do what was required.

[@NoLanConnection]

Well, drumming for The Who takes up a lot of time. If he didn't die he would have stayed drumming with the band, obviously drumming is what Moon was best at, BUT if the Who disbanded, I'm sure he would have developed his other talents more.

[@shame69]

Just saw in Tony Fletcher's magnificent biog 'Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon' that the probable recording date for this sketch was 11th October 1975 at the BBC studios in Maida Vale, London.

[@fishhookism]

The biography you are referring to is the best music biography I have ever read.

[@mudstone6497]

I want one of those Blue The Who t-shirts Moon is wearing!

[@buddywilliams5650]

Keith would have given you the shirt off his back. And then laughed because he has 100 of those shirts.

[@mudstone6497]

@@buddywilliams5650 as long as he buy(ed) me a drink after, I’m good!

[@mc12358]

@@buddywilliams5650 All paid for by "The Who, Inc.", of course

[@fusionhpltd]

just brilliant

[@ylwf]

This is like audio gold!

[@Purpeline]

A great thank you for sharing this gem !

[@paulblack2390]

Love it! I have the biographies and the programme they showed at the start with the bellboy outfit!

[@shame69]

A pleasure, captain. And this month's Bozo - ahem, I mean Mojo - Magazine (the issue with Steve Marriott gracing the cover) has a story on this recording session, reporting that a few more items were taped. Licking my eyebrows in anticipation!

[@booklover3959]

Only Keith Moon.........

[@larrygonzales821]

Pretty relevant today!

[@danmoran485]

Keef had the best eyebrows.

[@greifinn24]

some nice photos here.

[@clooboots9349]

Turnip for president 2020

[@miketerrasi1055]

Funniest man ever to trod the face of the earth.

[@danacoleman4007]

Mel Brooks

[@RoseAnn882]

Hysterical!!!!!

[@tomcarl8021]

At 0:45, he's recording the kettle drums for 'Love Reign O'er Me', at Ramport Studios. One of the very few photos of them in the studio recording Quadrophenia.

[@andygossard4293]

I think the Chinese have taken many of his recipes to serious follow-through.

[@rockerjim8045]

Keith Moon needs a Hollywood film making

[@dougboyer5829]

Narrating a documentary on cooking .sounds like a month Python sketch

[@arthays5327]

"..and fed to the cat..uh...thrown away."

[@TheMellin]

aw keith

[@kevinstimelsky673]

Love it!!

[@dskywalker3397]

...and fennel.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

Thank you for saving it, now back it up, because the future will see him in a much higher regard than now. Like how one listens to the recordings of the Smithsonian folk ways library of congress of the joking around jazz men also held in much higher regard than when they lived and recorded in the twenties and thirties. I bet this is the only one tape left. Make it tangible, and multiply, will you, that's a good chap.

[@chuckselvage3157]

Here we go.....🤣

[@jimmyjames9752]

The Robin Williams of rock and roll

[@andynewell7096]

What couldn't Keith do? Drummer and comic genius.

[@damagedbug8848]

2:26 Joe walsh and Keith the morning after lol

[@shame69]

Good guess but it's actually John 'Speedy' Keen (former Who roadie, author of 'Armenia City In The Sky', singer/composer for Thunderclap Newman; need I go on?). kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3vElmaHZ9FgeLs

[@danacoleman4007]

​@@shame69yes

[@EdEditz]

That sounds lip smackin' delicious. :)

[@seansteel3499]

Comic genius!!

[@andygossard4293]

One could see Keith in the Pub telling these stories with a totally straight face, until way down near the end.

[@bedrosnersesyan6975]

Going to be a great movie!

[@davidrobinson2776]

If only he’d got some proper help. If it wasn’t for dodgy Harley Street doctors willing to take a back hander and prescribe drugs that needed to be given in a controlled setting instead of letting Keith medicate himself. If he’d continued as an alcoholic, he’d probably lived long enough to get himself into the Priory or the Betty Ford clinic. We all know he became a bit of an arsehole at times but there was so much more going on in his mind than we knew. He was crying out for help but because he was Keith, nobody had the guts to tell him straight.

[@ryouchan1173]

o h mY G O D

[@theloonkeithmoon6984]

relatable

[@moontheloon1969]

some clips of these shows are on the four cd box set maxiumum r and b hope this helps

[@walkingTVwithadog]

He was right about the turnip running for president,just a few years out with the date

[@andygossard4293]

Actually America installed a Potato, not a turnip. But they R both roots.

[@amerocker]

Moon-the-loon was insane. ☺😀😁😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@gerardgreenwood921]

Sounds very much under the influence of his old chum Vivian Stanshall.

[@RiverRat_1977]

Keith knew we’d eventually have a useless Turnip for President back when this recording was made. I wonder if ‘Moon the Loon’ ever met up with George Carlin or Richard Pryor?? Birds of a feather ya know!

[@wilsonstone935]

I miss his syndicated painting show

[@tonym8032]

Found myself scrolling through for the rare photos rather than the routine.

[@mersey808]

how many times was a glass clinking....lol

[@nkmcfrln]

Did you happen to notice this was supposed to be a cooking show?

[@mersey808]

lol all over the place!

[@Kowasi]

This audio could work really well if judiciously cut up and combined with 'The Who Sell Out'. "What's for tea mum?"

[@moonriser1]

Keith I love you dearly, but was there a name for what was wrong with you! LOL

[@curtislong1987]

Moon was a frickin lunatic.

[@kiethmoon3174]

God Bless keith moon R.IP....👀Brian jones the real stone..

[@philippemaver4399]

Le plus grand batteur de tous les temps.

[@-______-______-]

Senior Citizen Sandwiches.

[@phosphorescentscotsman]

for fuck's sake Moonie! Pass the Mustard !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pinkyndebrain4578]

“… a doctor from Boston Mass predicts that a turnip could run for President.” The turnip did run, now we have Joe Biden as president.

[@johngalush8790]

Biden is a potato. Trump was a turnip.

[@tinawinnnnn]

For the love of Keith, why

[@radiomindchatter7994]

So Python like!

[@danacoleman4007]

But actually funny

[@mineheadX1]

Moon had some serious issues, I don't know how Townshend coped...

[@D13fs]

Townshend had/has very serious issues of his own.

[@loosilu]

They all had issues

[@waynej2608]

Pete loved him. And, he was a kickass drummer.

[@danhunter8970]

jajajajajajajaja

[@volpeverde6441]

Moon the Loon book by dougal butler.... from clown prince to washed up drug addled rock star....Moony was very unhappy inside - all his looning about and drinking took his mind off it.... him and Bonzo died much too young....

[@5tar5z]

😂 ridiculous

[@beekay5914]

I saw The Who a little more than two years after he died. How I wish I had seen them with Keith! They were incredibly good, nonetheless. Not the most skilled drummer in the world, compared to someone like Carl Palmer or Lenny White, but my favorite nonetheless.

[@sporkfindus4777]

Wasn't expecting a mention of Lenny White. Love Return to Forever and Twennynine.

[@chickentwisties2298]

Not the most skilled yes... but by far the most aggressive busy and bombastic drummer there's ever been! Lol

[@bilzwilz8294]

He was the best Kieth Moon style drummer ever

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

Completely barking!! Typical Keith Moon!

[@barbarapineda5730]

Former drummer Keith moon, is so exhausted and his hands us so sore and stiffness..for playing it too..longs acting would had been better..but also..still exuasted...and worn out..hes sure had knows no any..indivi.. can't stay popular for..ever..he's, sure had return too..school too..graduated high schools, only times he's couldn't return too..schools, a medical issues..thats haves a reason..or hes, cripples, not able too..schools, too..schools, too get a high school's, diploma,

[@barbarapineda5730]

Corn beefs is a poor indivi..food..thats no big deals about a low prices can food depressions food..for a poor indivi...thats can't afford steaks pot roasted either..thats meals is middle class, food and also...higher class, meals.

[@jp0blues04]

Not sluring any words.....and making comedic sense....that's the type who keeps addictions well hidden and are just ......lonely. and myself as a 30 year road musician....being honest ...I bet his family and kids only knew the story's of the mad man he was while away....kieth moon never made dinner for his family. Like I said.... Bonham was so well known to have drank because he missed being home with that wife and 2 kids. Homesick....booze....creates the monster legend. Except for moon.... he was just....another selfish unconcerned prolific drunk. Loved him the drummer but...

[@canalesworks1247]

He could have been a Python

[@ernestkinas5973]

He hung out with Graham Chapman...

[@loosilu]

He was scheduled to have a part in Holy Grail as a prophet, but died before filming started

[@serenarouges]

Definitely!

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

@@ernestkinas5973 they had similar drinking habits, so that makes sense...

[@waynej2608]

Yes! The two guys of rock n roll, whom I am convinced would've made wonderful Python members, are Keith Moon and John Lennon. Of course, it's great for us that they chose music.