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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Who drummer dies (again?)... sort of...

We all know that original Who drummer Keith Moon is dead, well now his temporary stand-in for just one night, Scot Halpin, has sadly passed away as well.

A Muscatine, Iowa, native who became a part of rock history by stepping forward from the audience to play the drums for The Who after a band member passed out has died at his home in Bloomington, Ind. A memorial service will be held Friday in Bloomington for Thomas Scot Halpin, 54, who divided his time between Indiana and Sausalito, Calif. At age 19, he and a friend were watching The Who perform at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. After drummer Keith Moon passed out for the second time in the night, Pete Townshend called out, “Can anybody play the drums?” Halpin and his friend and fellow Muscatine native Mike Danese were already at the edge of the stage and ready to perform. “Townshend and Daltrey look around and they’re as surprised as I am because (concert promoter Bill) Graham put me up there,” Halpin recalled in a 1996 interview with the San Francisco Examiner.

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