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I'm currently reading Dear Boy, The Life of Keith Moon. Which the brighter readers amongst you might have spotted is a biograpy of the great Who drummer. It's a great rock biography, as you might imagine, and I'm only up to the early days of him joining The Who at the moment.

As an aside did anyone know that Keith Moon's parents were Alfred and Kathleen Moon? I wonder if it's a complete coincidence that we had Alfie and Kat(hleen) Moon in EastEnders recently? Crazy. Maybe I should write to the BBC and ask.

Right, when I started this post I had some point to make about the Keith Moon book. I have no idea what it was... er...

Oh yeah, the stuff in the book so far has been about the unsigned 'scene' in London in the 60s. It is really interesting stuff, amazing how things have changed these days. Back when The Who were forming it seems to have been almost entirely covers bands playing covers. I think partly because of this they got regular residencies. If the crowd knows the songs you can play week in week out. Having a weekly residency would be great and I'm not sure that's entirely just because you have to make less
effort booking gigs! It also didn't seem to occur to them to write their own songs at first. Oh how things have changed. We're so demanding these days. Some things don't change though, there were still hardly any drummers and loads of singers/guitarists.

My brother got me The Best of The Vapors (you know, Turning Japanese...) for my birthday which I'm listening to now. It's really good. We have this little thing where we each try to buy each other CDs the other won't have heard and might like for their birthday or Christmas, so far we've both done really well and FOPP makes it cheap too!

13 days 'till the first Müf gig. I'm SO excited about it now. Now that I'm happy we can play the songs properly it's much more relaxed and less stressful. Rehearsal tomorrow as well. :)