On the Who’s early US package tour at the RKO 58th Street Theatre in New York in March and April 1967, Moon performed two or three shows a day, kicking over his drum kit after every show. Later that year, during their appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , he bribed a stagehand to load gunpowder into one of his bass drums; the stagehand used about ten times the standard amount. During the finale of “My Generation”, he set off the charge. The intensity of the explosion singed Townshend’s hair and embedded a piece of cymbal in Moon’s arm. A clip of the incident became the opening scene for the film The Kids Are Alright .
On the Who’s early US package tour at the RKO 58th Street Theatre in
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