Joe Walsh described one rock star as the highlight of his life

What he lacked in lyrical or vocal ability, he made up for in absolute charm. Watching his backstage antics captured on film, Walsh always seemed like the guy everyone wanted to be around, whether it was having a drink with him or speeding down the highway in a luxury car.

While Walsh was already a hard partier, Keith Moon was at least 15 times worse. Despite being one of the most powerful drummers in the world, Moon turned The Who into every hotel's worst nightmare, whether it was setting off cherry bombs in the middle of the hotel bathroom or mastering the art of throwing a television out of the hotel window and not worry about whether someone was passing by.

When Pete Townshend took a liking to Walsh and eventually started swapping guitars with him, it wasn't that hard to find common ground between him and Moon. Aside from their love of excess, the escapades that Walsh and Moon indulged in could easily have become one of the greatest reality television shows of all time if that option had been available in the 1970s, including destroying hotel rooms or as Walsh had his jeans sprayed black as he tried to get into an upscale restaurant with John Belushi.

Although many nights may have been extremely dangerous, Walsh still considered his time with Moon one of the greatest times of his career, which is telling Rolling Stone, “Hanging out with Keith Moon was honestly one of the highlights of my life, but at the time it was absolutely terrifying, (but) now it's fun.”

Although it's funny to look back, Moon's tragic death marked the loss of one of the greatest drummers of all time. Although he couldn't quite put the bottle down, the remnants we still have and the wild stories that are sure to be passed down through generations would make for one of the wildest biographies in history, if someone were given the right to use them to put his story on the screen.

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