Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1944 directed, What's Cookin' Doc?:
Due to pressure from Warner Bros., this cartoon was one of 12 pulled from rotation by the Cartoon Network for its 2001 "June Bugs" marathon, which was to show the complete chronology of Bugs Bunny cartoons. This is in addition to the "Censored 12" that have been withheld from distribution since 1968. The reason given was its purportedly offensive depiction of Native Americans.
June 8, 1969 -
The super-fan Jeff Stein directed seminal documentary about The Who, The Kids Are Alright premiered on June 15, 1979. Besides putting together clips, Jeff Stein arranged for The Who to film a concert for invited fans. The show, performed at Shepperton Film Studios in London on May 25, 1978, turned out to be Keith Moon's last concert with The Who before his death in September, at the age of 32. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to remember the documentary, by acknowledging that today is the anniversary of the release of the soundtrack, on this this date in 1979. So please sit back, relax and enjoy this documentary film about The Who.
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The band's performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ends with My Generation and their trademark wrecking of their equipment - the climax being the explosion of the drum kit. During rehearsal, Keith Moon ("Patent British Exploding Drummer") had persuaded stage hands to load more flash powder into the kit than usual (possibly by bribery) so that when the explosion occurred at the very end of the performance, it was so big that it temporarily blinded the TV cameras and injured the rest of the band. Singer Roger Daltrey was deaf for a long period after the show, Moon was cut on the arm by a cymbal, and guitarist Pete Townshend's hair was singed - he can be seen in the film with smoke coming from his head. Townshend later attributed his partial hearing loss to the incident, though years of extreme on-stage sound levels are probably more to blame. Backstage, other guests of the show were also affected: Bette Davis fainted into Mickey Rooney's arms.
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