 On the Who 's early US package tour at the RKO Theatre in New York in March and April 1967 Moon performed five 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 kicked the drum off the riser and 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 . 
