Scot Halpin
| Scot Halpin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 February 1954 Muscatine, Iowa |
| Died | 9 February 2008 (aged 54) Bloomington, Indiana |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1973 |
| Associated acts | The Who |
Thomas Scot Halpin (February 3, 1954 – February 9, 2008) was an American artist and musician best known for an incident in 1973 when, in the audience at a concert by The Who at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, he ended up playing drums onstage after the band's drummer Keith Moon passed out in mid-show. Halpin's performance won him Rolling Stone Magazine's "Pick-Up Player of the Year Award" later that year.
Thomas Scot Halpin was born February 3, 1954, to Elizabeth and Richard Halpin, of Muscatine, Iowa. He grew up in Muscatine, showing early promise as a visual artist and musician. In the early 1970s, he moved to California, where he met his wife and life-time collaborator Robin Young at City College of San Francisco in 1978. Halpin went on to earn an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University.
Halpin became composer in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, in Sausalito, California, and played with a number of bands over the years, including: The Sponges, Funhouse, Folklore, SnakeDoctor and Plank Road. While on the West Coast, Halpin and his wife managed a new wave punk rock night club, The Roosevelt, before moving to Indiana in 1995 to pursue opportunities in the visual arts.
From 1995 until his death, Halpin resided in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife Robin and son, James. According to local newspapers in the Bloomington area, Halpin died February 9, 2008, of an inoperable non-malignant brain tumor.
On November 20, 1973, The Who were opening their Quadrophenia US concert tour at the Cow Palace in Daly City, a suburb just south of San Francisco. Halpin, a 19-year-old who had recently moved to the area from Muscatine, Iowa, was there with a friend using tickets they had bought from a scalper. They arrived at the show thirteen hours early to get good seats.
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