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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #8340 on: December 10, 2021, 02:18:22 pm »
Nesmith was just at the Warner with Dolenz a month or so ago...

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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #8341 on: December 10, 2021, 02:18:43 pm »
Michael Nesmith
Down to two Monkees and two Beatles. They should merge. 1967 won't know what hit it.

Only Micky Dolenz is left. Davy Jones died in 2012 and Peter Tork died in 2019.
Oh, damn. I missed that Peter Tork news. Sounds like this is a good time for the Beatles to strike while they have them outnumbered.

Paul on bass, Micky and Ringo on drums. Could be a pretty sick trio.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #8342 on: December 10, 2021, 03:28:48 pm »
odd outliers here...as it always seems like the drummers are the first ones to go



I did like Nesmith, Repo Man wouldn't have been the same without him
never really got his due for all his talent
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« Reply #8343 on: December 10, 2021, 03:42:08 pm »
Nesmith was also the heir to the 3M fortune and one of the early creators of what morphed into MTV. Was very instrumental on music videos becoming an art form. He was, by far, the most interesting Monkee.
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« Reply #8344 on: December 10, 2021, 03:53:56 pm »
All true


Was he a Scientologist?


I got to say other than cheer of the sleepy Jean and a very few other songs I don’t get the monkeys hoopla

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« Reply #8345 on: December 10, 2021, 03:55:48 pm »
Minor musical figures but still sad

Mensi singer with early UK punk band Angelic Upstarts…



Gil Bridges original member of Rare Earth, played sax in the band https://www.instagram.com/p/CXT0OicLzO_/
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« Reply #8346 on: December 10, 2021, 04:04:06 pm »
I got to say other than cheer of the sleepy Jean and a very few other songs I don’t get the monkeys hoopla
Pleasant Valley Sunday, Shades of Grey, I Wanna Be Free -- they had some good ones in there in addition to the cornball pop stuff.
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« Reply #8347 on: December 10, 2021, 04:56:07 pm »
For whatever reason I can’t appreciate the Monkees or Nesmiths solo records…not sure why…but it’s obviously my failing

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« Reply #8348 on: December 10, 2021, 06:07:07 pm »
For whatever reason I can’t appreciate the Monkees or Nesmiths solo records…not sure why…but it’s obviously my failing

Disagree. It's all just opinion. If you don't like/appreciate it, that's your feeling, not your failing.

Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #8349 on: December 10, 2021, 06:56:22 pm »
I got to say other than cheer of the sleepy Jean and a very few other songs I don’t get the monkeys hoopla
Pleasant Valley Sunday, Shades of Grey, I Wanna Be Free -- they had some good ones in there in addition to the cornball pop stuff.
Umm "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
Although original done by PR and the raiders theirs is the seminal version
And famously covered by the Sex Pistols and minor threat (their only recorded cover?)

Last train to Clarksville is great
Weren’t most of their hits written by Neil diamond
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
« Reply #8350 on: December 10, 2021, 07:09:08 pm »
Steppin stone I wasn’t counting because it’s a cover altho you’re right it’s the best version.
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« Reply #8351 on: December 11, 2021, 12:04:34 pm »
I like Nesmith’s A Different Drum

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« Reply #8352 on: December 11, 2021, 07:26:17 pm »
Garth Dennis founder of Black Uhuru and later member of Wailing Souls 72
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« Reply #8353 on: December 12, 2021, 08:35:42 am »
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