one of my alltime favorite songs!!...timeless...

I always did love this song.

great taste dolenz. one day you might just make me revisit (no "visit" for the FIRST time) the monkees u obsess over LOL.

what HAPPENDED to this dude? he's like the male counterpart to natalie imbruglia or something!

datdude said:

great taste dolenz. one day you might just make me revisit (no "visit" for the FIRST time) the monkees u obsess over LOL.

what HAPPENDED to this dude? he's like the male counterpart to natalie imbruglia or something!

he grew a beard and went underground and started doing music for Broadway shows and movies... he's performing here in Minneapolis in November

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RJOrion said:

datdude said:

great taste dolenz. one day you might just make me revisit (no "visit" for the FIRST time) the monkees u obsess over LOL.

what HAPPENDED to this dude? he's like the male counterpart to natalie imbruglia or something!

he grew a beard and went underground and started doing music for Broadway shows and movies... he's performing here in Minneapolis in November

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wow, interesting. good for him, i guess. he proved he could write a great pop hit if that as an issue. not sure why the "grew a beard" part made me LOL

datdude said:

RJOrion said:

he grew a beard and went underground and started doing music for Broadway shows and movies... he's performing here in Minneapolis in November

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wow, interesting. good for him, i guess. he proved he could write a great pop hit if that as an issue. not sure why the "grew a beard" part made me LOL

Foreshadowing of hipsters, eh?

datdude said:

one day you might just make me revisit (no "visit" for the FIRST time) the monkees u obsess over LOL

Without the Monkees there probably wouldn't be a MTV because Warner Brothers bought Pop Clips from Michael Nesmith. Nez also made one of the first long form music videos with Elephant Parts, which won a Grammy. The Monkees was also the first TV show to have young people without a parent figure over them and they had long hair, which was not common on TV at the time for males. The group put less mainstream acts on the show like Charlie Smalls (who later wrote The Wiz), Tim Buckley, & Frank Zappa. Zappa was also in the Monkees movie Head. They also asked Jimi Hendrix (before he was well known in the US) to open up for them, but he left after a few shows. Peter Tork played banjo on George Harrison's Wonderwall soundtrack.

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MickyDolenz said:

datdude said:

one day you might just make me revisit (no "visit" for the FIRST time) the monkees u obsess over LOL

Without the Monkees there probably wouldn't be a MTV because Warner Brothers bought Pop Clips from Michael Nesmith. Nez also made one of the first long form music videos with Elephant Parts, which won a Grammy. The Monkees was also the first TV show to have young people without a parent figure over them and they had long hair, which was not common on TV at the time for males. The group put less mainstream acts on the show like Charlie Smalls (who later wrote The Wiz), Tim Buckley, & Frank Zappa. Zappa was also in the Monkees movie Head. They also asked Jimi Hendrix (before he was well known in the US) to open up for them, but he left after a few shows. Peter Tork played banjo on George Harrison's Wonderwall soundtrack.

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the world was so much more inter=connected

purplethunder3121 said:

the world was so much more inter=connected

The producers of the TV show, Rafelson & Schneider, started their film company from profits they made on The Monkees, which resulted in Easy Rider in the beginning. Jack Nicholson was one of the writers on Head and he appears briefly in the movie as an extra. One year, The Monkees outsold both The Beatles & The Rolling Stones. So they were generating a lot of money, but not for the group members themselves, as was usual for the entertainment industry. They were filming a show, doing a tour, and constantly recording at the same time.