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RIP Mike Nesmith
The wool capped, tall member of the 60s band, the Monkees, Mike Nesmith passed away, leaving just Mickey Dolenz left.
Anybody who grew up in the 60s, watched the TV show 'The Monkees' in the late 60s, usually on Saturday morning. It was Screen Gems attempted answer to the Beatles, but with TV added and comedy. Mike was rarely seen without the trademarked wool cap . Mike wrote much of the bands music (Along with Neal Diamond!). Plus the band had a really cool looking car, the MonkeeMobile, a heavily modified Pontiac GTO by car designer Dean Jeffries. Plus I got to see the band during a reunion tour in the 80s.
The show is still in syndication and its humor innocent and not really controversial by todays standards.
Sorry this was late, too much crap in life lately.
Anybody who grew up in the 60s, watched the TV show 'The Monkees' in the late 60s, usually on Saturday morning. It was Screen Gems attempted answer to the Beatles, but with TV added and comedy. Mike was rarely seen without the trademarked wool cap . Mike wrote much of the bands music (Along with Neal Diamond!). Plus the band had a really cool looking car, the MonkeeMobile, a heavily modified Pontiac GTO by car designer Dean Jeffries. Plus I got to see the band during a reunion tour in the 80s.
The show is still in syndication and its humor innocent and not really controversial by todays standards.
Sorry this was late, too much crap in life lately.
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Liked Mike. Laid back guy with Funny deadpan reactions. Mike's songs were Papa Gene's Blues, Listen to the Band, and my favorite What Am I Doing Hanging Around?
Micky was the crazy one
Peter was the nice if not too bright one
Davy was the "cute" one with bewildered expressions on his face.
Mike's mother invented Liquid Paper and he got wealthy from that.
Micky was the crazy one
Peter was the nice if not too bright one
Davy was the "cute" one with bewildered expressions on his face.
Mike's mother invented Liquid Paper and he got wealthy from that.
Same could be asked had Hitler been accepted by that Austrian Art College after WW1, had that professor been willing to accept that Hitler had a thing for architectural paintings and drawings, What would have developed and possibly the world would have recognized him as a great architect or painter instead of a man who lead to the killing of over 20 million in Europe alone . I've seen his art work, its actually very good!
I saw them during that 80s reunion tour as well. Weird Al Yankovic was their opening act, and they actually joined him onstage for a couple of numbers as part of the show. During "Like A Surgeon", one of them was lying on a gurney, playing the part of the patient, while the rest of the Monkees were dressed in hospital scrubs wheeling the gurney around and handing Al various "surgical" props like hammers, chainsaws, and rubber chickens...
(Dang it, if only we'd had cell-phone cameras back then!)
(Dang it, if only we'd had cell-phone cameras back then!)
Nesmith wrote and produced a fun collection of skits and musical numbers which he released as a video album on Laserdisc in 1981 and later videotape called Elephant Parts, definitely worth checking out. It did well enough that NBC had him do a series in the same format in 1985 called Television Parts. There is some hip, original comedy and musical numbers to experience there, think SNL meets Firesign Theater. Check it out if you get a chance. Also check out this appearance on Later with Greg Kinnear. He will be missed.
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