is a crappy thing. Luckily I got to see him perform twice in concert. One a few years ago and then 32 years ago when they had their Monkee 25th reunion tour.
Not lame at all....they had a ton of great songs. Tork was a very good musician, too. They weren't a completely made up band and they had some of the best songwriters in history write for them. Daydream Believer was written by John Stewart, of Kingston Trio and solo fame.
Serious musician gets a big break only to find out it's a curse, hopefully he came to grips and embrace it later in life. Sounds like he did by participating in the reunion shows and such.
my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
They were viewed by many as not a real band and instead a TV show creation. I don't happen to agree with that, but it is a pretty common view. I was a kid when they were popular and we would hang out in a neighbor's basement strumming tennis rackets pretending we were the Monkees. It was happy music whoever was most responsible.
when I was growing up in the 60s. The only problem with Peter is I always associated him with the song "Your Auntie Grizelda" which probably was recorded as a joke, but sounded like nails on a chalk board.
Peter was the best of that bunch... Davy Jones was the teenage girls heart throb. His poster was the female teenager's 60's rival to the favorite teenage male, Farrah Fawcett poster of the 70's... What guy wanted in on that?
That left Mickey Dolenz who was just too goofy and Michael Nesmith who was dark, quiet and brooding.
Peter Tork was the lively and funny. He always seemed to be the person who would be the most fun to hang-out with... It was the 60's.
Monkees was one of my favorite TV shows when I was little. They took the Beatles "Hard Days Night" movie and ran with the idea. Silly irrelevant skits, bad jokes, loose morality plays. But they were so much FUN!! The first real Music Videos were on those shows and others like them.
Who didn't want to be in a band? Me and my brother would make believe we were in one, we'd crank records and jam on brooms, blowing out the windows with imaginary amplifiers made of stacked couch cushions. For kids like us, the Monkees were a FORCE - THAT was what we wanted to do with our life!
There were neighborhood bands and we'd peek in the windows, my cousin would borrow our basement and his mega band show up - what a sight, in my 70's white neighborhood, mixed race band loading amps and a full size Hammond B3 with Leslie, leather vests and AFRO's, horn section congas and they were like freakin gods, kids packed around the basement windows.
By the time my brother and I learned guitar, it seemed my whole town could play - bands everywhere! BATTLES of the Bands!
While I never lived the dream beyond bars and coffeehouses, an entire generation of musicians WAS born our of the impact of the Beatles and yeah, the Monkees were the TEEVEE component of that.
They definitely deserve their place in the R&R HoF.
My knowledge of 60's teen icons is purely vicarious. My wife had a huge teenage crush on Davy Jones. I was conscious of it, but it really came to the front when Jones died. My wife went into a 2 week funk and I heard all about it...
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
That was Mike Nesmith.
Tork and Nesmith
and two actors
Dolenz and Jones
Tork was always the clown on tv show but actually was the most accomplished musician
on Daydream Believer Tork wrote the iconic piano part -that makes the song
he also wrote "For Pete's Sake" the closing theme for the Monkee's show
my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Not lame at all....they had a ton of great songs. Tork was a very good musician, too. They weren't a completely made up band and they had some of the best songwriters in history write for them. Daydream Believer was written by John Stewart, of Kingston Trio and solo fame.
Tork and Nesmith
and two actors
Dolenz and Jones
Tork was always the clown on tv show but actually was the most accomplished musician
on Daydream Believer Tork wrote the iconic piano part -that makes the song
he also wrote "For Pete's Sake" the closing theme for the Monkee's show
my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
They aren't? How on earth is that, they were one of the most popular bands of all time in their day
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is gone. Think he gets buried in his stocking cap?
R.I.P.
That was Mike Nesmith.
Damn, you are right - sorry. Peter had the floppy hair...
my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
My guess is they just weren't loud enough.
Oh...and no flashpods.
Or lasers.
- Gene Simmons
my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
They were viewed by many as not a real band and instead a TV show creation. I don't happen to agree with that, but it is a pretty common view. I was a kid when they were popular and we would hang out in a neighbor's basement strumming tennis rackets pretending we were the Monkees. It was happy music whoever was most responsible.
How could Davey Jones not be your favorite?????
That left Mickey Dolenz who was just too goofy and Michael Nesmith who was dark, quiet and brooding.
Peter Tork was the lively and funny. He always seemed to be the person who would be the most fun to hang-out with... It was the 60's.
Oh. please. Davy Jones, cute as he was, couldn't hold David Cassidy's jockstrap :)
Anyone who's been to Vermont knows that a whiteout is driving in a snowstorm.
Good Times released a couple of years ago
produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne
it has songs by Andy Partridge (XTC) Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller( Oasis and the Jam) and Ben Hibbard (Death Cab for Cutie)
check it out .. It is a truly a great record
Last train to Clarksville is my fave
Monkees was one of my favorite TV shows when I was little. They took the Beatles "Hard Days Night" movie and ran with the idea. Silly irrelevant skits, bad jokes, loose morality plays. But they were so much FUN!! The first real Music Videos were on those shows and others like them.
Who didn't want to be in a band? Me and my brother would make believe we were in one, we'd crank records and jam on brooms, blowing out the windows with imaginary amplifiers made of stacked couch cushions. For kids like us, the Monkees were a FORCE - THAT was what we wanted to do with our life!
There were neighborhood bands and we'd peek in the windows, my cousin would borrow our basement and his mega band show up - what a sight, in my 70's white neighborhood, mixed race band loading amps and a full size Hammond B3 with Leslie, leather vests and AFRO's, horn section congas and they were like freakin gods, kids packed around the basement windows.
By the time my brother and I learned guitar, it seemed my whole town could play - bands everywhere! BATTLES of the Bands!
While I never lived the dream beyond bars and coffeehouses, an entire generation of musicians WAS born our of the impact of the Beatles and yeah, the Monkees were the TEEVEE component of that.
They definitely deserve their place in the R&R HoF.
(For that, so does Spinal Tap!)
ok, you win. I won't ask why you know all this stuff, lol