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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 29, 2012 19:27:40 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 29, 2012 20:15:01 GMT
Truly, no joke sad...my first rock and roll hero...really...short guy gets the girl meant so much to me as did there songs ( I wanna be Free....to an 11 year old who hates his parents....c'mon...that's so tearjerking deep). Always thought I'd get around to seeing the 3 Monkees ( Davy, mickey, Peter) who tour the vegas and fairground circuits...I guess i waited too long. A friend got Davy Jones autograph last month at one of those desperate actor/actress conventions where they get a few bucks a pop for photos and signatures...he told me about countless has beeens he met and talked to and all that...but i was only impressed by Davy Jones...damn...I better call my little sister ASAP.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 29, 2012 23:23:57 GMT
The first 45rpm I asked for Great tributes on FB and Twitter Bob Harris has echoed many by saying; " Sad to hear the Davy Jones news. The Monkees were the first 'manufactured' boy band, consequently underrated. They made some great records..." Tributes left on Davy Jones official FB page by Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz www.facebook.com/BeavertownDavyJones?filter=2
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hipflaskandy
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Post by hipflaskandy on Mar 1, 2012 9:58:57 GMT
I was an avid watcher (as a young thing at the time) of the Monkees TV shows - never missed 'em - loved 'em.
Whilst their entertainment value, comedy etc, was seemingly well liked, their musical output was (quite wrongly, I think) a tad scorned by many, back in the day. Yes, I know there was a songwriting team - but the lads made their own mark with their performances and charisma. Many of those songs have since become 'classics' - well loved and much hummed all over the place - the critics egg-faced, I feel.
So young! He'll be sadly missed - bless 'im. RIP Davy.
I'm off to pick up my guitar and pick n sing m' way through 'Daydream Believer' for his, and old times sake.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2012 13:53:52 GMT
Great song Andy My speakers have been blasting it out this morning. ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 1, 2012 21:33:41 GMT
yeah, I'm thinking/singing daydream Believer, She, Valerie, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Last Train and more at work today....small pic on the front page of the paper this AM and obit on Page 6 of section C.....bah....He deserves full page foto tribute and more.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 1, 2012 21:41:22 GMT
yeah, I'm thinking/singing daydream Believer, She, Valerie, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Last Train and more at work today....small pic on the front page of the paper this AM and obit on Page 6 of section C.....bah....He deserves full page foto tribute and more. Legend!! so painful to think a link from that time in our lifes has gone too. If you watch some of the shows - which I and a few thousand or more have been doing they were so naturally funny and fun and life was so much brighter and f**k 1966 is like another planet now
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 2, 2012 23:54:32 GMT
Reading and thining about the Monkees makes me think there are some similarities in the 'lovable dummy' role they gave Peter Tork and the 'gormless' role John Evans played in Tull...in both cases ironic because the 'role' is played by sensitive, talented and bright individuals. Coincidence, I'm sure...I can't imagine proto-hipsters like Jeffrey/John E and Ian had much time for the Monkees.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 3, 2012 13:44:01 GMT
I read somewhere that Stephen Stills failed an auditioned for The Monkees.
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Post by tullist on Mar 3, 2012 15:12:42 GMT
I do believe that is true Graham, doubtlessly can be googled. Widely known but possibly not by everyone is that Charlie Manson also failed. Kind of wish he hadn't, may have spared 4? people a brutal slaying. Not sure how close he got to getting the job but I believe he was in the running. There again maybe not. Davy Jones may have been a heck of a sweet guy,might have been my closest buddy and pal if I knew him though doubtlessly I would have told him what I thought of his "music" for however wretched I found it, not even sure if he was singing it, and could care even less. (though Pleasant Valley Sunday remains a tiny guilty pleasure) but I won't be joining in as history fondly remembers the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Captain and Tennile or Abba. Meanwhile my Tull remains a perennial laughing stock or thing to be ignored, or trotted out for the annual airing of grievances at Grammy time. And I believe in a larger picture the sort of act I mention create a larger mindset of a group or human gestalt that lays the groundwork for stupid, People Magazine, American idol, Rush Limbaugh, and countless exit ramps for stupid in the years between the pre Fab 4 and now. Meanwhile the names of so many actual great musicians receive barely a mention or notice.
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Post by tullist on Mar 3, 2012 15:36:54 GMT
btw the quality American camp humor of that era remains hands down Batman, probably not even any contenders. While I feel very differently about the Monkees or Laugh In. Adam West as Batman delivers some quality deadpan lines that I will bet often they had to do several takes of from laughing. Probably was easier to say some of that stuff or do some of those head and body movements with the batcowl on. Robin does such good work too, and they both seem to be very sweet unaffected people off the screen, Robin nearly obese, Adam looking far better than a man 70 to 75 has a right to, quite like what he did over 40 years ago. Robin tells heartwarming tales like Batman getting him his first bj or something like that, hopefully off Julie Newmar! Although that Olga Queen of the Cossacks (she called Batman Batbooshka!) would have been a good choice too, or several others. And the quality of the villains. Please. Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. What did happen to that guy, very talented. Was an impressionist too, and probably the best I have ever seen. The fight scenes were pretty useless but I stand by the rest of it.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 3, 2012 16:42:04 GMT
but I won't be joining in as history fondly remembers the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Captain and Tennile or Abba. Think I could add a couple more - Billy Joel, overblown and pompous imo, and the Hollies. With regard to the latter, Graham Nash made a wise choice to get out when he did and link up with Stephen Still and David Crosby.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 3, 2012 17:56:02 GMT
Davy and the Monkees were really funny and sweet and they played in a band -on the beach They were what a nine year old girl would be thinking of as potential boyfriends when the time arose. Mickey was scatty so was Pete, Mike was cool and Davy was gorgeous all the necessary requirements for Saturday teatime TV in 1966. Having said that it was Woodstock on the TV in 1969 that had a more pronounced affect on the hormones of a twelve year old. Is that true about Charles Manson or is it a myth? "Mike was cool Davy was gorgeous and Charles was dreamy and mysterious" bloody 'ell
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 3, 2012 18:42:40 GMT
Charlie had some patronage and attention from Dennis Wilson of the beach Boys and some contact with the laurel canyon set including CSNY and maybe Spirit but I don't think he tried out for the Monkees...everyone in the music biz knew about it...huge cattle call auditions and Stills for sure tried but got sent away for sub-par looks....many of the guys they sent away got callbacks to the studios to make the music, however.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 3, 2012 22:34:16 GMT
Charlie had some patronage and attention from Dennis Wilson of the beach Boys and some contact with the laurel canyon set including CSNY and maybe Spirit but I don't think he tried out for the Monkees...everyone in the music biz knew about it...huge cattle call auditions and Stills for sure tried but got sent away for sub-par looks....many of the guys they sent away got callbacks to the studios to make the music, however. Thinking now that Peter Tork in the Monkees reminds me of Shaggy from Scooby
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 3, 2012 22:44:33 GMT
One of the more annoying MDs here at the nuthouse, when she brings a box of cookies or whatever, calls them 'Scooby-Snacks' Does she deserve to die?
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 3, 2012 22:48:30 GMT
One of the more annoying MDs here at the nuthouse, when she brings a box of cookies or whatever, calls them 'Scooby-Snacks' Does she deserve to die? YES!! thats soo lame ;D as my American buds/family would say
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 3, 2012 23:15:24 GMT
Agreed...I'll think up a plan.
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