Davy Jones, lead singer of '60s pop sensations and television band The Monkees has died at the age of 66 in his hometown of Indiantown, Florida, according to the Martin County medical examiner's office. He suffered a heart attack.
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RIP Davy. I saw the Monkees in Oklahoma City (less Mike Nesmith) in about 1986. British blues rocker Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later (the successor to Ten Years After) was the opening act. Almost as odd a pairing as the legendary tour in the late 60s when Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees.
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RIP Davy. I saw the Monkees in Oklahoma City (less Mike Nesmith) in about 1986. British blues rocker Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later (the successor to Ten Years After) was the opening act. Almost as odd a pairing as the legendary tour in the late 60s when Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees.
I think the Monkees got a bad rap.
They were talented guys musically, as well as comically, but were reined in by their handlers to an unnaceptable degree.
Many musicians contemporary to them knew this, and respected them, so the fact they toured with Hendrix and Alvin Lee is far from strange.
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Yeah, this is sad news. Mr. Jones worked with our symphony in the summer of 2009, and I had a bit of a chance to chat with him. He was a pleasant and genteel man, and a delight to interact with, no hint of prima donna. Good guy who will be missed by many, for their memories.
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I was 14 when MTV ran their Monkees marathon...every episode of the TV show back to back for 24 hours. I was hooked...hooked on the comedy, hooked on the music, and hooked on the era. I was a Mickey fan myself, Davy was actually my least favorite...his songs were cheesy, he was "the cute one", he didn't play anything except the maracas & tambourine (yeah I know, neither did the rest of them for the first couple albums)...but, he was a Monkee.
When Nick at Nite started running the shows, I would stay up and watch them every night...even holding up my old cassette recorder to the TV speaker, recording the audio, and listening to the tapes when I went to bed. There are quite a few of the 58 episodes burned into my brain so deeply I can still recite them verbatim more than 25 years later.
I saw them twice...once on a big stadium tour with Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, Paul Revere & the Raiders, and Herman's Hermits, and another time with Weird Al as the opening act (that show was one of my first dates...cute girl, LOOONG black curls. She graduated the year before me and I still can't find her...not even on Facebook )
The Monkees were called "The Pre-Fab Four" because they were a fabricated band on a fabricated TV show about a band, but for me, they were more of an introduction to the true Fab Four. I've mentioned before that Lennon's death is what got me into the Beatles, but I wasn't old enough to really "get" them. When I got into the Monkees just over 5 years later, I was truly ready for the Beatles. From there, I kept going.
I'm the person I am now because of my love of humor and music, and I got both of those from staying up for a whole weekend in 1986 giggling my ass off at a fabricated band on a fabricated TV show about a band.
I close with Davy at his best...written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, it's one of the first songs about groupies (if not the first), and the second song by a pop band to include a Moog synthesizer (the first song by a pop band to include a Moog was two tracks before this one on the same record).
When Nick at Nite started running the shows, I would stay up and watch them every night...even holding up my old cassette recorder to the TV speaker, recording the audio, and listening to the tapes when I went to bed.
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I did the same with Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I was 14 when MTV ran their Monkees marathon...every episode of the TV show back to back for 24 hours. I was hooked...hooked on the comedy, hooked on the music, and hooked on the era. I was a Mickey fan myself, Davy was actually my least favorite...his songs were cheesy, he was "the cute one", he didn't play anything except the maracas & tambourine (yeah I know, neither did the rest of them for the first couple albums)...but, he was a Monkee.
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MTV was my introduction to them, too, but I liked Nesmith a bit more than Davy. Then there was Marcia's crush on Davy, which kind of ruined the whole liking-the-Monkees thing for me.
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Well, I'm old so I actually watched the show itself, lol. Although it was reruns, in the 70's. Was on in the morning, along with the Saturday Cartoons.
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Oh and I also liked Peter best, I thought he was the cutest. Micheal was the cool one, though, like, wtf am I doing here, I am way too cool for this shit.
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Well, I'm old so I actually watched the show itself, lol. Although it was reruns, in the 70's. Was on in the morning, along with the Saturday Cartoons.
Saturday mornings for me too. I didn't even know they were on MTV.
When MTV first came on, I rarely saw it, because I lived in the Bronx and the shitty cable company up there didn't carry it.
However, I can remember The Midnight Special very well, indeed, which rocked MTV any fucking day. Every major artist of the day was on that show, musicians and comedians, live performances only, of course.
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Some notable guest stars and hosts included ABBA, AC/DC, Aerosmith, America, Lynn Anderson, Joan Baez, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Blondie, David Bowie, Bread, Brooklyn Dreams, James Brown, Carmen, The Cars, The Chambers Brothers, Ray Charles, Cheap Trick, Bill Cosby, Jim Croce, Billy Crystal, John Denver, Bo Diddley, The Doobie Brothers, Gunhill Road, Electric Light Orchestra, "Mama" Cass Elliott, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Genesis, Andy Gibb, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Golden Earring, Al Green, The Guess Who, Hall & Oates, Heart, Janis Ian, The Jacksons, Rick James, Billy Joel, Elton John, Journey, Andy Kaufman, KC and the Sunshine Band, B.B. King, King Crimson, Kiss, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gordon Lightfoot, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Barry Manilow, Steve Martin, Eddie Money, Van Morrison, Randy Newman, The New York Dolls, Dolly Parton, Richard Pryor, Procol Harum, Linda Ronstadt, Diana Ross, Todd Rundgren, Merrilee Rush, Sly & The Family Stone, The Spinners, Starland Vocal Band, Steely Dan, REO Speedwagon, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, T.Rex, The Three Degrees, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tina Turner, Village People, War, Weather Report, Barry White, Wolfman Jack, and Gary Wright.
The Monkeys were pioneers in the whole music crossover to TV. It was not any of their doing. They were just hired hands. The music was all writen by the studio I believe. Most of the hits were writen by very talented musicians. Carol King and Neil Diamond come to mind, I forget which songs.
They were talented musicians. However the fact they didnt write the songs and it was all writen to fit the TV show hurt them.
If it was in the year 2012. They would be on Nickleodian with the other sensations marketing to a much younger crowd. That demographic cares less about creative integrity.
Add- I should use the term "hurt them" loosely. They had a career playing music. A dream many people fail to obtain.
Well, Beau, I wouldn't be so quick to claim "just hired hands" when it comes to Mike Nesmith.
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His verse poems became the basis for song lyrics, and after moving to Los Angeles with Phyllis and friend John London, he signed a publishing deal for his songs. Nesmith's "Mary, Mary" was recorded by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, while "Different Drum" was recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys. "Pretty Little Princess", written in 1965, was recorded by Frankie Laine and released as a single in 1968 on ABC Records. Later, "Some Of Shelly's Blues" and "Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)" were made popular by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their 1970 album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy.
Don Kirshner was the music mind behind the show if i remember right and teir main writers were Boyce and Hart who were genius pop song writers. Cant get much better than that.
And yeah Io Midnight Special was my introduction to a lot of music and musical genres. I wated all week for that show and Don Kirshners rock concert.
lol, do you remember the SNL bit with Paul Shaffer doing the deadpan stare of Kirshner? omg that was funny. What was even more funny was his daughter was exactly the same way.
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