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RIP Michael Nesmith

killerandflash
killerandflash Posts: 69,891
edited December 2021 in Not Sports Related
Aged 78. He wrote a few of their songs once The Monkees got creative control, I always liked this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW923_oO75o

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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,016
    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,360
    RIP the sound of an era.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    RIP


  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking :)
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Oh shit. Absolute hero. Arguably the man who created country rock. His albums are just brilliant.
    I’m devastated.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    For the first time ever, I heard him performing some of his solo stuff because they played some of one of his live performances on Six Music a few days ago; I was stunned by how good it was.

    Clearly a very talented man, RIP.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    Rizzo said:
    Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking :)
    Better than the Beatles but not the Stones
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,016
    Henry Irving said:
    Rizzo said:
    Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking :)
    Better than the Beatles Stones but not the Stones Beatles 

  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,299
    Henry Irving said:
    Rizzo said:
    Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking :)
    Better than the Beatles but not the Stones

    Not a patch on either but good in their way. Never eally listened to his solo stuff but after @iainment's comment I must give it a listen.

    RIP
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,648
    edited December 2021
    I wonder if he's gone to Reno or Rio ?

    RIP.

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  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    RIP  Michael another from my youth gone.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Bangkokaddick said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Rizzo said:
    Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking :)
    Better than the Beatles but not the Stones

    Not a patch on either but good in their way. Never eally listened to his solo stuff but after @iainment's comment I must give it a listen.

    RIP
    Try the albums with the First National Band especially Magnetic South. I love that album.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,766
    Sad news, I loved The Monkees.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,607
    edited December 2021
    RIP. We had tickets for their 2001 tour that got cancelled after 9/11. Gutted I never got to see them.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    edited December 2021
    Bangkokaddick said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Rizzo said:
    Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking :)
    Better than the Beatles but not the Stones

    Not a patch on either but good in their way. Never eally listened to his solo stuff but after @iainment's comment I must give it a listen.

    RIP

    I need to listen to more of his solo stuff as well.

    No, they were not as good as The Beatles or The Stones, or indeed The Who, The Kinks or Small Faces - very few bands ever came close.

    But The Monkees were and generally are still massively underrated by music snobs, just because they were a manufactured for TV band. All bands are manufactured!

    RIP Mike
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 390
    So sad at this he only finished touring with Dolenz 3 weeks ago. For me his solo stiff puts him up with the greats.
    https://youtu.be/7gQWfUtrUrA

  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,808
    His music not really my cup of tea but RIP Mike. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Sad news. Only Micky Dolenz left now.

    RIP Mike.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,891
    It's silly to compare the Monkees to the Beatles or Stones. 

    However, if you were to compare them to every other "manufactured" band/boyband, they stand very high. 

    Above all it was a brilliant TV show. I'm amazed something similar has never been replicated with that mixture of comedy and music. A modern day Monkees type show would be massive

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  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    The Monkees filled a teenybopper niche created when the Beatles music and their audience matured.
    That said, they were vastly underrated and made some classic pop songs, particularly through 1967.
    Michael subsequently found his own country style niche.
    RIP and thanks for the memories
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    McCartney said:
    So sad at this he only finished touring with Dolenz 3 weeks ago. For me his solo stiff puts him up with the greats.
    https://youtu.be/7gQWfUtrUrA

    He was absolutely brilliant . The First National Band are one of the best ever bands.


  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    Rip. 

    Rio was a classic. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,457
    killerandflash said:
    It's silly to compare the Monkees to the Beatles or Stones. 

    However, if you were to compare them to every other "manufactured" band/boyband, they stand very high. 

    Above all it was a brilliant TV show. I'm amazed something similar has never been replicated with that mixture of comedy and music. A modern day Monkees type show would be massive
    Loved their TV show.
  • killer kish
    killer kish Posts: 2,019
    RIP Michael 
    Loved The Monkess show and music
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,134
    RIP legend. 
    Not interested in if he was controlled or not, as a kid with access to a whopping 3 channels, his show made me smile, everything about it was decent and good. RIP and your beaney sir 👍🏻
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,362
    his mother supposedly 'invented Tippex' .. question is, which had more impact on the world, the white word wiper outer or the music of the Monkees ? .. R I P
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,766
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    The Monkees filled a teenybopper niche created when the Beatles music and their audience matured.
    That said, they were vastly underrated and made some classic pop songs, particularly through 1967.
    Michael subsequently found his own country style niche.
    RIP and thanks for the memories
    At the age of 10, I saw them at the Empire Pool, Wembley in 1967. I came out of the concert totally deaf from all the screaming. 

    Sad news that another of my heroes has passed away.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,802
    The Monkees and their TV show were part of my childhood.  I still like a lot of their music and I don't care they were put together by some media moguls.

    RIP, the world is a poorer place for your passing.

    Sic transit gloria mundi.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,154
    RIP Mike . Great childhood memories.

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