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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy son is going to a Michael Nesmith concert tomorrow in LA....
He is a BIG Monkees fan!
We have a family connection to Mike Nesmith but I couldn't remember it when he called. He said he was going to see his concert and will meet him and wanted to relate the family connection. I really don't remember it....but somewhere his lineage and my family's converged.
hlthe2b
(102,413 posts)It is hard enough to think of seeing "the Monkees" without Davy Jones, but I think without Micky Dolenz too it would be pretty bleak I'd think.
Maybe Nesmith has had a solo career I am unaware of?
msongs
(67,459 posts)Freddie
(9,275 posts)Their 50th anniversary tour summer 16. Was a really entertaining show! Micky still sings great and Peter still sings awful. Lots of film clips etc., Davy was definitely there in spirit. Felt like I was 10 again. Hope they tour again.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Nez was a pioneer of "country pop". Here is one of my favorites:
And something he did later, which is fun:
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)her musician husband.
In "real" life he is a prosecutor with the Brooklyn DA's office...
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Nesmith spent a lot of time (and record label money) holed up in studios with "Nashville Cats"...session musicians who were there under the pretense of making "Monkees records" with no other Monkees present. A few tracks made it onto Monkees albums, many didn't, and they eventually ended up scattered across the Monkees' "Missing Links" CDs and the "Listen To The Band" and "Music Box" box sets. A few are instantly recognizable as having appeared on Nesmith's first few solo albums.
"Ranch Stash" was more or less a "pure country" album, but filtered through the consciousness of "Cosmic Cowboy Papa Nes," as he called himself in those days. Of particular interest is the traditional "Uncle Pen," which is usually a happy skippy bluegrass kind of thing. Nesmith ends up barking out the lyrics with an attitude near the end, singing "High on the hill, up A-bove the town," emphasis on "A," an little characteristic inflection of his.
He did something similar with the song "Bonaparte's Retreat," another old standard, on his "Tantamount To Treason" album. It starts out like a sort of funeral dirge, then lightens up a little, then turns into a full-blown psychedelic fuzz guitar freak-out in the middle before touching ground again.
He definitely did a lot of things for the first time. Credit for the "sound" gets split between Nesmith, Rick Nelson (in his "Stone Canyon Band" days), and a few others. Guys like Marty Stewart are still having success with his big album from last year, "Way Out West." It's essentially a long-lost Flying Burrito Brothers album, but you can hear Nesmith in all of these guys.
Paladin
(28,277 posts)Hope he plays "Different Drum" at that concert. Linda R. had a hit with it, but Nesmith wrote it....
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)is his best song. sounds like Slim Whitman singing. I found Mike Nesmith and the First National Band LP at an estate sale, snatched that right up. great album.
utopian
(1,093 posts)Long, excellent solo career. Excellent musician. Great live performer. Don't expect too many Monkees songs, but I bet he does one or two
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