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In reply to the discussion: I'm in audience watching Michael Nesmith play live w/ the remaining Monkees... [View all]William Seger
(10,742 posts)42. "a TV show about an imaginary band..."
"... that wanted to be The Beatles... that was never successful... The Monkees really becoming a band was like the equivalent of Leonard Nimoy really becoming a Vulcan." -- Mickey Dolenz
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I'm in audience watching Michael Nesmith play live w/ the remaining Monkees... [View all]
Hissyspit
Dec 2012
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Music aside, 'The Monkees' was the strangest, most avant-garde television show of it's time
htuttle
Dec 2012
#5
You think the show was strange? Check out the Monkee movie "Head". It's way out there... nt
HooptieWagon
Dec 2012
#6
They did almost the whole soundtrack with scenes from the movie playing on a screen in the
Hissyspit
Dec 2012
#8
Please tell me you did NOT whip out your cell phone to update us with this scintillating info...
oh reiki ur so fine
Dec 2012
#17
It's really cool however...my heart is still weeping for Davy, therefore
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#30