I know, I know, but it's still a cool song...

[bluesbassman]

Just heard this on the radio. Great melody and nice harmonies. The original boy band did put out a few cool tunes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear bluesbassman!

It IS a cool song, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Got my old toes to tappin'...

Thank you!

[bluesbassman]

4. Glad you liked it and feeling good enough to toe tap!!

[Wait Wut]

2. I LOVE THE MONKEES!!!!!!!!!

You can tell by the caps and exclamation points!!!!!!

This is one of my favorites, but this is better:

[bluesbassman]

3. Let's see... that would make you a monkette?

[Wait Wut]

6. ?

You're the one that posted this damned thread! What does that make YOU?!

Pickin' on my Monkee love. How friggin' rude.

[bluesbassman]

9. I'm a Believer...

Not to be confused of course with being a Belieber.

And at least you're keeping it in the same family, could've been a Captain and Tenille fan...

[Wait Wut]

10. Muskrat Love...

...freaked me out as a kid.

I will admit that I was a Barry Manilow fan in Jr. High.

You should totally wear a vest like that on stage.

[bluesbassman]

11. What makes you think I don't?

And Angel Flights too.

[RebelOne]

5. So do I. And I am old enough to remember them in their prime. n/t

[Wait Wut]

7. Me too!

I was like 4 or 5. I started out liking Davey, then it was Peter. By the time I reached teenhood, I had a thing for Mickey that really never went away.

[OriginalGeek]

8. I was in it for the car

but in the 80's I took my kids to see 3/4ths of them live and enjoyed the hell out of that show.

[mokawanis]

18. That one's the best

always loved that one. Still listen to it occasionally.

[pintobean]

12. Re-runs after school in the early 70's

The show was lame, but I liked the music

and still do.

[marzipanni]

13. I was singing a few lines from that song on Monday night

getting ready to pick up my son at the train station.

[pipi_k]

14. Great song

I was about 14 when it came out.

Lots of good memories


My favorite, though...I thought it was so cool to have a song named after me

[lastlib]

15. it's good, but I like this one better:

"It was easy then to tell truth from lies,
Selling out from compromise,
Who to love and who to hate,
The foolish from the wise....

But today there is no day or night,
Today there is no dark or light,
Today there is no black or white,
Only shades of gray...."

[Demoiselle]

16. Did the actual Monkees actually write any actual Monkee songs?

I thought they were a total product of Hollywood scriptwriters/casting directors/song writers.
Or maybe that's just a jaded Beatles fan reaction....
(I don't dispute the fact that it's good stuff.)

[SomethingFishy]

19. THe third album was all theirs..

Don Kirshner was in charge of all the music. He used many great writers including Carol King and Neil Diamond but the guys were promised when they were hired they could make all their own music. After the 2nd album the band refused to do a third unless they were allowed to write and play the songs themselves.

The album "Headquarters" debuted at number one where it remained for.. one week. On week number 2 the Beatles released St Pepper. The music world changed and that was the end of the Monkees music career.

They did make a movie after that with Jack Nicholson called Head...

[Demoiselle]

23. Thank you! I knew there was a story there...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. When I was playing guitar in my first bands in the 1960s

I was a Jimi Hendrix fanatic. I used to disparage the Monkees. My cousin was an adolescent then and they made her swoon. Now I think most of their stuff was actually pretty good.

[SomethingFishy]

20. Did you know Jimi Hendrix actually opened for the Monkees

on their first US tour? Can you imagine?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. I know - that was bizarre

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I saw Hendrix twice in concert right after his tour parted ways with the Monkees. After that he started touring with an Irish group he was mentoring and on whose album he played guitar called Eire Apparent. And Ted Nugent joined his tour. That was bizarre, too, because Nugent personally hated Hendrix.

Parents apparently complained that Hendrix was inappropriate for 12 year olds who flocked to see the Monkees. And I saw Jimi for a third time in 1970 in Berkeley a few months before his death, and at that time he had the highly funkalicious group Tower Of Power open for him. Hendrix gave that group a break and it was their first public concert ever.

In retrospect though, after all these years, I'm not ashamed to say that the Monkees were cool and better than I thought at the time and that I'm fan.

[Doc_Technical]

21. I still love some of their later songs:

[In_The_Wind]

24. The Monkeys have such a mellow sound.