The Monkees

[Bella Fortuna]

[pErvinalia]

Who's the old coot?

I suddenly know who you are on Facebook.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I thought The Monkees were mostly active in the later 1960s?

Agreed though that the 1970s are the new 1940s.

The Monkees were definitely active in the late 1960s, but I remember them from the repeats of their TV show in the 1970s, and when you saw those guys in the 1970s, they looked basically the same as they did in the late 60s -- it was only a few years, after all.

That's what makes me feel old. I'm not as old as Nesmith, as he was in his 20s when I was born. But, he was a young man in my living memory. Now he is an old man, nearing the end of it all. That bugs me, because for the first part of my life, old guys were so old that they were pretty much ALWAYS old from my perspective. You know, like when you're in your 20s, a guy in his 60s, was in his 40s when you were born. That seems ancient.

When one contemplates it -- it gives one a sense of mortality when one sees a guy in his last few probable years of life who was young and vibrant in our own living memory. It creates a sense of looming inevitability.

A lot of the rockers from the great generation - at least those still alive - are now in or approaching their 70's.

Not just "that generation" - Jet Black (Stranglers drummer) is 74 - only 3 months younger than my dad! In fact, he's 3 years older than Charlie Watts!

[JimC]

Rock and roll stars who actually survived their years of booze, cocaine and hookers are tough. Tough as old boots...

Quite Darwinian, actually...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, he's got hair. I think I will have more at 70 if I live that long.

Hey, I have copy if Repo Man for him to sign, if he comes here.

Waiting for Hot Tuna to show up here. No hippie festivals nearby.

The Dead will be here this summer. Again.

[Coito ergo sum]

I thought The Monkees were mostly active in the later 1960s?

Agreed though that the 1970s are the new 1940s.

The Monkees were definitely active in the late 1960s, but I remember them from the repeats of their TV show in the 1970s, and when you saw those guys in the 1970s, they looked basically the same as they did in the late 60s -- it was only a few years, after all.

That's what makes me feel old. I'm not as old as Nesmith, as he was in his 20s when I was born. But, he was a young man in my living memory. Now he is an old man, nearing the end of it all. That bugs me, because for the first part of my life, old guys were so old that they were pretty much ALWAYS old from my perspective. You know, like when you're in your 20s, a guy in his 60s, was in his 40s when you were born. That seems ancient.

When one contemplates it -- it gives one a sense of mortality when one sees a guy in his last few probable years of life who was young and vibrant in our own living memory. It creates a sense of looming inevitability.

A lot of the rockers from the great generation - at least those still alive - are now in or approaching their 70's.

Yep. I remember thinking how old the Rolling Stones, Zeppelin,a and Aerosmith were when I listened to them in the early 1980s. LOL -- to me, they were old THEN. LOL

[Bella Fortuna]

They were!

Well... now that some of us are the age they were then... they weren't old.

[Coito ergo sum]

They were!

Well... now that some of us are the age they were then... they weren't old.

It's that weird perspective change.

In 1983, 1973 seemed like an unimaginably long time ago. Now it's 2013, and a 20 year old views the 1990s in much the same way as we viewed the 60s. A weird decade, a long time ago, where everybody dressed and looked funny. Bill Clinton is their Lyndon Johnson. LOL.

[Tero]

I didn't know Different Drum was a Nesmith song
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_Drum

[Bella Fortuna]

Yes.

This is from the show I saw:

[Tero]

Thanks. I only have the Stone Ponies version on a 60s Time Life CD.

[Bella Fortuna]

Look up his studio version on YouTube - it's really nice (and different from the above).

[Cormac]

Back in the day, even manufactured boy bands had to have good music.

The Monkees had excellent music and excellent songs.

[JimC]

Back in the day, even manufactured boy bands had to have good music.

The Monkees had excellent music and excellent songs.

Some were, their oeuvre as a whole was patchy...

But I know what you mean...

[Tero]

Monkees trivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkee ... nformation

the first album had one song with Monkee writing credit, Nesmith song. It was also the only song on the album where a Monkee was allowed to play an instrumnent.

Not having seen any live footage ever, I was surprised to read that both Davy and Micky played drums live.