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Wow...just last night I was watching his concert tribute for Peter York on youtube......he was an underrated guitarist and songwriter....loved his big blonde electric 12 string.....hilarious guy...now we only have Mickey Dolenz left.....RIP
 
I remember when they first came out and the next week every kid in school was wearing the belt buckle on the side of their pants, polka dot or paisley shirts and those zip up monkee boots! They marketed the shit out of that show!
 
Forget the Monkees, it was his solo effort, Elephant Parts, that was amazing!

 
HomerLovesKoolAid said:
My sisters bought Monkees records.
They thought I was possessed by the devil because I listened to Jimi Hendrix, assorted big band records and Art Blakey's Caravan. They were right.
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Same here...my sister had all the pop 45s...all their albums and probably belonged to their fan club...first album I bought was probably a Herb Alpert record ..second was probably Magical Mystery Tour..then Zappa's first record.....my sister had the Cream and Hendrix records early on and she had a little plastic turntable that looked like a makeup kit I used to borrow...my mom had all the big band stuff from Basie to Ray Charles and I heard those from the time I was born...Radio was so great back in those days....I discovered most rock and roll listening to music from Chicago radio and Little Rock Arkansas....they had powerful broadcast equipment that could reach most of the midwest....You'd hear Sinatra, Hank Williams and the Beatles in sequence ....there were virtually no genre's and a good song was just a good song
 
HomerLovesKoolAid said:
My sisters bought Monkees records.
They thought I was possessed by the devil because I listened to Jimi Hendrix, assorted big band records and Art Blakey's Caravan. They were right.

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I also got toasted, experienced Hendrix, magnetized towards Coltrane & Miles Davis and read ZAP Comics..
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crandc said:
I fought with other 7th grade girls who preferred Monkees to Beatles. Will never forget girl who told me Monkees are bigger than Beatles ever were or will be.
Oh dear.
RIP.
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The Beatles were epic while the Monkees were just really great.
 
One of the good guys. R.I.P.
 
Their biggest hit, I'm A Believer, was written by Neil Diamond. Little known fact, he also wrote Red Red Wine, as a very slow torch song.
 
The Monkees first two records with all the hits were recorded by some of the greatest musicians in LA....Leon Russel, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, Dean Parks, Tommy Tedesco....etc...and they had songs written by Carole King and Neil Diamond....who penned most of their hits....Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith were actually fine musicians in their own but Mickey had to learn basic drums on the show and Davey Jones was the Artful Dodger from the movies....probably had to learn to play tthe tambourine so no....the Monkees were never in the class of the Beatles or Stones but they came from the studio hit factory that made records for the Byrds, Mamas and Pappas and Beach Boys....the Wrecking crew was responsible for the Monkees
 
riverman said:
The Monkees first two records with all the hits were recorded by some of the greatest musicians in LA....Leon Russel, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, Dean Parks, Tommy Tedesco....etc...and they had songs written by Carole King and Neil Diamond....who penned most of their hits....Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith were actually fine musicians in their own but Mickey had to learn basic drums on the show and Davey Jones was the Artful Dodger from the movies....probably had to learn to play tthe tambourine so no....the Monkees were never in the class of the Beatles or Stones but they came from the studio hit factory that made records for the Byrds, Mamas and Pappas and Beach Boys....the Wrecking crew was responsible for the Monkees
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I was informed that Ringo Starr was left-handed, yet played on a right-handed drum kit. Didn't there were such a thing!
 
Ringo is right handed. Paul McCartney is left handed.
 
Most drummers use both hands except that guy from REO Speedwagon that lost an arm. The snare is the most used drum in a kit and it's usually on the left side of the kick drum...doesn't make you right or left handed....you hit it with both sticks. In all my years of playing I knew one drummer who put the snare on the right hand side of a kit and he was left handed... @HomerLovesKoolAid is the forum master drummer....see what he says about left or right handed drummers
 
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I know lots of guitarists who learned to play right handed that are left handed..
 
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