![]() ![]() We would just crack up watching this one! I would get to brag to my sister the next morning about all the cool videos I got to see. One particular favorite was "One Step Beyond" by a nutty bunch of guys called Madness, with a bunch of funny-looking guys doing all kinds of hilarious dances throughout the song. Geils Band, "Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?" by the Ramones, "Play The Game" by Queen, "Fish Heads" by Barnes & Barnes, plus cuts by newer bands like Cheap Trick, the Police, the Knack and the Shoes. My sister would either be in her room, or at a friend's house overnight, but my Dad and I would see videos from the newer bands of the day, or old favorites still going strong.Īmong the videos I remember seeing were "Love Stinks" by the J. Later on in the week or maybe on the weekend, at around 9:30 PM, there was a music-video show called Pop Clips, and Dad used to let me stay up to watch it with him. One of the cable channels was called Nickelodeon, which I frequently tuned into in the mornings, as they had a two-hour sort of poor man's Sesame Street type of show, called Pinwheel. A lot of the neighbors would want to come over to watch TV shows they couldn't get anywhere else, or movies, or just see things with better reception than at home. Coinciding with that tour, Dolenz paid tribute with the album Micky Dolenz Sings Nesmith, on which he reimagined a range of songs from the Nesmith catalog, including “Different Drum,” the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-popularized “Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun to Care),” and Monkees deep cuts like “Carlisle Wheeling” and “Tapioca Tundra.” The album was produced by Nesmith’s son, Christian.Back in 1980, when I was four, we were the only ones on the block with a new thing called Cable TV. Nesmith underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery and was hospitalized for more than a month in 2018, but he later resumed touring with Dolenz as “ The Mike & Micky Show” and then teamed with Dolenz for a final Monkees concert trek this year. Nesmith is the third Monkees member to pass away, following Jones’s death in 2012 and Tork’s in 2019. The Monkees’ 50th anniversary comeback LP, 2016’s Good Times! (which featured contributions from Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, XTC’s Andy Partridge, Oasis’s Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, and the album’s producer, Adam Schlesinger), was promoted by another successful reunion tour led by Dolenz and Tork, with Nesmith joining for occasional dates. The Monkees’ 1996 album Justus featured his return to the recording lineup, and in 1997 he wrote and directed ABC’s one-hour comedy special Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees, which marked the last time that all four original Monkees appeared together on TV. Although Nesmith sat out those shows, save for one surprise appearance at L.A.’s Greek, he became amenable to sporadic reunions in the ensuing years. Ironically, it was MTV that sparked the first Monkees reunion: After the then five-year-old cable network ran a Monkees marathon, in 1986, the band was introduced to a whole new generation, and band members Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Dolenz embarked on a massive reunion tour. ![]() I am positive the brilliance he captured will resonate and offer the love and light towards which he always moved.” And in the end I know that Michael was at peace with his legacy which included songwriting, producing, acting, direction, and so many innovative ideas and concepts. That tour was a true blessing for so many. We shared many travels and projects together over the course of 30 years, which culminated in a Monkees farewell tour that wrapped up only a few weeks ago. The Monkees’ and Nesmith’s manager, Andrew Sandoval, also posted on social media: “It is with deep sadness that I mark the passing of Michael Nesmith. “We ask that you respect our privacy at this time and we thank you for the love and light that all of you have shown him and us.” “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” Nesmith’s family said in a statement. ![]() 1, during which Nesmith broke into tears several times. The news comes less than a month after he and his bandmate Micky Dolenz wrapped the Monkees’ farewell tour with an emotional performance at Los Angeles’s Greek Theatre on Nov. ![]() Mike Nesmith, the genius musician, songwriter, filmmaker, and pop-culture innovator best known as the dry-witted, wooly-hatted guitarist/co-frontman of the 1960s’ zeitgeist-capturing TV band the Monkees, has died at age 78. ![]()
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