Davy Jones has been dead a week, but Smasher doesn't like the thread title

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Getting the funniest looks as he walks through the pearly gates.

 

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Excellent line!

 

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He was at a Club Med I was at back in 1995 or so in the Bahamas. Very approachable, very friendly, he'd just hang out on the beach with his family. He and his band played a show for every one one night. Probably got that gig in exchange for a week at the resort, which was a nice tradeoff.

Also saw the Monkees (minus Nesmith) do a pregame concert at Candlestick in the mid-1990s. It was a well-played, well-received show.

I enjoyed their TV show, about the only thing remotely hip on TV for a teenager back in the day. Supposedly Steven Stills wasn't selected because he had bad teeth.

 

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"The Monkees," the whole production, i.e. the songwriters, producers, studio musicians, and to some extent the actors, put out a lot of great pop music in the Sixties. I have probably a half-dozen Sixties collections and almost all of them have a Monkee song or two on them, and they're always fun to listen to.

That said, I saw a couple episodes of the teevee show a couple weeks ago on one of our "retro" channels, and I was just astonished how stupid, lazy and slap-dash the shows were, even for a teenybopper Sixties show. Next to this dreck, the Partridge Family and Brady Bunch were Shakespeare productions.

Even as a grade-school kid in the Sixties, I remember nobody watched the Monkees because the shows were just too dumb.

 

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You really had to drop some acid before watching to understand.

 

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Haven't seen an episode in years. But as I recall, the plotlines were something akin to a live action version of Scooby Doo (i.e., the band spending a half-hour solving a mystery or helping a friend out of a jam).

 

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One of the episodes I saw featured Nesmith spending half the episode in drag playing a princess or something. Amusing in a yuk-yuk way for the first 2 minutes, grinding and tedious the next 28.

 

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Looks like now he will be someone's stepping stone.

RIP

 

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So magical he killed off the Brady Bunch.
Oh that was cousin Oliver, not "Oliver!"

 

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"The Monkees" was not "Masterpiece Theatre." Far from it. But for a 14-year-old kid it beat the hell out of Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, My Mother the Car, the Lucy Show, Mayberry RFD, the Beverly Hillbillies or the overwhelming number of other sitcoms directed at the soon-to-be-characterized "Silent Majority."

NBC had some forward thinkers back in the day. The Monkees, James at 16, Laugh-In, Then Came Bronson, those shows were almost radical for that era.

 

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Hah only starman could find fault with a kids TV show.