Stealing a bit of Hondo’s Rice Bowl
Michael Nesmith’s “Different Drum” as it was meant to sound.
Hat tip to AW1 Scott for the link.
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Michael Nesmith was far better than he let himself be roped into.
This live performance also included a live version on “Joanne”, which I thought was a pretty good song, however, it kind of leaves you hanging with no resolution. I guess that’s what he was going for, because it feels like the final verse is missing.
https://youtube.com/9ZiHjmE-5BI
Dammit! Take 2:
https://youtu.be/9ZiHjmE-5BI
He was the only trained and accomplished musician of the group I shall not name. Just like the others, he answered an ad for singers, etc for a possible TV show.
I’m thinking the late Peter Tork had some kind of musical background (folk?) as well. I read somewhere that Stephen Stills auditioned for the role that Tork eventually got.
Tork indeed had a musical background – he was reportedly an accomplished folk singer (and was well known in NYC’s Grenwich Village folk scene) prior to his stint with the Monkees. He also was an associate of Stephen Stills.
Stills indeed auditioned for the part Tork eventually got on the Monkees, but was turned down because he wasn’t “photogenic enough”. Reportedly Stills was asked if he knew someone else with musical talent and “Nordic looks” – and recommended the casting agent call Tork.
Sadly, Tork died a bit less than a year ago – 21 February 2019 – of a rare form of cancer that he’d battled on and off for almost 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tork
Say what you want about the lads and their musical talent, but 4 out of 6 albums going #1 in a 3-year stretch seems to me to say they were doing something right.
York wasn’t much of a singer but he was the most versatile musician of the group – he was proficient on guitar, bass, banjo, and keyboards.
“Tork” – Thanks, autocorrect.
Davy Jones had a very successful musical career prior to the formation of the band. Singing, dancing, acting. He was the Artful Dodger in “Oliver,” for instance. Saw him as such at the Shubert in around 1964, give or take.
He did the first music video that was awarded a Grammy “Elephant Parts”. Some music, some humor… pretty good stuff
Rodan! (Joanne)
Hilarious.
Great version!
Reminds me a bit of “You Really Got Me” from the Kinks… Ray Davies said the Van Halen version is the way the song is supposed to sound. If you ever hear the live version from the Kinks, you’ll agree.
If your over 70 and grew up in one of NYC’s five borough’s during the 1950’s, you may remember the Crows singing Miss You on Rama 1954. Check it out on youtube. Some nice first tenor and falsetto rifts in the background. When I was boarding Amcrash back in 2007 in Penn Station going to the Iwo Jima Class Ship reunion in Chicago, I had one of my Doo Wopp shirts on and the young lady on the train crew saw the shirt and she said that her Dad was one of the members of the Crows and another crew member from Astoria Queens borrowed my CD’s to play during his time off on the trip.
Jeff LPH 3, 63-66, it’s off-topic Brother but sometime I want to ask you about growing up in New York when it was far different.
Sparks, sorry about that and as you can see, I sometimes go of on a tangent. When your ready, let Admin. have your phone number and they can email me with it and I’ll give you a shout about New York back in the 50’s.
Been out & about today. It finally quit raining, well…til tomorrow sometime.
Over the last decades or so I’ve had Gen xyzlmnop kids tell me, “Hey Boomer, you are stuck in the past?” I usually just tell them, “Yeah I am, the music was much better back then.”
Tanks for the memories Bro, you did a good job “buttering up” Hondo’s Rice Bowl.
Thank AW1 Scott, I just posted. Checked your email lately?
The music was better because people actually had to sing and play an instrument. Talent was more important than technology.
Yes to both of y’all. The cars looked better too. Seems like the music and automobiles both went into the sh^tter in the late 70s/early eighties. Anybody think that 50 years from now a 1985 K Car will be a collectable like the ’55 Chevy? Or a lip sync from Milli Vanalli and the Rapper Dappers will be flooding the airwaves? Prove me wrong.
NOBODY in their right mind would be excited over a 1985 Chrysler K Car barn find, ditto with a 1980s GM X Car!
Say what you will about X cars, had a Citation that always started, always ran… may have been a POS but was a dead reliable POS. Older I get, the more I like yhat. Oh, and it ate one battery and one water pump in 7 years before getting sold for the same small amount I paid for it.