tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post2954786323141201803..comments2024-03-04T04:08:39.755-08:00Comments on The Fies Files: Davy JonesBrian Fieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-66161698121522041942012-03-05T10:01:35.632-08:002012-03-05T10:01:35.632-08:00That's why we shall never speak of "Tommy...That's why we shall never speak of "Tommy James and the Shondells."Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-4099592482105851942012-03-05T09:50:45.705-08:002012-03-05T09:50:45.705-08:00"The first LP I ever bought was a Monkees alb..."The first LP I ever bought was a Monkees album."<br /><br />If you had not confessed to this, it would have remained properly shrouded by the mists of history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-13438506051266521832012-03-02T07:55:30.017-08:002012-03-02T07:55:30.017-08:00...that should be 'hand', not 'had'......that should be 'hand', not 'had'...sligohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790839337334176733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-29515860758962591152012-03-02T07:54:12.111-08:002012-03-02T07:54:12.111-08:00Unlike many musicians since 1981 who had a couple ...Unlike many musicians since 1981 who had a couple of decades of MTV music videos to influence what and 'how' they played (and stood, and snarled, and vamped...), many blossoming young guitarists like myself in the sixties absorbed shows like the Monkees, and Where the Action Is, and Shindig, like parched earth sucks up rain. We were too young to go to clubs (hell, we were barely old enough to stay up past nine o'clock), spent hours by ourselves practicing, and then voila, there were people on TV being what (we thought) we wanted to be, and, because there weren't no such thing as a VCR, every photon from that big ol' tube that showed the fingering patterns of 'real' guitarists was sucked into our collective musician consciousness.<br /><br />Everything a young musician listens to becomes part of their foundation, and as a sixth grader I was already listening to everything from the Ventures to Henry Mancini (the Peter Gunn riff may be the greatest riff of all time), and my second thought upon hearing of Davy's death, right after saying a brief Buddhist prayer, was that If I had a guitar in my had at that moment I could have played Last Train to Clarksville without hesitation.<br /><br />Life is trippy, sad, and wonderful.sligohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790839337334176733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-67583283884112302472012-03-01T22:37:44.745-08:002012-03-01T22:37:44.745-08:00Davy was Marcia's prom date in '71, which ...Davy was Marcia's prom date in '71, which I didn't think was <i>ridiculously</i> long after the Monkees' peak. The show was still in widespread reruns then, I think. Regardless, I enjoyed the twist on that episode in 1995's "Brady Bunch Movie." Don't know if you saw it, but the conceit was that the Brady family was still stuck in the '70s while the rest of the world had moved on. New-Marcia invited middle-aged Davy to the prom. None of her teenage peers had any idea who he was, but all their <i>mothers</i> standing on the sidelines went nuts. <br /><br />A lot of people are linking to Davy's recent work singing a penguin song for a Sandra Boynton book. It's pretty sweet: http://youtu.be/h-sGDe-yMKsBrian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-74473772421307420282012-03-01T21:06:33.258-08:002012-03-01T21:06:33.258-08:00I never understood why The Monkees weren't con...I never understood why The Monkees weren't considered "cool." Like the incredibly "in" show <i>Laugh-In</i>, they had a hit NBC series, they had a custom Dean Jeffries car like The Munsters, and their music was top-notch. <br /><br />Nesmith was always my favorite Monkee - he had hands-down musical talent, and his post-Monkee years (mom inventing White-Out, Mike inventing music video production companies) seems almost like a collection of urban legends.<br /><br />To this day, I puzzle over the unusual subgenre of musical acts on sitcoms. <i>Gilligan's Island</i> had its episode with The Mosquitos; <i>F Troop</i> had its Bedbugs; <i>The Munsters</i> featured The Standells on one episode; and Batman hosted Chad & Jeremy (darn that evil Catwoman and her voice-stealing gizmo!). I guess the giant loop-through on this one is Mr Jones's appearance on The Brady Bunch - - which just seemed anachronistic. Davy's heyday was long past by that point, and showing up with the Brady family seemed as odd as Cindy Brady's weird desires for Desi Arnaz, Jr. WTH was THAT all about?Jim O'Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01806624628546492210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-81654873614331177262012-03-01T18:09:35.806-08:002012-03-01T18:09:35.806-08:00You would go for the cute one.You would go for the cute one.Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-92085999049672285552012-03-01T16:45:52.348-08:002012-03-01T16:45:52.348-08:00Oh, I'm plenty old for the Rutles. Big fan of ...Oh, I'm plenty old for the Rutles. Big fan of Dirk's.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-47402690850997621052012-03-01T16:37:53.631-08:002012-03-01T16:37:53.631-08:00Excellent tribute, Brian (and I Did Not Know That ...Excellent tribute, Brian (and I Did Not Know That either, Mark), but those of us just a little older than you are very, very fond of <a href="http://www.rutles.org/rmain.html" rel="nofollow">another Prefab Four</a>.Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-7978004677057992682012-03-01T13:16:50.887-08:002012-03-01T13:16:50.887-08:00I was never a Monkees fan - my musical taste went ...I was never a Monkees fan - my musical taste went from Top 40 in the 50s to jazz in the 60s to psychedelia in the 70s, missing pop of their period - but Jones' death sent me to his Wikipedia entry, where I learned he collaborated quite a bit with Sandra Boynton. I Did Not Know That.Mark Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16294712435189215667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-35875397768285620982012-03-01T12:57:19.068-08:002012-03-01T12:57:19.068-08:00Brian, that was perfect. Thanks for sharing your t...Brian, that was perfect. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.Guy Gilchristhttp://www.guygilchristmusic.comnoreply@blogger.com