Mike Nesmith R. I. P.

[Aberzombie]

Michael Nesmith Dies: The Monkees Singer & Guitarist Was 78

[John Woodford]

Well, crap. I didn't have a TV when the Monkees were on, so I'll always associate him with the El Dorado Song, and of course Rodanne.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

Damn. I remember watching them as a kid. I didn't even know that Jones and Tork had died.

[Thomas Seitz]

I knew Jones had passed. I forgot about Tork and now Nesmith.

[Aberzombie]

Bjørn Røyrvik wrote:

Damn. I remember watching them as a kid. I didn't even know that Jones and Tork had died.

Only Micky Dolenz left now.

[Thomas Seitz]

So now only Heaven has the complete set...

[dirtypool]

How would heaven have the complete set when Micky Dolenz is still very much alive?

[Thomas Seitz]

at the rate this is going (ie the world) not sure that's a given...

[dirtypool]

Yeah it’s a given that he’s still alive currently

What’s the point in vaguely intimating that he might be dead? That’s a weird flex.

[Quark Blast]

Thomas Seitz wrote:

So now only Heaven has the complete set...

Close enough. Drummers are.... easily replaced I hear. And aren't there a few already available? I mean, the rest of Zepplin and Rush are still here without their drummers. So there's that.

:D

[dirtypool]

The difference of course that John Bonham and Neil Peart weren’t also the lead singers of Led Zeppelin and Rush. Nesmith was cast as the lead singer of the fictional band at the time of the shows inception but then they actually began recording and the actual makeup of The Monkees shifted dramatically. Albums list Nesmith as vocalist and lead guitar and list Dolenz as lead singer and drummer.

Micky Dolenz took lead on the majority of the bands output, Davy Jones was lead vocalist on the second largest number of songs with the remained being lead by Nesmith followed by Tork.

Ultimately it was Nesmith who was easily replaced by session guitarists for two and a half decades of Monkees tours, and on the Anniversary album in the mid 80’s. It’s like that drummer comment was made with almost no knowledge of the band. So there’s that.

[Tonya Woldridge]

Removed a few personal harassment posts. Keep it civil please.

[dirtypool]

Tonya Woldridge wrote:

Removed a few personal harassment posts. Keep it civil please.

Could you also delete my replies to those posts, as well as this post?

[Keith Greer]

Out of respect for those mourning Nesmith, I'm offering a 2nd warning:
knock it off! Any more unnecessary nonsense and this thread gets shut down.

[Charles Scholz]

I was very young and only watched Saturday morning TV. That was one of the best shows airing. They were my first musicians since I didn't really listen to the radio yet.
RIP Michael.