Monkees

Here they come...

2007-06-06T12:15:00.000+02:00

The Monkees in Hall of Fame

2007-06-06T12:12:00.000+02:00

Be sure to sign the petition. You can read more here.

Channel 4 ad

2007-06-02T12:54:00.001+02:00

The Monkees at Channel 4

2007-06-02T12:51:00.000+02:00

Remeber to tune in tomorrow. I can't see it myself, though. Too bad...

Peter Tork

2007-03-26T08:55:00.000+02:00

Peter in London

2007-03-26T08:48:00.001+02:00

The April-issue of the British Record Collector has a review of the Peter’s concert with Shoe Suede Blues in the 100 Club in London on February 10, 2007. The review is very positive, among other things it says: “The most musically accomplished of the pre-Fabs did his best to engage the audience with his talents. Newer material culled from Cambria Hotel was delivered with humour and consummate professionalism. Tork can easily hold his own and he and his band’s playing was supremely competent.” Nice one!

Alert!

2006-12-04T22:22:00.000+01:00

Due to illness this blog will not be updated in the near future. Sorry!

2006-04-13T14:39:00.000+02:00

Album cover

2006-04-13T14:36:00.000+02:00

Nez

Rays

2006-04-13T14:29:00.000+02:00

Nez has his new album Rays out by now and he gave a great interview to Jason Silverman at Wired News. You can read it here.
If you want to order the CD just follow the link that says Rays on the page.

2006-03-10T17:43:00.000+01:00

Kool Aid Micky

2006-03-10T17:40:00.000+01:00

The Artful Davy

2006-03-10T17:37:00.000+01:00

Michael Blessing

2006-03-10T17:35:00.000+01:00

SS Blue Peter

You Tube

2006-03-10T16:36:00.000+01:00

On You Tube you'll find a lot of Monkees videos, mostly music clips from the series and Kool Aid commercials. But there are also some more quaint things such as 1964 b/w footage of Davy as The Artful Dodger in "Oliver Twist", a 1965 Michael Blessing TV performance and a short interview with Peter regarding the Holy Modal Rounders. My own favourite is Peter singing the blues at the Big Apple Comic Book Convention with his Shoe Suede Blues band. You can also watch a few live performances of the Monkees 1986 (without Nez).

2006-02-06T10:06:00.000+01:00

2 songs on the Top 500. Not bad.

Virgin Radio

2006-02-06T10:00:00.000+01:00

Virgin Radio recently asked their listeners to vote for the Top 500 songs of all times. The Monkees were represented with 2 songs. I'm A Believer made it to No. 245, Daydream Believer to No. 285.

2006-01-17T20:23:00.000+01:00

Daydream Believers cover

Daydream Believers

2006-01-17T16:58:00.000+01:00

In 2000 came the $ 5-million movie "Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story" on The Movie Network in Canada and VH1 in the U.S. The movie was directed by Neill Fearnley and saw actors Aaron Lohr, George Stanchev, Jeff Geddis and L. B. Fisher in the roles of Micky, Davy, Mike and Peter, but it only took the group from the auditions to the end of 1968 before Peter left. The movie was not very accurate. Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider and Jim Frawley were composed into two fictitious characters called "Foreman" and "Harris" and an artificially happy ending was created. Also there was hardly any music in the movie, at least not enough to fill a soundtrack album.
The movie is actually a horror from the start with clumsy introductions to the characters and bad acting, to the end where the movie "forgets" to get back to its frame story. The frame story being a young script writer in the year 1999 who is trying to convince a studio consecutive to make a TV-series about a fictitious band, as he doesn't know that it has all been done before.
It is trying to be "cute", but it has nothing of the charm and wackiness of the real Monkees and even worse, none of the political and satirical undertones.
If you see the movie without knowing the real Monkees it is difficult to understand the popularity of the show. Even the re-acting of scenes from the show is lousy, because of bad acting and lack of charisma from the guys playing the Monkees. The whole dynamics of the Monkees is gone. The troublesome relationship between the four real Monkees was actually a part of that, but the trouble is hardly mentioned. Instead their relationship is turned into a close friendship with no dynamics at all. It is all ever so sweet and ever so phony. But then again, what could be more phony than a remake of the story of the prefab four?
My advice: avoid this movie and have a look at the real thing instead.

2005-12-05T13:51:00.000+01:00

Mike from the NNDB

2005-12-05T13:50:00.000+01:00

Peter from the NNDB

The NNDB

2005-12-05T13:42:00.000+01:00

I just found this weird but rather fun webpage on the net: http://www.nndb.com The NNDB lists all kinds of celebrities in all kinds of cathegories. Here you can see who are vegetarians, who did drugs, who attended which colleges etc. etc. The Monkees are represented (only Mike and Peter with photos, though) and you'll learn all kinds of things about them that are not commonly known. For instance: Micky is an atheist, both Davy's parents died of emphysema, Mike won $ 46 million in the lawsuit where he fought PBS and Peter's sister is an attorney. Check it out.

2005-11-02T10:56:00.000+01:00

Peter from "Exposed"

2005-11-02T10:52:00.000+01:00

Micky from "Exposed"

2005-11-02T10:51:00.000+01:00

Davy from "Exposed"