The Monkees - Worth checking out?

FredV,

Thanks for posting the cool pics...

 

Here's a nice one to start with...

 

Here's Mike's "Circle Sky" from Head. I love how the mix the concert clips with footage from the Vietnam War here.

 

A classic track that should have made it onto their Pisces, Aquarius album.

 

Here's Mickey's first writing contribution to the Headquarters album, inspired by his recent trip to England.

 

Here's one of my favorites of Mike's country flavored cuts. This one was originally demoed for their debut album.

 

The new interview with Phil Keagy thread references his work with Dolenz:
"I do sessions, too, occasionally. They pay some of the bills. I take joy in doing that. I put my heart and soul when I do sessions. In fact, a couple of years ago, I played on half of Micky Dolenz’ last album calledRemember. It’s a great album. A lot of ’50s, ’60s songs, ’70s songs, and I played some of my finest guitar on one of those songs.

Many folks probably know Micky Dolenz was a member of the Monkees. Right. His voice is actually better than it’s ever been. I think he was around 64 or 65 when he recorded this album. He’s hitting all the notes, doing all of his own harmonies. It just amazed me. It was really a privilege to meet him, to do guitar work for him. "

 

You're very welcome. Just doing my bit in shutting the naysayers up.

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Stephen Stills is playing this one.

 

Neil Young is playing on this one.

 

Neil Young is playing the guitar solo on this song.

 

Does anyone know of an inexpensive way to get decent mono mixes besides original vinyl or that weird Friday music box? Did they really only release this **** on rhino handmade? This catalog is sooo convoluted. : (

 

The 2-CD versions of the first four albums had the mono mixes.

 

A couple of years back, the first four albums (S/T, More of, Headquarters and Pisces) were released as 2CD deluxe editions, one had the stereo mixes, the other was mono and both had bonus tracks spread out between them.

All of them are out of print but the Headquarters set was recently reissued.

...I know pbuzby beat me to this, but still...

 

Please do yourself a favor and devote some time to investigating some of the truly great bands of the time apart from icons like the Beatles Byrds and Stones: Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, and just a little later, Flying Burrito Brothers: this will put you on a course to widen your musical horizons rather than limit them

 

Two by the dummy:

 

and The Monkees' equivalent of "Heroes and Villans":

 

Say what?!