In Memory of the Late Davy Jones…
…I give you an FBI report on the Monkees, also described herein as "The Monkeys" and "four young men who dress as 'beatnik types.'" Here's the high point:
During the concert, subliminal messages were depicted on the screen which, in the opinion of [redacted] constituted "left wing innovations of a political nature."
A great deal of the document is blacked out, and there is a second Monkees document in the FBI vault that is redacted entirely. Apparently the rock world has secrets that civilians must never know.
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I have it on good authority that that isn't even Michael Nesmith's real hat.
Hat? Hat? That there is a toque my good man. Not half cunning too if you ask me.
What's not to love about "Daydream Believer"?
The Monkees and John Stewart. What's not to love, indeed.
I will admit to watching "The Monkees" TEEVEE show as a yute. It sucked.
Watched the Monkees reruns after school all the time during the Carter Administration.
Saw the original airings. Remember all their #1s on the AM radio. Which reminds me: Time to light up a nice Dominican (a cigar, not a human), and down a beer or three while spinning a CD I burned from vinyl of The Best of The Monkees. Here's to you, Davy!
Get the Rhino collection, if it's still available.
It should be remembered the Monkees were simply a front organization for the subversive mechinizations of Carol King and Neil Diamond; and I have evidence suggesting that both were in fact Jews from New York who changed their names... therefore, Communists.
PITA to get here.
Fuck dem skwerls
"Peter Tork?! More like Peter DORK! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Mickey Dolenz was "the cool Monkee".
Which tells you everything you need to know about Teh MUnkEez
Left-wing? Left-wing like Liquid Paper heirs?
"I wish my mom had invented Liquid Paper."
Yeah, Nesmith inherited a bundle from his mom but he also made multimillions on his own, producing/selling PBS videos.
That was a shitty comment Bob Goldthwait had made when they were doing a reunion tour without Nesmith. Something along the lines of miming coming out on stage with a walker and then saying that.
Sounds interesting but I have no idea what that last sentence means.
And producing movies, the pinnacle being Repo Man.
The pinnacle of Alex Cox's career, too.
A lot of pinnacles in there. Very pinnacly.
John Wayne was a fag
The hell he was!
Dude was,er, diminutive.
I think he's dreamy!
THEY DON'T MONKEE AROUND
Naw. They're too busy singing.
This reminds me of the "Fear of Flying" Simpsons episode. "The Monkees weren't about music! They were about rebellion!"
Also, this sort of crazy wouldn't be unexpected under JE Hoover.
Hey, they're just trying to be friendly.
Go watch them sing and play.
You mean the FBI has secrets that civilians must never know. Sorry don't know how to do the strikeout thing.
Just goes to show that the government itself has paranoid conspiracy types that would put Alex Jones to shame.
The Monkees Behind The Music noted that they smoked so much pot during filming, they had to build a sealable room for them that vented out the roof so that the entire studio wouldn't reek of weed.
Could you say those lines without being stoned?
I watched the Monkees movie "Head" last night. I wouldn't say it was good just very trippy and strange. Jack Nicholson must have been taking a lot of acid when he wrote that.
"Cabeza Watches Head" seems like a great headline. Very recursive.
Yellow Submarine is a much better acid movie. So I hear.
"The Trip" also written by Jack Nicholson. Starring Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper is a better acid film. Although, I was on acid when I watched it so that probably made it a lot better. I didn't really like Yellow Submarine & only watched about the first 30 minutes of it.
I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
Wrong Nicholson movie.
Although one of the best lines in all of movie history.
I always found that they were all good acid films under those circumstances.
Good point.
And, for that matter, I was always of the opinion that one of the measures of good acid was how much it made mundane things approximate Yellow Submarine.
Have you ever seen Skidoo?
Otto Preminger wanted all the copies destroyed, and I don't think it's ever gotten a DVD release.
That's one messed up movie, but I liked it (I can be very forgiving of some movies). Thank you, TCM Underground, for showing me so many wonderfully terrible movies.
I'm sure upon hearing of their former bandmates death, the other monkees began flinging their own pheces out of anger and grief.
Before sitting in a front window, masturbating.
Why don't they make shows like the Monkees anymore?
And not animated.
Because it's not the 1960s and nobody cares? Just guessing.
And before you ask, I'll get off your lawn.
Have you seen Hannah Montana?
Or Jonas Brothers? There was a show a while back I think called Naked Band or something like that. Same shit, TV show based on a fake music act.
Bigtime Rush
The Monkees were music-video pioneers well before DEVO.
Look, they're even walking in lockstep!
Isn't it about time for our resident statists to leap up and tell us how terrible it would be without these goobermint geniuses to protect us from made up bands? I mean, shit, how can anyone take the feds seriously when they do such ridiculous things?
The Monkees: Still Better Than KISS
Hell yeah!
Hey-hey, we're the Monkees Libertarians!
And we've got somethin' to say snark!
We're the young generation not the Boomers,
And we've got somethin' to say comment!