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Michael Nesmith

Dec 10, 2021#1

evilmike

Monkees singer and guitarist Michael Nesmith, a pop visionary who penned many of the group’s most enduring songs before laying the groundwork for country-rock with the First National Band in the early Seventies, died Friday from natural causes. He was 78. (Rolling Stone)

Dec 10, 2021#2

Sara_2814

Nooooo! He was my favorite Monkee.

Dec 10, 2021#3

PatrThom

So just two left now?

—Patrick

Dec 10, 2021#4

Celt Z

No, only Mickey Dolenz. Peter Tork passed away in 2019.

Aww, man. This is sad. I loved the Monkees as a kid. My first concert was there reunion tour in '87 with Weird Al Yankovic as the opening act. I still listen to their stuff. I know it was dismissed as prefabricated, but a lot of it was good pop songs.

Dec 10, 2021#5

evilmike

The Monkees: Our Life in 15 Songs

The Monkees — Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork — celebrate 50th anniversary with a new archival LP.

www.rollingstone.com

Dec 10, 2021#6

PatrThom

Celt Z said:
No, only Mickey Dolenz. Peter Tork passed away in 2019.

I knew Tork had died, I was just thinking there were 4 of them for some reason.

--Patrick

Dec 10, 2021#7

sixpackshaker

There were.

Dec 10, 2021#8

Celt Z

PatrThom said:
I knew Tork had died, I was just thinking there were 4 of them for some reason.

--Patrick

There were. Davy Jones passed first, but his death was pretty widely covered. I assumed you missed Peter's because it was less mentioned.

Dec 10, 2021#9

DarkAudit

I'm just gonna leave this here...

Dec 10, 2021#10

PatrThom

Celt Z said:
There were. Davy Jones passed first, but his death was pretty widely covered. I assumed you missed Peter's because it was less mentioned.

It was Peter’s I knew about, I had forgotten about (or hadn’t noticed) when Jones passed. But then I’ve always been a Harrison main.

—Patrick

Dec 11, 2021#11

evilmike

Andrew Sandoval, manager for the Monkees and Nesmith, speaking to Variety:

As a solo artist, he had played to his biggest crowd at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (in San Francisco) in 2019, and he was going from highlight to highlight, as far as performing. And the Monkees’ “Good Times” album (their studio swan song, which went top 20 in 2016) — few other artists of his generation were having that kind of success … and critical success, finally, for the Monkees, where they had been lambasted for decades; they were finally accepted. He died knowing that they were beloved, and he finally embraced what they meant to so many other people. I think he finally got it.

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