My sister is going to be very happy with this post. You see, she was part of a generation in thei 1980s who were the perfect age to see The Monkees reunited (without Mike Nesmith) and a revival of their show by Nickelodeon(!), so she became a really big fan of The Monkees at an early age, and I mean a really big fan.
It's because of her that I even know to write this post, because, before her, I didn;t know of the existence of Head, a somewhat satirical musical adventure that served as an epilogue to the band's popular television series. Co-written by Academy Award winning actor Jack Nicholson - yes. THAT Jack Nicholson - the movie was... well, it was a little trippy.
It opened with this song (and accompanying visual - this is the opening of the movie, complete with mermaids saving Mickey Dolenz), written by the great songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It is something of a deep song - and includes not only the band playing the song, but actual porpoise clicks and clacks.
It opened with this song (and accompanying visual - this is the opening of the movie, complete with mermaids saving Mickey Dolenz), written by the great songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It is something of a deep song - and includes not only the band playing the song, but actual porpoise clicks and clacks.
The Monkees took a lot of shit for being a band for a television show. Yeah. I said it. It was undeserved. They were a real band, with a lot of talent, who toured together for as long as they possibly could. Here are three surviviing members (Davy Jones having passed earlier that year) performing together - and I do mean together, and well - in 2012.
Of course, at this point, three of the four Monkees have passed, but the vocalist on this song, Mickey Dolenz, has not, and still tours in tribute to the Monkees More than fifty years after this song was originally released, he still delivers it in the same huge, theatrical, emotional manner.
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