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[mickdalena]

You and I

Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart

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Voting ended onOct 15, 2024

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[nakedpersimmon]

Loving this rare pic of Glam Rock!Micky at the DJBH Riverboat Show in 1976.

(Pic courtesy of Fred Velez.)

[nakedpersimmon]

Micky being a fabulous glam rock slut while performing “Steppin’ Stone” in concert with Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, & Hart in 1976.

[Via this video, courtesy of Fred Velez.]

[dolenzjonestorknesmith]

Oh, Davy…

[nakedpersimmon]

A shitty, rage-making review written by Bill Gray, of a DJBH show in Detroit in 1976. Obviously, this was a time when there was still backlash against the Monkees and they were looked down on in multiple rock/music circles. But it doesn't excuse the damn near palpable contempt with which the writer discusses the Monkees and this show.

A few excerpts:

"The Monkees--what's left of them--still figure they have a lot to say about now, 10 years following their creation (in the most contrived sense of the word), they can no longer claim to be the 'young generation.' That is unless you're 112 and consider 30, the age of surviving Monkee Mickey Dolenz and his pal Davy Jones, now 29, the 'young generation.'"

"Actually, the Monkees 'broke up' when the same television audience that created them dumped them and wrote them off as lightweights. Suddenly, you couldn't get any pop music fan to admit he was once a Monkees fan, a factor that occurred mostly because the audience learned that the group members didn't play their own instruments."

"The duration of the set is free form to the point of being sloppy. The four singers form uncoordinated patterns around the stage wisecracking to themselves and to the audience. Monkees hits which the crowd have come to hear--"She", "I'm A Believer," "Valerie" and the rest are treated like parodies and the microphones are continually going blank in the mid phrase of the songs. But there is enough nostalgia going on to get the crowd up, if not on its feet, to the edge of its chair."

"It's doubtful that Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, and Hart have any future in the music business outside of redoing their oldies. The "new" material is treated with a general apathy by the crowd while the old standards are greeted with nostalgic enthusiasm.

The tiny crowd left the theater fulfilled and entertained. But to the audience, which once held the Monkees in such high esteem they compared them to the Beatles, the thrill is definitely gone."

(Article via the Monkees Live Almanac.)

[nakedpersimmon]

If ever there was a photo that says "Srs musicians, hire us plz," this is it...

(Pic via the Monkees Live Almanac.)

[thank-your-lucky-stars]

Davy Jones during the DJBH era (X)