#the monkees musical

[shadowland]

Michael Nesmith Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors embroidered and rhinestone-accented stage outfit, hat and boots (circa 1967-69), photographed by Bob Delevante.

An influential outfit if ever there was one in the genre. Nesmith was country-rock when country-rock wasn’t cool, when he was still in the Monkees. This rhinestone-accentuated suit — with chain-stitched peacocks, orchids, musical notes and American flag motifs — also came from Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors, circa 1967. It predates the famous Flying Burrito Brothers suits of a similar nature.

“He wore it to the premiere of ‘Head,’ and on the last Monkees television special, ’33 1/3.’ As soon as we decided to do this exhibit, this was one of the first artifacts we thought of, like, ‘Oh, we’ve gotta have that.’ You know, we had a little bit of a relationship with Michael because he was featured in the Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash ‘Nashville Cats’ exhibit that we did, and he came and played an album release party for that, and we got to know him a little and had a relationship going. We asked if we could borrow this, and he made it clear that he absolutely wanted it to come here. And then just with the timing… by circumstance, the same week he passed, we’re getting notices that the shipment is on its way to Nashville. It was just interesting timing.”

— Michael Gray, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum {x}

[loadingmercurywithapitchfork]

letting a classic folkrock fan dj is always a gamble because they’re either going to play the most beautiful song you’ve ever heard or some shit like your auntie grizelda

[90s-music-tourney]

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Flocking doodles

Maiasaura watching over her hatchlings

Sigilmassasaurus fighting for territory

Boreaspis swimmin round

Gigantopithecus yeeting another Gigantopithecus to assert dominance

[thegameoflovemindberries]

[k-zit-the-oooze]

Micky Dolenz, late 1960s

[holdy-caulfield]

I was listening to The Monkees recently. When the producers of the show didn’t allow them to write their own songs, the songs were about love, girls, some broken heart, just 60s pop stuff.

When they finally were allowed to write their own stuff, they’d write some songs about a man committing s*icide, mental asylum, referencing drugs quite openly, describing apocalyptic landscape, and one of the first punk songs.

Dolenz’ stuff was almost always experimental with the structure, tempo and lyrics. Peter Tork was spilling bars and was very versatile, and amazingly good when it came to psychedelics. Michael could write the country song about love the first day and full on avant garde the next day.

The Monkees themselves were writing DARK songs. Wish they allowed them to be fully creative from the beginning. But there’s a showbiz for you.

[midnighttraindemo]

copies of mojo i found at the library :)

[nemfrog]

Hit Parader Magazine. December 1967. Magazine cover detail.

Internet Archive

[mickdalena]

being a monkees fan in 2024 means neverending occurrences of seeing something online and going "huh, michael nesmith did that first...."

[karter-kat]

Just hanging out!

[sunburngoth]

Your Auntie Grizelda - More of The Monkees

oh yeah she's raised you right, your auntie grizelda...

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[beatlesmenrock]

im still working on my beatles comic but happy monkees monday

[vancruejovi]

Mike Nesmith 🌷

[bilbao-song]

secret rocker santa participants needed!! (11/19/24)

time for another List™ (the last one was super helpful, thank you everyone who reblogged and signed up!! <3): currently we are most in need of fans of following musicians and bands (or even just people with a passing interest in them):

⁃ the monkees ⁃ simon and garfunkel ⁃ the cure ⁃ KISS ⁃ billy joel ⁃ also just new wave music in general lol

everyone is welcome (the only requirement is that you’re a fan of some kind of music from roughly the 50s-90s) and there’s plenty of time left!! these are just the ones that so far seem like they’ll be the hardest to match, which means more fans signing up would be very helpful :^) if you or your followers fit this criteria, please consider reblogging this post!

remember, sign-ups are open through november 28th and anonymous messaging begins december 1st :-)

➜ more information about secret rocker santa ➜ F.A.Q. page ➜ sign up here! (or here if you’d prefer to stay on tumblr)

[lisamarie-vee]