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axlsalinger said:
Strange Trivia: this name came from an odd Monkees spoken word piece from Headquarters in 1967, where each Monkee repeated one sentence over and over.



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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedfVXal_Y8

Extra Piece of Trivia: Headquarters was released on May 22 1967 and quickly went to #1. Unfortunately, it only stayed there for a week, dropping to #2 for the next 11 weeks after some other band dropped an album called Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Pretty cool. I assume most people already know but Nesmith is also responsible for The Tragically Hip's name.

The group’s name is derived from a skit in the 1981 Michael Nesmith comedy Elephant Parts, in which a character exclaims, “Send some money to the foundation for the tragically hip.”
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Habspatrol said:
Pretty cool. I assume most people already know but Nesmith is also responsible for The Tragically Hip's name.
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I'd forgotten about that!

The only quote I ever saw from Nesmith about Mr. Bob Dobalina was the one about him being a store manager. I always wondered if he just happened to be walking through a department store in San Antonio one day and heard over the store speakers someone calling "Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina" and we're still talking about that 50 years later lol.
 
Habspatrol said:
Pretty cool. I assume most people already know but Nesmith is also responsible for The Tragically Hip's name.
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I didn't know that.

I watched The Monkees TV show when I was what, 10, 12, maybe? '66 was the first year I think, I was 10 in '66. I soon outgrew it and passed their music off as fluff. I did appreciate Michael Nesmith's later stuff though.

Many years later I listened to Dwight Yoakam's radio shows on Sirius/XM and he delved deeply into The Monkees and everyone around them in those days. I was suitably educated and impressed by their story and lesser know album cuts.

I don't listen to them much now either but whenever they come on a radio now I think about what I learned and appreciate what they did.

Shit, I'm rambling again. I'm gonna post a couple of things I recently discovered.
 
Couple more oddball Monkees tunes if anyone's interested.

Weird but strangely catchy song about a homeless guy.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8kE0cCY2xk

Nesmith wrote this to sound like an old song from the '20s, complete with crackling and the record skipping at one point. I can imagine a lot of stoned people jumping up thinking their record player broke hearing this in the late 60s! Love this one.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLG33AuNp9w

Another one written by Nesmith and sung by Micky. I guess the Moog synthesizer had just been invented and there were something like 5 in existence. Micky got a hold of one and started fucking around with it while recording it. I think an album was released just before this one that used a Moog deep in the mix, but this was the first time it was heard prominently on a hit album.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgRRdSKC8GA%5B/URL

And since most of these feature Mike and Micky, here's a great song with Davy and Peter on vocals!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ZxRjItD1o
 
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