This makes me sad. He was the best musician of the Monkees. I made a CD of my favorite songs of theirs and 3/4ths of them are Michael’s. Rest in Peace, Michael.
The Monkees singer-songwriter and guitarist Michael Nesmith died on Friday morning from natural causes. He was 78 years old.
“With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said in a statement obtained by EW.
Awww. 😥
Now that’s sad.
What is especially shocking is that there is only one Monkee left. Then I think of how old I am and I realize that it really should not come as a surprise.
I know what you mean, RadioMattM! I picked the picture because that’s how I want to remember him. How did we get to be our grandparents???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZiHjmE-5BI&ab_channel=MichaelNesmith%27sVideoranch
——————-
Done. I just listened to this. He was great. I bookmarked it. Thanks for posting! – Claudia
His Mom invented “White Out” typewriter correction fluid.
Her story brings truth to the old adage “necessity is the mother of invention”.
I have played many of his and the Monkees music over the years. RIP Michael. My heart is heavy over your passing.
Zappa/Nesmith was one of the best Monkee moments. RIP to both.
Here he comes
walking down heaven’s street.
He’ll get the funniest looks from
everyone he meets.
I never missed one episode of the Monkees. I glued together the plastic model car of the Monkeemobile and I was crazy for these guys when I was a kid. This makes me so sad. RIP, Michael. We will always remember the joy you brought into our lives.
He was great as Fleegle in The Banana Splits.
;-P
R.I.P. Michael
Oh no! I’ve been a fan of his writing and solo work for decades.
This hurts.
The Monkees were actually a lot better band than many give them credit for. I attempted to watch a movie based on their lives a few months ago on Prime, couldn’t make it through even half. Movie was awful, band was great.
My oldest kid thought they were great 50 yers go. The rest were unimpressed. Wife and I were big fans from ’65 to now!
My wife sent me tapes of ‘rock music while I was getting bladed and shot in “That crazy Asian War”; Day Dream
Believer was fav! Still is!
Grew up as a preteen listening to their underated music and watching their show. Great time to be a kid.
My favorite song?
Valerie!
https://youtu.be/QWTa9CE51sA
My favorite Michael Nesmith Monkee song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkL-w7Q1gvw&ab_channel=woolhat1
I was on a Monkees kick just a couple months ago. I preferred the songs Nesmith sang and really liked “What am I Doing Hangin’ Round” and “Sweet Young Thing.”
Jethro, I can always tell when my wife has been typing letters on my PC. There’s Wite-Out(tm) on the screen.
Requiem in pacem…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=riG85oA6Wy4
Tis the season.
The Prefab Four. Yeah, I was a big fan as a kid.
I appreciate his solo music. There’s an interview from a fairly recent convention where he rambled on and on, it was uncomfortable to watch, you could tell he was losing his grip.
Very sad. Only thing sadder is Limbaugh passing.
RIP
Enjoyed his work.
They were on TV about the time of Death Valley Days on Saturday nights back around 1967. I stood in line in the 80’s for a come back tour and caught them live! The only time I ever waited for tickets
He put out the first video that won the first video Grammy in 1981. Elephant Parts. Funny bunch of skits and songs.
Circus Boy Micky is the only one left.
https://youtu.be/WS4uQIjkNsk
I remember some of the teen Boomers sneering at the Monkees, saying they were pap for us snotty little Gen Xers, I didn’t care. We were too young for the Beatles, but the Monkees were just perfect.
To this day that fat dummy in the glasses they had sitting around the living room still creeps me out.
I just found Elephant Parts in my DVD collection. I will watch it tonight.
Is it just me or does this website suck from an iPhone?
Halfway through a comment and your post just disappears. Poof. Gone
Sad. Better days…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pv53Samyo
…spent hanging ’round….
PHenry, I now copy after every ten words, so when the blankening happens, I don’t have to retype or give up on the comment. I thought I was the only one getting zapped. Thanks for mentioning that.
Omg. Watching elephant parts now. Laughing my ass off
Rock and roll hospital? Pirate alphabet? Oh jeez. That there is funny.
I can’t say that I have a lot of the Monkees in my library, but it was always good, clean music that had The 60s written all over it which is why I like it!!
RIP Michael Nesmith. You earned it!
I have very few problems with this site.
Zip, zero, nada when using the Mac computer (Safari) and only occasional issues when using an Android tablet and phone. Very rarely have I had a post vaporize on me, but if it does it usually happens on the Android tablet which admittedly is getting old (2015).
Neighborhood Nuclear Superiorty.
Funny stuff.
Great guy. He also started MTV.
Rock and roll hospital. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkaXD3CKo_U
I just heard. Sad, sad indeed. I wasn’t a Monkees fan but I did appreciate greatly the songs, with, and intelligence of Mike Nesmith.
Heading to the music room to play and sing “Some of Shelley’s Blues,” maybe I can get through it with out crying.
“Elephant Parts” just became quite nostalgic, along with “Repo Man” and all the existing videos of his TV variety show.
BeeGees disease. Oh stop. You’re killing me.
I think I would have liked him personally. He also skated on the other side of the ice.
The bit with the lisping queer Usmc guy recruiting.
Omg. Hilarious.
My comment got zapped!?!?
There’s something funny about the gasoline prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsxlfgHkF38
“He also skated on the other side of the ice.”
He was very liberal and really out there with some views, but what’s that mean?
Accomplished musician and song writer. Utterly uninterested in being a kook kid.
He won a lawsuit against PBS, which defrauded him. Makes him a hero in my book.