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Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #590



Does that mean you also make him partly responsible for everyone's favourites the Eagles?


From: "wesley yang" <wesyang@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Subject: Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #590
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:12:55 -0500

Mike Nesmith went on to have an interesting and productive solo career. He
ought to be classed among the early pioneers of country-rock, along with the
Byrds, Flying Burrito Bros. etc.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Van Rooy" <russvr@blarg.net>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #590


> Members of both the Monkees and The Byrds knew  how to play their own
> instruments and did so on record. With the Byrds, I believe it was only
"Mr
> Tambourine Man", their first single, on which only Roger McGuinn played
and
> the rest were session players. True, they picked Michael Clarke for his
> looks and not his drumming ability. You need only listen to PreFlyte to
hear
> them while they were learning to play their instruments. As for the
Monkees,
> certainly Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork ( Thorkelson) were musicians.
Tork
> was formerly of the Greenwich Village folk scene.
> -Russ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Neukam" <scottneukam@yahoo.com>
> To: <tv@obbard.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:54 AM
> Subject: Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #590
>
>
> > --- "Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Also, your perceptions change over time, right? I thought
> > > the Monkees kicked
> > > *ass* when I was eleven, but I don't care how good the CD
> > > remastering is now
> > > -they just aren't the same band to me, and the songs do
> > > NOT sound the same.
> >
> > I love the Monkees!  maybe I'm still too young, but that's
> > some of my fave pop music of all time.  Who cares if they
> > didn't play their own instruments (neither did the Byrds)
> > or write their own songs (neither did the Yardbirds,
> > mostly).
> >
> > Scott
> >
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