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Could be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO4eP_7k-mM

I mean...for real...

Up, because..why not?

YEAH!

In that world, what doesn't to some extent? As the years have passed, though, it has been pretty well documented that The Monkees (Nesmith & Tork, anyway) were pretty much willing to sabotage their prefab success in order to get their "messages" out. Hardly a new story, and one can say what one wants about the merits of those "messages", but I gotta hand it to 'em. The TV show got weirder and weirder before it got cancelled, Head is one of the strangest movies ever made, especially one made featuring then-hot Teen Idols supposedly trying to cash in, and the opening & closing segments got more and more anti-Monkee Image. Predicatbly enough, the whole thing crashed and burned pretty quickly as the money people went elsewhere (Don Kirschner allegedly put together The Archies thing at least in aprt to avoid having to face another round of demands for "artistic freedom"), and also predictably enough, pretty soon "The Monkees" were down to Dolenz & Jones & Who Cares?. The whole thing had sort of a flawed, suicidal integrity to it, the way they allowed themselves to be made into one thing, and then willfully (and for quite a while, irrevocably) got themselves out of it at their own expense. If you're into Pop Culture (especially in a "compare then to now" type way), it makes for a pretty interesting story.

50s Emarcy + 60s Limelights maybe? Same company.

The story is that The Monkees wanted to get creative and/or hip once they got SuperBig, so they started getting stuff in their shows that fell outside Normal Bubblegum Parameters. Apparently they didn't get nearly everything they wanted, but they did get some. Tork & Dolenz came to the group from non-bubblegum backgrounds, & Dolenz was just one of those guys who liked to be where the action was. Only Jones was predisposed to Teenybopperdom, and not surprisingly, he became the heartthrob. Stuff like this & the Zappa clip were usually inserted as prologues or epilogues to regular episodes, where they could easily be edited out for syndication purposes. One that I remember (I watched the show back in the day for the humor...hated the music then) was of Nesmith (iirc) sitting with some African-American piano player who was playing (again, iirc), some kind of soul-jazz piano, w/Nesmith shaking a shaker. I've often wondered since if it was Les McCann, but can't find any mention of it anywhere, not that I've looked all that hard. The amazing thing is that the show was only on for two seasons, from which they went from fad to phenoms to has-beens. It seemed longer than that, and between this type of stuff and Head (if you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so), there was this little tiny window that allowed the asking of the question "If Teenybopper Bubblegum is getting all freaky and hip and psychedelic, how much longer can the rest of America resist?" Quite a damn long while, as it turned out. But in real time, one certainly had to wonder...

Alexi Ogando...remember that name, at least until it's time to forget it...but this man has poise and stuff in equal measure.

Too much two-out (to say nothing of two-strike...) drama at Camden Yards today, but all's well that ends well. Can't get habitual with that type thing, though.

First Sidney Pollack, now Sidney Lumet...what Sinematic Sidney shall be next?

"Amazing" might not be the word that I'd use, but yeah, the guy "got" what it was that he was doing better than many/most & proceeded accordingly. It took me more than a few years to get to that, but..better late than never, right? The single is also available as a video on YouTube, but this particular video really gave me the WTF Sensation.

Pretty much, eh?

Jimmy Dean Big John Little Willie John

The drummer appears to be some guy named Eddie Hoh, the type of life the internet was made to remember, the trumpeter is Bud Brisbois, and see, Youth Of Today, this is what you're supposed to do when you get some Bubblegum Power, fuck that shit up a little every so often. I also find in incredible that a song titled "Goin' Down" was the B-side of a song called "Daydream Believer", but then again, I got a dirty mind sometimes. Hey hey! oh yeah - arranged by Shorty Rogers. Of course.

Clark Kent Kent Carter Carter Jefferson

Pixie Dixie Mr. Jinx

I am but one of many. but you're welcome anyway )

http://www.myspace.com/joelfass fixed.

Hey, I'm just glad he doesn't have a twin to pitch the second game today!

If today is any indication, that Zach Britton has some pretty nasty stuff. O's fans should be excited!

Colby Lewis needs to find his inner Colby Lewis...

I honestly don't remember...all I remember for sure are Threadgill, Dara, & John Betsch(!). One helluva band, whoever it was!