Remember when Steve Albini called Smashing Pumpkins "the grunge Monkees"? Gen X never will escape the shadow cast by the Boomers... unless they choose to.
Anyway, I admire these 4 guys for having a pretty healthy attitude overall about success/fame/the machine that is American pop culture. Imagine being defined for the rest of your life by this blip of an experience you had in your 20s... That Tork, Nesmith, Dolenz and Jones all went on to do other things and make their own peace with their complicated legacy says more about who they are than the images of them that are still widely circulated.