What did you do on elephant parts ? Do you remember what that last conversation with him was about ... can you share it with us ? Was he not well before he died ? They said he died peacefully in his sleep ... but then I also heard he died of a heart attack which is not the same thing
We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too; Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
So sad to hear Mike passed. He was my favorite Monkee back in the day. In fact, my freshman year is college, I had a wool cap like Mike's and wore it all the time. Thanks Don. As always a very good job.
I remember these videos appearing on HBO as "shorts" before MTV. Mike was the pioneer of music videos, and MTV. But that all falls back on his time and experience with the Monkees. And very much encouragement from the great, Frank Zappa. Thanks, Mike, for all you've done for modern musicians.
I'm quite sure I didn't catch this on its first run, but I do believe I saw it rerun in the spring of 1984. My mum drove into town (Los Angeles) to visit, and my three roommates and I told her to ditch the motel and just stay with us in our apartment. So we were up late one of those nights, kind of one of those "I'm too tired to go to bed" things, and Mike Nesmith was a guest on whatever was on the living room telly. We were listening to him (talking about an award he'd won) so attentively that I didn't even remember, for years, whether the host was Johnny Carson or Dave Letterman. That talk show appearance was how I first heard about Bette Nesmith's great invention -- straight from her dear son, not from the Wikipedia.
@@KOSMICKEN09 We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
What an interesting interview. Dave really adjusted his energy to Mike's. *That* was a real *chat.* Serious stuff. We all gotta go, and Mike Nesmith did some interesting stuff with his time here. Glad to have seen this piece of it.
Michael was a great songwriter I have several albums and they wonderful. I remember watching the tv show as a young boy in the ’70’s and rediscovered the band and Michael’s music in the early ‘90’s and I have been listening ever since. RIP
I always felt that Mike was to the Monkees what George was to the Beatles. The most interesting member, the most complex sounds. I always preferred his songs. Such a loss, such a loss.
Great piece from Letterman! I like David, and Nesmith is an all time favorite of mine! I only wish this segment was longer! If I were the host, I'd have been more enthusiastic and ABSOLUTELY complimented Mike on already 13 years of incredibly great solo music by 1983, and talked about that extensively. And his Monkee-era and solo songwriting. Dave could have mentioned "Rio", heard in one of the "Elephant Parts" clips shown, and its chart success in the U.K.. R.I.P. Mike Nesmith. Thanks for the incredible music and fun.
You may be right on George being the most interesting Beatle. Certainly the deepest thinker. But Paul was the most complex songwriter musically...the true art-rocker of the four.
Been watching and listening to Mike a lot the last 2 years as my 3 year old son loves The Monkees, one of his fave bands, & he always points out Mike when he's on vocals. So the news of his passing makes me very sad!
Man, I looked for that for years. I went downtown one day to a huge record store we had down there, about 1988 or 1989 or so, and I finally found it. Zoomed home, got on the phone and called up my buddy. I'm like, "Hey, Alan! Come on over!" "Wha' for?" "I've got Elephant Parts!" "... ... ..." The silence on the other end of the line was funnier than anything he could have possibly said. :D
He absolutely had the best voice in the band. It wasn’t close. But the “poppy” stuff the Monkees cranked out was better suited for Micky and Davy. As a serious musician, I’d bet that Mike had no problem NOT singing those songs.
Couldn't agree more. He had that old-school Southern charm. And he was so talented -- he was only twenty-two when he wrote that beautiful song, "Different Drum," which in itself is about being strange in a good way.
@KOSMICKEN09 We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
@@joealexandra7185 His mother having invented white out for typewriters must have taken second place to THE DIFFERENT DRUM ! @KOSMICKEN09 We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
It's interesting how much of what we would call throwaway TV during the 60's lasted so long. The Monkees. Gilligan's Island. Lost In Space. Star Trek. The Beverly Hillbillies. The Munsters. The Addams Family. The Brady Bunch. (It began in 1969) Batman. It just shows how something which we took for granted had a lasting effect on so many people.
Like everyone else, I was saddened by the news of Nez. What a loss. I saw The Monkees live the summer of '96 at Pine Knob Music Theater just outside of Detroit. Different world then, for sure. A better world. I'll never forget that experience with my dad (I'm 41 now). It feels like everything is crumbling and passing away in the world. But, the memories cannot be taken away. Ah, the good ole days. They just slipped away like sand. If I'd have known they'd one day be considered as such, I wouldn't have been in such a hurry to move on past em'. That's the thing---- when we're presently experiencing what will one day be considered "the good ole days" ----- we're not aware of it. So, we take it for granted (and rush on through to the next chapter of life). Then, inevitably, we find ourselves longing for what was so flippantly overlooked and disregarded. Life is a self-contradicting oxymoronic paradox. But, if you catch it in the right light, while in the right mood---- it's beautiful.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Elephant Parts and interviews like this was how I realized as a child watching the Monkees that what I had seen was not new, it was around before my own birth. Good way to find that out as I cannot imagine what fans newer than me to the Monkees had to realise that but I got to do that when they'd aged about ten or twenty years instead.
I grew up to them. I was a Huge Beatles fan!! In fact in 67ish I wanted to have my name changed to John. So you never let your friends know you liked them well until the Last train was a anti Vietnam war song so they became cool. But I will say the best Monkee song & one of my all time fav of all songs is You just may be the one! Rip Mike, Peter and Davey...
I rented Elephant Parts VHS back in the mid 80's. Already being a Monkee fan, I was interested prior to watching it. There some classic, funny segments of that tape.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Here is an interesting tid bid as well. VHS is capable of producing near CD quality audio. So Mike Nesmith knew what he was doing by releasing his music on HiFi VHS. Far superior to vinyl. This was also before CDs really took off. Mike was a total pioneer in more ways than one and a creative genius.
I've watched the Rodanne clip many times and I still laugh, It's fricken hilarious! It's starts at the intro where Michael is desperately trying to keep from laughing! I've watched Time Rider several times thru the years, what a great movie it is and a very creative and unusual storyline!
His greatest contribution. Funny, smart, and satirical. Emilio's deadpan lines and Harry Dean Stanton were great and I often say to myself "Radiation is GOOD for you"! at random appropriate times. Along with Buckeroo Banzai, it is half of a two film genre, IMHO.
I dumped TV in 1997, but I forgot just how subtleiy hilarious David Letterman was. Mike was holding his own as well, though I suspect it went over a lot of folks heads...😁
I actually wore a wool cap in the summer for a while in junior high because of Mike. He was the coolest and funniest Monkee, and his were the best songs. And he had the best, most interesting post Monkees career. He was the George Harrison of the Monkees heh heh.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
I spoke with Dave at the Comedy Store one night Jim Varney and I were attending; I mentioned my grandmother was from Gary , Indiana, and he replied "Gee you have pretty hair. " We both thought of him to be a bit of an arrogant snob. His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Your early Letterman posts, D.G, show a much more variegated guest booking philosophy than later, when the show became the great late night hit. In the early days it seemed to be about who was simply available (whether or not something needed to be pitched) and who among them might be interesting. Later, it was much more about ratings and marketing. It's only that so many of the greatest segments seem to come from the first 18 months of the show, and then that magic slowly trails off in a different direction.
I spoke with Dave at the Comedy Store one night Jim Varney and I were attending; I mentioned my grandmother was from Gary , Indiana, and he replied "Gee you have pretty hair. " We both thought of him to be a bit of an arrogant snob. His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
i remember nesmiths nbc special it had a lot of future stars and was very entertaining. He seems very creatively intelligent and a bit impatient with run of the mill stuff but who knows from a brief interview. sorry to see him go. farewell
My comment is if it wasn't for Michael Nesmith it would be no monkeys he was my favorite. I actually played the guitar myself and actually had my mom buy me a green beanie with a pom pom and had her so on four white buttons. Later on I became a big fan of Gretsch guitars which is the guitar he most likely was famous for. We miss you Michael
Timerider was cool & clever for what it was, even at a $1 million budget. Glad that Mike was able to get into movie production as well during his life.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Ha! The things you learn on UA-cam! I had never heard of liquid paper and after looking it up... Tippex!!! At least that’s what we call it over here in the U.K.!!! Brilliant... that’s some serious pub trivia right there! “Did you know that the mother of Michael Nesmith from the Monkees invented Tippex?!” Lol
I always liked his little cameo as a cabbie who picks up Bobcat Goldthwait in Whoopie Goldberg's Burglar (Bob: "You look a little like Elvis...not when he was all fat and on drugs and everything"). RIP
Thanks for another neat video, Don. I have a question and I'm not sure how else to reach you. I saw a clip on your channel featuring a young, disheveled standup comic whose act involved lots of screaming and panicking and such. Do you know who the comedian is or which video he was in? Thanks!
Sam Kinison had an unusual life and he was actually a child preacher . His brother has said that when he was holding him as he was passing away that Sam was talking and saying something along the lines of okay I'll come home now ... to someone the brother couldn't see .
they say people that are inovators and brilliant are a bit wierd but out of the eccentrcity comes genius and he was a magnificent songwriter thanks for the memorys a champion musician
I spoke with Dave at the Comedy Store one night Jim Varney and I were attending; I mentioned my grandmother was from Gary , Indiana, and he replied "Gee you have pretty hair. " We both thought of him to be a bit of an arrogant snob. His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips! We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good. Very Well Done AGAIN! In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was! ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?" "I Ain't no Middleman" and "You're the Reason I'm Not Married!" FredGold&LyndaFaye LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
I remember watching an interview with Rafelson once and he said that the Monkees were the four least talented people he ever met and I remember being surprised by it at the time but now watching both Peter and Michael on Letterman I have to scratch my head and wonder maybe he had something there, I mean at least from his perspective not mine of course
Mike was the only member with big family money, he never had to do anything he didnt want to do to make money. I assume most of his business ventures were self funded vanity projects.
They wasn't the case initially. Nez and his mom didn't have a lot of money as he was growing up. But Bette Nesmith's company finally started to turn a profit in 1968 when Nez was on "The Monkees" and earning his own bread. She turned that company into a multinational corporation. Bette sold the company to Gillette for $48 million in the late 70s; Nez reportedly inherited about half on her death in 1980. That did indeed give him some freedom. In his memoir Nez had interesting things to say - pro and con - about inheriting so much money.
@@cherylhulting1301Interesting , thank you for explaining that ... and I figured that since his mom was a single parent and he was born in the 1940s ... and she didn't invent the stuff until the mid-1950s , then I knew he did not grow up with the silver spoon ... he possibly had a good bit of struggling in his early childhood . Do you remember what he said about the negative aspects of inheriting that money ?
@@gardensofthegods I do. The primary thing is that, while the money gave him a lot of freedom and no more worry about bills, Nez was quietly devastated by his mother's loss. He grew up just with her, until she remarried when Nez was in his late teens. They were very close. Bette died from a sudden stroke at age 56, and I think he would have traded the money for more time with his mother. He also talked about the responsibility of managing the money well, which was something he hadn't learned to do well when he had and blew through his first Monkees fortune. There was making sure that people weren't courting friendship just for his money. Lastly, though he didn't go into many details, he said the inheritance came between him and his second wife, and contributed to their eventual divorce.
If you're poor and you scrape together enough money to do a project you have in mind they call you creative. If you're well off enough to do your project without having to sell your soul to someone else for the money first they call your project a vanity project. Seems kind of judgemental, doesn't it?
So, let me get this straight: You watch a video and listen to music at the same time? Hmm...I don't know. You really think people will want to watch this? I mean, listen to it? I mean -- gak, this is so confusing!
I worked on Elephant Parts and spoke with Nez just before his passing .. unusual talented man !!
What did you do on elephant parts ? Do you remember what that last conversation with him was about ... can you share it with us ?
Was he not well before he died ? They said he died peacefully in his sleep ... but then I also heard he died of a heart attack which is not the same thing
I was documenting the production -- a "stills" man .. The last meet == we spoke of Elephant Parts ++ since I was along for the ride every day ...
We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;
Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Such a wonderful moment of your life. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Elephants Parts was phenomenally- precursor to MTV. Groundbreaking!!
So sad to hear Mike passed. He was my favorite Monkee back in the day. In fact, my freshman year is college, I had a wool cap like Mike's and wore it all the time. Thanks Don. As always a very good job.
"You know that's not even michael nesmiths real hat"
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@@trentnunyabiz6204 lmao
Why the cap? Brain Wilson of the beach boys nowhere near what Brain wrote or did in the studio.
EXACTLY!
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My God Im gutted. Happy Trails Mike. Thanks for the soundtrack to my youth.
I remember these videos appearing on HBO as "shorts" before MTV. Mike was the pioneer of music videos, and MTV. But that all falls back on his time and experience with the Monkees. And very much encouragement from the great, Frank Zappa. Thanks, Mike, for all you've done for modern musicians.
I saw this when I was 21. Now I see it again at 59. RIP Mike.
I'm quite sure I didn't catch this on its first run, but I do believe I saw it rerun in the spring of 1984. My mum drove into town (Los Angeles) to visit, and my three roommates and I told her to ditch the motel and just stay with us in our apartment. So we were up late one of those nights, kind of one of those "I'm too tired to go to bed" things, and Mike Nesmith was a guest on whatever was on the living room telly. We were listening to him (talking about an award he'd won) so attentively that I didn't even remember, for years, whether the host was Johnny Carson or Dave Letterman. That talk show appearance was how I first heard about Bette Nesmith's great invention -- straight from her dear son, not from the Wikipedia.
Not the wildest interview ever, but then again, that was Mike in a nutshell.
RIP to a pretty fascinating individual.
He was so fascinating I hate that I missed his final shows :,( love him dearly!
Well, no; it was Mike in a suit. Or Michael, as he apparently wanted to be addressed.
RIP Mike. :(
Everybody, form a protective circle around Mickey Dolenz
I much prefer Coco to Mickey.
Micky without the E. 😁
@@KOSMICKEN09 We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
What an interesting interview. Dave really adjusted his energy to Mike's. *That* was a real *chat.* Serious stuff. We all gotta go, and Mike Nesmith did some interesting stuff with his time here. Glad to have seen this piece of it.
Michael was a great songwriter I have several albums and they wonderful. I remember watching the tv show as a young boy in the ’70’s and rediscovered the band and Michael’s music in the early ‘90’s and I have been listening ever since. RIP
An incredibly bright and creative and talented man.
I always felt that Mike was to the Monkees what George was to the Beatles. The most interesting member, the most complex sounds. I always preferred his songs. Such a loss, such a loss.
Mike and George are my favorite members of both groups!!
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Great piece from Letterman! I like David, and Nesmith is an all time
favorite of mine! I only wish this segment was longer! If I were the host, I'd have been more enthusiastic and ABSOLUTELY complimented Mike on already 13 years of incredibly great solo music by 1983, and talked about that extensively. And his Monkee-era and solo songwriting. Dave could have mentioned "Rio", heard in one of the "Elephant Parts" clips shown, and its chart success in the U.K..
R.I.P. Mike Nesmith. Thanks for the incredible music and fun.
You may be right on George being the most interesting Beatle. Certainly the deepest thinker. But Paul was the most complex songwriter musically...the true art-rocker of the four.
I have been a Monkee s fan since I was about 7(52 yrs ago!). Mike's songs have always been my fave too. Great tunes and lyrics!
A teacher at my high school went to see The Monkees and saw the tour that Jimi Hendrix opened up on - RIP Michael!
so did my sister -- at the old forest hills tennis stadium. we lived a few houses down from the stadium. hendrix was mercilessly booed.
RIP Nez.🙏🏻 thanks for sharing this, Don.
Been watching and listening to Mike a lot the last 2 years as my 3 year old son loves The Monkees, one of his fave bands, & he always points out Mike when he's on vocals. So the news of his passing makes me very sad!
Man, I looked for that for years. I went downtown one day to a huge record store we had down there, about 1988 or 1989 or so, and I finally found it. Zoomed home, got on the phone and called up my buddy. I'm like, "Hey, Alan! Come on over!"
"Wha' for?"
"I've got Elephant Parts!"
"... ... ..."
The silence on the other end of the line was funnier than anything he could have possibly said. :D
I love him so much!! What a mind he had. RIP
I always thought that Michael had the best voice in the band by far listen to his solo work it's awesome
He absolutely had the best voice in the band. It wasn’t close. But the “poppy” stuff the Monkees cranked out was better suited for Micky and Davy. As a serious musician, I’d bet that Mike had no problem NOT singing those songs.
Thanks for the memories Don. I was a devoted member of the Monkees Fan Club back in the day. My how time passes by. RIP Robert Michael Nesmith
So ironic that I was watching this when I saw the news on Facebook. Thanks for finding and posting this video.
RIP Nez
Thank you for sharing this. Haven’t seen this clip for quite awhile. Love and miss you very much Michael. ❤
RIP to a legend. You will be missed my friend. 🌹
oh how everything's changed in 30 years.
Loved Mike he had one of those voices you can never forget rest in peace Michael ❤❤❤
He was so fucking hot. And talented. And strange. In a good way. 💔
Couldn't agree more. He had that old-school Southern charm. And he was so talented -- he was only twenty-two when he wrote that beautiful song, "Different Drum," which in itself is about being strange in a good way.
@KOSMICKEN09 We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
@@joealexandra7185 His mother having invented white out for typewriters must have taken second place to THE DIFFERENT DRUM !
@KOSMICKEN09 We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
It's interesting how much of what we would call throwaway TV during the 60's lasted so long. The Monkees. Gilligan's Island. Lost In Space. Star Trek. The Beverly Hillbillies. The Munsters. The Addams Family. The Brady Bunch. (It began in 1969) Batman. It just shows how something which we took for granted had a lasting effect on so many people.
Thank you a very special interview
Like everyone else, I was saddened by the news of Nez. What a loss. I saw The Monkees live the summer of '96 at Pine Knob Music Theater just outside of Detroit. Different world then, for sure. A better world. I'll never forget that experience with my dad (I'm 41 now). It feels like everything is crumbling and passing away in the world. But, the memories cannot be taken away.
Ah, the good ole days. They just slipped away like sand. If I'd have known they'd one day be considered as such, I wouldn't have been in such a hurry to move on past em'. That's the thing---- when we're presently experiencing what will one day be considered "the good ole days" ----- we're not aware of it. So, we take it for granted (and rush on through to the next chapter of life). Then, inevitably, we find ourselves longing for what was so flippantly overlooked and disregarded.
Life is a self-contradicting oxymoronic paradox. But, if you catch it in the right light, while in the right mood---- it's beautiful.
Ontologically Steve -- Yes, yes, yes!...and so very well put (the second paragraph really says it all)...Thank you!
By the 2nd paragraph I was falling asleep. Ty
Hello from England!
Very sad to hear this news.
We loved the Monkeys over on this side of the pond. Thank you for all the great songs.
Monkees. I know - damn autocorrect. :)
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Elephant Parts and interviews like this was how I realized as a child watching the Monkees that what I had seen was not new, it was around before my own birth. Good way to find that out as I cannot imagine what fans newer than me to the Monkees had to realise that but I got to do that when they'd aged about ten or twenty years instead.
R.I.P. Mike Nesmith! YOU ARE MISSED!
Awesome job as usual Don. My wife is a huge Monkees fan and Mike was her favorite. She'll enjoy watching this interview
I grew up to them. I was a Huge Beatles fan!! In fact in 67ish I wanted to have my name changed to John. So you never let your friends know you liked them well until the Last train was a anti Vietnam war song so they became cool. But I will say the best Monkee song & one of my all time fav of all songs is You just may be the one! Rip Mike, Peter and Davey...
Brilliant man! My favorite Monkee! His voice definitely stood out! R.I.P. Michael ❤
I rented Elephant Parts VHS back in the mid 80's. Already being a Monkee fan, I was interested prior to watching it. There some classic, funny segments of that tape.
Thanks Don
Too qwik... He will be missed.Does the tour continue?
A great fellow Dallas Texan 💔 This aired two years before I was born, but I’ve loved him since I was a kid
Everytime I see Liquid Paper or Whiteout in the stores. I'll think of Mike Nesmith's mother.
❤
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
The soundtrack to _Repo Man_ LIVES in my car. "Bad Man" and the one and only "Reel Ten".
Here is an interesting tid bid as well. VHS is capable of producing near CD quality audio. So Mike Nesmith knew what he was doing by releasing his music on HiFi VHS. Far superior to vinyl. This was also before CDs really took off. Mike was a total pioneer in more ways than one and a creative genius.
Also Executive Producer of the amazing film "Repo Man" (1984)
🎬 Really?! Love that movie.
The feet blocking the television was always my favorite commercial bumper on Letterman!
R.I.P. Mike much loved by so many ❤️.
Liquid paper got me thru college. Rip
I've watched the Rodanne clip many times and I still laugh, It's fricken hilarious! It's starts at the intro where Michael is desperately trying to keep from laughing! I've watched Time Rider several times thru the years, what a great movie it is and a very creative and unusual storyline!
Thank you for Repo Man, Mike
His greatest contribution. Funny, smart, and satirical. Emilio's deadpan lines and Harry Dean Stanton were great and I often say to myself "Radiation is GOOD for you"! at random appropriate times. Along with Buckeroo Banzai, it is half of a two film genre, IMHO.
@@granthurlburt4062 I probably quote Repo Man more than any other movie. I said "Plate of shrimp" at work just this afternoon.
SO talented and handsome!!!! Kim
How handsome! R.I.P. Nez! 🌹
A lovely, brilliant, complex man. 💕
I dumped TV in 1997, but I forgot just how subtleiy hilarious David Letterman was. Mike was holding his own as well, though I suspect it went over a lot of folks heads...😁
Thank-you Don
RIP Michael Nesmith
Thank God for Liquid Paper / white out.
I actually wore a wool cap in the summer for a while in junior high because of Mike. He was the coolest and funniest Monkee, and his were the best songs. And he had the best, most interesting post Monkees career. He was the George Harrison of the Monkees heh heh.
Mike & Micky just played as The Monkees 3 weeks ago in LA 😥
Just watching the old interviews. Broke my heart to hear he passed. That's all.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Dave ,you blew it. Your legacy could have been immortalized with one act of entrepreneurial wisdom.
Have Sonny and Cher reunite with Mike Nesmith.
I spoke with Dave at the Comedy Store one night Jim Varney and I were attending; I mentioned my grandmother was from Gary , Indiana, and he replied "Gee you have pretty hair. " We both thought of him to be a bit of an arrogant snob.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
RIP Mr. Nesmith
Cool interview he looks like a young Allen Rickman
Your early Letterman posts, D.G, show a much more variegated guest booking philosophy than later, when the show became the great late night hit. In the early days it seemed to be about who was simply available (whether or not something needed to be pitched) and who among them might be interesting. Later, it was much more about ratings and marketing. It's only that so many of the greatest segments seem to come from the first 18 months of the show, and then that magic slowly trails off in a different direction.
I love this type of booking before it became all about celebrities.
I spoke with Dave at the Comedy Store one night Jim Varney and I were attending; I mentioned my grandmother was from Gary , Indiana, and he replied "Gee you have pretty hair. " We both thought of him to be a bit of an arrogant snob.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
What a cool dude 😎
i remember nesmiths nbc special it had a lot of future stars and was very entertaining.
He seems very creatively intelligent and a bit impatient with run of the mill stuff but who knows from a brief interview.
sorry to see him go. farewell
My comment is if it wasn't for Michael Nesmith it would be no monkeys he was my favorite. I actually played the guitar myself and actually had my mom buy me a green beanie with a pom pom and had her so on four white buttons. Later on I became a big fan of Gretsch guitars which is the guitar he most likely was famous for. We miss you Michael
He was a very talented man, never got his full recognition
Timerider was cool & clever for what it was, even at a $1 million budget. Glad that Mike was able to get into movie production as well during his life.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
Ha! The things you learn on UA-cam! I had never heard of liquid paper and after looking it up... Tippex!!! At least that’s what we call it over here in the U.K.!!! Brilliant... that’s some serious pub trivia right there! “Did you know that the mother of Michael Nesmith from the Monkees invented Tippex?!” Lol
Love this guy
That video category wasnt even carried by the Grammys live on TV? I dont think Mike or Letterman knew what this new medium would become!
Loved Nez. RIP
Well, if you can’t be on The Brady Bunch then being on Letterman is the next best thing. - Davy Jones
Mike looks different but his speaking voice is SO distinctive.
He really is just a good ol' country boy! What you see is what you get!
I always liked his little cameo as a cabbie who picks up Bobcat Goldthwait in Whoopie Goldberg's Burglar (Bob: "You look a little like Elvis...not when he was all fat and on drugs and everything"). RIP
The Monkees are Legends ..Top Class 👍🏴🇬🇧🏴🏴
It's funny to see people having to explain the concept of videocassettes in the 1980s . . . and having to explain them again to kids in the 2020s 😆
Michael looks like Hans Gruber from Die Hard in this interview.
Smart man...
Thanks for another neat video, Don. I have a question and I'm not sure how else to reach you. I saw a clip on your channel featuring a young, disheveled standup comic whose act involved lots of screaming and panicking and such. Do you know who the comedian is or which video he was in? Thanks!
Sounds like Sam Kinison. ua-cam.com/video/WM6XFmNuTsg/v-deo.html
Or Bob Goldthwait. ua-cam.com/video/QEmQlfLQtbg/v-deo.html
@@dongiller It was Bob! Thanks so much
Sam Kinison had an unusual life and he was actually a child preacher .
His brother has said that when he was holding him as he was passing away that Sam was talking and saying something along the lines of okay I'll come home now ... to someone the brother couldn't see .
Elephant Parts!!
Mike was the inspiration for MTV later....I heard back in those days...
Where is his toque?
timerider? we have you to blame for that?! i think it's out of print. i need that one! rip, mike.
they say people that are inovators and brilliant are a bit wierd but out of the eccentrcity comes genius and he was a magnificent songwriter thanks for the memorys a champion musician
I had elephant parts on laserdisc. If it had been on videotape, it would have been worn out quickly.
R.I.P. Nez
God, I wish NFTs could be as easily explained as "video albums" were here!
Time Rider deserved more admiration. Fred Ward was awesome.
Tom green ?
He was like 6 years old when this aired lol
@@woodenturkey
It looks like him
I thought this was 82?
That was Peter Tork. ua-cam.com/video/TfSuwTGpV5Q/v-deo.html
🧡
handsome devil
I spoke with Dave at the Comedy Store one night Jim Varney and I were attending; I mentioned my grandmother was from Gary , Indiana, and he replied "Gee you have pretty hair. " We both thought of him to be a bit of an arrogant snob.
His mother's invention of white out for typewriters must have taken a second place to HIS "DIFFERENT DRUM" success!! We really appreciate FACTSVERSE's quality of videos and great narrations, too;Many producers hijack video clips of others and then have nothing of merit to SAY ABOUT their stolen video clips!
We only recently became aware of the fact that Mickey 's acting took him to a MIKE HAMMER show-Never thought of him as BEING an actor though; it was quite good.
Very Well Done AGAIN!
In the 70's In interviewed for a secretarial job with Michael Nesmith-but he used another name, had an ad in the paper, and his home was a BIG COUNTRY HOUSE on Sepulveda-Sepulveda Place I think; Curiously, I wonder if any of his CHILDREN remember that property? I think I should never mention that my lunch breaks entailed typing song lyrics; nobody wanted an aspiring songwriter for a SECRETARY...Michael was quite cordial and it took me awhile to figure out who he was!
ANYONE ? Got a job working for law firms later-Sometimes I wonder if I didn't "miss my calling?"
"I Ain't no Middleman" and
"You're the Reason I'm Not Married!"
FredGold&LyndaFaye
LyndaFayesmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp.
He wants to be taken seriously...minimal reaction ..he knows this appearance is important
A pocket battleship - a very influencial guy - notice how David calls him Mr Nesmith
I always notice that too. 🙂 Nez was a pioneering business man with Pacific Arts by this point as well.
That sounds like a small audience. 😳
This was Dave's original studio at NBC. It was a lot smaller than the Ed Sullivan Theater that he was in when he moved to CBS.
I remember watching an interview with Rafelson once and he said that the Monkees were the four least talented people he ever met and I remember being surprised by it at the time but now watching both Peter and Michael on Letterman I have to scratch my head and wonder maybe he had something there, I mean at least from his perspective not mine of course
Rafelson didn't know what he was talking about. He made his fortune on the backs of the Monkees.
Mike was the only member with big family money, he never had to do anything he didnt want to do to make money. I assume most of his business ventures were self funded vanity projects.
They wasn't the case initially. Nez and his mom didn't have a lot of money as he was growing up. But Bette Nesmith's company finally started to turn a profit in 1968 when Nez was on "The Monkees" and earning his own bread. She turned that company into a multinational corporation. Bette sold the company to Gillette for $48 million in the late 70s; Nez reportedly inherited about half on her death in 1980. That did indeed give him some freedom. In his memoir Nez had interesting things to say - pro and con - about inheriting so much money.
@@cherylhulting1301Interesting , thank you for explaining that ... and I figured that since his mom was a single parent and he was born in the 1940s ... and she didn't invent the stuff until the mid-1950s , then I knew he did not grow up with the silver spoon ... he possibly had a good bit of struggling in his early childhood .
Do you remember what he said about the negative aspects of inheriting that money ?
@@gardensofthegods I do. The primary thing is that, while the money gave him a lot of freedom and no more worry about bills, Nez was quietly devastated by his mother's loss. He grew up just with her, until she remarried when Nez was in his late teens. They were very close. Bette died from a sudden stroke at age 56, and I think he would have traded the money for more time with his mother.
He also talked about the responsibility of managing the money well, which was something he hadn't learned to do well when he had and blew through his first Monkees fortune. There was making sure that people weren't courting friendship just for his money. Lastly, though he didn't go into many details, he said the inheritance came between him and his second wife, and contributed to their eventual divorce.
If you're poor and you scrape together enough money to do a project you have in mind they call you creative.
If you're well off enough to do your project without having to sell your soul to someone else for the money first they call your project a vanity project.
Seems kind of judgemental, doesn't it?
So, let me get this straight: You watch a video and listen to music at the same time? Hmm...I don't know. You really think people will want to watch this? I mean, listen to it? I mean -- gak, this is so confusing!
😂😂 You know that Michael Nesmith literally pioneered the format for MTV, right?
@@cherylhulting1301, yes, it was a joke. I have been a huge Monkees fan for over 35 years, so I am well aware of the guys and their endeavors.
Awwwwwww, and he was on tour with The Circus Boy..yeah, Mickey D.
Talented he was, however I don't think I could have watched the video much longer.
I still can't get over Mike Nesmith's death, but that's just me.
Shame dave didn't talk about movie more.