[AmericanMermaid]

Tapioca Tundra was an awesome song! The Monkees deserved to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though they were constantly snubbed, and unfairly so. Mike Nesmith was an amazing talent.

[Dr. Sivana]

Tapioca Tundra was an awesome song! The Monkees deserved to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, though they were constantly snubbed, and unfairly so.

I remember reading an interview with Del Shannon in the late '60s, when he wasn't able to chart anymore, asking about the Monkees, and the attacks on them even at the time.

Del, who always wrote most of his material, always sang, played guitar, and worked up from dive clubs in Michigan, before being signed to Big Top Records and cut Runaway with his keyboardist Max Crook, had NO animus against them, and thought they were just fine and could in fact play. That's DESPITE the fact that they buried "She" that was released by Del first, by releasing their own version, that got all the airplay.