Posted on 09/25/2005 2:29:54 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
"I was producing a movie called Square Dance in Texas. It was a starring part for Winona Ryder, who was fourteen or fifteen.
She said, "Aren't the Monkees gonna play in Arlington?" which was just up the road from where we were filming. I said, "Yeah." And she said, "Do you think you could get me tickets?" And I said, "Well, yeah, I probably could." And she said, "I'd really like to go -- would you take me?" And I said "No, I won't take you. I can't possibly do that." She said, "Why not?" I said, "Nonie, I am one of the Monkees. I can't show up in the crowd with you going to a Monkees concert." She said, "Well, I really want you to take me. That would be really fun for me."
I was madly in love with her -- she was such a wonderful, young girl. There's a certain age at which young women blossom; they have a puppy quality about them, very fetching. She was right at that age. I just couldn't say no to her.
I said, "Let me see what I can do."
I wrangled a couple of tickets, and they were real ordinary tickets. I didn't want box seats or anything. From the costume department I got a fat pad, and I grayed my hair and my beard. I put on a pair of old man's glasses and a baseball hat, and I took her too the show.
We sat there with 25,000 people, after a ball game. They came out, and I was in the middle of the crowd, watching a Monkees concert. . . . I think Nonie liked it."
And then he quit the band in the middle of a tour.
The best guitarist
I've ever known said the first
"jazzy" type solo
he ever mastered
(or ever heard!) was Nesmith
playing Valleri:
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Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
I love her, Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
There's a girl I know
Who makes me feel so good
And I wouldn't live without her
Even if I could
They call her Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
I love her, Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
She's the same little girl who used to
Hang around my door
But she sure looks different than
The way she looked before
I call her Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
I love her, Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
I love her, Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
I love her, Val-al-al-al-al-aleri
I need her, Val-al-al-al-al-aleri ...
Although now I've learned
that Boyce and Hart wrote the song,
Louie Shelton [!] played
the cool solo and
Nesmith hated the song. Damn.
Growing up is hard!
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