[a fool in paradise]

[Richard Kimball]

I think creatively they were pretty much done, but that movie destroyed what was left of their careers. I was going to see it, but it closed before it got to my town. I saw it late night on cable and boy did it suck.

The saddest part is that this was the direction they were wanting to go to get away from their bubble gum image, and the suits finally said, "Heck, let 'em do it." Nesmith was rich from the Liquid Paper thing anyway, so he didn't care.

As to their talent, they weren't good musicians, not compared to the studio guys that did their first albums, but their harmonies were excellent, and they could really run with the Boyce-Hart type stuff.