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  • Carmel Valley home of Monkees musician listed for $3.5 million

    12/14/2023 7:53:47 AM PST · by NohSpinZone · 38 replies
    SF Gate ^ | 12/1/2023 | By Jennifer Geddes
    The former home of the late Michael Nesmith, a member of the iconic made-for-TV band, The Monkees, is up for grabs. Nesmith, who died in 2021, lived in this three-bedroom, 3.5-bath home in Carmel Valley, CA, about 20 minutes from the coast. The house is listed for $3.5 million. The ranch-style pad is spread over 3,365 square feet, all tucked into a gated community called Sleepy Hollow. The dwelling sits on more than 6 acres, surrounded by majestic oaks and stunning vistas. The living room features a vaulted, beamed ceiling with large windows and a brick fireplace. This main room...
  • Monkees singer Michael Nesmith dead at 78

    12/10/2021 11:59:06 AM PST · by kjam22 · 94 replies
    Tmz ^ | 12-13-2021 | Tmz
    Michael Nesmith, singer/guitarist for the famously famous 60s group The Monkees, has died.
  • Mike Nesmith, singer-musician of the Monkees, dies at 78

    12/11/2021 5:18:32 AM PST · by foreverfree · 52 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | 12/10/21 | Joe Erwin
    Singer and musician Mike Nesmith, who found fame with the Monkees in the 1960s before becoming a solo act and a pioneer in music video, has died.His death comes less than a month after his final Monkees concert.
  • Musical Interlude topic for December 2021 [starts with Travis Tritt's Rolling Stone cover, "Honky Tonk Woman"]

    12/01/2021 9:24:18 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 67 replies
    YouTube ^ | Posted December 1, 2021 | Travis Tritt et al
    Licensed to YouTube by The state51 Conspiracy (on behalf of Ocard Music)Travis Tritt - Honky Tonk Woman (Remix Small) Hq | April 18, 2018 | Roberto Bruno - Oldies
  • Michael Nesmith, Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist of The Monkees, Dies at 78

    12/10/2021 10:42:30 AM PST · by massmike · 55 replies
    Hollywoodreporter.com ^ | 12/10/2021 | CHRIS KOSELUK
    Michael Nesmith, the guitar-playing singer-songwriter with the wool hat who along with Davy Jones, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz became a TV star and 1960s pop sensation as a member of The Monkees, has died. He was 78. Nesmith died Friday of natural causes, his family told Rolling Stone.
  • Michael Nesmith, Monkees Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 78

    12/10/2021 9:53:31 AM PST · by day10 · 87 replies
    Rolling Stone ^ | 12/10/21 | Andy Greene
    Monkees singer and guitarist Michael Nesmith, a pop visionary who penned many of the group’s most enduring songs before laying the groundwork for country-rock with the First National Band in the early Seventies, died Friday from natural causes. He was 78.
  • Sunday Music – Something Very Special

    02/28/2010 7:11:12 AM PST · by TonyfromOz · 2 replies · 368+ views
    PA Pundits International ^ | 28 February 2010 | TonyfromOz
    Mike Nesmith was one of The Monkees, that manufactured band from the mid and late 60's. After the band folded, Mike went solo with two bands and had some minor hits. In 1977, he produced an obscure song titled 'Rio', a song which never even made it into the Top 40, and if the truth be told, not many people would even remember having heard. What sequence of events, perhaps even coincidences, make this song one of the most influential songs of the modern music era, and gives Mike Nesmith a claim to fame way more important than the one...
  • The Monkee and the Thief

    09/25/2005 2:29:54 PM PDT · by theFIRMbss · 22 replies · 536+ views
    "Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees" ^ | 1996 | Mike Nesmith
    "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...