MICHAEL NESMITH - The Lost Interview part 1/2 (April 5, 1968)
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This is a fascinating interview from Mike where he gives the complete background on the Wichita Train Whistle album, long a source of mystery for Monkees fans. He also breaks down the current music scene and the Monkees' place in it. - เพลง
1/2 of the Beatles gone. Now only one Monkee left. An era of music is definitely winding down. All good things must end. God bless the Nesmith family. He was a true icon on the 60s music scene.
It's really freaky how the number of deceased Monkees has surpassed the number of deceased Beatles:
7th July 1940 = 1 Beatle and 0 Monkees
9th October 1940 = 2 Beatles and 0 Monkees
13th February 1942 = 2 Beatles and 1 Monkee
18th June 1942 = 3 Beatles and 1 Monkee
30th December 1942 = 3 Beatles and 2 Monkees
25th February 1943 = 4 Beatles and 2 Monkees
8th March 1945 = 4 Beatles and 3 Monkees
30th December 1945 = 4 Beatles and 4 Monkees
8th December 1980 = 3 Beatles and 4 Monkees
29th November 2001 = 2 Beatles and 4 Monkees
29th February 2012 = 2 Beatles and 3 Monkees
21st February 2019 = 2 Beatles and 2 Monkees
10th December 2021 = 2 Beatles and 1 Monkee
Don't get me wrong, I knew that Michael Nesmith would probably be the next member of the Monkees to die after Peter Tork, since he'd had a number of health problems in the last few years leading up to his death. But I wasn't expecting it to be so soon after the end of the Monkees' farewell tour.
Mike is an has allways been a very intelligent well spoken man i have alot of respect for him
Rest in Peace Mike. Thank you for all the fun..but also for being level headed and grounded. It was a good lesson during my Childhood.♡ I was blessed to see you on my Birthday 10/10/2021. I soaked it all in. ♡
Nez is very concise in his thoughts. Very intense. Brilliant man.
Listen to his vocabulary and the way he speaks, then compare to a modern rapper. Where have we gone as a species
His use of words are poetic.
I could listen to him all day.
Thank you for this, I had not heard this interview before. I love listening to Nez. Genius, always marching to the beat of his own drum.
how many other people would talk about Glenn Miller, Buck Owens, and Captain Beefheart within 3 minutes? God rest and keep you, Nez!
I could do 2 of them but have no knowledge of beefeater.
@@neilfranklin5644 I can talk about the beans I just ate, which will "beef hearts" in about a half hour!
This is awesome! I'm a big Nesmith fan and never heard this. Thanks for sharing and posting
No problem Tony. I will be uploading more content like this on a weekly basis, so keep checking in!
So Kool---that's for posting....The only interview I've ever heard where Nez gives his true thoughts on The Monkees....he seemed to get it...now I do
Such a brilliant mind, and I just love listening to that soft spoken texas drawl
Maravilloso músico y cantante, inolvidable en el grupo the monkees!!!!!!❤
So mature at 26.
What I like about Nez is he was financially set with or without the Monkees, in being so he didn't have to kowtow to 'the brand' for fear of losing his seat on the gravy train meaning he could keep a little hold on his destiny, also he didn't just rest on his inheritance but carved his own fortune
Nez didn't come into his inheritance until much later, 1980 or so. So in 1968, he was riding high on the Monkee money, but when he bought his way out of his contract in 1969, that started a pretty lean period for him.
He likes to play the dick. He knew he could spoil the various Monkees tour things and he did. He didn't seem to start playing nice until Davy Jones and thus impossible to have a Monkees thing. He can do what he wants of course.
By Nesmith’s own account, the 70s were a very difficult period. Very little money was coming in during those years, and since he paid to get out of the Monkees contact, he’s was pretty broke.
Before his mother turned Liquid Paper into a lucrative business, Nesmith describes a "dirt poor" childhood being raised by a single parent. In the early 70s things were very lean. Having no experience with earning millions (he'd been collecting Coke bottles to earn extra cash before the Monkees), he spent the Monkees money as fast as it came in, and later the IRS came calling for back taxes and took a lot away. He and his family lived very modestly in a 3-bedroom ranch house in the San Fernando Valley (ugh, suburbia!). There was an article in Forbes magazine about his rags to riches to rags again story. His mother didn't spoil him; he didn't inherit the Liquid Paper fortune until his mother died in 1979 (then he got half, about $24 million). He put most of that money toward new projects, and then later his company Pacific Arts was distributing a lot of PBS's home video library. PBS producers decided they didn't like the deal they got so they colluded to put Nez out of business (something about forcing the company to produce/distribute too many videos all at once so that the company defaulted on its contractual obligations). The collusion did ruin Pac Arts. Nez went to court and ultimately he won, PBS had to pay something like $47 million to Nesmith for the damage done by the collusion. So Nez had a real roller coaster ride when it came to having money / no money periods of his life. Easy come, easy go. I have always admired Michael for his can-do attitude, his independence, and always looking to do something new, experimenting, creating. Thanx for the ride, Nez!
@@Frank-Discussion Not to be argumentative, as I clicked that Thumbs Up icon, but me, I never bought any Monkees. I was slightly too old to be that kind of pop fan. Still, I recognized something about Nesmith. I bought his First and Second National Band albums, and others later. He was an early adherent of a strain of "Cosmic American Music." I actually went to see Time Rider because it was a Nesmith project. And of course, Repo Man has strong cult. So, he charted a respectable career his way, as evidenced by the esteem in which so many hold him. That, alone, is riches of a sort, even if he experienced some of the financial anxieties many of us do.
Rare indeed...thanks!
Mike Nesmith's upbringing in Christian Science allowed him the means to access Universal Consciousness & tap into tremendous creativity.
I heard an interview with him a few years before he passed where he talked about recording this and he got the top musicians from LA and had the session catered with a fully stocked bar and the musicians got hammered and started playing notes that he didn't write but he just recorded it all.
We did see the best of him which is what we were allowed to see like all actors singers movie Types
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Even he sounds like he's really pulling to sound enthusiastic about THE WICHITA TRAIN WHISTLE SINGS album. As popular as the Monkees were, and for as much care as he put in to WTWS album - - it stiffed!!
I bought Wichita Train Whistle Sings back in the 80s, used, hoping it would be like 1st National Band album. I heard nothing Nez like in any way. Boring instrumentals of Nesmith songs. It’s interesting now to hear how into the project he was.
It would have been great to hear Mike and Buddy Holly jam together. A Texas supergroup.
He talks about additional Witchita Train albums… nothing happened right?
I kind of think The Prison is a progression of this
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Who is the interviewer?
Not sure, unfortunately!
@@jasonsrockrarities9314 I'm guessing Johnny Hays from KLRA.
Loved KRLA !❤
Actually according to Hal Blaine (drummer), the whole session was basically a tax write off for Nesmith.
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