# Michael Nesmith deserves credit for country-rock **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349 "2011-01-20T17:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349/21 "2011-01-23T11:28:21Z")
Just as an aside - I noticed there is a new cartoon on (Nick?) called _Planet Sheen_. One of the characters is a talking chimp, that gets upset whenever the main character (Sheen Estevez - it’s a spin off of _Jimmy Neutron_) calls him a monkey. He always wears a wool cap, and his name is “Mr. Nesmith” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349/22 "2011-01-23T11:52:31Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I always considered him a really intelligent and talented guy who either didn’t want to or didn’t know how to market himself, once Kirschner (RIP) and Columbia-Screen Gems stopped doing it for him (and \*their own bottom line). I think Nesmith is great and I absolutely adored _Elephant Parts_. I’ve often wondered how successful his albums would have been had they not had titles like: _Loose Salute Nevada Fighter From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma_ P.S. - [Nesmith is looking surprisingly respectable these days.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Mikenezrecent.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349/23 "2011-01-23T15:55:37Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > P.S. - [Nesmith is looking surprisingly respectable these days.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Mikenezrecent.jpg) Oh, wow…he looks like Ben Stein! ---
**Author:** ![AshenLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@AshenLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshenLady)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349/24 "2011-01-23T17:44:18Z")
Hey, hey, he will always be known as a Monkee!! Whether he likes it or not…but “Different Drum” is a great song. He’s a great song-writer. He was lucky to be left millions by his Mom’s business in “white out”. He had the money to leave the Monkees behind. Not so for the other three. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349/25 "2011-01-23T19:15:27Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > I’ve been including Nesmith in my history of rock class in three different lectures since I started out – I have a bit where I talk briefly about the bubblegum craze and manufactured made-for-tv pop of the 60s, and so he’s included with the Monkees; he shows up in the country-rock class; he’s also noted for his innovations with music video when I get to the '80s (and I own _Television Parts_, _Elephant Parts_, and _Dr Duck_ on VHS 🙂 ) > > So I’ve done my part for the cause (and favorite performers!) [hijack] Wait - what? What do you teach and to whom? Sounds interesting. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349/26 "2011-01-28T04:53:58Z")
Nesmith’s proto-MTV project was called [PoPClips](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopClips) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-nesmith-deserves-credit-for-country-rock/568349.md?page=1)