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”
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.
Oh, wow…he looks like Ben Stein!
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.
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Wait - what? What do you teach and to whom? Sounds interesting.
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Nesmith’s proto-MTV project was called PoPClips