# RIP Michael Nesmith, of the Monkees **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, music\ **Created:** [December 10, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845 "2021-12-10T18:17:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/21 "2021-12-10T20:20:06Z")
I found the Monkees a few years ago in reruns. It holds up. RIP, Mike. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/22 "2021-12-10T20:21:35Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I still have many of the LPs (reissued in the 1980s) I have the originals I bought as they were released in the 60s. This news makes me feel just a little bit older… 😭 ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/23 "2021-12-10T20:23:37Z")
More from Television Parts. An enduring classic, "Sorority Girls from Hell: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6J2rXsLLdr0/hqdefault.jpg "Sorority Girls from Hell with Lois Bromfield from Television Parts (1985)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2rXsLLdr0) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/24 "2021-12-10T20:24:10Z")
There are now fewer Monkees left that there are member of the Beatles. Clearly, God has an inordinate fondness for the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/25 "2021-12-10T20:30:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > inordinate fondness for the Beatles I saw you do this in another thread, and I just want you to know: well played. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/26 "2021-12-10T20:47:16Z")
He was still playing less than a month ago: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Su7M3TyJrOY/maxresdefault.jpg "Final Four Songs - The Monkees Farewell Tour with Michael Nesmith & Micky Dolenz at The Greek") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su7M3TyJrOY) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/27 "2021-12-10T20:52:18Z")
For those unfamiliar with his solo stuff, I highly recommend his performance at the 1992 Britt Festival. https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLU_ycxo-Q7PueLvLog9-Gs8xIs4tOLp2b&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1 ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/28 "2021-12-10T20:54:27Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > More from Television Parts. An enduring classic, "Sorority Girls from Hell: She looks vaguely familiar, like someone I might have seen on old television shows as a child, but I can’t place her. Do you know who she is? ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/29 "2021-12-10T20:55:26Z")
> **[Lois Bromfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Bromfield)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Lois Bromfield is a Canadian-American comedic actor, writer, and television producer originally from Toronto, Ontario. Her credits include Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, The Jackie Thomas Show and The New Hollywood Squares. In 1990, Bromfield appeared with Chris Aable in her first television interview, along with her HBO comedy video on Aable's show, Hollywood Today where she was interviewed along with her then-husband Steve Moore . > She was in a l... ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/30 "2021-12-10T21:09:08Z")
Re: Riu Chiu video: thanks for that! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/31 "2021-12-10T21:10:09Z")
I was a big fan as a kid. I went to one of their reunion tours as an adult, mostly as a joke to see some old washed-up joke band. And by the second song, I was back to being a total fan. They put on a hell of a show. I still remember many of the cheesy jokes that worked perfectly nonetheless. [Davey picks up a guitar and strums it, getting ready for the next song.] Michael: Davey, what are you doing? Monkees can’t play their own instruments! Davey: I know. This is Peter’s. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/32 "2021-12-10T21:13:30Z")
Did the Monkees start out as a fake band that eventually became a real one? I grew up just a bit too late to understand. I remember the Nickelodeon re-runs of the TV show when I was a kid, though. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/33 "2021-12-10T21:13:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There are now fewer Monkees left that there are member of the Beatles. > > Clearly, God has an inordinate fondness for the Beatles. You win the thread ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/34 "2021-12-10T21:18:08Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Did the Monkees start out as a fake band that eventually became a real one? Pretty much, yes. Though ‘eventually’ is pushing it…they, especially Mike and Peter, who were both already established as musicians - the ‘musicians who can act’, as opposed to Davy and Micky, who were the ‘actors who can sing’ - actively pushed for it pretty much from the start, and I believe had gotten it by the second album. (The first, Peter was the only one who actually played an instrument on.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/35 "2021-12-10T21:18:29Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Did the Monkees start out as a fake band that eventually became a real one? I grew up just a bit too late to understand. They were never entirely a fake band, as all four of them were actual musicians (edit: as @Kamino_Neko notes, Mickey and Davy were primarily actors at first, but had musical talent), but they were specifically formed to be a group on a television show (and to record songs in support of that show), and initially, their recordings largely used session musicians, rather than the actual band members. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/36 "2021-12-10T21:44:55Z")
Thanks **Greg**. I had never seen it before either until a couple of years ago in some thread right here on the SDMB, so I saved it, that is why I had it on hand today. I don’t know what we were talking about, music, Christmas, The Monkees, or something else, but it is a little clip that I keep. Michael is concentrating on the song, Mickey is concentrating on singing, but what I notice is the interaction between Peter and Davey. They are looking at each other like they are so happy that the song is coming together so well, like an inside joke or something. They both realized how well it was. Or maybe they were just having fun or high. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/37 "2021-12-10T22:01:55Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > > [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > > > More from Television Parts. An enduring classic, "Sorority Girls from Hell: > > She looks vaguely familiar, like someone I might have seen on old television shows as a child, but I can’t place her. Do you know who she is? I’ve seen that bit done in a standup routine, probably by the same woman. Google suggests that her name is Lois Bromfield. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/38 "2021-12-10T22:15:25Z")
I liked the Monkees well enough at the time (I was 17 in 1967), but 55 years later there are only two songs that I still _really_ enjoy: “Daydream Believer” which to my ears could’ve been a Turtles song; and my longtime favorite song of theirs, “The Girl I Knew Somewhere” which (IIRC) was the first recording on which they played all of the instrumental parts (except bass). The beautiful music and lyrics were Mike’s. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/39 "2021-12-10T22:21:11Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > I’ve seen that bit done in a standup routine, probably by the same woman. Google suggests that her name is Lois Bromfield. She mentions her name at the beginning of the sketch when she introduces herself to her date. It just didn’t occur to me that this was her actual name. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-nesmith-of-the-monkees/955845/40 "2021-12-10T22:35:54Z")
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