I found the Monkees a few years ago in reruns. It holds up.
RIP, Mike.
I have the originals I bought as they were released in the 60s.
This news makes me feel just a little bit older… 
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There are now fewer Monkees left that there are member of the Beatles.
Clearly, God has an inordinate fondness for the Beatles.
I saw you do this in another thread, and I just want you to know: well played. 
He was still playing less than a month ago:
For those unfamiliar with his solo stuff, I highly recommend his performance at the 1992 Britt Festival.
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?
Re: Riu Chiu video: thanks for that! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.
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.
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.
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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.)
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.
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.
I’ve seen that bit done in a standup routine, probably by the same woman. Google suggests that her name is Lois Bromfield.
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.
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.
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