I typed that in and thought, "I wonder where that came from." I expected a movie, or a famous person's quote. Do you remember The Monkees? Lead singer Michael Nesmith? Well after the 
Monkees, he had a solo career, and released an album with this as the name. This took me down quite a rabbit hole of fascination facts about this prolific musician.
Monkees, he had a solo career, and released an album with this as the name. This took me down quite a rabbit hole of fascination facts about this prolific musician.Nesmith was with the Monkees from 1966-1968. During that time he was performing, doing the sitcom, and writing music, all very successfully. After the break-up of the Monkees, he was with a band called "First National Band" then embraced a solo career. He had a hit with the song "Joanne" and wrote a hit for Linda Ronstadt called "Different Drum".
In 1981, Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year. His hour-long television show, Elephant Parts, is a collection of comedy skits and music videos with parody commercials and comedy sketches. One of the sketches was titled "Tragically Hip" and the Candian band was inspired to name themselves the same although at least one blogger disagrees and I couldn't find a video of the sketch on YouTube. The show also featured five full-length music videos.
Nesmith was also an executive producer of the cult film Repo Man (1984). It starred Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez, and was considered one of the best films of that year. A sequel, Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, was written but never developed. A graphic novel was later written by this name, with permission from the original writers.
Nesmith was born in Texas and was parented mainly by his mother, who was occasionally his single parent. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid known as Liquid Paper. She eventually sold the ultimately international company to Gillette in 1979 for $48 million. She died a few months later at age 56.
He quit school and served in the Air Force for two years. He got his GED, was honorably discharged, and enrolled in San Antonio College. His mom and stepfather gave him a guitar for his birthday and a star was born.
With sales of Monkees albums declining, Nesmith asked to be released from his contract. It cost him $450,000,which in 2019 was about the same as $980,940. He then struggled financially until he received his inheritance from the Liquid Paper Company.
"I had to start telling little tales to the tax man while they were putting tags on the furniture." ~Michael Nesmith
In 2018, Nesmith and Dolenz toured together as a duo for the first time under the banner "The Monkees Present: The Mike and Micky Show". After an abbreviated start, they cancelled the last four dates due to Nesmith having to have quadruple bypass surgery. He also contributed two songs for the Monkees' 13th studio album, Christmas Party (the group's first ever Christmas album), released on October 12, 2018.
In 2019, Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz reunited again to make up the cancelled dates of the tour. They added more dates, including a forthcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. The 2020 leg of the tour starts in Vancouver with the release of the new live album on April 3, 2020. Currently, the last date is in Nashville on April 26.
Bandmate Peter Tork died on February 21, 2019. Michael Nesmith commented that he had just spoken to him on February 13 to wish him a happy 77th birthday.
Peter Tork died this AM. I am told he slipped away peacefully. Yet, as I write this my tears are awash, and my heart is broken. Even though I am clinging to the idea that we all continue, the pain that attends these passings has no cure. It's going to be a rough day.
In 1998, Nesmith published his first novel, The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora. Originally developed as an online project, it was later published as a hardcover book by St Martin's Press. His second novel, The America Gene, was released in July 2009. The Mike And Micky Show Live is available on CD at Amazon for $14.98.
Nesmith has been married three times and has four children. The first
was born in 1964, and the youngest was born in 1970. The middle two were both born in 1968; one with his wife at the time and the other with socialite Nurit Wilde. He is currently single.Now I forget what today's entry was originally intended to be...More Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Hits_Just_Keep_on_Comin%27https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Partshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_(film)https://www.monkees.com/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-monkees-2020-tour-911179/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8499445/the-monkees-mourn-peter-tork-deathhttps://www.amazon.com/America-Gene-Michael-Nesmith/dp/1561110000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurit_Wildehttp://www.women-inventors.com/Bette-Nesmith-Graham.asp
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