CockneyRebel wrote:
Someone at the clubhouse said that The Monkees were not a real band. I told him that his opinion is not my reality.
First, I like the new avatar.
Second, The Monkees were as much a real band as several bands from the 1960s. They all could play instrument. Mike Nesmith wrote songs. Studio musicians played on some of their albums, but does anyone think The Beach Boys played all the instruments on Pet Sounds? I remember hear they weren't a real band in the late sixties. When they played concerts, and on their later albums, they played their own instruments.
In the early sixties, Phil Spector use to fabricate new groups, and sometimes the group of people on the record were not the same people that toured. The Crystals were an example of that. Darlene Love floated from group to group, The Blossoms, Bobby Soxx and the Blue Jeans, plus as solo artist. But then Spector recorded a few songs (
He's a Rebel, and
He's Sure the Boy I Love) with The Blossoms and released them as The Crystals, and it wasn't that there were four woman already touring as The Crystals.
So that is what's on my mind right now, after reading CockneyRebel's post. I don't recall what I was going to type when I came here, but when I read CockneyRebel's post, the etch-a-sketch flipped over, gave a shake, and replace it with "The Monkeys weren't a real band." Poppy cock.
(LOL Now I'm wondering where the term Poppy cock came from?)
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Acronym Legend
OS = Older Son, YS = Younger Son
The most important two acronyms I know.
2/22/2026 - I will be offline for the next month or so.