to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the birds, the bees & the monkees, i decided to release my 4th newsletter on this special day.

she's been a long time coming… i've started writing and collecting my research all the way back in january and i couldn't have done it with the wonderful community of monkees-fans i've met along the way. i want to give a special shoutout to my friend @wutheringdyke, who's been there since day one.

sending lots of love to the people mentioned, my readers and of course: davy, peter, mike and micky. 🌻💛

EVERYONE REJOICE!!

once again it’s….

🎉 WEIRD GIRL WEDNEZDAY!!!!! 🎶🎺 🎊👏👏

always remember my friends that

SHE ⬆️

is WEIRD.

a weird girl.

goofing around with them again

its been a while

do you like his drawing

st. matthew acoustic demo lyrics / st. matthew final recording lyrics. it's not important though.

every pic i could find of the monkees with dogs, pt 1. (updated sporadically as i find more)

lots of davy, don't question it lol

Michael Nesmith Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors embroidered and rhinestone-accented stage outfit, hat and boots (circa 1967-69), photographed by Bob Delevante.

An influential outfit if ever there was one in the genre. Nesmith was country-rock when country-rock wasn’t cool, when he was still in the Monkees. This rhinestone-accentuated suit — with chain-stitched peacocks, orchids, musical notes and American flag motifs — also came from Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors, circa 1967. It predates the famous Flying Burrito Brothers suits of a similar nature.

“He wore it to the premiere of ‘Head,’ and on the last Monkees television special, ’33 1/3.’ As soon as we decided to do this exhibit, this was one of the first artifacts we thought of, like, ‘Oh, we’ve gotta have that.’ You know, we had a little bit of a relationship with Michael because he was featured in the Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash ‘Nashville Cats’ exhibit that we did, and he came and played an album release party for that, and we got to know him a little and had a relationship going. We asked if we could borrow this, and he made it clear that he absolutely wanted it to come here. And then just with the timing… by circumstance, the same week he passed, we’re getting notices that the shipment is on its way to Nashville. It was just interesting timing.”

— Michael Gray, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum {x}

lechery (noun): excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness

where big time rush goes wrong is that they focus too much on the music. where the monkees went right is that you could turn on the television and see four guys in a band never play music but somehow take down an entire foreign spy operation. that’s what it’s really about

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