Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #590

["Russ Van Rooy" <russvr@blarg.net>]

Members of both the Monkees and The Byrds knew  how to play their own
instruments and did so on record. With the Byrds, I believe it was only "Mr
Tambourine Man", their first single, on which only Roger McGuinn played and
the rest were session players. True, they picked Michael Clarke for his
looks and not his drumming ability. You need only listen to PreFlyte to hear
them while they were learning to play their instruments. As for the Monkees,
certainly Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork ( Thorkelson) were musicians. Tork
was formerly of the Greenwich Village folk scene.
-Russ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Neukam" <scottneukam@yahoo.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #590


> --- "Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Also, your perceptions change over time, right? I thought
> > the Monkees kicked
> > *ass* when I was eleven, but I don't care how good the CD
> > remastering is now
> > -they just aren't the same band to me, and the songs do
> > NOT sound the same.
>
> I love the Monkees!  maybe I'm still too young, but that's
> some of my fave pop music of all time.  Who cares if they
> didn't play their own instruments (neither did the Byrds)
> or write their own songs (neither did the Yardbirds,
> mostly).
>
> Scott
>
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