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I don't know much about The Beatles and I don't know everything about The Monkees but I do know that while some fundamentals are the same for the two these bands had very different sounds from one another even when they were doing similar things
I've heard Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones LTD get compared to something like Magical Mystery Tour, and while yeah, there's some small similarities, I feel like The Monkees were sort of making their own stuff by that point and straying away from The Monkees+More of The Monkees and with that, they were drifting further from that "American Beatles" image (and, of course, making stuff dissimilar to The Beatles), and The Beatles were making the image a lot of people now associate with them (that you should be high as a kite to enjoy their music. Which. I've yet to try that). Even if you look at the early days of The Beatles/The Monkees, The Monkees were very much their own thing, even as a "manufactured image", they're not super Beatlesesque, they just sound like a good late 60s classic rock band.
Honestly one of the only similarities I can think of off the top of my head between the two (aside from like. Basic instruments) is the fact both bands would wear Chelsea boots. And that was extremely common in their kind of scene so like. Doesn't even matter. Also drugs but again common.
Tldr: The Monkees and The Beatles made very different music and it's weird to me that The Monkees are still (to some) considered "just Beatles rip-offs"
Edit: To clarify, I know The Monkees were made because of The Beatles. I'm not saying people compared the two with little reasoning other than the fact they were both popular 60s bands.
idk man these seem pretty accurate
i have peter and micky ones too, not davy cus i lowk got distracted
my strawpage! ⌗ㆍノ❛🍃❛
(screenshots since i dont wanna spend money to save/publish it.)
I noticed that Davy crossdresses a LOT in The Monkees
Original image under the cut lol
Great art!
Happy monkee monday to all who celebrate
the beatles…the animals…the monkees…where is the fucking zoo keeper
Some big traditional fanart of The Monkees I did for my grade 10 art final last year. I did use @autmnalmanac 's Monkee fanart for poses and background for the drawings at the bottom. And I used @saveferris 's Monkee fanart to draw whatever Micky is holding in the doctor scene. Because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to draw it when I was watching the footage.
I love this song... And the dance number, Davy is in his element here, he makes it look so easy
Daddy's Song From Head
Ooh. He was so odd. Always right next to me. Lady you probably wished he was always right next to you... # wishful thinking
Actress Sharyn Hillyer (Della) and her memories of working on the Monkees episode Monkees on the Wheel
I really got to thinking about how little Davy was... So I compared him and me. He was. 5'3". About 120 lbs..... i' m 5'2". And about 130 give or take a pound or two... So...He was only an inch taller than me and 10 lbs. Lighter... He was quite small, I never really thought about it till today... Quite small and unbelievably gorgeous 🥰
When the world and I were young, just yesterday... Life was such a simple game, a child could play. It was easy then to tell right from wrong.. easy then to tell weak from strong... When a man should stand and fight, or just go along. But today there is no day or night, today there is no dark or light, today there is no black or white... Only shades of Gray. I remember when the answer seemed so clear, we had never lived with doubt or tasted fear. It was easy then to tell truth from lies, selling out from compromise, who to love and who to hate.. the foolish from the wise. But today is is no day or night, today there is no dark or light, today there is no black or white... Only shades of Gray. ( Instrumental). It was easy then to know what was fair, When to keep and when to share, How much to protect your heart, And how much to care. But today there is no day or night, today there is no dark or light, today there is no black or white... Only shades of Gray.... Only shades of Gray...... That last verse makes my cry every time.
Davy looks specially cute in that outfit ❤️😘
From my personal copy of Monkees Monthly No. 9
My baby boys 🎶❤️🔥😘
The Monkees in Chicago during their early promo tour in September, 1966.
My baby boys🎶❤️🔥😘
The Monkees in Chicago during their early promo tour in September, 1966.
A Few of The Best Monkees Stories Ever
Inspired by A Few of The Best Beatles Stories Ever.
I’ve combined all of your submissions and a few of my own to make a list of The Monkee fandom’s favorite Monkees Stories of ALL TIME.
I’ve been meaning to post this list for over a year, and it seems fitting to post it today in conjunction with thank-your-lucky-stars Monkees Awards question for today.
BEST MONKEES STORIES
Mike Nesmith yelling “that could’ve been your face motherfucker” and punching a hole in a wall, when Herb Moelis and Don Kirshner wouldn’t let the Monkees play their own instruments on their album.
Micky Dolenz gallantly making a tourniquet for Cynthia Plaster Caster after she sliced her hand while trying to open up a can of dental alginates to use to make Peter Tork’s plaster cast. (Unfortunately this injury made it impossible to cast Peter that day)
Peter Tork’s mile high orgies on their plane during the 1967 tour and his orgy organizer button which he wore during the second season of the Monkees’ television show.
Davy Jones plowing through the studio gate with his car when the guard refused to let him in because of his “long” hair/not believing Davy worked there.
Mike Nesmith’s Cincinnati (Cleveland?) prank with the elevator that almost got the guys trampled by thousands of fans until they jumped into a police car.
Peter Tork telling the draft board that he was gay to get out of going to Vietnam.
Micky Dolenz tripping balls in Hyde Park at 7 in the morning and singing songs to a couple hundred schoolkids until Jack Nicholson and Bob and Bert and the cops show up and when they finally make a run for it, everybody gets trampled.
Peter Tork and Davy Jones getting into a knockout, drag down fight on the set of the show, with Davy giving Peter a “nutter” and Peter subsequently punching Davy, who then had to get stitches.
Two Mexican federal agents handing Mike Nesmith a million dollars’ worth of marijuana in a brown paper sack as an apology after the agents took his camera away because he took photos of a student demonstration.
A member of the Monkees entourage hiding Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in the Monkees’ hotel in England after he was busted for drugs.
Two seventeen-year-old girls bribing pizza delivery guys for their outfits to deliver pizza to the Monkees’ hotel room.
Mike Nesmith sending John Lennon a telegram that ended with “God is Love, Mike Nesmith.”
Davy’s salad story
When Mike had a party with a houseful of people and asked Davy if he wanted to go get a burger. Davy declined, but later learned Mike left his own party to hop on his private jet and fly to get his favorite burger just cos he had it like that.
The time when Micky was invited to the recording of Sgt. Pepper and he thought it was going to be some big psychedelic party so he shows up all crazy in paisley print bell bottoms and like tie-dyed underwear in the middle of the day, and he just finds the Beatles sitting all calm in folding chairs.
The game of “Killer,” that required the actors, producers, some of the inner-circle to play-act a spectacular death scene on demand.
The Monkees nearly sabotaging their own show before it could even begin, by invading the network affiliates’ dinner at Chason’s restaurant.
The pilot of the Monkees Express having to come on the PA system on the plane, asking some of the passengers enjoying the party-pit in the rear of the plane to please come forward so he could get the nose down.
Micky getting mobbed while doing his Christmas shopping.
Bert Schneider sitting in the audience at the Cow Palace, seeing his band on stage for the first time and not quite believing what he had created.Raybert scoring the lowest rated pilot in the history of the network—and figuring out how to fix it.
That girl that mailed herself to Davy
Davy flying to a hospital in Phoenix to visit two little girls who had been hit by a car when they were out buying Monkees albums
Spending a weekend locked in a hotel with Jack Nicholson and drugs to write Head.
Micky building that scale model plane in his living room, then having to disassemble it because he couldn’t get it out the door.
