We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.
I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
