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Dog 3000
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Edited May 12, 2011, 21:38
Monkees are kings of commercial suicide!
May 12, 2011, 21:38
Actually the Monkees started pissing away their careers with "Headquarters", their third LP which is the only one where they really do "play their own instruments" (except for the bass by producer Chip Douglas.) They had hit after hit with the Don Kirshner assembly line, but got it into their heads they should actually be the band on the records since they were a band on TV.

Their career just gets wackier (and less popular) from that moment on -- second season of the TV series is a lot weirder than the first, that crazy "HEAD" movie, and then their final TV special "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" -- they didn't have much career left by 1969 (TV show cancelled), and after that psychedelic mess was presented, the 2nd and 3rd of their proposed primetime specials were canceled. Peter Tork quit, their singles stopped charting, and they ended up appearing as a trio doing lame comedy skits on Johnny Carson . . . out with a whimper!

But I love it that they "got in the spirit of the sixties" and rebelled against the Hollywood suits in the name of "ART". Hey, they were young and stoned all the time!
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