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To: bentway who wrote (470764)4/11/2009 9:56:36 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1575421
 
For those of us who were there, the Monkees were just a fake group cooked up to capitalize on the Beatles phenomena. They had their own televison show, provided by rip-off, fake corporate America. Although they were real musicians, a couple of them even decent ones, they often had studio guys dub for them.

They did what they were hired to do. As comedians, not as musicians. As it turned out, they were decent musicians who made a deal with the devil.

There was no ripoff involved. It was the kind of entertainment they chose to enter into.



To: bentway who wrote (470764)4/11/2009 11:14:44 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1575421
 
>For those of us who were there, the Monkees were just a fake group cooked up to capitalize on the Beatles phenomena. They had their own televison show, provided by rip-off, fake corporate America. Although they were real musicians, a couple of them even decent ones, they often had studio guys dub for them.

Yeah. But some of their music was actually quite good, and the show was funny. Head was a pretty weird-ass movie, though...

-Z