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This latter group believed that Nesmith deserves to be remembered not as a TV sitcom star, but as an unheralded pioneer of the country-rock movement. Some in the Hall of Fame audience were unmistakably disappointed at the absence of Monkees songs, but others were just as obviously gratified. Clearly, he was torn between the two sides of his career. The 19-song set included only a single Monkees song-and that tune, “Papa Gene’s Blues,” dated back to Nesmith’s pre-Monkees folkie career.Īnd yet Nesmith had just done a summer tour with his old bandmate, billed as “The Monkees Present: The Mike Nesmith & Micky Dolenz Show.” Dominated by Monkees songs, the tour proved so successful that the duo reprised it in 20. Michael Nesmith & The First National Band headlined the Country Music Hall of Fame’s CMA Theatre on Sept. Those mixed feelings were obvious the last time I saw him. On the other hand, he was proudest of the music he made as a struggling folk singer before the TV show, and as a pioneering country-rocker and music-videographer after the show.
On the one hand, most people know him as a member of that made-for-TV rock ‘n’ roll band during its two-year run on NBC-TV, 1966-1968. Michael Nesmith, who died Friday at his California home of heart failure at age 78, never lost his ambivalence about his best-known musical endeavor: The Monkees.
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