NEW, YORK POST.</p><p> SUNIlA'f,.,JUNf 25, 2000 J\,',~e:w "movie this\Neek ,on YH1 bdi1g~ the MOr:'lkees .back ~,·'f you.~ ~ thought Yo.u alr~~dy knew' everything • They coukla BeatIes: The .......... -tLo" OavyJones, ON 'Wednesday ; VH1 airs "Daydream Believer," a TV movie about the heyday of ' The Monk .. s. . , :~bout the pre-fab'four-, Micky Dolenz Tork) gave up Image and 10 phenomenal 8UCC8SI.</p><p> Ir. the Intost round of, nltontion fur n I!I'OUP thnt seems. destined ,to ,not fnde Hey! Hey! think again. home .. ~i;~n ifiting .</p><p> America but \'; hartly away. .' artistic statoment, ' tho Think the Monkees were.</p><p> Monkees were a lot ecoler a prepackaged joke? Try and more subversive than "a jolly Buddha laugh at they're given credit for. hypocrisy." That's what' Here's why:"\ I rofused to carry tbo show at first, but its quick and immediate international success .. soon . ~hanged tbat.</p><p> Timothy Leary said about ' ,',' .', . them in 1969 -and he THEY HAD LONG HAIR JIMI HENDRIX WAS wasn't alone. . '.,. , ..</p><p> It .. seems silly today, but THEIR OPENING ACT John Lennon reportedly four lads in primetime It was the most infa, compared them favorably with long hair was a shock mous double bill in rock 'n' to the Marx Brothers . in 1966, especially since roll _ and it ended with Respected by' their they weren't depicted as Hendrix leaving the tour peers, trailblazers on tcle~ I drug-taking, rebellious after a few shows." . vision (where ~h~y w~n an .. ';maniacs a la\~Dragn~~.~ .</p><p> But few credit ~ the ~mmy ~ •. mUSICIans w~o .. ~ "Ye~h, w.e. were' nlce Monkees _ who recruited :nsked--Jand ~.lostLthelr ~,guJls, ad!,?lts.</p><p> P~ter .T~rk -Hendrix themselves after ,com~erc181 .t: success· for r bOut theIr ~~~ra~~ . hearing him' perform .in ,chance,.to,make ,an ": Some I., statl"hls ~st.1I the,UK _ with the good "I":·~/' t;,;)',~~1'~I~l:4 f.:;~~~ ~! 1'·\, this did agrees they .hung. out • him, together.. :!. ~ • .':-.J5.)1JI .</p><p> The ' "We'd stay up andojam," . ens u i nit, he remembers fon!lly1 !~lt ''': ~bad boy" was Hendrixl Who would, publicity ~; n't V;a.~;:t:: dO'!b:t~I~)~ fIe~d~: THEY WERE THE F1~ , toehgld in ':i BOY BAND.TO.'uod the, U.S., BREAK FREE.'I.J'J: which soon Like· ''''~rank.en.s.t~in'8 ~ranslated mODster, ~the ·...:MODkees mto Top 10:, soon 'got away from their success .. ,~ ~creator8 .. ~-} na~e ly' Bob Jim! Hendrix " Tork!id '/ Rafelson" ,Bl!i:t ~~icj.er " . poos. ~ 0 ., and ,:-especlally ... ",tOon stqnes tha~ H~ndT1X ,.too,k ' Kirshner,.. th~ , •. music .'up. fe.l!ie1)~e j at, \l'ork s impresario who choselthe f-:J/h ... ('1).I' .llr-,· __ --:~ I , OOO~ ,is: 3~U ,~~ .ROIlIlIOY W9'<1 -N-eW-YORK POST, SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 2000 , ~!'-:<~? ~,>',,:,~-- ve,get"'XiaIl"but then I goi.· c1i'lilJenge their a~~,i::~~ ~~~;~~~~~~t~~:~~~~~ is forthri\lbt . (The Beatie. di~'t a rocovcrJng thdir movie with all "hould know· that' bond· members'tb.r;;r;l ~~{~~~~ ;f~~~~~.~~;~~~ : ~Mon~e '!. did it finit~, ":'{' it ~08n't all, _ _ .",uieide, did _ . • ,-*-$ - • pbase • .Tork swell-known .... r' -, , , ;'...nIEY SI!ENT EVERY ;;. exploration of eastern; ,,:-THEY HAD A SWEAT-' :'.' h~~;:';:'~:ii :~h~~~~:~ ~ ~,\'jiO' NY,THEY MADE ' philosophy continues .</p><p> He .,':SHOPBEFORE SWEAT-' ,t , 10 true rock 'n' roU -rash· reads' the Tho Th Clung '.</p><p> SHOPS WERE COOL " • , the Monkees , ended -regularly. '.'Long before Kathie Ule '~:~~l!i;j~;~~~ ~ ill ~;r~first -massive' fling'. ' • Gilford the Monkeea 'had :-.;"u. fame virtually .b~ke._ • THEY HAD CUTTlNG 'its'own' form ofslove .la~r ':1(0 k had a class, ~ 60s. , EDGE MUSICAl GUESTS . right here in the States, -" .• ~~%;;~';;'il;; ';'~j:;~ly," 'opon •. do~r poltcr .. at h!s 'Jimi Hendrix wasn't a and they were proud of l~l Tork.- , ,/C'Ilif6rma home, a".d his .. rare.exce Teenagers would. mill. ,-,_ THEY HAD GREAT ",,' 'Iales.e attractad .hipples 't' . tl;, oulside the studlo wher~ . ':", SOIGS' . or" ,,:"0 'hangers-<!.n in' equal .. ;t::;'kees . their .how was filmed, • 'M"niio~n-'Neil Di~'mo.;d . m s.ures -pntll the. a I way s hoping to be one of the few ( h' en';ed 'tbe classic ' mopey.ran out. "d·M·'k used' their. (girls only, please) selected I "Ymoa,lJjelieyer") and Tork' ': IYPyy, Jones an lC y TV" to go mSlde and p ow .</p><p> I . . . 'd with '';Dol~n%' '~ere similarly _ and: tours through the fan mail that qUIck y ~~s~~n:Writers ~sl}.med by lacke.ys .and: to romote. 'was arriving by the. truck- m?tO i':~ . by 'badbusmess deC1SlOns but th P, rt'sls' ~. load. . '. the ~ §tarted, building . up' a th: tk~d. "Oh. we'd go and visit M 0 n k e e s, .. • !. etirement f~nd 1n the MYi c k y them,'" sOY,s To.rk.. such 85 . '70s py-,: tounng ~apan.</p><p> Dol e n Z "Sometim,.es we d even sing Car ole wherl~ the Monkees popu· d ire c ted for them..</p><p> Bayer Sager, larity,never waned. . th final He fails to mentIOn the G err y 'N'e~mith famously e d of shocking lack of hourly G 0 f fin, i!tr\lc~ '"ay .dirt after h,s ~~~sos:ries Frank Zappa wages for these child labor- Carole King mON~, Invented L~qUld and cajoled . era and Boyce Pdp<;r, .. : singer/songwriter Tim and Hart, _ ' . .</p><p> J<!...</p><p> Buckley into appearing, THEY RISKED IT AU , "Wo " .hod 'T.~EY MAOE THE MOST (It was perhaps the only FOR THEIR MUSIC tho cream of ~f::.: ,.,1 OF THE '60s primetimo oxposure for 'We hud no desire to tho crop,: ; ",Micky Dolonz wandered the cult fuvorito who dlCd dest.roy the Monkee.; Nell Diamond says Tork. through the Monterey tragically . young -Just insists Tork, who dIsagrees _ _ L-0 n g" ",mllsic;-festival d~es.ed as like his son Jelf so many with anyone who describes before John Lennon touted 'Ian ~merican Indian. . years later.) . the band as walking away Harry Nilsson as ono ofbis :hl,L;~tle Davy Jones Similarly "Nesmlth . got from success. favorites the Monkees squired toll blpnde mod-Frank Zappa to pop 10..</p><p> But he readily concurs recorded' Nilsson's song cis around town long "I wanted to get Jams that they risked (and 108t) 'Cuddly Toy," which gave ~qr~ .Dudley Moore. . ; Joplin on the show," says that success by abandon- Harry the financial boost ''MIchael Nesmith Tork, "but that didn't work ing the hit-making: factory he needed.to quit his day boug,it 'one lavish toy ·out.~ .- of Kirshner, makmg the job to. pursue,mUllic full- after:·~· another, but challenging, ahead-of·its· time. . 'eXplained it oway by THEY MAOE FUN OF . time, antIwar movIe Head, Jazz smger Cassandra ·,'t'e'Portedly saying he THEMSELVES nnd _ most importantly to Wilson recently rec~rded I would snuty out h~s deSire While the Beotles used them -pcrformll1~ much their first bJg h!t. ,. ~st ~ for. n:!:'atenDI thmgs by movicij like"A Hard Day'H or their o~n musIc from Trai.n ~ C!ark~8vll.1e, . &1v-. :O/tov<ng them. , Ni hI." to lish their nice· the third album, rffigll'!nl"3dr.b~y.>m.Y !.~Ptl\ to, • ,1O«jrugs' weren t unheard , bo g,.iihagrt lh~1 MonKee." Headquarters. .• '.'" Ii iillbe P.RO!f, .~nd" ,,~~ t~e:., ."dfl'But the Monkees also , ';li~a thei,oi\\bVlU"Flea<f.'to !" ..</p><p> Tork poinls out,thel" Suc· process, demonstratmg lis -,.k-haW·what to leaue In the k themselvcs and CCt;S roUowed n ruther uncxpected durability . '60s.</p><p> Tork jokes, ". was 0 moc
