![]() ![]() “This was real understanding and encouragement from a crowd I knew to be authentic music lovers and connoisseurs. “The audience’s approval and acknowledgment were overwhelming,” he wrote. He included that song Sunday in a midshow solo acoustic segment spotlighting the four songs he performed at the Troubadour one night in a pre-Monkees performance that he said redefined the role music would play in his life - an experience he detailed in last year’s memoir, “Infinite Tuesday - An Autobiographical Riff.” ![]() His songs for the Monkees became increasingly sophisticated and accomplished: His Texas roots came through on the Monkees’ first album with his song “Papa Gene’s Blues,” which demonstrated a level of lyrical and musical ambition that was impressive within the context of a manufactured pop group. “We can’t do anything with these,” he recalled during rehearsal on Saturday at a studio coincidentally a block away from RCA’s former West Coast headquarters in Hollywood, and around the corner from the amplifier repair shop that Rhodes ran when he wasn’t recording and touring with Nesmith or leading the house band at the fabled Palomino club in North Hollywood. But the response wasn’t always favorable. His third marriage, to Victoria Kennedy, was from 2000 to 2011.Nesmith, like Tork, had been knocking around the music business before he was chosen for “The Monkees,” and was able to contribute a cut or two to each Monkees album. He was then married to Kathryn Bild from 1976 to 1988. He had another son with Nurit Wilde, a photographer. First to Phyllis Barbour, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. Dolenz said in tribute, “I’m so grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together doing what we loved best – singing, laughing, and doing shtick.” Nesmith released his autobiography, Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff, in 2017 and performed on a final tour with The Monkees last autumn, with a final show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The Rio project gave Nesmith the idea for creating a programme showing solely video, named PopClips, which in turn inspired the development of the MTV music television channel. A longer-form video, Elephant Parts (1981), featuring “Rio”, won the first Grammy award for Video of the Year. Instead of a standard format, with a singer or band playing the song, he devised a montage of moving images that told the story, accompanied by the music. In 1977 he was asked by Chris Blackwell of Island Records to create a promotional video for his new single, “Rio”. When The Monkees disbanded in 1970, Nesmith continued in the world of music with a number of solo projects. “I mean, where do you want to be in the Sixties except the middle of rock’n’roll, hanging out with the scene? London was an absolute blast, and so was LA back then. “It was fun for me and a great time of my life,” he said. Interviewed later, Nesmith recalled the era with fondness.
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