In honor of Micky’s current tour, I made another computer desktop/laptop wallpaper of Micky. It features young Micky photographed by an [?] unknown photographer [I am sure someone knows, pleaselet me know], and a photo I took of Micky when we were in Canada in 2006. It can be found here, and on my Art page.
I love the plaid in Micky’s Scottish tam, and never realized it until I was making this graphic, but I have not one, but two skirts that seem to have a similar plaid… And maybe a baby blanket from my childhood… It’s a lovely plaid.
If you haven’t given up the internet and moved off the grid to peacefully heard sheep or run a polygamous cult, you have probably heard of the series on Prime,Daisy Jones & The Six.
First off, I can’t possibly hear “Daisy Jones” without hearing “Davy Jones”–I can’t be the only one.
While loosely based on stories from Fleetwood Mac and other bands of the past, there are quite a few ways this new series on Primeseems to have taken concepts from, or given a nod to The Monkees–including a beautiful clip of Linda Rondstadt and The Stone Poneys cover of the Michael Nesmith penned “Different Drum”–enough that the Wall Street Journal decided to write about it.
I don’t pay for the WSJ, so I’ll never know what they wrote–but I can see the first line in the preview, “In the 1960s, The Monkees’ fame far outpaced what Daisy Jones & the Six has accomplished.”
LOL yeah, that seems about right.
Daisy Jones & The Six has been hyped up enough I decided I had to experience it. So I began watching, and it has become my treadmill TV, my folding-laundry TV, and my waiting-for-the-melatonin-to-kick-in TV. It hits like a cocktail of This Is Spinal Tap, Almost Famous, The Monkees, every 60s/70s-vibe hashtag you follow on Instagram, Tumblr, and TikTok, and every VH1 Behind The Music special you’ve ever seen, shaken not stirred.
It’s extremely predictable.
But perhaps there is a kind of comfort in that predictability.
And it shows how absolutely thirsty our culture is for all of this classic music from the past. I respect that.
In other news, Rolling Stone decided The Monkees are a real band. It’s like the roller coaster of the latest on whether or not Pluto is considered a real planet. LOL, can we get off this ride? I do not do roller coasters.
In honor of the life of Robert Michael Nesmith, who sadly passed one year ago on December 10, 2021, I made a Facebook cover photo banner for him. It features a photo I took of him, a photo from his past [taken from the set of the movie Head], lyrics of Michael’s, and some free stock photography.
“As many of you know, I knew Michael Nesmith very well. We were very close. And before I knew Michael in real life, in person, I “knew” Michael through his music and his words–as many of you here also know him. I was a huge fan of all of his music, his albums marked whole chapters of my life, his music and energy gave me the tools to paint my own life with depth, his energy in his albums comforted me when I felt truly alone, his humility in his writing showed he often felt much of the same struggles… He gave me a divine beauty that came into my mind from his work that helped me find and believe in God: helped me believe in the higher, sacred order, believe in our souls, believe in love.
And so, I wanted to create something beautiful in his honor: and I will continue to try to create beautiful things as he inspires me. And I wanted to share it with you guys who also love his music, and his writing.
I have been creating more digital art lately, like desktop wallpapers [LOL I’m dating myself here, not sure how much people even still are on computers], so this time I decided to make something the dimensions for the Facebook cover photo. I put many of his lyrics in the photo, perhaps hard to read, but I’m sure you all know all his lyrics anyway. And if you don’t, I highly recommend you go on that journey.
I wasn’t sure where this art was going, but then, like so many things, it “came to me” as if a higher force was making it for me… And it came out like a burst of his spiritual energy, his light, his wisdom, his undying force.
Please enjoy. And let’s keep the light of Michael’s life alive. “
The Monkees: Inside The Headquarters celebrates the 55th anniversary of The Monkees third studio album, Headquarters. Presale is available now, signed [$149.95 USD] or unsigned [$69.98 USD]; it will be released November 18, 2022, and orders will ship the week of November 25, 2022.
Tickets for Micky’s 2023 Monkees Headquarters tour go on sale Friday, November 4th, with an artist presale on Wednesday, November 2nd. The password is “Zilch” [?]
I added photos to theMicky Dolenz Photo Gallery: a Halloween concert in Bridgeport, CT from a few years ago, featuring Micky Dolenz, Jerry Renino, and Sandy Gennaro. 🎃👻
And if you don’t, I highly recommend you go on that journey.
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