{"id":1730,"date":"2023-04-03T02:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loveisonlysleeping.com\/monkees\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2023-05-12T02:31:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T06:31:56","slug":"daisy-jones-the-six-or-the-monkees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveisonlysleeping.com\/monkees\/daisy-jones-the-six-or-the-monkees\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Jones & the Six or The Monkees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, I can’t possibly hear “Daisy Jones” without hearing “Davy Jones”–I can’t be the only one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While loosely based on stories from Fleetwood Mac and other bands of the past, there are quite a few ways this new series on Prime <\/em>seems to have taken concepts from, or given a nod to The Monkees<\/a><\/em>–including a beautiful clip of Linda Rondstadt<\/a> and The Stone Poneys<\/a> cover of the Michael Nesmith penned “Different Drum”–enough that the Wall Street Journal decided to write about it<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019 fame far outpaced what Daisy Jones & the Six has accomplished.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOL yeah, that seems about right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daisy Jones & The Six <\/em>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, <\/em>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s extremely<\/em> predictable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps there is a kind of comfort in that predictability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it shows how absolutely thirsty our culture is for all of this classic music from the past. I respect that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Rolling Stone decided The Monkees are<\/em> a real band<\/a>. 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<\/em> do roller coasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,32,42,43,44,40,33,34],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daisyjones","tag-daisyjonesandthesixth","tag-different-drum","tag-linda-ronstadt","tag-linda-ronstadt-and-the-stone-poneys","tag-the-stone-poneys","tag-themonkeesanddaisyjones","tag-themonkeesanddaisyjonesandthesixth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t