The Monkees' Michael Nesmith on his 2020 tour with Micky Dolenz and why he and late bandmate Peter Tork were 'partners in silence'
Michael Nesmith discusses a new archival live LP, his upcoming Monkees tour with Micky Dolenz, and his fraught relationship with Peter Tork.When Michael Nesmth took the stage at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, on August 18th, 1973, his life and his career were in a state of free fall. “I had just bought my way out of the,” he says. “I didn’t have a dime. I had a creepy house.
That was a terrible, terrible moment. I said, “I’ll buy you out for whatever you owe on my royalties.” Fortunately what he owed me on my royalties was plenty. This was 1968 or 1969. There was enough money in there, low six figures, that they said, “OK, we’ll take it and let you do whatever you want to do.” They did and I did and we did and that was it. Done.
He said, “Well, I don’t think I can play on it.” I said, “Oh, yeah, you can! You have to learn.” It was a conversation I had with a lot of big-deal musicians and partners as they were all learning to play under the influence of an altered mind. We began playing and he played what you now hear on thealbum. Whatever was in that day’s drug settled into some permanent place in his musical head and he started playing these unbelievable steel licks.
You can’t put down a jingle that makes four and a half million dollars in a weekend. I don’t know how you go around singing it. [] “I like shampoo that’s made out of shells. I love this one a lot, a lot….” See how boring that is? I can’t do that. And music and songs that were made for commercials, they lose their way. You don’t know what to put into them.
I made a big chunk of money again and was like, “What’s supposedly wrong with this? I don’t know.” Someone said to me, “You are selling people their memories back to them.” My reply to that was, “No, I’m not. They are in here looking for their old memories so they can take them home with them.” It’s me saying, “Remember those days? Remember when you rushed home from school to get down the basement floor and watch? Well, it’s still here. That music is still here. We play the same.
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