“I’m heartbroken. I’ve lost a dear friend and partner,” Mickey Dolenz, the last member of the Monkees said of Mike Nesmith who died Friday. “I’m so grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together doing what we loved best — singing, laughing, and doing shtick. I’ll miss it all so much. Especially the shtick. Rest in peace, Nez. … All my love, Micky.”
Dolenz and Nesmith just completed the Monkees’ Farewell Tour with a final stop at L.A.’s Greek Theater on Nov. 14.
“I’m sorry to hear about Mike Nesmith. The Monkees had some great songs, those were fun days,” Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson tweeted. “Love & Mercy to Mike’s family and friends.”
“My first big artistic hero, Mike Nesmith,” magician Penn Jillette also tweeted. “He’s a big part of who I am. It’s love you bring, no that I can’t deny. With your wings, you helped me learn to fly. Sweet Young Mike Nesmith.”
Paul Stanley of Kiss responded to Nesmith’s death. “WOW! Sometimes it’s hard to know why someone’s passing hits you a certain way but this is another one that hit me,” he tweeted. “I watch my world change as people that I thought to be timeless pass on, and that is sobering. Lives end and life goes on. RIP Mike Nesmith.”
As a tribute to Mike Nesmith here is a video of the Monkees best Christmas song:
Click here: Unwrap You At Christmas Video
By now most fans know that Nesmith was raised by his mother in Dallas, Texas after her divorce with his father, Wesley upon his return from overseas in the military.
Later, Nesmith attended San Antonio College in the Alamo City where he met his first wife. Soon they moved to Los Angeles so he could pursue his passion of blues and country music.
It didn’t take long for Nesmith to be cast in The Monkees, as one of the made-for-TV band members inspired by the Beatles.
🔹Davy Jones was a British song-and-dance man with a Tony nomination.
🔹Peter Tork was a Greenwich Village folks singer.
🔹Micky Dolenz had played the orphaned Corky in the 1950s TV show “Circus Boy.”
“Who would play what and who would sing and who would write and who would produce the records was of keen interest to me,” Nesmith wrote in his 2017 memoir, “Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff.” “So I was unprepared for the idea that the four of us would have nothing to do with any of that.”
Rest In Peace and thanks for the memories, Michael Nesmith (1942-2021).
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Wow, Mike Nesmith gone. It’s a milestone. I loved the Monkees, crazy about Davy Jones at 13,but Mike was a good songwriter and singer. Thanks for posting this.
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I was in elementary school when we had to team up with a classmate to give a report on current affairs. Beverly Dinscore & Dolly McCombs gave theirs on the Monkees. It was the first time I ever saw go-go boots. For their presentation, they both wore matching white ones. They were so mod that I became enamored with Beverly and watched the Monkees on TV because I knew she would be watching them too. In my history, she became my first girlfriend and first kiss. Thank you Monkees.
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Wow, go go boots! My mother still had me in ankle socks in elementary school.
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I still listen to the Monkees! Fun times!
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