My son is going to a Michael Nesmith concert tomorrow in LA....

[CTyankee]

He is a BIG Monkees fan!

We have a family connection to Mike Nesmith but I couldn't remember it when he called. He said he was going to see his concert and will meet him and wanted to relate the family connection. I really don't remember it....but somewhere his lineage and my family's converged.

[hlthe2b]

1. Michael Nesmith solo? What kind of music does he perform?

It is hard enough to think of seeing "the Monkees" without Davy Jones, but I think without Micky Dolenz too it would be pretty bleak I'd think.

Maybe Nesmith has had a solo career I am unaware of?

[msongs]

2. he has the most extensive solo career of any of the monkees. allmusic.com tells all nt

[Freddie]

3. I saw The Monkees - Micky and Peter -

Their 50th anniversary tour summer ‘16. Was a really entertaining show! Micky still sings great and Peter still sings awful. Lots of film clips etc., Davy was definitely there in spirit. Felt like I was 10 again. Hope they tour again.

[Dave Starsky]

10. Check out his work with The First National Band.

Nez was a pioneer of "country pop". Here is one of my favorites:

And something he did later, which is fun:

[CTyankee]

11. I didn't know it either but my son would. The concert is in LA. My son is visiting his sister and

her musician husband.

In "real" life he is a prosecutor with the Brooklyn DA's office...

[Miles Archer]

4. Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash...THE Nesmith album, for my tastes

Nesmith spent a lot of time (and record label money) holed up in studios with "Nashville Cats"...session musicians who were there under the pretense of making "Monkees records" with no other Monkees present. A few tracks made it onto Monkees albums, many didn't, and they eventually ended up scattered across the Monkees' "Missing Links" CDs and the "Listen To The Band" and "Music Box" box sets. A few are instantly recognizable as having appeared on Nesmith's first few solo albums.

"Ranch Stash" was more or less a "pure country" album, but filtered through the consciousness of "Cosmic Cowboy Papa Nes," as he called himself in those days. Of particular interest is the traditional "Uncle Pen," which is usually a happy skippy bluegrass kind of thing. Nesmith ends up barking out the lyrics with an attitude near the end, singing "High on the hill, up A-bove the town," emphasis on "A," an little characteristic inflection of his.

He did something similar with the song "Bonaparte's Retreat," another old standard, on his "Tantamount To Treason" album. It starts out like a sort of funeral dirge, then lightens up a little, then turns into a full-blown psychedelic fuzz guitar freak-out in the middle before touching ground again.

He definitely did a lot of things for the first time. Credit for the "sound" gets split between Nesmith, Rick Nelson (in his "Stone Canyon Band" days), and a few others. Guys like Marty Stewart are still having success with his big album from last year, "Way Out West." It's essentially a long-lost Flying Burrito Brothers album, but you can hear Nesmith in all of these guys.

[Paladin]

5. Nesmith was the only Monkee with genuine musical talent.

Hope he plays "Different Drum" at that concert. Linda R. had a hit with it, but Nesmith wrote it....

[bdtrppr6]

6. Joanna

is his best song. sounds like Slim Whitman singing. I found Mike Nesmith and the First National Band LP at an estate sale, snatched that right up. great album.

[utopian]

7. Nesmithis friggin' awesome

Long, excellent solo career. Excellent musician. Great live performer. Don't expect too many Monkees songs, but I bet he does one or two

[Skittles]

9. can't believe he is 75 years old.....and a TEXAN

[CTyankee]

12. I'm a native Texan so somewhere our families meshed...