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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
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And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.
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I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
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There's an audience for everything.
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It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
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The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
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To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!
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It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
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My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
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We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.
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The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.
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I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.
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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
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What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.