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◊ 2010-12-13 19:47 |
Filmed in Canada. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241357/locations |
◊ 2010-12-13 19:54 |
1st Boys-Band in music-show-business history. Watching with envy at The Beatles success, americans tried to build a genuine US equivalent group... but who remember the Monkees nowadays? Some nice oldies in this film, unfortunately there's not any pictures of their special MonkeeMobile Pontiac GTO, I wonder why they didn't use even a replica? too low budget possibly ... |
◊ 2010-12-13 20:12 |
Me at least. Some excellent pop songs, great for cheerful driving music. |
◊ 2010-12-13 20:16 |
I have to concur dsl. It was indeed a bit more, as you are usually expecting from a casted one-hit-wonder-band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkees |
◊ 2010-12-13 20:18 |
Aircraft in this film at: Link to "www.impdb.org" |
◊ 2010-12-13 20:32 |
Just a half, little step to off-topic : I'm really pissed since some weeks, since one of my favourite driving music-CD is getting lost Link to "www.musicload.de" |
◊ 2010-12-13 21:30 |
@dsl and ingo: Come on; first of all, they were a Don Kirshner-product. Neil Diamond wrote lots of the songs, and at first professional session-musicians(like the famous "Wrecking Crew") recorded the songs, not the Monkeys themselves. They are a very early example of over-the-top commercialisation. |
◊ 2010-12-13 22:01 |
OK - a totally artificial creation, but the music was good and still enjoyable today. Nesmith's later solo stuff is worth trying as well. |
◊ 2010-12-14 02:18 |
Well, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were serious songwriters. I think people forget that. And as much of an artificial creation as they were, they had a genuine musical influence on more bands than people realize. The Jonas Brothers were adopted by Disney, rather than created by them, unlike Big Time Rush, which is as much of a fake band as The Monkees. |