1. I overcame a 43 year-long prejudice against watching the movie 'Head', which this is from. When I was 8 years old I heard my beloved Monkees were in some yucky movie where they were all....weird..and I wanted nothing to do with it. At 51 I finally realized that a 1968 movie directed by Jack Nicholson featuring the members of The Monkees had to be pretty interesting. But I still had a moment of 'But it's that scary, yucky movie...' before ordering it from Netflix.
Of course I ended up liking it. But I wouldn't have in 1968.
2.Davy Jones was not 'my Monkee', but his charisma in this clip blows me away. If you are a woman between around mid 40s and late 50s you understand what it means to have had 'your' Monkee. My Monkee, just for the record, was Peter. As an adult I competely support that choice. My Beatle was Ringo. There are obvious similarities.
3.This is visually stunning. I love the cutaway shots, the costume changes from black and white to white and black, the editing, and the non-gratuitous strobe sequences.
4. Hello, that's Toni Basil dancing with Davy Jones. Seriously. A young, beautiful Toni Basil without that dreadful 'Hey Mickey' makeup spackled on her face.
5. Ok, yeah, there's Frank Zappa at the end, Frank Zappa with a cow, whatever, which some would say is the best part. I'm not a big Frank Zappa fan. For some reason, he reminds me of Yoko Ono, except I think Yoko Ono is more earnest (discuss). I do kind of like the snarky commentary though, and he's a vision in a suit. What a presence.
6. Although this is a cheesed up version, it's a poignant song written by Harry Nilsson. The lyrics to 'Daddy's Song' are worth reading.
How on earth did y'all manage to have a figure in the public conscious named "Davy Jones" and not say his name like a pirate and say ARRRRRGH a lot?
ReplyDeleteOMG, that's awesome. Well, abstaining from 'ARRRRGHing' was easy because the little singing and dancing munchkin you see in this video is not exactly the 'presiding over the evils of the deep' type. If he had a locker, he probably kept his tap shoes in it.
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