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John Linnell on Bluesky: “Our birthday tribute to Mickey Dolenz, who just turned 80.”

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Favorite Monkees song?

She? Mary Mary?

Recently--Me and Magelana.

I love the song Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow in general, but I also want to point out you can hear Davy Jones coughing/clearing his throat ON THE BEAT at the top of the song. (It was a different time!)

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he looked so pretty in this episode! (ignore micky tweaking out)

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Hi John! In the spirit of cataloging as much info as possible about the band's earliest public performances on TMBW, I'd love to pick your brain about the time you busked on the Brooklyn Promenade. What we know: it was 1983 and JL borrowed an accordion from a friend in your building for the performance. Songs included Cowtown, Alienation and Maybe I Know, then Ellie Greenwich's aunt heard MIK and gave you a $20. Are there any other details you can place - stories, songs, maybe the month/date?

JF: I have a calendar with the date on it I think. Other songs among the earliest songs that we rehearsed regularly were Space Suit, What Am I Doing Hanging Round? (a Mike Nesmith song) and, although I doubt we played it live sit was perhaps too "progressive", Complete Paranoia. I am trying to think of others... Maybe Cabbagetown?

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Silly question, but as someone who grew up during the golden age of TV theme songs, I'm curious - what's your favorite(s)?

Sure! Off the dome...

Twilight Zone (the second season and after, I guess, with the guitars. The one made famous by the Ventures)

Gigantor (Japanese animated series)

Addams Family - written by Vic Mizzy, the composer of In the Middle (which we covered on the No! album) as well as Green Acres.

Time Tunnel (by Johnny Williams AKA John Williams)

The theme to Lost In Space (also Johnny Williams). Like the Twilight Zone, this is the improved, second season theme.

Perry Mason

Naked City

The Monkees

Hawaii Five-O

...I could ponder this for an hour but I gotta watch Succession!

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PETER TORK in “THE DEVIL AND PETER TORK”

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which monkees do you think you are both most similar to?

JF: I kind of think of the Monkeys as a monolithic thing-but if you are keying into their voices I would say Mickey Dolenz really had the style that we both, and many other singers, responded to the most. His singing is fully committed but his volume exists entirely in a mediated, middle level. He doesn't croon and he doesn't belt, but it feels very rocking and really serves the song.

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Peter Tork

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“ …  all it takes is just love, because, baby, in the final analysis, love is power. that’s where the power’s at. “

ROBERT MICHAEL NESMITH: 1942 - FOREVER

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i love him  🤧

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“... but it was of course also about The Monkees.”

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john linnell, accordionist extraordinaire

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“It always seems like all roads lead back to the Monkees with me.” - John Flansburgh

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John Linnell waving on Conan compilation

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@ Tower Records//Ann Arbor, MI (1994-04-16)

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Wow, was this only four years ago???

Thank you, Adam, for Good Times and Man It’s So Loud In Here and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And for that early-2000s Fountains of Wayne show that inspired a couple of “old” 40-somethings to swing dance.

Look who is producing the upcoming (upcoming!!!) Monkees album! 

I am so excited about this and hope the album is as awesome as it sounds like it’ll be.  Not only is Adam producing, but Andy Partridge (XTC) is contributing at least one song.  It’s not quite as if TMBG were involved, but one degree of separation is pretty exciting too!