Naked Persimmon- Mike's Fantasy

[Andraste77]

What's better than Mike Nesmith? TWO Mike Nesmiths!

[prairielullaby94]

god dammit michael

[wickedfeylady]

This is such a great song. It is (in my opinion) the high point of the special, really catchy AND lyrically clever. I for one never get tired of this song, it shows how musically strong Mike was. A lost treasure in their catalogue (along with Randy Scouse Git and Circle Sky, two of my other fave monkee tunes)

[sallyg270]

1:03 1:16. I always start grinning at those bits. :P

[JHurriKANE4]

Starting at 1:38

Aaahhhhhhh best thing ever.

[punkcat77]

Hahaha, love Mike's expression at 1:41 - awesome. He looks (well, looked) kind of like Carl Barat from the Libertines - but hotter, of course, and with fantastic 60s sideburns.

Great song, Monkees were so underrated.

[MusicByTheMoon]

Good one Nishwash

[shielakay]

have always loved this song

[MrsHarrison21Xxx]

Dude mike is cute lol

[Tashiluvschaos]

I personally really like this song.

[Dogote82]

Mike was just too ambitious for the show and the band. they wanted to have fun and he wanted the fame and the chance to show off what a great musician he was(still is)

by the way... whats a RUGULATOR???

[shielakay]

@Dogote82 I'm guessing Nez made it up...love it

[38ddkelly]

@Dogote82  I always thought that "Roogalator" was a reference to the Johnny Rivers song from 1966-67. Could be wrong.

[lundehund44]

Michael Nesmith usually brought the goods - not this time. Why the four of them went ahead with this mess is a mystery to me.

[barkboingfloom]

I suppose the clip represents the duality Mike's posessed. While he was a country boy from Texas and pioneered country-rock, he also wrote most of The Monkees psychedelic songs like Daily Nightly, and Writing Wrongs. So here the two Mikes, country and rock, face off in an old west showdown. Great song. Great symbolism.

[geffeI]

Not to mention the 'wanted for fraud' sign in the back, since the Monkees were, accurately, criticized as being fake and manufactured, not playing their own instruments, etc.

[Dogote82]

which is funny because no one said a thing about the boyband craze that his us in the 90's.....

[vistacruiser67]

@barkboingfloom This song is his struggle with Don Kirschner. Devil incarnate was running music supervision.

[Patchie97]

Boy I tell 'ya, that Julie Driscoll she's just in every fantasy ain't she?

JUDE

OMD

[sexybanddork]

I never realized that Julie Driscoll was the gunner in this part.

[almadora]

it just doesn't get much cooler than this. michael nesmith knows what he's doing. and nobody does it better. what a vocal range! he hits notes i could never hope to hit, and he makes them sound like honey. god bless you, michael. sleep well.

[shielakay]

@almadora oh, I know. I was a first soprano in high school, and even I can't hit all the notes he could.

[yourmybestfriend101]

1:04 haha. GREAT SONG!

[Joethelion23]

What do you mean 'one of the only good parts of the film'!? The entire thing is awesome. Still I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. This is one of the best bits though so we can agree on tha much.

[chimerazz]

oooooh, double the adorableness!!!!!

[soxalltheway2007]

which causes the double amount of beating my heart does! <3

[Arsenic2Arnica]

This is a Crazy song... but I love it anyway :)

[dbrauer43]

It's almost unreal how they had the technology to do this type of thing back in the 60s.

[SLCPunker101]

Someone said the reason Mike did this one was because he was torn between his country roots, and his country rock music he wrote.

[soxalltheway2007]

That actually makes sense.

[Tahni]

WoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAA­AARRUGALATOR!

Mike is amazing.

[soxalltheway2007]

Do you know what 'rugalator' means?

[Tahni]

I didn't realize it had a meaning...

[HandaCarr]

What does it mean?

[soxalltheway2007]

My friend said it was like some African instrument idk...

[ililooDANCEoolili]

it's a kind of lettuce.

[soxalltheway2007]

1:04.....makes me giggle every time. lol He's just so friggin' adorable!

[TakoYakiAsagi]

Ahaha! This is great!! XD

Mike, you're amazing! ^^

Now /that's/ country-- not that crud on the radio these days...

Thanks for the upload! :D

[soxalltheway2007]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's weird, so therefore it is Mike.

*I love him more*

[chimerazz]

sorry, soxalltheway2007, but only the first two sentences of ur comment are true. therefore, i feel the need to correct the last and undoubtably wrong sentence.

*i love him most*

[soxalltheway2007]

Please, Mike clearly loves me more. =P

[chimerazz]

HAHA!! ROFL!! that's a good one!! i luv it when people sport that joke! xD

[soxalltheway2007]

This is great. I soo wanna see the rest of this movie now...

....and I finally know what's better than Mike....two Mikes!!! LOL

[christinazweck]

Thanks for posting this. I love Mike! He's my fave! I love the song and he looks hott in both outfits!

[hazeltail]

Whenever I see this I'm always thinking that when Mike auditioned for The Monkees, I bet he never thought he'd be doing a duet with himself.

[8CaptainJackSparrow8]

I love the city suit but love other better. LOL

[ardalsgirl]

He's hot and cool too. :p

[RandomVideosRUs]

My favourite part of 33 1/3, for awesome serious. (:

I sing this song all the time. It's great.

[PamK36]

Awesome song.

[HotBroodish]

Mike was a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll man. Cool dude. I watched this a ton as a kid.

[mjjgoddess]

I love this. Thank you for uploading!! :]