I absolutely loved The Monkees!!! I had all their albums growing up and even saw them in concert. They were awesome and I still sing their songs in my head. Heck they even used one of their songs on the movie Shrek. They belong in the rock n roll hall of fame. I loved them all especially Davy Jones <3
They're hard working rockers and have continued to entertain. We'll all be dead some day - what will it matter HOW they came to be. Give them their well deserved due already.
These guys DEFINITELY should be in the Hall of Fame. They have earned their right...they didn't just show up as actors, and go through the motions. They became a legitimate singing group and have been performing for years a the Monkees and as themselves. They are all very talented. Let the people decide. Rolling Stone needs an serious attitude adjustment!
The Rock & Rock Hall of Fame is the most ridiculous thing ever invented. Do you think a band starts out thinking,"I'm going to write an album of songs,then become famous and hopefully someday my ultimate goal is to get in the R N R Hallo f Dead people.Like wanting to be born so you can have a fancy grave stone.I think it should be an honour that they they refuse to choose you because THEY,of all people(Hall of fame) are not Rock. As for the Monkees,they eventually took control & made a LP & film
How many people around the world know of the Monkees, and their songs? How many current inductees in the Rock'N'Roll Hall of Fame can genuinely claim equal recognition? I would venture to say a minority. As to whether they'll get it is currently an unknown. But they deserve it.
I never in my life thought I would agree with Bill O'Reilly about anything but he's right about this. Yes, it was a TV show first and then they became a band: they put out records, they did concerts. They weren't lip syncing to some else's voice. Jan Wenner is just a music snob and that's NOT what rock music is about.
Sunshine- ELvis DID play an instrument. . He played guitar. Look at the old Ed Sullivan clips. he wasnt acting like he could play,. look at his 1969 Comeback Special when he sat and sang and played his guitar. No. he did not write a lot of his own songs. But he damned sure played guitar.
We true Rock fans should start an alternative RnR HoF since the acts that aren't in this one are almost as off the wall as some of the acts that are. KISS, The Runaways, The Monkees, et al vs Snoop Dog and Madonna?
As long as Wenner and the Rock and Roll Hall of Lame continue to pander to the MTV crowd (i.e. displaying Lady Gaga's meat dress) while ignoring those of us who loved real rock and roll, the Monkees (as well as Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Beau Brummels) will still be snubbed. To quote a Paul McCartney song - "Let 'em in!"
@vinishdo They didn't play their own instruments at first (well, two of them were musicians), but by a year's time they WERE a band and even toured with Hendrix, as Davy Jones explained. The album "Headquarters" was the first one where they took control and played everything themselves, with the exception of a french horn or so. Great album. Anyhow, something to think about.
@vinishdo Thats wrong. The did write many of their songs. The played live, and the truth about recordings is that back then and still now very few bands play on all the recordings. The Beach Boys The Kinks and tons of others didn`t play on their albums. Latter great bands like Aerosmith and others are not the only players on all their stuff as well!
@vinishdo Thats wrong. The did write many of their songs. The played live, and the truth about recordings is that back then and still now very few bands play on all the recordings. The Beach Boys The Kinks and tons of others didn`t play on their albums. Latter great bands like Aerosmith and others are not the only players on all their stuff as well!
@vinishdo Thats wrong. The did write many of their songs. The played live, and the truth about recordings is that back then and still now very few bands play on all the recordings. The Beach Boys The Kinks and tons of others didn`t play on their albums. Latter great bands like Aerosmith and others are not the only players on all their stuff as well!
@vinishdo Huh, you just proved that you do not know your butt from a hole in the ground. They took creative control from their 3rd album, Headquarters, which was all Monkees, no set musicians or writers at all yet became their 3rd #1 album. It was knocked down to #2 by Sgt Pepper... By contract Mike wrote 2 songs per album even for the first 2 albums. And if you happen across any rare esoteric Beatles stuff with a banjo in it, the banjo player is Peter York.
@vinishdo Elvis didnt write his own songs or play the instruments. Frank Sinatra didt either. 90% of the Cream lyrics were written by an outsider. The Monkees sang thier own songs and they were fortunate to have the best songwriters in the business. The songs are classics.Later on they played thier own songs. Great singing
Bills right , lots of good memories in that music. Micky and Davy have damn good voices. They were great for being manufactured. Hal Blaine played drums for the beach boys ,the Four Seasons,the Supremes,the Dave Clark Five ,all in the hall of fame..........I think.
Jann Wenner....hummm, I wonder if he changed his last name from Weiner????? He certainly IS one. And an arrogant JERK, I might add!!! The Monkees were a legend and a phenomenal rock band!!! Rolling Stone SUCKS!!!
Put 'em in...if you listen to their concerts they are as real as any band out there. And the comparison to Idol...true. Rolling Stone is a Pompous bunch of idiots...haven't read it in years...and won't now either.
Rock and roll reached its prime in 1967/8 prior to Rolling Stone going into publication. Rolling Stone was at the helm of steering the genre downhill ever since with its pretentious opinionated BS. Today, rock n roll is dead. RS saw to it that the first element to go was good-time rock and roll that was meant just to cheer people up, not necessarily make a "profound" statement.. Rolling Stone ridiculously tried to pass off rock n roll as a replacement for philosophy and literature. RS = BS..
@altosame False, plenty of bands before the Stones were using music to communicate philosophy. Remember a band known as Frank Zappa and The Mother of Inventions? Zappa introduced a whole form a music satire aimed at apathetic hippies. He wanted people to get off their butts and do something. He constantly encouraged his audience members to vote as soon as they could. This was in 1966, mind you. Music is music, you SHOULD be saying something with it.
LOVE the Monkees still, over 40 years later!..does that tell you something? The Beatles even Loved them! YES they totally deserve to be in the Hall of Fame!
Rolling Stone magazine hated on the Monkees from the first day. I read their articles; they were extremely biased, dismissive, and even a little bitter, and all had to do with the Monkees not "paying their dues" to achieve their success.
Hey, Rolling Stone Magazine: They've paid their dues; more than you have.
And they'll be remembered LONG after your jealous writers die of sour grapes syndrome and are forgotten; including "Jann Wenner". Jann who?
@MaskedMarvyl Rolling Stone magazine also hated Led Zeppelin, a band that has had as much influence on music as the Beatles. So, I don't put much stock in what that rag has to say.
I don't buy into O'Reilly's concern though. He even said there is bitterness between O'Reilly and Wenner (who I'm assuming is a Liberal) and here is an oppurtunity to throw the fans of a band that sold over 60,000,000 albums against Jann Wenner. O'reilly is quite the oppurtunist, he's slimy, but how else would you get that far?
I sat in front of Davy Jones on a flight to Los Angeles. We were definetely not in first class. He's a tiny little guy (maybe 5'00"). When I asked him if he was Davy Jones he seemed shocked to see that a guy as young as me would know who he was. Quite the comedian too might I add.
I read Rolling Stone when I was younger, and now it is not so influential. Wenner does come across as an arrogant, self serving type. I like the hard core rock and rhythm and blues, but I also think the Monkees were a talented pop group, and with the use of video, were ahead of their time. Songs like "I'm a Believer," "Daydream Believer," and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" have held up extremely well. O'Reilly needs to listen better and let Davy Jones say what he wants without interruption!
@ivaro3, it is physically impossible for O'Reilly to go more than 30 seconds without listening to the sound of his own voice. It doesn't matter if his opinions are pompous and stupid; he just can't resist it. Why he gets paid for it is the mystery to me.
@acoustic61 Should it mater that they came together because of a show first? The fact it before the show both Peter and Mike were musicians. Mickey was the only known american actor, and Davy was a play actor in England. Half the reasons Peter and Mike even came into the picture because they thought the show would be a way to express their musical talents more! To bad the powers at be behind the show didn't LET them! They write, play, and did their own music years after the show. That's a band
I hate Billo but I agree the Monkees should be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. If for no other reason than their impact on the music world and kids. Hell, I found them a decade later when I was a kid and I loved them. I don't care who wrote their music or played it. It's under their name. The corporate masters did that so give them their due.
LUVVVV Davy!! Found a GREAT article oon the Monkees new tour on executiveedits(dotcom) , also an article on Davy's musician daughter Annabel. Sweet, go Monkees!
Okay, let's look at the facts. The first season of their TV show they were a made for TV band. By the second season they had pretty much taken over everything from writing their own songs, writing and directing their own episodes, etc. And They have been performing most of the time as a band for 45 years. I think it's official now that they are a band.
Wow! Davy still beautiful after all this time. I'm not sure the Monkees are appreciably different from a lot of other bands of the day--particularly with other people playing instruments for them. But the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame takes this stuff pretty seriously.
The Monkees should have been in there long before a lot of other artists. The provided us with entertainment and who cares if they were created by the powers to be. Lot of bands didn't play or write their own music back then..hell or these days. As for Rolling Stone..I never looked to that rag for inmusic info back in the dyas.. Circus or circus raves was where you found out about music.The Monkees sound has passed the test of time
The Monkees have been short-changed! If you listen to Headquarters, that is the album they all worked on and created together and played their own instruments. Their music has stood the test of time, no different than many other of the 1960's bands, but yet, they are denied the Rock and roll Hall of Fame. It is not fair!
Maybe The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should have a wing for ficticious bands. Then the Monkees could be inducted and we can give Milli Vanilli back their Grammy at the same time. Come on, it is obvious to me why they shouldn't be inducted any more than the Patridge Family or the Brady Bunch. They weren't a real band. What the heck would O'Reilly know about this anyway. I don't see him arguing for Boston or Kiss.
All four had muscial experience prior to the auditions...Peter was hanging with Lovin' Spoonful,Steven Stills. Linda Ronstadt's first hit song, a cover of Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum", Mike and Frank Zappa were pals...they were in the music world. The show was a hit. millions of fans, records sold. Part of the 60's culture & the Beatles meeting the Monkees in England was fabulous.
The Monkees had more talent in their pinky fingers than most acts today with their autotune bull##it. True, they began as a TV phenomenon, but evolved into a real group, fighting an uphill battle for artistic freedom. How many so called "stars" today can't even play an instrument or write a song? They often don't perform live because they are nothing without a studio full of technology. Screw you, Rolling Stone and Jann "Weiner". The R & R Hall of Fame's induction process is a joke. Why don't
Jann Wenner is a douchebag. He's turned the RNR Hall of Fame into a self-serving farce. By deliberately letting his own musical tastes cast a huge shadow over the nomination process, he's essentially destroyed the credibility that should go with being inducted. The current list of performers who have yet to be inducted is a complete insult to the very concept of a RNR Hall of Fame.
Never thought I'd EVER say this, but I agree with Bill O'Reilly. The Monkees were awesome, 60s pop culture icons, they deserve to be in the hall of fame.
I recall Mike Nesmith going on American Bandstand and Dick Clark commented that unlike the other acts, Nesmith was going to be playing and singing, not lip syncing/fake playing.
Saw the Monkees (minus Mike) for my birthday awhile ago and I wish I could have told my kid self that was going to happen.
Jann Wenner is the king of hacks who founded the quintessential Hack magazine, Rolling Stone. Whatever Rolling Stone promotes, I avoid, because the magazine represents all that is crappy about popular music. Creem Magazine was once the greatest music mag, and then Alternative Press, and sometimes even Spin Magazine was good, but Rolling Stone has always represented crap to me. But hey, that's only my opinion. And by the way, I love The Monkees...
When OReilly comes on, I switch to Fox BUSINESS News and watch Judge Andrew Napolitano on "Freedom Watch." I get the news of the day and learn about the Constitution! What a deal!
Fact: The Monkees were intended to be A TELEVISION SHOW. Fact: Don Kirshner was brilliant with his music decisions - look at all their #1 hits - regardless of who played the instruments. Fact: The guys became a real band (because THEY wanted to be and outside pressure said they SHOULD be). So unintentionally or not, this TV show produced Hall of Fame musicians. So everyone wins in my opinion. Everyone should be proud. PS: I love the Monkees.
@brabon1 Agreed. I was also trying to make the point that when they made the TV series, THE MONKEES, it wasn't the intention that they BE a real band (in the beginning) - the intention was for a TV show. It then became obvious that it was important to everyone that they become a band. (Important to EVERYONE except to the fans who couldn't care less, ha ha.)
okay so they are copoarte creation, there still a musical group never the less so sure why not, they deserve a place, along side tupac, and biggie, justin biebrre..
I think Davey could have done a better job defending the monkees. They became a real band..They ended up writing their own songs..toured..they new how to play. i guess it all really doesn't matter to him or the rest of the band
Right from the start Bill gets it wrong: "A TV show featuring the pop group The Monkees...". That isn't how it happened. It was a TV show about a FICTIONAL group. Jeezus, you'd think after 45 years people would get a frigging clue.
The stigma of not being allowed to play on their early records follows them to this day. I blame Don Kirchner, who only allowed studio musicians to back them on their first two albums. They did tour and play together as a band. They all wrote some fine songs that are constantly being re-discovered. I wish Davy had pointed that out in the interview. And yes, there was a mutual respect between them and the Beatles. So whether they're inducted or not, they deserve to be.
@NoelArtMedia ... thanks for not labeling me something that comes in a can. Hey Davy, get Ellen or Rachel M. to interview you. They're hot... right? Tis the season to tell BillO (fill in blank). He makes Monkees fans look like nerds, and you know they are not...A lot of us loved you. I loved Micky the best, even if he didn't practice the drums every day...oh, man. Now I gotta say something about Mike and Peter... running out of letters... I know they'd appreciate that...Merry Christmas & HNY!!
@NoelArtMedia ...No offense to any nerds I may have offended with the previous comment. I filled in the blank without thinking first. That should read : He makes Monkees fans look like (fill in blank)...
I like him still but I can tell he'd grown extreamely bitter and to a degree very removed from his past self that he can't escape from, disowning it at times when really he shouldn't be that hard on himself and that 16 ton chip on his shoulder will dissolve. He just had gone through what most people had divorces addictions etc but was and is by the luckiest of chances, a very well loved celebrity and I'm sure some guys as old and younger than him wish they'd retained their looks as he has.
I don't know if I'd say Davy was the lead singer. Mickey sang most of the songs. I agree that Davy doesn't really seem to care if the Monkees get in the HOF either. They are still loved even today. My kids LOVE them, too. So, kiss it Rolling Stone mag. I've never bought your mag and I never will. You are pompous idiots. ;)
The Beatles invited the Monkees to meet them at one of their parties. The Monkees were very excited. The Beatles liked them. Enough said; they should be in the Hall of Fame.
@hotwelder2010 Exactly! There are very few groups or "singers" who are not manufactured. A lot of the newer bands can't even sing a lick.(aka The Jonas Brothers) blah
If the Monkees go in the Hall of Fame, then so should the Rutles.
In the late 70's Python member Eric Idle had a similer idea of creating a Beatles parody group called the Rutles, the idea started out the same way the Monkees did, but this time they (Eric Idle and Neil Innes) played it smart and put themselves in the group. And Neil Innes wrote all the songs too. So in away, the Monkees weren't the only manufactured group created to cash in on the Beatles success.
R&R Hall of Fame is a joke - always has been and always will be. Much like the Grammys. The only people who don't seem to realize this are the Americans who take it all sooooo seriously. But fortunately Davy is an Englishman, so he doesn't. But since Bill O'Reilly's not, and a bit of a joke himself, he's not laughing. Hahahaha!
The Monkees music holds up great. I listen to them all the time. They sung, they wrote and they played on most of the instruments. The fact is that in the 60's most bands used studio musicians... The Beach Boys, The Mamas and the Papas, most of the Motown stuff, the Stax stuff... just look at all the hits studio drummer Hal Blaine played on. Jan Whiner was instrumental in ruining the Beach Boys career in the late 60's.... the man is a prick.
Rock n Roll Hall of Fame has turned into all pomp and no circumstance.Seriously,The Monkees played their own instruments on Headquarters after fighting tooth and nail with Don Kirschner for creative control.They sound like musical heroes to me!
@anagramish true, but NewLogicEnt is probably being concise. The fact of the matter is, the Beatles and the Monkees influenced each other extensively throughout the late-60s. They were essentially competitors in the Top singles and albums sales, and with each release each band kept upping their musical ante.
@jenvargas +1000! I almost liked O'Reilly for a second there after watching this. :-) PS: "A manufactured image, with no philosophies..." is a lyric from a Jack Nicholson re-write of Theme from the Monkees".
sn sicuro ke i monkees entreranno nella HOF prima o poi.....così cm sn sicuro ke tim buckley robert wyatt beefheart e gli nine inch nails nn ci entreranno mai -.-
Yes the Monkees were put together by an audition process, but there are plenty of rock bands who form in quite the same way, maybe not an such a public scale. The casting people on The Monkees happened to do their job, and pick four tremendously musician/singer/actors who eventually gelled as a real band who could indeed play instruments and write tunes. Mike Nesmith is considered by many to be the granddaddy of country rock. Jann Wenner can suck it.
@Nerfball6 Yeah cause Davy, Mike, and Peter had some lead parts, but it was mostly Micky because Micky had the best voice. (Not saying any of the other guys was bad they just wernt as good as Micky's)
Every group is manufactured. Guys get together and decide to jam. The Monkees were arranged, yes. But they DID learn to be a group. Put them in the HOF!
Hall of Fame, who needs fame! Just gimme the money. When you go to the bank and try to pay your mortgage with fame the Bank Manager will tell you to go take a hike.
Mike and Peter did indeed play instruments long before the Monkees came along and Davy and Mickey did learn to play and while they started out as a TV band they did become a real band. And anyone who can't name 'Daydream Believer' or 'I'm a Believer' is someone who has been living under a rock! 'I'm A Believer' was used in the movie 'Shrek'. And for the record the Beatles liked the Monkees! They considered them the Marx Brothers of music! Some people need to stop being such a snob!
By the way, I don't even read that dirtball magazine, Rolling Stone. Mostly all they have on there is guys who look like pin cushions with tattoos all over. That's the dirtball generation.
Half the people in the RR HOF should be booted out. Percy Sledge/BOOT Grandmaster whatever/BOOT, doesnt even come close to RnR. At least the Monkees played in their concerts. The Zombies, Searchers and the Ventures should be in there. The Ventures influenced more kids to pick up a guitar than probably anyone... I could go on for ages. The Monkees and the Buckinghams sold the most records in 1967. That's even more than that English ilk album, Sgt Pepper. lol
Well the Rock N Roll HOF is really, "The Music Hall of Fame", so that's why it is the way it is. But how are you going to boot out Percy Sledge? I agree the 3 bands you listed should be in there, especially the Zombies, and Grand Funk Railroad :P
I still can't believe that the monkees aren't in the R&R HOF. At one point they were selling more records than the Beatles ( whom I also love) and the Stones. They belong there and should have been for a long time. Davy has a good outlook on it , but I think that TPTB need to listen to the fans . The Monkees have fans of all ages and Mickey Dolenz has one of the best voices in pop music history. I've always wanted to go the the HOF, but not until we see The Monkees in there.
They sold 65,000,000 albums - they deserver to be in teh HOF - PERIOD!! Yes they were contrived right out of Hollywood - YES they were fake - NO they didn't play their instruments - but the bottom line is the bottom line - they made MONEY and they sold albume - and if you don't sell albums - you don't exist for long!!!!!
Or is the R&R HOF turning into one of those - that come and eat my barbeque - but refuse to vote for me?!?!?!?!?!?
Rappers can't sing? Ramblings of the uninformed that wish to decree their subatomic world into reality. That statement does not even deserve half an eye-roll. Anyway, who decided singing & playing an instrument authenticates the music? The only two Monkees that could actually play wrote the few songs they could take credit for. Obviously singing and playing is not the sole qualifier in the music making process.
@Earthlinked actually you are wrong. No they weren't fake.. and yes they DID play their own instruments. They were just not allowed to play them at first. Go listen to their album Headquaters. That's all them, playing on that album. The fact that they weren't allowed to play almost ended the show. Mike walked out because of it. Finally they slowly started to let them play more and more songs.
@Kayiko NOOOO!!! Your a little backwards!! Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Mickey Dolenz were ALL HIRED AS ACTORS - for a series that was about a MOCK rock and roll band that was a comedy - PERIOD!!!! After a while they took themselves seriously and DID start to play their own instruments!!! But originally they were hired as actors and NONE played an instrument - except Michael Nesmith - he played a little guitar but was FAR from being very good. (Neil DIamond helped!)
@Earthlinked Actually, no... both Mike and Peter went to the abductions thinking that they wanted people who were musicians and could also act. Mike's only reason for even being on the show was because he thought it would be a different way to expand and get his music out there. Yes they were hired as actors to act in a show about a band. But to keep sitting there and saying that they couldn't play before hand is so completely incorrect. I've read many books about the Monkees and seen interviews
@Kayiko REALLY?!??! How could they possibly be together as a band - when ALL OF THEM auditioned for different parts of a TV show???? They never even met - before the TV show!!!!!!!! It was only about 18 months AFTER they started filming the TV show - they started seriously playing music as a band!!!! THey were hired as ACTORS - that were a band - NONE OF THEM were hired for their musical talents!!!!!!!
@Earthlinked Did I say anywhere in there that they were hired as an already made band? No. Both Mike and Peter could already play music BEFORE they were hired to be in the show. Meaning yes.. they can play their own music. As a group called the Monkees, yes, it took them time to form together as a group of all 4 of them. But stop sitting there and saying they were just actors who could never play music. It's a full out lie. Go read some biography's for heaven sakes.
@Kayiko They wer 4 actors that ended up in a series that was about a band - PERIOD. After a while they DID start to play thier own instruments - and after MANY lessons and trials - they did tour - in the late 1960's and DID play their own instruments. But that was NOT the reason they were hired to be a band - The Monkees - Their name, and identities were already scripted when they first met!!! All that was added were their voices!!!!
@Earthlinked "Their name, and identities were already scripted when they first met!!!" Really? So Mickey, Mike , Davy and Peter AREN'T their real names after all?! *rolls eyes* The fact that they allowed Mike to have one or two of his original songs that HE wrote himself, on the early albums is a little bit of a hint that they weren't just no body actors with no talent. Talent that you say they had to learn later. Honestly.. go.read.a.book. or shoot, watch a documentary about them!
@Earthlinked You are half wrong. Yes, Mickey and Davy were actors, but both were hired for thier vocal as well as acting talents. Mike and Peter were both musicians long before the Monkees - Peter was in Greenwich Village with Stephen Stills and others before moving to LA and auditioning for the Monkees. Mike was a session guitarist on the East coast in the early 60's, and had a record contract and released several 45's before auditioning for the show,
@Kayiko And I don't think it matters if they were a band or NOT - they sold 65,000,000 albums - and THAT SHOULD put them in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - PERIOD!!!!!!!
@Kayiko You did mean auditons - and not abductions?!?!?!? And of course they needed musicians that could act - but the acting got them the parts NOT THE MUSIC!!!!!!
@Earthlinked And the SHOULD be in the Rock and Roll Haul of Fame - and if selling 65,000,000 records does not get you there - then lets count the album sales of the people that are already in there!!!!!!! Hard to say they sold 65 million albums and that does NOT put them in the Hall of fame - or the Haul of Fame!!!!
I respectfully disagree. I think the same could be the same about the Monkees, I don't think most people today could name one Monkees song. "Some Kind of Wonderful" has made a comeback of sorts in commercials, and movies, now would people attribute that song to GFR, I don't know, but considering the Monkees were a manufactured troupe (a la today's boy bands), where as GFR were a real live band, I think the answer is pretty apparent.
@TheMouthyHedgehog and actually I'm having a change of heart, I think the monkees should be in the hall of fame, considering who else is in there already...
Yes the Monkees belong in the R&R Hall of Fame. They sang their own songs, wrote their own songs. Mickey said it best in an interview I recall seeing years ago "We started out with 2 actors and 2 musicians and came out of it with 4 actors and 4 musicians". That is what happened. All 4 musicians, song writers and singers as well as being actors.
o reilly is a fraud and a new world order guy..watch out foxed..he;s a puddy head.and he shouts down anyone who doesnt agree w/ him..i wish he's go suck a tailpipe
Nice to see Davey Jones deny the bait that O'Lie-ly threw at him (joining him in slamming Jann Wenner). I'm not a big fan of Wenner's either, but O'Lie-ly has political reasons - as always - for attacking him. He uses many of his guests as guinea pigs to add fuel to his political attacks (check out his failed attempt to slam Hollywood elitists with his interview of Mike Conners of Mannix).
Rock n roll, 1952- 1977, R.I.P. ...lol
jpsmart59 1 week ago
@jpsmart59 Rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame is a spook operation.
jpsmart59 1 week ago
I bet he's had more ass than the toilets at Yankee Stadium.
Brenda2OOO 2 weeks ago
I absolutely loved The Monkees!!! I had all their albums growing up and even saw them in concert. They were awesome and I still sing their songs in my head. Heck they even used one of their songs on the movie Shrek. They belong in the rock n roll hall of fame. I loved them all especially Davy Jones <3
Tigersrock28121822 2 weeks ago
They're hard working rockers and have continued to entertain. We'll all be dead some day - what will it matter HOW they came to be. Give them their well deserved due already.
angeegold 3 weeks ago
Hell's frozen over kids, because I actually agree with Bill O'Reilly on something.
VesperATOM 2 months ago
These guys DEFINITELY should be in the Hall of Fame. They have earned their right...they didn't just show up as actors, and go through the motions. They became a legitimate singing group and have been performing for years a the Monkees and as themselves. They are all very talented. Let the people decide. Rolling Stone needs an serious attitude adjustment!
AnitaLife27 3 months ago
The Rock & Rock Hall of Fame is the most ridiculous thing ever invented. Do you think a band starts out thinking,"I'm going to write an album of songs,then become famous and hopefully someday my ultimate goal is to get in the R N R Hallo f Dead people.Like wanting to be born so you can have a fancy grave stone.I think it should be an honour that they they refuse to choose you because THEY,of all people(Hall of fame) are not Rock. As for the Monkees,they eventually took control & made a LP & film
soundvisionary13 3 months ago
@soundvisionary13 where you drunk when you wrote this crap
bcolderr 2 months ago
Damn he's still beautiful as ever and a gentleman too. Davey not Bill.
lumeriam 3 months ago 3
BAN MY MONKEES!!
TRY IT!!!
lumeriam 3 months ago 2
How many people around the world know of the Monkees, and their songs? How many current inductees in the Rock'N'Roll Hall of Fame can genuinely claim equal recognition? I would venture to say a minority. As to whether they'll get it is currently an unknown. But they deserve it.
JeffersonDinedAlone 4 months ago
still hot all those years later!
TheSharcat 5 months ago
I never in my life thought I would agree with Bill O'Reilly about anything but he's right about this. Yes, it was a TV show first and then they became a band: they put out records, they did concerts. They weren't lip syncing to some else's voice. Jan Wenner is just a music snob and that's NOT what rock music is about.
NanMarTren 5 months ago 5
Sunshine- ELvis DID play an instrument. . He played guitar. Look at the old Ed Sullivan clips. he wasnt acting like he could play,. look at his 1969 Comeback Special when he sat and sang and played his guitar. No. he did not write a lot of his own songs. But he damned sure played guitar.
123markym 5 months ago
We true Rock fans should start an alternative RnR HoF since the acts that aren't in this one are almost as off the wall as some of the acts that are. KISS, The Runaways, The Monkees, et al vs Snoop Dog and Madonna?
wildcatter63 5 months ago
As long as Wenner and the Rock and Roll Hall of Lame continue to pander to the MTV crowd (i.e. displaying Lady Gaga's meat dress) while ignoring those of us who loved real rock and roll, the Monkees (as well as Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Beau Brummels) will still be snubbed. To quote a Paul McCartney song - "Let 'em in!"
bender1958 6 months ago
Oh, and by the way, screw Rolling Stone. They are not as much about the music as they are hard left politics and advertising.
casestudyification 6 months ago
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They shouldn't be in the Rock Hall of Fame. They didn't even play their own instruments, didn't write any of their music, and just had a tv series.
If they get in, then Britney Spears is next?
vinishdo 6 months ago
@vinishdo They didn't play their own instruments at first (well, two of them were musicians), but by a year's time they WERE a band and even toured with Hendrix, as Davy Jones explained. The album "Headquarters" was the first one where they took control and played everything themselves, with the exception of a french horn or so. Great album. Anyhow, something to think about.
casestudyification 6 months ago 2
@vinishdo Thats wrong. The did write many of their songs. The played live, and the truth about recordings is that back then and still now very few bands play on all the recordings. The Beach Boys The Kinks and tons of others didn`t play on their albums. Latter great bands like Aerosmith and others are not the only players on all their stuff as well!
TheAntman1265 6 months ago
@vinishdo Thats wrong. The did write many of their songs. The played live, and the truth about recordings is that back then and still now very few bands play on all the recordings. The Beach Boys The Kinks and tons of others didn`t play on their albums. Latter great bands like Aerosmith and others are not the only players on all their stuff as well!
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@vinishdo Thats wrong. The did write many of their songs. The played live, and the truth about recordings is that back then and still now very few bands play on all the recordings. The Beach Boys The Kinks and tons of others didn`t play on their albums. Latter great bands like Aerosmith and others are not the only players on all their stuff as well!
TheAntman1265 6 months ago
@vinishdo Huh, you just proved that you do not know your butt from a hole in the ground. They took creative control from their 3rd album, Headquarters, which was all Monkees, no set musicians or writers at all yet became their 3rd #1 album. It was knocked down to #2 by Sgt Pepper... By contract Mike wrote 2 songs per album even for the first 2 albums. And if you happen across any rare esoteric Beatles stuff with a banjo in it, the banjo player is Peter York.
wildcatter63 5 months ago
@wildcatter63 Err TORK sorry....
wildcatter63 5 months ago
@vinishdo Elvis didnt write his own songs or play the instruments. Frank Sinatra didt either. 90% of the Cream lyrics were written by an outsider. The Monkees sang thier own songs and they were fortunate to have the best songwriters in the business. The songs are classics.Later on they played thier own songs. Great singing
Samshile 5 months ago
Bills right , lots of good memories in that music. Micky and Davy have damn good voices. They were great for being manufactured. Hal Blaine played drums for the beach boys ,the Four Seasons,the Supremes,the Dave Clark Five ,all in the hall of fame..........I think.
Beatlejoose56 6 months ago
Rolling Stone always had an agenda...and now that Rock is in the sorry shape it's in, Wenner (Weiner) still is trying to prove his relevance!
burlingtonbill1 6 months ago
MONKEES RULE ALWAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!
memphistenn77 6 months ago
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart should be in the R&R Hall of Fame .... they wrote the Monkees songs.
Bill dosent even hear the "passing the joint around" comment.
Bradwick1 6 months ago
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart should be in the R&R Hall of Fame .... they wrote the Monkees songs.
Bradwick1 6 months ago
Jann Wenner....hummm, I wonder if he changed his last name from Weiner????? He certainly IS one. And an arrogant JERK, I might add!!! The Monkees were a legend and a phenomenal rock band!!! Rolling Stone SUCKS!!!
sedona05 7 months ago
For God's sake O'Reilly, let the man speak...he is your guest after all!!
UltrasoundTunes 7 months ago
Bill O'Reilly even talks over the people he LIKES!
TestedBR 7 months ago
I was a big Monkees fan!... Never missed their show
gabbydeb 7 months ago
Put 'em in...if you listen to their concerts they are as real as any band out there. And the comparison to Idol...true. Rolling Stone is a Pompous bunch of idiots...haven't read it in years...and won't now either.
103llc 7 months ago
The Monkees are a part of American Rock history.. Like them or not , they truly had some great songs written for them.
Talk about a rock and roll hall of fame snub....Why YES is not in it , I just can't figure out.
beatles1000 7 months ago
FUCK JANN WENNER! now back to regularly scheduled YouTubing already in progress.
MissLisa1970 7 months ago
Rolling Stone = Pretentious Stoned Assholes
Frisbieinstein 7 months ago
Rock and roll reached its prime in 1967/8 prior to Rolling Stone going into publication. Rolling Stone was at the helm of steering the genre downhill ever since with its pretentious opinionated BS. Today, rock n roll is dead. RS saw to it that the first element to go was good-time rock and roll that was meant just to cheer people up, not necessarily make a "profound" statement.. Rolling Stone ridiculously tried to pass off rock n roll as a replacement for philosophy and literature. RS = BS..
altosame 8 months ago 4
@altosame jesus dude lighten up LOL. actually Rolling Stone have a lot of good articles the past few years....
KOSMICKEN09 7 months ago
@altosame False, plenty of bands before the Stones were using music to communicate philosophy. Remember a band known as Frank Zappa and The Mother of Inventions? Zappa introduced a whole form a music satire aimed at apathetic hippies. He wanted people to get off their butts and do something. He constantly encouraged his audience members to vote as soon as they could. This was in 1966, mind you. Music is music, you SHOULD be saying something with it.
LuneyTune72 3 weeks ago
"They were a big influence on the Beatles." -Lloyd Christmas
zrhinier 8 months ago
jann whinner sucks
magicman2001 8 months ago
i thnk they should be in the hall of fame!!
1fanselenagomez1 8 months ago
im a young fan of thers bc my dad listens to ther music nd i like oldies music! :)
1fanselenagomez1 8 months ago 2
@1fanselenagomez1 oldies music is awesome
matco24 8 months ago
LOVE the Monkees still, over 40 years later!..does that tell you something? The Beatles even Loved them! YES they totally deserve to be in the Hall of Fame!
VisionofLoveandPeace 8 months ago 2
Micky Dolenz sang more leads than Davy did.
whitethronebooks 8 months ago
Rolling Stone magazine hated on the Monkees from the first day. I read their articles; they were extremely biased, dismissive, and even a little bitter, and all had to do with the Monkees not "paying their dues" to achieve their success.
Hey, Rolling Stone Magazine: They've paid their dues; more than you have.
And they'll be remembered LONG after your jealous writers die of sour grapes syndrome and are forgotten; including "Jann Wenner". Jann who?
MaskedMarvyl 9 months ago 3
@MaskedMarvyl Rolling Stone magazine also hated Led Zeppelin, a band that has had as much influence on music as the Beatles. So, I don't put much stock in what that rag has to say.
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MaskedMarvyl 9 months ago
I believe they should be in the hall of fame.
I don't buy into O'Reilly's concern though. He even said there is bitterness between O'Reilly and Wenner (who I'm assuming is a Liberal) and here is an oppurtunity to throw the fans of a band that sold over 60,000,000 albums against Jann Wenner. O'reilly is quite the oppurtunist, he's slimy, but how else would you get that far?
Eaglesfaninca 9 months ago
I sat in front of Davy Jones on a flight to Los Angeles. We were definetely not in first class. He's a tiny little guy (maybe 5'00"). When I asked him if he was Davy Jones he seemed shocked to see that a guy as young as me would know who he was. Quite the comedian too might I add.
Eaglesfaninca 9 months ago 2
I read Rolling Stone when I was younger, and now it is not so influential. Wenner does come across as an arrogant, self serving type. I like the hard core rock and rhythm and blues, but I also think the Monkees were a talented pop group, and with the use of video, were ahead of their time. Songs like "I'm a Believer," "Daydream Believer," and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" have held up extremely well. O'Reilly needs to listen better and let Davy Jones say what he wants without interruption!
ivaro3 9 months ago
@ivaro3, it is physically impossible for O'Reilly to go more than 30 seconds without listening to the sound of his own voice. It doesn't matter if his opinions are pompous and stupid; he just can't resist it. Why he gets paid for it is the mystery to me.
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@acoustic61 Should it mater that they came together because of a show first? The fact it before the show both Peter and Mike were musicians. Mickey was the only known american actor, and Davy was a play actor in England. Half the reasons Peter and Mike even came into the picture because they thought the show would be a way to express their musical talents more! To bad the powers at be behind the show didn't LET them! They write, play, and did their own music years after the show. That's a band
Kayiko 9 months ago
O'Reilly ... what a jerk , consistently interrupting , etc. a real dickhead
mizzury54 9 months ago
I hate Billo but I agree the Monkees should be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. If for no other reason than their impact on the music world and kids. Hell, I found them a decade later when I was a kid and I loved them. I don't care who wrote their music or played it. It's under their name. The corporate masters did that so give them their due.
webgeek6 9 months ago
LUVVVV Davy!! Found a GREAT article oon the Monkees new tour on executiveedits(dotcom) , also an article on Davy's musician daughter Annabel. Sweet, go Monkees!
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tulllguy 10 months ago
Okay, let's look at the facts. The first season of their TV show they were a made for TV band. By the second season they had pretty much taken over everything from writing their own songs, writing and directing their own episodes, etc. And They have been performing most of the time as a band for 45 years. I think it's official now that they are a band.
NewHollywoodPro 10 months ago
Wow! Davy still beautiful after all this time. I'm not sure the Monkees are appreciably different from a lot of other bands of the day--particularly with other people playing instruments for them. But the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame takes this stuff pretty seriously.
BlueLizzie59 10 months ago
The Monkees should have been in there long before a lot of other artists. The provided us with entertainment and who cares if they were created by the powers to be. Lot of bands didn't play or write their own music back then..hell or these days. As for Rolling Stone..I never looked to that rag for inmusic info back in the dyas.. Circus or circus raves was where you found out about music.The Monkees sound has passed the test of time
pickypete0 10 months ago
The Monkees are a million times better than Led Zeppelin. God damn, some people just have no taste and don't know shit!
Rhinonip 10 months ago
@Rhinonip lol, yeah ok.
tulllguy 10 months ago
For once I actually agree with O'Reilly I think they should be in the hall of fame too
looneytoon76 10 months ago 21
Hasn't lost some of his northern English accent ...!
But I think they should be inaugurated: they really had/have pop rock feel ...
zapspace 11 months ago
The Monkees have been short-changed! If you listen to Headquarters, that is the album they all worked on and created together and played their own instruments. Their music has stood the test of time, no different than many other of the 1960's bands, but yet, they are denied the Rock and roll Hall of Fame. It is not fair!
queenterry52 11 months ago 2
For those of you who think the Beatles are this great, amazing rock band, freakin' relax. You're right! They are.
But this aint about the Beatles. Besides Lennon and McCartney wrote the bulk of their material. George and Ringo only wrote a few songs each.
Now getting back to the topic at hand, Michael Nesmith wrote a crap load of songs but only two or three of them made it on each album.
The other three Monkees wrote and co-wrote their share of songs as well.
Their third album Headquarters
bkninj 11 months ago
What the hell is the definition of a real band?
Sure they were made up to begin with but they came together as a foursome, toured, wrote music and released albums. Sounds like a band to me.
bkninj 11 months ago
Maybe The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should have a wing for ficticious bands. Then the Monkees could be inducted and we can give Milli Vanilli back their Grammy at the same time. Come on, it is obvious to me why they shouldn't be inducted any more than the Patridge Family or the Brady Bunch. They weren't a real band. What the heck would O'Reilly know about this anyway. I don't see him arguing for Boston or Kiss.
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Kayiko 9 months ago
if you are a monkees fan, then check out Papa Nez at itunes and amazon.
nsvchood 11 months ago
All four had muscial experience prior to the auditions...Peter was hanging with Lovin' Spoonful,Steven Stills. Linda Ronstadt's first hit song, a cover of Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum", Mike and Frank Zappa were pals...they were in the music world. The show was a hit. millions of fans, records sold. Part of the 60's culture & the Beatles meeting the Monkees in England was fabulous.
justcaptjack 11 months ago
(cont.) ..... you ask the FANS, the music-buying public, what they think?! LET EM IN THE HALL OF FAME!!!
miarocks 11 months ago
The Monkees had more talent in their pinky fingers than most acts today with their autotune bull##it. True, they began as a TV phenomenon, but evolved into a real group, fighting an uphill battle for artistic freedom. How many so called "stars" today can't even play an instrument or write a song? They often don't perform live because they are nothing without a studio full of technology. Screw you, Rolling Stone and Jann "Weiner". The R & R Hall of Fame's induction process is a joke. Why don't
miarocks 11 months ago
It's to be expected from someone who heads an irrelevant Commie rag.
thewhiteelephant 11 months ago
This is probably the only time that I ever saw Bill O'Reilly do something that didn't make me want to deck him.
sahem62896 11 months ago
Jann Wenner is a douchebag. He's turned the RNR Hall of Fame into a self-serving farce. By deliberately letting his own musical tastes cast a huge shadow over the nomination process, he's essentially destroyed the credibility that should go with being inducted. The current list of performers who have yet to be inducted is a complete insult to the very concept of a RNR Hall of Fame.
trilogypart3 11 months ago 2
Never thought I'd EVER say this, but I agree with Bill O'Reilly. The Monkees were awesome, 60s pop culture icons, they deserve to be in the hall of fame.
punkcat77 11 months ago 3
I recall Mike Nesmith going on American Bandstand and Dick Clark commented that unlike the other acts, Nesmith was going to be playing and singing, not lip syncing/fake playing.
Saw the Monkees (minus Mike) for my birthday awhile ago and I wish I could have told my kid self that was going to happen.
rmholt1 1 year ago
Jann Wenner is the king of hacks who founded the quintessential Hack magazine, Rolling Stone. Whatever Rolling Stone promotes, I avoid, because the magazine represents all that is crappy about popular music. Creem Magazine was once the greatest music mag, and then Alternative Press, and sometimes even Spin Magazine was good, but Rolling Stone has always represented crap to me. But hey, that's only my opinion. And by the way, I love The Monkees...
maximadog 1 year ago
Freaking Jann WEINER has to shut up. They deserve it! A whole generation grew up with their music and people still watch them 45 years later.
ppdix 1 year ago 27
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When OReilly comes on, I switch to Fox BUSINESS News and watch Judge Andrew Napolitano on "Freedom Watch." I get the news of the day and learn about the Constitution! What a deal!
vechorik 3 months ago
FUCK BILL O REILLY
winterlandboy 1 year ago
@winterlandboy What did he do here?
crazygirl8343 10 months ago
Fact: The Monkees were intended to be A TELEVISION SHOW. Fact: Don Kirshner was brilliant with his music decisions - look at all their #1 hits - regardless of who played the instruments. Fact: The guys became a real band (because THEY wanted to be and outside pressure said they SHOULD be). So unintentionally or not, this TV show produced Hall of Fame musicians. So everyone wins in my opinion. Everyone should be proud. PS: I love the Monkees.
sshelget 1 year ago
@sshelget fact....most bands didnt play their own instruments on albums throughout the 50s to 70s
brabon1 1 year ago
@brabon1 Agreed. I was also trying to make the point that when they made the TV series, THE MONKEES, it wasn't the intention that they BE a real band (in the beginning) - the intention was for a TV show. It then became obvious that it was important to everyone that they become a band. (Important to EVERYONE except to the fans who couldn't care less, ha ha.)
sshelget 1 year ago
okay so they are copoarte creation, there still a musical group never the less so sure why not, they deserve a place, along side tupac, and biggie, justin biebrre..
godwhyisthistaken 1 year ago
I think Davey could have done a better job defending the monkees. They became a real band..They ended up writing their own songs..toured..they new how to play. i guess it all really doesn't matter to him or the rest of the band
nady22 1 year ago
Right from the start Bill gets it wrong: "A TV show featuring the pop group The Monkees...". That isn't how it happened. It was a TV show about a FICTIONAL group. Jeezus, you'd think after 45 years people would get a frigging clue.
pessia61 1 year ago
What is Davy doing talking to Bill O'Reilly anyway?? That certainly will diminish him in my eyes.
CosmicTraveler 1 year ago
The stigma of not being allowed to play on their early records follows them to this day. I blame Don Kirchner, who only allowed studio musicians to back them on their first two albums. They did tour and play together as a band. They all wrote some fine songs that are constantly being re-discovered. I wish Davy had pointed that out in the interview. And yes, there was a mutual respect between them and the Beatles. So whether they're inducted or not, they deserve to be.
NoelArtMedia 1 year ago
@NoelArtMedia ... thanks for not labeling me something that comes in a can. Hey Davy, get Ellen or Rachel M. to interview you. They're hot... right? Tis the season to tell BillO (fill in blank). He makes Monkees fans look like nerds, and you know they are not...A lot of us loved you. I loved Micky the best, even if he didn't practice the drums every day...oh, man. Now I gotta say something about Mike and Peter... running out of letters... I know they'd appreciate that...Merry Christmas & HNY!!
NoelArtMedia 1 year ago
@NoelArtMedia ...No offense to any nerds I may have offended with the previous comment. I filled in the blank without thinking first. That should read : He makes Monkees fans look like (fill in blank)...
NoelArtMedia 1 year ago
I like him still but I can tell he'd grown extreamely bitter and to a degree very removed from his past self that he can't escape from, disowning it at times when really he shouldn't be that hard on himself and that 16 ton chip on his shoulder will dissolve. He just had gone through what most people had divorces addictions etc but was and is by the luckiest of chances, a very well loved celebrity and I'm sure some guys as old and younger than him wish they'd retained their looks as he has.
moxie96 1 year ago
I don't know if I'd say Davy was the lead singer. Mickey sang most of the songs. I agree that Davy doesn't really seem to care if the Monkees get in the HOF either. They are still loved even today. My kids LOVE them, too. So, kiss it Rolling Stone mag. I've never bought your mag and I never will. You are pompous idiots. ;)
AnD082292 1 year ago
The Beatles invited the Monkees to meet them at one of their parties. The Monkees were very excited. The Beatles liked them. Enough said; they should be in the Hall of Fame.
MsHamidian 1 year ago
Most of the bands today are somehow contrived and manufactured. hottie women who can dance...look good and sell music.
hotwelder2010 1 year ago 2
@hotwelder2010 Exactly! There are very few groups or "singers" who are not manufactured. A lot of the newer bands can't even sing a lick.(aka The Jonas Brothers) blah
AnD082292 1 year ago
Bill's a dumbshit. The Monkees were a television creation first, which is why people give them shit.
darrellkaiser11285 1 year ago
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If the Monkees go in the Hall of Fame, then so should the Rutles.
In the late 70's Python member Eric Idle had a similer idea of creating a Beatles parody group called the Rutles, the idea started out the same way the Monkees did, but this time they (Eric Idle and Neil Innes) played it smart and put themselves in the group. And Neil Innes wrote all the songs too. So in away, the Monkees weren't the only manufactured group created to cash in on the Beatles success.
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crazy4paulmccartney 1 year ago
"A manufactured image with no philosophies" Davy just quoted the "Ditty Diego War Chant" from HEAD!!
djhousefire 1 year ago
@namniekib U r so right!
wvben 1 year ago
R&R Hall of Fame is a joke - always has been and always will be. Much like the Grammys. The only people who don't seem to realize this are the Americans who take it all sooooo seriously. But fortunately Davy is an Englishman, so he doesn't. But since Bill O'Reilly's not, and a bit of a joke himself, he's not laughing. Hahahaha!
haj1909 1 year ago
rollin stone has sucked for a while now. so screw them. Monkees should be in Hall EASILY!!!
bluegrassreb 1 year ago
The Monkees music holds up great. I listen to them all the time. They sung, they wrote and they played on most of the instruments. The fact is that in the 60's most bands used studio musicians... The Beach Boys, The Mamas and the Papas, most of the Motown stuff, the Stax stuff... just look at all the hits studio drummer Hal Blaine played on. Jan Whiner was instrumental in ruining the Beach Boys career in the late 60's.... the man is a prick.
frogface66 1 year ago 2
Rock n Roll Hall of Fame has turned into all pomp and no circumstance.Seriously,The Monkees played their own instruments on Headquarters after fighting tooth and nail with Don Kirschner for creative control.They sound like musical heroes to me!
namniekib 1 year ago 2
Mickey was defn'ly the 'front man' = )
peaceiscontagious 1 year ago
Lead singer? Hardly.
1958Antimatter 1 year ago
The Monkees were a big influence on The Beatles... True Story.
NewLogicEnt 1 year ago
@NewLogicEnt the monkees were AFTER the beatles
anagramish 1 year ago
@anagramish true, but NewLogicEnt is probably being concise. The fact of the matter is, the Beatles and the Monkees influenced each other extensively throughout the late-60s. They were essentially competitors in the Top singles and albums sales, and with each release each band kept upping their musical ante.
djhousefire 1 year ago
Probably the only point on which Bill O'Reilly and I will EVER agree... Jann Wenner can SUCK IT as far as I'm concerned.
jenvargas 1 year ago 3
@jenvargas +1000! I almost liked O'Reilly for a second there after watching this. :-) PS: "A manufactured image, with no philosophies..." is a lyric from a Jack Nicholson re-write of Theme from the Monkees".
ShaggyDawg 1 year ago
Bill rocks for supporting the Monkees being in the R&RHOF!!!
Even if originally being manufactured they were and are a huge influence on music and musicians today!
Nerfball6 1 year ago 2
You hear "Pleasant Valley Sunday" on the radio, and you turn it up...Admit it.
We all do.
JCP1801 1 year ago
sn sicuro ke i monkees entreranno nella HOF prima o poi.....così cm sn sicuro ke tim buckley robert wyatt beefheart e gli nine inch nails nn ci entreranno mai -.-
mrmasny89 1 year ago
That interviewer was horrible! He kept interrupting everything Davy was saying.
kmbass93 1 year ago
Does anyone know where I can buy the painting Davey Jones did of the sinking of the Titanic. All the stars were placed correctly. PLZ!!!!!!!
TheMustangsally75 1 year ago
Yes the Monkees were put together by an audition process, but there are plenty of rock bands who form in quite the same way, maybe not an such a public scale. The casting people on The Monkees happened to do their job, and pick four tremendously musician/singer/actors who eventually gelled as a real band who could indeed play instruments and write tunes. Mike Nesmith is considered by many to be the granddaddy of country rock. Jann Wenner can suck it.
zstardust838 1 year ago
@zstardust838 I sooooo agree with u! what about the boy bands they were put together the same way the Monkees, No one thinks of that!
Helyen13 1 year ago
The Monkees ROCK!!!
bcrosshorses 1 year ago
Jann Wenner is a HUGE piece of CRAP!!!!!! Then again, so is Bill O'Reilly.
romeokid69 1 year ago
@romeokid69 I 3/4 agree w/you. Which ain't bad....
vampyros1 1 year ago
He's still very handsome at a older age!
lilyofthevalley7 1 year ago
Well he wasnt the lead singer I thought Micky was or did he say one of the lead singers?
retroalex1 1 year ago
@retroalex1 ... Yeah, Bill said "lead singer". He should have specified 'one of the lead singers'. If you had to chose one it would be Micky.
Nerfball6 1 year ago 2
@Nerfball6 Yeah cause Davy, Mike, and Peter had some lead parts, but it was mostly Micky because Micky had the best voice. (Not saying any of the other guys was bad they just wernt as good as Micky's)
retroalex1 1 year ago 2
Every group is manufactured. Guys get together and decide to jam. The Monkees were arranged, yes. But they DID learn to be a group. Put them in the HOF!
styxreo 1 year ago
Hall of Fame, who needs fame! Just gimme the money. When you go to the bank and try to pay your mortgage with fame the Bank Manager will tell you to go take a hike.
Sixalienasa 1 year ago
Mike and Peter did indeed play instruments long before the Monkees came along and Davy and Mickey did learn to play and while they started out as a TV band they did become a real band. And anyone who can't name 'Daydream Believer' or 'I'm a Believer' is someone who has been living under a rock! 'I'm A Believer' was used in the movie 'Shrek'. And for the record the Beatles liked the Monkees! They considered them the Marx Brothers of music! Some people need to stop being such a snob!
sallyjosie 1 year ago 2
By the way, I don't even read that dirtball magazine, Rolling Stone. Mostly all they have on there is guys who look like pin cushions with tattoos all over. That's the dirtball generation.
monkeeman1966 1 year ago 2
Half the people in the RR HOF should be booted out. Percy Sledge/BOOT Grandmaster whatever/BOOT, doesnt even come close to RnR. At least the Monkees played in their concerts. The Zombies, Searchers and the Ventures should be in there. The Ventures influenced more kids to pick up a guitar than probably anyone... I could go on for ages. The Monkees and the Buckinghams sold the most records in 1967. That's even more than that English ilk album, Sgt Pepper. lol
monkeeman1966 1 year ago
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Well the Rock N Roll HOF is really, "The Music Hall of Fame", so that's why it is the way it is. But how are you going to boot out Percy Sledge? I agree the 3 bands you listed should be in there, especially the Zombies, and Grand Funk Railroad :P
SymphonicDelight 1 year ago
I still can't believe that the monkees aren't in the R&R HOF. At one point they were selling more records than the Beatles ( whom I also love) and the Stones. They belong there and should have been for a long time. Davy has a good outlook on it , but I think that TPTB need to listen to the fans . The Monkees have fans of all ages and Mickey Dolenz has one of the best voices in pop music history. I've always wanted to go the the HOF, but not until we see The Monkees in there.
lisaosfan 1 year ago 2
but yet the let madonna in the hall of fame
whats next lady goof goof
lowaces 1 year ago
They sold 65,000,000 albums - they deserver to be in teh HOF - PERIOD!! Yes they were contrived right out of Hollywood - YES they were fake - NO they didn't play their instruments - but the bottom line is the bottom line - they made MONEY and they sold albume - and if you don't sell albums - you don't exist for long!!!!!
Or is the R&R HOF turning into one of those - that come and eat my barbeque - but refuse to vote for me?!?!?!?!?!?
Earthlinked 1 year ago 2
actually Mike and Peter both played .Later Mickey did.
Fake ? let's look at some music today.. Rappers .. who can't sing . or play instruments for example.
ripleyLV426 1 year ago 15
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Rappers can't sing? Ramblings of the uninformed that wish to decree their subatomic world into reality. That statement does not even deserve half an eye-roll. Anyway, who decided singing & playing an instrument authenticates the music? The only two Monkees that could actually play wrote the few songs they could take credit for. Obviously singing and playing is not the sole qualifier in the music making process.
Sleepyfist 9 months ago
@Earthlinked actually you are wrong. No they weren't fake.. and yes they DID play their own instruments. They were just not allowed to play them at first. Go listen to their album Headquaters. That's all them, playing on that album. The fact that they weren't allowed to play almost ended the show. Mike walked out because of it. Finally they slowly started to let them play more and more songs.
Kayiko 9 months ago
@Kayiko NOOOO!!! Your a little backwards!! Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Mickey Dolenz were ALL HIRED AS ACTORS - for a series that was about a MOCK rock and roll band that was a comedy - PERIOD!!!! After a while they took themselves seriously and DID start to play their own instruments!!! But originally they were hired as actors and NONE played an instrument - except Michael Nesmith - he played a little guitar but was FAR from being very good. (Neil DIamond helped!)
Earthlinked 9 months ago
@Earthlinked Actually, no... both Mike and Peter went to the abductions thinking that they wanted people who were musicians and could also act. Mike's only reason for even being on the show was because he thought it would be a different way to expand and get his music out there. Yes they were hired as actors to act in a show about a band. But to keep sitting there and saying that they couldn't play before hand is so completely incorrect. I've read many books about the Monkees and seen interviews
Kayiko 9 months ago
@Kayiko REALLY?!??! How could they possibly be together as a band - when ALL OF THEM auditioned for different parts of a TV show???? They never even met - before the TV show!!!!!!!! It was only about 18 months AFTER they started filming the TV show - they started seriously playing music as a band!!!! THey were hired as ACTORS - that were a band - NONE OF THEM were hired for their musical talents!!!!!!!
Earthlinked 9 months ago
@Earthlinked Did I say anywhere in there that they were hired as an already made band? No. Both Mike and Peter could already play music BEFORE they were hired to be in the show. Meaning yes.. they can play their own music. As a group called the Monkees, yes, it took them time to form together as a group of all 4 of them. But stop sitting there and saying they were just actors who could never play music. It's a full out lie. Go read some biography's for heaven sakes.
Kayiko 9 months ago
@Kayiko They wer 4 actors that ended up in a series that was about a band - PERIOD. After a while they DID start to play thier own instruments - and after MANY lessons and trials - they did tour - in the late 1960's and DID play their own instruments. But that was NOT the reason they were hired to be a band - The Monkees - Their name, and identities were already scripted when they first met!!! All that was added were their voices!!!!
Earthlinked 9 months ago
@Earthlinked "Their name, and identities were already scripted when they first met!!!" Really? So Mickey, Mike , Davy and Peter AREN'T their real names after all?! *rolls eyes* The fact that they allowed Mike to have one or two of his original songs that HE wrote himself, on the early albums is a little bit of a hint that they weren't just no body actors with no talent. Talent that you say they had to learn later. Honestly.. go.read.a.book. or shoot, watch a documentary about them!
Kayiko 9 months ago
@Earthlinked You are half wrong. Yes, Mickey and Davy were actors, but both were hired for thier vocal as well as acting talents. Mike and Peter were both musicians long before the Monkees - Peter was in Greenwich Village with Stephen Stills and others before moving to LA and auditioning for the Monkees. Mike was a session guitarist on the East coast in the early 60's, and had a record contract and released several 45's before auditioning for the show,
dellison58 8 months ago 2
@Kayiko And I don't think it matters if they were a band or NOT - they sold 65,000,000 albums - and THAT SHOULD put them in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - PERIOD!!!!!!!
Earthlinked 9 months ago
@Kayiko You did mean auditons - and not abductions?!?!?!? And of course they needed musicians that could act - but the acting got them the parts NOT THE MUSIC!!!!!!
Earthlinked 9 months ago
@Earthlinked And the SHOULD be in the Rock and Roll Haul of Fame - and if selling 65,000,000 records does not get you there - then lets count the album sales of the people that are already in there!!!!!!! Hard to say they sold 65 million albums and that does NOT put them in the Hall of fame - or the Haul of Fame!!!!
Earthlinked 9 months ago
Put them in the HOF.. Go Monkees!!!!!!
Beenana9 1 year ago 2
grand funk railroad is more deserving of a hof nod, than the monkees.
SymphonicDelight 1 year ago
@SymphonicDelight I don't agree. If you ask the general public to name one GFR song I'm guessing most would not be able to do so.
TheMouthyHedgehog 1 year ago
@TheMouthyHedgehog
I respectfully disagree. I think the same could be the same about the Monkees, I don't think most people today could name one Monkees song. "Some Kind of Wonderful" has made a comeback of sorts in commercials, and movies, now would people attribute that song to GFR, I don't know, but considering the Monkees were a manufactured troupe (a la today's boy bands), where as GFR were a real live band, I think the answer is pretty apparent.
SymphonicDelight 1 year ago
@TheMouthyHedgehog and actually I'm having a change of heart, I think the monkees should be in the hall of fame, considering who else is in there already...
SymphonicDelight 1 year ago
If you`re gonna put ABBA, Lovin Spoonful, and The Rascals in, why not The Monkees, and The Partridge Family, too???
estyle40 1 year ago
Yes the Monkees belong in the R&R Hall of Fame. They sang their own songs, wrote their own songs. Mickey said it best in an interview I recall seeing years ago "We started out with 2 actors and 2 musicians and came out of it with 4 actors and 4 musicians". That is what happened. All 4 musicians, song writers and singers as well as being actors.
Bill? Surprised me here... way to him.
Thanks for the upload - I never saw this one.
TwiggsWoody 1 year ago 2
o reilly is a fraud and a new world order guy..watch out foxed..he;s a puddy head.and he shouts down anyone who doesnt agree w/ him..i wish he's go suck a tailpipe
MrShandonian 1 year ago
With all due respect, Bill, give your guest a chance to respond, uninterrupted by you!
coomason5 1 year ago
bill o'reilly actually said something worth listening to that didnt sound contrived or transparent! will wonders never cease!
AryzonaRose 1 year ago
Jann wenner is a douchebag
harveydents 1 year ago
Down with Jann Wenner!
Kitsuneranger 1 year ago
Nice to see Davey Jones deny the bait that O'Lie-ly threw at him (joining him in slamming Jann Wenner). I'm not a big fan of Wenner's either, but O'Lie-ly has political reasons - as always - for attacking him. He uses many of his guests as guinea pigs to add fuel to his political attacks (check out his failed attempt to slam Hollywood elitists with his interview of Mike Conners of Mannix).
greenpete58 1 year ago
of course they should be inducted. no brainer
judo7975 1 year ago