New Monkees Solid Gold

[circlesky73]

Marty looks great with his hair pulled back like that!

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

They were The New "Monkees" in name only. They have zero charisma, and I wouldn't have noticed them in an elevator. They look and sound like every other crappy garage band that has briefly seen the light of day. What a total waste of time. All of the hype and promotion in the world can't put over a crappy product, which is all that this potentially was. Whoever initiated this "project" must still have remnants of egg on their faces.

[TheFabulousAnouska]

The show and the music were ghastly.

[gittahfiend]

This sucks GOAT RECTUM!!

[MsTWOSPIRIT]

I'm gonna ad this to my faves ccause dino is a nice guy...

[chimptor50]

I know for a fact that they did not play a lick on this sing because I did. Everything on this tune is pre programed except the guitars, those I played. My friend, Producer Matt Wallace, did this track and asked me to play on it and I did. It's surreal to see someone play a lead on TV and know it's me. His fingering is close but no cigar. Nice try though.

[syndicateofsownd]

Where are they now? I really hope that make a show about that. I looked all over Billboard, could not find this song "tearing up the charts." I am really disappointed.

[tornmask]

this is freak'n grossing me out..not in a nice way..they should be called ThE gOrIlLaS! xo)

[hsaltis]

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[verena71]

@hsaltis Cool!! I already liked the page on Facebook. Thanks! =)

[infodisinfo]

this is AWFUL!

[manzi71]

I know of at least 12 people that going to get a booty-kicking for hitting the dislikes button!

[ruberto53]

This is a decent song. I think the show and idea to promote them as "New Monkees" may have been ill conceived and badly timed though. Bad luck all around for the project.

[catz72396]

this is BALLS

[catz72396]

this is balls

[gittar1]

peter tork was "not " playing guitar on the first ..or 2nd. album .. because i was one the lead players.

[DavidTyler1]

@gittar1 We know the story behind why Peter wasn't allowed to play on the first album and it had nothing to do with his skill level. As anyone can plainly see from later footage of him, he played a lot of instruments fairly well. As to the second album... well, it wasn't really a fair representation of anything but Don Kirshner. He put it together with studio musicians while the Monkees were out on the road proving that they could play... maybe not Prog rock or Jazz ... but well enough

[rongravy]

lame.

[hairypolack]

Ya cant hate on em too much, theyre no more "fake" than the 60s monkees. Theses 4 guys auditioned for a paying gig as musicians/actors and took the job- wouldnt you? But this IS laughably bad - all the worst of the 80s cliches- all theyre missing is a goth and a drag queeen!

[liontone]

This is scary... In a few short years Nirvana comes along and kills this stuff forever... Long live Dolenz, Jones, Tork, Nesmith!!!

[paladin313]

The Monkees DID play their own instruments from their third album on, and they were quite good. Just listen to the original "Circle Sky," and you will know what I mean, (The film of them doing it live is here on Youtube.) So for her to say what she did about the original Monkees was asinine. They were quite a good band! Sold out Wembly twice in 1997.

[liontone]

I know they did...In fact, Mike Nesmith always had Tork on guitar in his Monkees sessions, so Torkk was on the first LP, and maybe the 2nd too.

[McHale72]

@paladin313 actually, Mickey KINDA learned to play drums but when you watch the TV footage, you can see how bad his timing was. And Mike always stated that he write Circle Sky specifically to be easy enough for the band to play. Peter and Mike played (and wrote) quite well. Other than tambourine though, what did Davey play? Look, I like the original Monkees and have most of their stuff (and even paid $300 for the VHS box set with crappy watch). But let's keep things in perspective.

[paladin313]

Well, I would say that, if you watched concert footage from the 1997 tour, listened to the album "Justus" (where they wrote and played all their own stuff,) and the TV special, you will see that time definitely improved them, and Davy even plays rythm guitar to the updated version of "Circle Sky," from "Justus." He even does that live in concert. I would say that, listening to early concert tracks, there was something to be desired. They did improve, though. Listen to the Band is a good one.

[McHale72]

Headquarters is a great album and the stuff they wrote for the Head soundtrack is also really good. IMHO I could care less if they played their own instruments to be honest. They don't need to "prove" themselves. Most of the manufactured acts today can't even sing let alone play. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not jagging the Monkees. And when I ran the original New Monkees website, met the new guys through email as well as a few people involved with the show and they were all pretty decent.

[hammrocks]

What exactly does Nirvana have to do with the New Monkees? Nirvana was the next step in the evolution of heavy metal hair bands. This was oriented to pop and Top 40 audiences. In fact,Kurt Cobain hated how huge the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit " had gotten and no longer wanted to play it when the group performed live.

[luvmerseysidered]

The "fact" that they didn't play their own instruments? Actually they DID. Don Kirshner wouldn't allow it while he was music supervisor.These guys weren't that bad musically for the time,but their show sucked.

[sundaeg1rl]

Does he have a licence for that mullet? That thing needs to be on a lead!

[212jim]

the biggest mistake riding on the coattails of the Monkees,god they are bad

[ChildOThe80s]

This is so classic 80s. I love it. I miss Solid Gold.

[hammrocks]

I am growing tired of all of the nasty comments too. Come on people! Remember what your mother taught you, If you have nothing nice to say than don't say it at all. All of the meanness that is being typed here says more about the commentator and not the video being commented on!

[NewMonkkesFan]

Such nasty comments to be found here. But consider the talent of each of these people! I wish they REALLY would get together for a youtube reunion.

[NewMonkeeLove]

They had a reunion in fact it was a 20 year reunion, it was December 8th, 2007.

[popegeorgeringo]

And tell Nina Blackwood this time we brought our own instruments. And we played them!

[NewMonkeeLove]

Yeah what he said...Thanks Marty.

[NewMonkkesFan]

I read about the reunion online, and saw the slide show someone put up (thank you, whomever you are). Marty, if you read this, have you recorded any music since the NM? Sorry if this is a stupid question...

[BerkmanFan08]

Who cares

[uncleelmer]

Good pop music. I can't figure out what difference it makes if instruments were played or not. Unless you were a studio musician getting paid what difference does it make?

[HypnoToad72]

1987 -- how can anyone take the latter half of that decade even remotely seriously?

[uncleelmer]

The validity of the late 80's belongs to Marty for all comments. Any wisdom oh wise one?

[mignonhenne]

i thought that was spagna at the start. i started singing "call me"..lol.

[hammrocks]

Solid Gold was sooooo gay for all of the lip synching and the dancers. AHHHHHHHH!!! Please help me I'm going to have the solid Gold theme stuck in my head!

[popegeorgeringo]

They have EVERYTHING to do with the "Real " Monkees.... SAME PRODUCERS! It's A TV Show you fool!

[paurora98]

I agree. They don't even look like the Monkees. They look more like the NKOTB than anybody! Nobody in the original Monkees had blond hair! How in the world can they be called the New Monkees!

[Houseof80s]

Oh, I forgot to comment on the actual video. It's very cool.

[Houseof80s]

I love 60s and 80s music, so, I appreciate both for what they are. But the original Monkees are my favorite. Still, this song is great. Very catchy. I like most of the other songs on the NM album too. "Boy Inside the Man" is probably the next best to this one.

[popegeorgeringo]

Gee... this frothy , sugary , yum yum , penis free music came from the most coked out era in american history!But New Monkees tore through all of it by singing and acting. They continued on by working every needless charity they could find such as the Save Big Oil movement... and the short lived Crack Pipe for Kazoo exchange program( which proved faulty since the kazoos were turned into really good crack pipes). These MEN should be lauded for their work not only onstage but especially off!

[uncleelmer]

This is supposed to be funny?

[popegeorgeringo]

The New Monkees stand under a pedestal with Bach , Elvis and the Beatles. I applaud those who would dare to listen to the majesty of these brilliant boys....Ask this...Who collectively changed the face of television more than these true men amongst men?? Dig deep and you may indeed find many,if not hundreds-make that thousands who did more quality work ... BUT! Never so annoyingly so. It is upon THAT crutch that I rest my argument- That New Monkees were a crap the size of TWO Ed Woods -LISTEN!

[uncleelmer]

In the end we all have to have a good laugh and not take ourselves too seriously. It seems that you have that down well, Marty. This is good news. Although I still think you guys at least were better than one Ed Wood! Best of luck.

[NewHopeNashFan]

I utterly enjoyed the New Monkees when they were on, in fact. The videos on You Tube bring back what I appreciated - delightful, off the wall humor, with a contemporary edge. If you crossed CSNY with Weird Al Yankovic this is what you'd get.

[digipeeper]

They are very good what killed them is the title of both their band and show tHe NeW mOnKiEss?!?!?! They should have been called something else!

[ItsAllMe11111]

Hey, psycho. Why don't you get a life, quit stalking and harassing these guys and leave them alone? What, did the New Kids on the Block finally get tired of you stalking and harassing them and banned you? You had to find new victims? Get. Help.

[ItsAllMe11111]

Looks like the person my post was meant for deleted her own post!

[ottoskidoo]

This is just ridiculous.

[TheSilvaShow]

Greetings popegeorgeringo I do indeed look forward to seeing the reunion show posted here, when will this happen? As if my info's correct, with the exception of Jared who was primarily an actor, see that you remaining 3 were indeed good musicians with in my opinion some very enjoyable tunes... In the meantime, do you have a my space or a web site? Love to hear some of your instrumental stuff!

[popegeorgeringo]

Naw... it was my mistake....The New Monkees in my opinion were and still are the BEST musically based phony TV band ever!..The evidence will rear its head (!) for the world premiere of their recent reunion show on You Tube.....and see who dares to take the 87 Dollar " Phony Up" Challenge!!!!!!

[YogerosKyriacos]

I was 14 at this time, and was obsessed with the original Monkees. There were many teenagers who were, as they had reunited and were touring, and the show was on TV again.

The New Monkees show was well warranted. Kids were very interested, and the music was just as good as anything else on the radio then. Maybe the show didn't get the push it needed?

[Liquidzer0]

This had to be the worst idea ever. The original Monkees sucked ass, so why make a "new" Monkees, lol.

[BobSeger1981]

This sounds like a retarded kid farting into a mic....

[Weirfan69]

THESE GUYS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MONKEES! they're giving the '80s a bad name for me, as someone born in 93 who is extrememly interested with the 30s-on. Bring back the 60s and Davy, Peter, Micky and Mike!

[popegeorgeringo]

The NEW Monkees have nothing to do with The Monkees EXCEPT it was the SAME production company with the addition of the guy who gave the go ahead for the original show without whom The Monkees wouldn't have existed in the first place....Need a map?..... Opinions aside ...Please do your homework.. ....MORON!

[thuncat1]

i was born in 1970 and have the original Monkees Lp.

when i first saw the NM in the 1980's, i thought that this was nothing like the old show, plot, and it is too weird.

yet, the song we good, 80's good.

if the show wasn't too far fetched it would of made it for more years.

[Weirfan69]

reading my comment again, it's really stupid. why should one band/ commercial idea ruin a decade IMO? i can be an idiot sometimes, but I maintain that the original (real!) Monkees are 100% better.

[jas22]

wow-- so shakespearean. "na na na/na na na".

but show some respect-- thats Dino on drums!

[thuncat1]

not the Dino?

Romeo?

[Cantwetalk]

I actually have their promotional 45rpm single, "What I Want"

[rhudson765]

I can't be4lieve that there are actually other people who remembered the New Monkees. Even as a 11 year old, I knew that this was going to bomb.

[tomarkenfan]

Thank God this didn't last.. The ORIGINAL Monkees are the best....

[ironlurk]

I worked on the set as a set carpenter for first episode ,we made this huge backdrop flouresent green,Valecia studios where brand new,,It was so low budget I needed a helper and I got one whom I dogged so hard only to find out he was a cast member donating his time ....I felt pretty bad....

[sexybanddork]

wow, I just wasted four minutes and twenty three seconds of my life.

[popegeorgeringo]

And your comment wasted 3 seconds of mine!

[heatsky]

I made it to the last round of auditions (1986, I recall?) before they settled on these guys. Good Lord, for once, am I glad I failed miserably.

[chiafarrow]

I never knew "New Kids on the Block" were on Solid Gold!!!

[chimptor]

Ah, the New Monkees. Well I can tell you for a fact that on this particular song, What I Want, that they did NOT play anything at all that's because I played all of the guitar parts on this song and the rest of the music is sequenced and a drum machine. Matt Wallace produced this track and he is a buddy of mine and asked if I would like to do it. I said yes and the rest is non history. It sure payed well though.

[decay1966]

I don't know if you should be bragging about playing all of the guitar parts on this song because it's one of the MOST cheesiest song I've ever heard!!

[shafali1972]

wow i cant believe i never saw these guys, truely horrible. I dont see that they had anything to do with The Monkees and i think they would have been better off trying to be at least good instead of trying to be the "new" of anything.

[Spanglemaker42]

Don't harsh so much on these guys. They are no worse than any recent 'American Idol' contestant. They got paid to do some schtick, and had a great time.

[popegeorgeringo]

Look for my newer solo music in the Yahoo Groups "Martymusic"

[KathleenTheresa]

some good stuff there too....

[sportsterbill]

I'm not sure the guitars are even plugged in?

[Beatleologist]

"The New Monkees" was a bad idea as well as a monumental failure much like New Coke and George W. Bush.

[M7Starr]

You call the 80's gay because you were probably born in 1989 you friggin' teenage wastes

[sexybanddork]

what's wrong with eighty nine?

[xtheinertiax]

hahahahahahahhaahahahhahaa what a bunch of queers

[theufokid]

tearing what charts up? these guys are gay as shit!

[jody808]

this was a bad idea

[sweetpetebrown]

I watched this video in morbid fascination. I forgot this actualy happened and I wish I could have just kept on forgeting.

[MikeNez11]

I am sorry, but this is horrible, they got their info completely wrong, the monkees played on their rest of their albums starting with headquarters. Plus this is a cheap attempt to mock good musicians, Mike Nesmith, was an innovator, so was peter, Davy, and Mickey, these guys are nothing but corny.

[popegeorgeringo]

MikeNez11... maybe, just maybe one of the New Monkees is one of the best multi instrumentalists in the world....Just a rumour...

[BerkmanFan08]

You mean Peter Tork was in the band as well?

[ChildOThe80s]

Here you are again! If you don't like it why do you keep coming back?

[hammrocks]

They only played some of the instruments on the remainder of their albums. Mostly due to the demands on their time - the filming schedule. But Mike Nesmith was truly a very talented singer & songwriter. I was the random 18 year old back in the day that had the crush on the 40ish year old Nesmith. Then I learned that he is actually married to a woman that is 1 year older than me....Damn IT! I had a shot! But, I would have to look at his old man ass-trade off!

[hanniballecturer]

this is so gay it'd make richard simmons cringe

[popegeorgeringo]

The entire 1980s were about 70% gay!

[hanniballecturer]

actually... you're right.

[hammrocks]

No the 80s was officially declared about 85.2% gay. It's true! I saw it on Oprah, The View and the Best Samn Sports Show period!

[popegeorgeringo]

That's a B+ !

[hammrocks]

But do you really want a B+ on the "cheesy" scale?

[popegeorgeringo]

You're right... I wanted an A!!!!

[hammrocks]

Hmmm. Let's see. Nina Blackwood, lip-synching on Solid Gold and Marilyn Macoo hosting again. That might be just enough extra-credit to give you an A- on the 80's "cheesy" scale. Is that a grade more suitable to your liking?

[LadyJoy92]

Whoa!...Like flashback...although I will confess I have this wonderfully worn cassette in my car as I speak. Rock on! * Miss these guys

[radioman970]

Not bad for the time. The real Monkees were way above these guys. But, yep, lip-syncing was a mainstay of shows like Solid Gold.

[popegeorgeringo]

"real monkees" ? "real" suggests a "real" band...The New Monkees had some bonifide musicians in it....that knew more than 3 chords..Not saying they were better...Just saying that all 8 guys were "real Monkees" whether you like it or not!

[REDHAIREDMONSTER]

I have always wondered about the new Monkees, but after seeing this video, I relaize I was better off not knowing.

[lee53050]

Bands always seemed to be lip-syncing on Solid Gold. The added handclaps in the song are a nice touch though.

[OtterLDS]

I've always loved New Monkees, but this does *not* seem live. Was "Solid Gold" always lip-synching?

[hammrocks]

Yes, Solid Gold was ALWAYS lip synching...Marilyn Macoo would slap you over the head and say, "Duh!"

[nnaw]

They didn't exactly tear up the charts, this was their only single and they only released 1 album, neither went very far.

[wicky73]

Dogs-hit!

[mwr686]

I LURVE NEW MONKEES!