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  • "See the way we worked this out in advance? *wink*" I died. XD

  • Its a pity Zappa wasn't used more as an actor. He had a natural charm.

    By the way - for that fool who said Mickey Dolenz was not a musician - a singer IS a musician, he uses his voice as an instrument!

  • @carlacostantino And pretty sure that although he didn't play when the group was put together Peter Tork did teach him to play and on tour and later in thier career Micky played drums (and now guitar) which would make him....a mucisian.

  • The Monkees were great TV. And they were the first corporate made up band. And the only one that really 'clicked'.

  • FRANK ZAPPA LIVES!

  • that was awesome!

  • it's like......boring..funny how his balls finally had the last say.....OUCH!!!!! poor cunt....

  • @jodonte1 actually it was his prostate.

  • Far out, I mean wowie zowie !

  • Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork were the only musicians in the group. I don't know if Mickey leaned to play so they could go on tour or what. I think Davey only sang on the show.

  • What the heck happened to Mike's hair?

  • The man behind of the long break up of the Monkees not Peter Tork or Davy Jones.

  • Wunderbar!

    

  • fantastic

  • Is a Monkees song playing while Frank Zappa is wrecking the car?

  • @johnny10301968 No, that a Mothers of Invention song from the We're Only In It For The Money album, called, "Mother People".

  • That is a nuclear bomb of a bass drum!!!! We're talkin' bout BASS! BOOM!!!

  • What year was this made?

  • @icabodcranium 1968, i think

  • The most overrated Monkee.

  • Love it! Tricky little scene.

  • Thanks for posting! Awesome!!!

  • a man who can dig frank deserve's respect.

  • fantastik!! i am laughing! otra mas!

  • When they are talking about the soul of their music being on the 1 and the 5 they are apparently taking a swipe at a clip Davey did with some guy (Charlie I think his name was) and they are "writing" a new song. And Davey is asking Charlie about where the beat is on Black soul music and where it is on White soul music. It's obvious he has NO idea what he's talking about..."I know a girl, her name is love"..blech!!

  • @cranie4 It's Charlie Smalls (duh), who by the way wrote the Wiz and it's Davy not Davey.

  • @Poochyenagirl 1. The Wiz was a certified flop. 2. I didn't know his last name because, really, who does? (duh).

    I think I provided a good amount of background info on the actual conversation in the clip. I'll take the hit for adding an extra E to Davy's name.

  • next week's guest, tuli kupferberg

  • hahaha funny!!

  • Frank had a sense of humour, people forget this sometimes. There was lots of novelty in his music and the connection between him and Nesmith seems almost likely. Frank produced the Monkey's film Head which few people eventually didn't see. Ringo is another one who hammed it up for Frank in 200 Motels.

  • Stupid nonsense.

  • On vinyl, the last line of The Other People was played backwards. We messed with it on a little 8 track & came up with: "Take another look before you say you don't care, shut your fkn mouth about the length of my hair, how would you survive, if you were alive, shtty little person".

  • From Episode No. 57 of The Monkees, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds" (#4747), the series' next-to-last.

  • you're a popular musician, I'm dirty, gross, and ugly

  • Frank Zappa was trying hard not to crack up when ever Mike's fake nose fell off.

  • I love Zappa so much.

  • how could 41 people possibly dislike this? I mean, REALLY?

  • At the end of this video, it appears Frank zappa was very, very close to inventing the p.t cruiser. See what music can do?

  • great clip of these 2 iconic musicians doing a comical skit.

  • Thats Mike Nesmith Playing Frank Zappa? It Really Looks Like Frank. I Thought It Frank Was Playing Both Parts...

  • @renues Like Ringo in 200 Motels

  • dam hippies!

  • Truly ahead of His Time

  • Frank Zappa and The Mothers were such a Satirical Group in the mid to late sixties...hung out with and worked with a variety of famous and would become famous musicians of the time...Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton , John Lennon , Jeff Beck , Keith Moon , Ringo Starr , Alice Cooper , Flo and Eddie , Aynsley Dunbar , Etc .

    And Yes , The Monkees...He also had an early record released Delphi Records and Bob Keane , former manager of Ritchie Valens

    Zappa was the original Zany Genius...

  • This was a brilliant pop culture moment!! I bet it went WAY over the heads of most of the people who were watching it, except for the few "freaks" who got it :-)

    Yes, Nes was, and still is a really good musician in his own right - certainly never got the respect he deserved during his days with the Monkees (and I'm a big fan of the Monkees)

  • Such a trip.....Zappa was creative genius, Mike was SO FUNNY and talented in his songwriting..

  • LMAO !

  • One of the greatest moments in television history.

  • @VivSavage I was just about to say that very thing.

  • awesome ,great post!

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  • This is terrific. Hilarious. Really well-done.  When was this done?

  • It's easy to see why these two were freinds, neither one acted like phonies, they always were who they were.

  • This is great! Two Rock and Roll legends playing off each other. Michael Nesmith and Frank Zappa were good friends and they have influenced other musicians in the music industry. Get the Monkees and Michael Nesmith in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame

  • @almodovar251

    Hey, back when I used to get a HoF vote, I voted for the Monkees! For all the good it did... - 1b2s

    BTW: Frank & Mike might have been buddies, but Manson Family member White Rabitt (sic) told me once that he and Frank used to drive by Micky Dolenz' house shouting obscenities -- I don't know how many grains of salt (or other powdery substances) that story should be taken with...

  • I knew I remembered seeing Frank on the Monkees show when I was a kid

  • Mike Nesmith has always been a knobhead.

  • Who let Frank on the Monkees?!

  • @horsesei Your mom..

    /Thread

  • @horsesei Never mind that, who siced the Monkees on Frank?

  • livemusichere,

    Surely any self respecting Zappa fan would know that the music at the end of the clip is 'Mother People' from the 'We're Only In It For The Money' album.

    Frank doing comedy reminds me very much of Groucho Marx, but then I always used to regard them as being from the same mould. Both blessed with genius. And The Monkees were pretty good too.

  • Regardless of the fact that The Monkees were a bit of a theatrical construct they were still excellent,many light years better than a lot of today's really real bands.Also 'Head',the Monkees movie,is a classic.

    I love Frank too.

  • Which one is me? . .

  • I love that tune at the end....reminds me of 'Let's Make the Water Turn Black'...The Whole World misses you Frank!

  • Way before Wendy O. Williams.

  • haha, love the way he drops his nose and plocks it up like nothing.

  • heck! i didn't know that these two were buddies? odd but cool!

  • As an infant in the 60s I loved The Monkees TV show- Got all excited- But surely they never showed this on The Monkees show- It wouldn've gone way way way over our heads- and possibly even have led to bedwetting

  • Wow, this is really wierd... brilliant though XD

  • comic 100%

  • hahaha....Frank and Mike the best.

  • Nobody seemed to notice that like 30 years later Michael Jackson did the exact same thing to a car for his "Black or White' Extended version video.

  • @TearyEyesAnderson -Maybe Monkees fans would notice something like that- But it's very possible Zappa fans would not have been enthusiastic followers of M Jackson-

  • Bizarre. 

  • I'm going to Hawaii.

  • Iv'e never seen this i used to watch the Monkkes show and have been a big fan all my life as well as Zappa i saw him a cuple of times in concert.

  • This was actually on the Monkees TV show?

  • the heir to the Tippex fortune ... (mike nesmith not frank zappa)

  • What I found really funny about this was that they bleeped out the word "God" when Zappa says "God love ya, Frank Zappa." Also when he says, "God we have wonderful music!"

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  • Michael nesmith became very rich when his mother who invented white-out left him $50 million when she died

  • If you were alive in 1967 and say this on your TV, it would have been a shock. The Monkees had the image of being milqutoast and Zappa was the shock musician of the era. They were actually good friends, and Michael Nesmith proved his talents in the years to come. Zappas prodigy in modern music is largely unrivaled in the he encompassed blues, rock, jazz, classical and anything inbetween. Last cut is We Are the Other People from W'ere only in it for the money album

  • Where is the talking cow that commented that the Monkees were crazy people?

  • Anyone say LOSER

  • hahaha, joining the byrds.

  • I didn't Know that! Play it again!.

  • Cool Vid Bro

  • I didn't understand half of this video.

  • I just love this.......stone classic!!!

  • I love math.

  • Frank: The soul of your music is on the 1 and the 7, sometimes on the 3 and the 5. The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere in between the 1 1/2, the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and the giant C-major chord on the piano! Which I'll demonstrate for you! We have wonderful music. Match-cut. Here we go, we turn over and we all take our positions in front of the camera, because this is The Monkees, and we're really tricky.

  • they'r twins!

  • This is AWESOME!!! WOW....

  • RU sher this isn't Feb 16, 1967 ?? this tv show started in fall of '66.... yeah, that's how old I am..........

  • "it's the opposite, you're a popular musician, I'm dirty gross and ugly" OMFG I spit coffee out my nose onto my jiz rag

  • The Monkees of Invention...

  • I had no idea Mike N hung around w/ other geniuses

  • how much does mike look like charles manson?!?!?

  • Do you know which episode this is from?

  • Wee are the other people wee are the other people dute dute dute dute etc... Love it.

  • Gee that's spiffy. I think I'll watch it again.

  • Ha, oh Lord...

    Why do the good die semi-young?

  • Because the CIA has lots of soft kill weapons.

  • It comes with being a semi-god

  • This is great!!

    Never saw this as an adult.

    Musta' seen it watching the Monkees as a kid.

    Thanks for posting it.

  • i love how they played mother people on the monkeez the song has FUCK and SHIT :P

  • Mike is pretty funny but its kinda weird

  • Frank zappa is king

  • WOW! i have never seen this in my 53 stupid years. where have i been, since i m a HUGE FZ fan. oh yea didnt have pc. must check out more.

  • I remember seeing this in reruns in the '70's when I was in elementary school and thinking, "Who's Frank Zappa"? When I reached high school and was listening to Zappa at a house party, I had the strangest revelation - I should've been asking, "Who's Mike Nesmith?"

  • Ha! Well put!

  • Watching this nearly caused a mental tear.

    Solid.

  • this is awesome

  • Holy Macaroni. I never saw this before. Very cool. Funny. Monkees music banal?

  • Talk about irony...Zappa flashing a peace sign.

  • Aw Reet! I remember this riff from the first time back in '68. Geat to see it again. There was always a hidden element of hip in the Monkees!

  • LOLZ

    i really like the bit

    "im gonna join the byrds" my favorite part

  • this is hilarious

  • Great vid

  • Well before his voice dropped an octave.

  • When he was thrown into the orchestra pit right?

  • that's not even mike nesmith's real hat

  • LOL!

  • Is banal really pronounced like anal?Damn I thought it was ba-NAHL...gotta look this up now

  • /watch?v=oz88kJSdT6Y

    1:16

  • no it is Bah-Nahl

  • idiots, I loved that car and they killed it just for kicks.

    boycott china

  • I feel like a rerun

  • Of course they had more hits, but it's comparing apples and oranges. Don't get me wrong, I like The Monkees; but at the end of the day, they were still a manufactured pop band. Kinda like The Spice Girls, New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, etc.

  • yea he rocked

  • At least Zappa played his own instrument from the get go and dominates it!!!!!!!!!

  • @progpunk76 so did Nesmith - both him & Peter Tork were musicians, it was "Mickey" & "Davey" that were boy-toy actors there to get girls interested....

  • who gives a shit? LOL

  • I guess banal & insipid people don't.

  • This is terrific!

  • yes.. they were more commercially successful thanks to Neil Diamond! :)

  • ah ah ah lol, very fun!

  • awesome just awesome

  • AWESOME vid!!! thanks 4 postin.

  • That was great. Those two get major props.

  • I'm suprised they let them make fun of thier own image on the show, this reminds me of Head...

  • Heat tearing apart? lol

    These are two friends that both happended to get bashed in the press for their music and image and they had fun with it. They both make fun of each other and it's great.

  • Heart*

  • Fantastic!!

  • Yahoo!

  • Super Cool,Straight to my Favorites.

    555 Stars.

  • its of the monkees. but i spell it monkey's

  • anyone else realize these 2 heads are both crapricorns?

    other cool seagoat:

    david bowie

    syd barrett

  • zappa was sagittarius (double sag w virgo moon)

  • actually, he's a cusper for the sag/cap team

  • i'm dirty gross and ugly

    bangle and insipid

  • Yeah, that conversation was funny. (However, the word is banal. Since the BANGLES really were banal, you did very well!)

    I wonder if that was completely scripted or if Mike Nesmith got tired of being abused by Zappa and got some payback saying Zappa was dirty, gross, and ugly.

  • haha. when i tried to decipher what he said all i got was bangle. i even google define:'d it and because it said cheap jewelry (duh), i figured 'maaaybe?'

    and yeah, i think nesmith fancied himself the intellectual monkee, right? once he caught on, he probably didn't dig being the butt of the joke.

  • 1:06, I love that that made Michael laugh. Very genuine. :)

  • That was my favorite part too! 1:27 aswell,

    Realy made me laugh.

  • lol-mike dressed as zappa looks like my ex when he's drunk with his hair messed up like that

  • I always notice that Zappa goofs up. He corrects Mike but Mike had not made a mistake! That almst ruins the clip, but overall this is one of the most memorable moments on The Monkees which was a great show.

  • the car song was the best, yah?

  • The "car song" is "Mother People"... that's on the album "we're only in it for the money".

  • Ah, those Monkee's. They must have some tails they could tell!

  • I heart this clip.  For 8 years now.

  • Frank did a pretty good Michael Nesmith.

  • What's the name of that episode?

  • That's odd: Today I was actually fantasizing about smashing a car with a sledgehammer. And then I fantasized that if I was a millionaire, I would buy a car and then walk by with a sledgehammer and destroy it. Then people would call the police as they saw me destroying "someone else's car" and when the police did the research and found out it was my own car I was destroying, they would all end up looking like fools

  • Thats neat.I had a dream that mike was young.?.? fascinating,no?lol

  • what year is this?

  • In the 60s sometime like between 67-69

  • "You're popular, I'm dirty, gross, and ugly." lol

  • Ok, that was odd. But then again, it is Frank Zappa.

  • Believe this: The Monkees were plenty odd without Zappa.

  • True. I used to watch the Monkees years ago on Nick@Nite.

  • So I guess when my friends and I smashed up an AMC Gremlin back in high school with a sledge hammer, were were making music... Awesome....

  • i dont get it...why do they destroy a car?

  • He is not destroying it he's playing car just like he was playing bicycle in his first tv appearance.

  • Because it's Frank Zappa.

  • So Mike you are a person whose expecttaons exceeded you realities. You wanted to be a musician got handed the brass ring and felt it was not your gig and were pissed. Like you , Jim Morison,Hendrix, etc I CAN'T undesatnd how they can find success and hate it Poor me