The Monkees will always be my Beatles.... Michael will always be my John - I only use the Beatles references because the Baby Boomers don't understand my lingo. A Boomer at work once told me that 'Your generation doesn't care about anything'. I responded by saying 'we care, but we don't delude ourselves into thinking that if we throw a big pot party in the mud we'll stop war and poverty.'
The Monkees started the film 'Head' by jumping off of a bridge as an answer to the general consensus that they were nothing but a novelty act. It was a veritable rebirth from prefabrication to true artistic expression. The most misunderstood band of the era.
Reportedly the film was called 'Head' in hopes that if a sequel came out the poster would read 'from the band that gave you Head'.
Michael Nesmith punched a hole in the wall of his producers home mere inches from his head when he was told that the band could not control its own artistic output.
