If you are a Monkees Fan Read This!

[Corine2]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 4:45pm

http://corinescorner.com/blog2/2008/11/davy-jones-unplugged-and-uncensored.htm


MAC users you must download quicktime to watch my videos.
Or you can go to Youtube and select corinescorner and watch my videos there. Updated On: 11/26/08 at 04:45 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 6:39pm

There's nothing to read.

[tommyboy]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 6:41pm

There was never anything to listen to -- and to think we used to compare them to the Beatles.

R.I.P. John and George

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 7:19pm

I disagree on that front. Particularly vis a vis the Nesmith songs.

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 7:24pm

corine, the vid won't play for me. but i've always LOVED the monkees! i recently got the sandra boynton CD/book BLUE MOO ... davy sings one of the songs ... and he sounds EXACTLY like he used to! it's amazing :o

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 7:37pm

I love The Monkees. Your video won't play for me, Corine. Oh well.

I agree...Michael Nesmith wrote some terrific tunes (non-Monkee ones, too. "Different Drum" is one of my favorite songs) And he was definitely the most hunky Monkee!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 7:45pm

I'll admit it. I loved the Monkees, too, although I can't remember why exactly. Anyone else remember a song called "Valerie"?

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 7:51pm

Sure! Fun song.

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 8:01pm

i always liked DAYDREAM BELIEVER :)

btw ... i didn't know until just recently that DAVID BOWIE changed his name from DAVID JONES so he would not be confused with DAVY JONES.

Updated On: 11/26/08 at 08:01 PM

[Corine2]

Posted: 11/26/08 at 9:58pm

Guys if you are using a Mac it needs a special download.
You can go to youtube and type in corinescorner and you will be able to watch the video on youtube.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 12:39am

It's all starting to sound like an awful lot of work. Can someone summarize?

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 9:57pm

Corine, thanks! I enjoyed the video. Great job!




Here's the YouTube link to Corine's interview with Davy

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 10:08pm

Corine, did you get a date with him after the show? :)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/27/08 at 10:14pm

Corine. Corine. Corine. CORINE.

Honest. To. God. You have GOT to do background research, even a glance at Wikipedia, before you do these interviews. Asking members of The Monkees if they're "good friends" or if Davy's friends with "any of the other Monkees" is kind of bad form, given that things fell apart pretty badly at the end of their last tour. And drinking was an issue. You can see Davy making cracks about it, but seriously, it's very uncomfortable viewing if you know the actual story. Which is available on the internet. Also, after Nesmith ditched the group on their last European reunion tour Davy said he would never forgive him. So... you know, maybe you're not going to want to go into what Nesmith's mother may or may not have invented in her kitchen (an answer you could also have found on Wikipedia).

Also, the marriage question is equally uncomfortable and a potential minefield when you don't know what the interviewee's situation is, which you demonstrate that you do not.

Also, also, if you tell a former teen idol that you still have a crush on him, don't hastily add "Just kidding."

When somebody tells you they don't like the songs in a Broadway musical, that might not be the time to perkily announce that you're going to interview the writer of those very songs soon.

Just uncomfortable.

My honest feedback. Not sure why I bothered.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 4:46pm

ANOTHER thread where Corine wants us to log onto her website...

[Jon]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 5:04pm

I saw Davy Jones as the Artful Dodger in OLIVER when I was 4 years old.

[spidey_882]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 7:05pm

That was a very uncomfortable-sounding interview. I agree with Namo that some research beforehand would have helped a great deal, considering a lot of things that were asked are common knowledge to most people who are only vaguely familiar with Davy Jones and the Monkees. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that he allowed it to go on as long as it did.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 7:08pm

Was that really done 20 minutes before the show?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 9:26am

I wanted to be Nesmith. For a while, I thought I, too, could wear cute little ski hats indoors 24/7 to stunning personal effect. I was devastated to find out that not only is it hot, it doesn't make you "hot."

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:11am

For Auggie:

[artscallion]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:29am

For me:
(Peter Tork woke up the gay in me)

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 11:04am

Thank you, Blue. I had one just like that, and spent hours torturing my bangs forward in pursuit of the casually hatted-over coiffure. Unlike the eccentric if sometimes brooding Mike, I looked like a prissy wannabe elf. But what would we do without role models?

[etoile]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 4:33pm

Okay, because I was a fan of THE Monkees [and I think for the sake of proper clarification, if nothing else, THE needs to be included, especially if talking about Monkees/monkeys on Broadway] I was sucked in to watching the clip.

Was there a purpose for this interview? Were any questions thought out beforehand? Did I miss where and when it took place? Just why was this done? And how extremely polite of Jones to indulge you.


"I'll admit it. I loved the Monkees, too, although I can't remember why exactly."

Because despite how the group was formed they were four talented musicians who brought variety of styles. One minute they'd do a bubblegum number then follow it up with something more country. They recorded the music of some of the hottest songwriters of that time. Didn't Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart even appear on the show? And they were able to make socially poignant songs palpable like with "Zor and Zam". An almost nursery rhyme style that evolved into an anti-war statement.
"The King of Zor he called for a war and the King of Zam he answered...They gave a war and nobody came. They gave a war and nobody came." That was something digestible for tweens in the late '60's.

Oh, and they were cute too.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 12:32pm

So, Corine, any response to the feedback or are you too consumed with worry regarding the White Christmas film?

[Corine2]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 3:54pm

Namo-
This was not a planned interview. I bought tickets to his show at the last minute and someone at the theater who reads my site gave me the opportunity to interview him. This was not planned and I think it is a good enough interview. If you don't, don't watch it. But really, sweetie, you need to get a freakin life.

I was happy to interview my first boy crush.