LPguitarman Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I loved to watch the Monkeys when I was a kid. RIP Davy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfox14 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Didn't even know he died. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pfox14 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUUSdvwEC_Y&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BigKahune Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 . This morning . . . Sorry to see him gone. It was said a massive heart attack in his sleep.  I'll admit I enjoyed some of the Monkees' music.   RIP Mr. Jones  . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 As one of the same age... actually a massive heart attack in one's sleep ain't anything to complain about. It's the long, drawn-out painful stuff that is far less attractive. In fact... that latter wasn't all that attractive an idea when I was 26, either. Â m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 It comes as a shock to hear of Davy Jones' death  Image wise he was 'forever young' to many people  And seemed to be active and enjoying life right up to the end  I agree, going in one's sleep is the best way  He packed a lot into his life and brought fun and pleasure to millions  We can celebrate a truly talented and versatile performer  V  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I'm in agreement with all on here.... guess it's because he was not much older'n us and was an Icon....sad to see him go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Actually... he was nearly five months younger than I am. Â m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Not only the greatest maracas player in rock history but a gentleman and incredibly nice guy. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 One thing for sure the music world lost a icon today, when I go I wish it to be in my sleep also. Â Â Yeah...but NOT if you're driving a bus at the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 RIP Davy. I too, actually liked some of the Monkees songs (mostly Nesmith's stuff). Â And according to TMZ, he wasn't sleeping: Â http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-monkees/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D139477 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Where I discovered Davy Jones... Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is really a big shock to me,I always pictured Davy as the perpetual teenager-a Dorian Grey type character.My very first song/chord book was The Monkees first album and the first song we learned in my first band was Stepping Stone.Go with God Davy,you'll be forever young in my eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Go with God Davy,you'll be forever young in my eyes. Â Well put. Same here, man it seems like just yesterday that I was a kid watching the Monkees. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinh Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 guitarest, on 29 February 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:  One thing for sure the music world lost a icon today, when I go I wish it to be in my sleep also.  Yeah...but NOT if you're driving a bus at the time!  As the old joke goes: I'd like to die instantaneously of a sudden heart attack like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the others in the car he was driving . . . .  RIP Davey  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Bone Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is really a big shock to me,I always pictured Davy as the perpetual teenager-a Dorian Grey type character.My very first song/chord book was The Monkees first album and the first song we learned in my first band was Stepping Stone.Go with God Davy,you'll be forever young in my eyes. Wow this is a shock. I was a huge fan when I was a kid, had probably their first 4 or 5 albums. My first band (elementary school) also learned Stepping Stone as our first song. Â I just left the area he was living in (beautiful down there), was staying just down the road from Martin County Memorial from Sept. through January. Pity he's gone. RIP Davey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 RIP, Davy.......Aside from many of their songs, I liked The Monkees because they didn't take themselves all that seriously. To them, much of what they did was fun. They sure were a change from the other groups who were into psychodelic music at the time. Go in peace, my friend, and thanks for the memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Contrary to popular belief not all of the Monkees were non-musicians.Peter Tork had been playing in and around Greenwich Village for years and was very respected and in demand as he was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist.Mike Nesmith had a lucrative career as a studio musician/songwriter in Nashville and had written the hit song Different Drum for the Stone Ponys giving an until then unknown Linda Ronstadt her first big break.Mickey Dolenz,although not a musician was a veteran actor and child star after starring in the 50s TV show Circus Boy,his father played the Count of Monte Cristo in the popular TV series. When it was decided that they would play their own instruments on the second and all subsequent albums,Mickey took drum lessons and proved to have a natural ability for drums.Davy was a veteran actor/singer/dancer by the time he was a teenager after taking the lead role in a London theatre production of Oliver. Â BTW,Re the song Valleri: Mike didn't play the incredibley fast spanish flavoured lead guitar work to it,that was done by one of the Wrecking Crew,I forget just who it was now but if you put a list of their names in front of me I could tell you.I do know that it wasn't Tommy Tedesco or Glen Campbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Contrary to popular belief not all of the Monkees were non-musicians.Peter Tork had been playing in and around Greenwich Village for years and was very respected and in demand as he was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist.Mike Nesmith had a lucrative career as a studio musician/songwriter in Nashville and had written the hit song Different Drum for the Stone Ponys giving an until then unknown Linda Ronstadt her first big break.Mickey Dolenz,although not a musician was a veteran actor and child star after starring in the 50s TV show Circus Boy,his father played the Count of Monte Cristo in the popular TV series. When it was decided that they would play their own instruments on the second and all subsequent albums,Mickey took drum lessons and proved to have a natural ability for drums.Davy was a veteran actor/singer/dancer by the time he was a teenager after taking the lead role in a London theatre production of Oliver. Â BTW,Re the song Valleri: Mike didn't play the incredibley fast spanish flavoured lead guitar work to it,that was done by one of the Wrecking Crew,I forget just who it was now but if you put a list of their names in front of me I could tell you.I do know that it wasn't Tommy Tedesco or Glen Campbell. Â Louie Shelton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkolo Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 May he rest in peace, I always enjoyed watching The Monkeys television show when I was a kid. It was always good clean fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT ED Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 On Feb. 9 1964 Davey Jones was on the Ed Sullivan Show as a member of the cast of the broadway play Oliver! He was standing in the wings as four young men took to the stage and forever changed the music scene. It was at that moment he knew he wanted to be a pop singer and not a broadway play stage actor. RIP Davey. Thanks for the smiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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