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Re: Cutouts Gone Wild!: New Monkees, “New Monkees” (1987)

McHale72 — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:11:21 -0000

That as well as billing himself as some military expert on things he had nothing to do with.

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jefito — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:17:48 -0000

I read something about that at IMDb. Military equipment, right?

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McHale72 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:51:40 -0000

More hilarious is Jared also was involved in some pretty illegal hollywood activities. You should google them. He should have gone to prison.

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Elak Swindell — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:38:09 -0000

Being a HUGE 80s music and 80s soundtrack collector, I added this one to my massive archive a good while back. Started listening to the songs today to find the best of them for my separate 80s MP3 archive. Those that stand out, in my opinion, are "Affection", "Boy Inside The Man", "Burnin' Desire", "Carlene", "The Way She Moves" and "Whatever It Takes". I never saw the series when it was out back '87, and by the Youtube videos, I'm glad of it. But the album is pretty good, even if it isn't amazing. I'm surprised someone would have found this in a Dollar General store rack though. Doesn't sound like something they would carry due to the age and obscurity. I love the music of the original Monkees and highly enjoyed playing my "A Barrel Full of Monkees" compilation 2xLP from 1971 during my childhood.

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Gerry — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:09:44 -0000

As mentioned, Jared did a lot of stuff!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm...

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Doc Finance — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:57:55 -0000

That's more like it. Some of the NM stuff was genius, and the album today certainly captures the West Coast sound pretty well. It's a time capsule of musical wonder. I listen to it all the time, my little kids love it, friends ask me for it once they hear it, etc.

[Finally, I've run into Marty in other places online over the past couple of years, and he's a nice guy. Very generous with his talent, and very talented IMHO.]

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martyross — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:34:26 -0000

I apologise to you Jeff .....I was maybe a bit tipsee ( kids please don't drink and read!) when I wrote that stupid diatribe. All I can say is I had a out of body experience doing a TV show and it was mostly good. I wish it was the absolute worst show ever on TV !. Then it would stick out as some sorta Ed Wood on TV production... But there are so many that are just as bad if not worse( My Mother The Car)..... weird fact : the shows ratings across the country (3.2-5.8) would make any cable network happy by todays standards. Anyway... every once in awhile it's fun to peruse the internet(sober!) and see if anybody else has written about that forgotten show ...If you want to hear some of my music for TV and Film go to: martymusic@yahoogroups.com . I have two sites ,the other is listed below. Again , my apologies to Jeff . You are entitled to your opinion...and ... I agree with most of it!.

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Nathan Smart — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:11:50 -0000

Re-Up please!

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DwDunphy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:11:38 -0000

Mmmmmm... Corn. (drool.)

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steed — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:12:39 -0000

Well now see, Marty missed the point - the point that Jeff opened up a new generation's ears to the New Monkees. I followed through on my comment and went and bought the record. New! mind you. Well, at least it was re-sealed. I mean I bought it at Dollar General in one of those revolving racks at the counter. The other side of the rack had a mess of Eddie Rabbitt cassettes and there were some of those mini fork like things you stick in the sides of corn on the cob so you don't burn yourself and I still chose the New Monkees instead. How many people would have chosen the New Monkess over Corn on the Cob forks? Boo-yah.

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jefito — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:55:35 -0000

You don't own two houses in one of the nicer parts of L.A.

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dslifton — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:44:51 -0000

I am very pissed off at this. I've been calling Jeff a hack for years and haven't gotten as much as a sneer in return. I guess being a New Monkee has its rewards.

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David_E — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:47:33 -0000

I'm assuming the "Hollywood food chain" you refer to is In-n-Out Burger.

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Not Justin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:03:12 -0000

I don't remember what year the Monkees appeared on the scene (see jefito's terminology: old fart), but I do recall an almost visible tear in the fabric of music that year. Friends divided, those of us who listened to Hendrix and the likes would groan, leave the room, change stations on hearing their music. The Monkees, in my opinion, were the leading cause of the musical catastrophe that ensued: "Bubblegum music" was born. Worse yet, it stayed. Yes, I am aware of its popularity, that doesn't mean it was good or that I ever want to hear it again. What little I remember of the associated original TV Show was from nights babysitting my younger brother, whose musical taste had not yet evolved. The Monkees were not the worst, by any means, but ... still... why repeat a less than great thing?
I don't really need to watch the "New" Monkees to know I would regret the wasted time. I'm sure I don't need to hear the music to know I don't really need it on my iPod - after all, I'd trust Jeff with my life why wouldn't I trust his review - a review I enjoyed reading, not really sure why Marty Ross didn't. You'd think that despite whatever MINOR facts were wrong or missing would still be worth having his name be seen, his music be heard? It's not like it was a personal slam, and hey, this is why they paid him those big bucks that got him those two fancy houses. Getting reviews, good and bad, goes with the territory. (and no, getting death threats should never go with any territory)
My suggestion to Marty Ross, if you're still following the fallout from your temper tantrum, invest some of that hard earned Hollywood money in some therapy.

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JohnHughes — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:22:25 -0000

I'm just disappointed in this post's Google Page Rank. I mean, Marty's obviously been obsessively Googling himself and it took him a year and a half to find this page.

Some search engine optimization is in order, methinks.

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jasonhare — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:44:25 -0000

Wow, you own TWO houses? Shit, that validates everything!

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Alec — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:29:03 -0000

I actually wrote a song for the New Monkees, but I never got around to submitting it. Maybe the band can reunite and I can resubmit?

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skuhn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:12:18 -0000

Jimi Hendrix opened up for the Monkees. The New Monkees had a 12 year old kid doing magic tricks. Word. Marty, it's about time you stopped shouting about SESSION MUSICIANS FOR HIRE...this Peter Falk routine is definitely getting long in the tooth.

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jefito — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:42:27 -0000

Settle down, Marty. Just because you've reached the top of the Hollywood food chain, that doesn't mean you can leave your drunken rants anywhere you want. Your comments were hurtful and uncalled for, and whenever you finally dry out and reach whichever of the twelve steps requires you to make amends, I expect to receive an apology from you.

And about those houses...fess up, Marty. Peter Tork owned them first, didn't he?

Re: Cutouts Gone Wild!: New Monkees, “New Monkees” (1987)

Marty Ross — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:55:40 -0000

Your music profile of the "music" of New Monkees is completely wrong.I should know as I was one of the "winners", Marty Ross. I chose the songs I sang.Inever acted again. I suck hard at it. However since I was an accomplished musician before the show I continued and have continued in music ever since. I now own two houses in a nicer part of Los Angeles. I can say without a doubt that your "report" on the New Monkees is by far the least educated and most ill prepared report on the admittedly weak subject. Idon't care if you hate the show... the death threats that we recieved during the course of the show were mind numbing enough.... see how long 13 weeks can seem with THAT hanging over your head.....And all of the threats coming from? Lovable Monkees fans!! So next time you want to fire away at me ... give me two or three well known facts about you and let me write a story about you.... BTW Fred Tackett is a SESSION MUSICIAN FOR HIRE.... And No one was "Commisioned". In other news,I gave a concert on classical guitar at University Of Chicago Circle Campus when I was 10. I was very serious . Why take the New Monkee Gig? Would you take a job that paid 12 grand a week being yourself on TV? Where were you? HACK. Can you remain quiet? LOL!

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Blue — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:15:44 -0000

cool page. the downloads are totally out. any possibilty of them working again?

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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:05:29 -0000

this is not the Monkees I know and love... That is show is really fucked up!

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jose — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:50:09 -0000

jared chandler appeared on movies dumbo drop with danny glover, forever young with mel gibson, and worked on many other movies as a military consultant having spent a few years, after the New Monkees, in the military. dino kovas has manage to stay working in tv mainly behind the scenes. nothing worth mentioning. marty ross didn't do much acting after the show, but his band, the wigs appeared on the movie my chufuer, and has done songs for a few movies and tv shows. larry saltis did continue with tower city, making two cd's the first produced by mike slammer. the band changed their name (colorvine) and sound (pop/grunge) to no more comercial secess than the previous discs. he left the music scene around 2004/05.

Re: Cutouts Gone Wild!: New Monkees, “New Monkees” (1987)

Jeff — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:02:16 -0000

"Boy Inside the Man" was a hit in Canada for Tom Cochrane in 1986, and it's still heard a lot on retro stations today. I had no idea there was another version. The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Interestingly, the third comment says "the New Monkees did it better"!

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Spence — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:26:50 -0000

All cool now.