![]() ![]() The Monkees were a source of joy for at least three generations. He was still a Monkee, and they wouldn’t have been the same back in the day without him. It’s small consolation that Davy was actually my least favorite Monkee. I choose to write about what the Monkees mean to me. Good thing there was this charming man at the bar with me, one who kissed me later in the evening for the first time and set me on the road to marriage 5 and a half years later…īut anyway. I silently wept from my usual perch on the stairs. Simon and Sid played “Four Seasons in One Day”. I heard the news via a friend’s text message, while hanging out at Renee’s Courtyard Cafe, at the time my Sunday night tradition. He was found hanging from a tree, a suicide. He had apparently been battling depression, and depression won. Hester was the ex-drummer for Crowded House. The last time a musician died that I loved this much, it was when Paul Hester passed away in 2005. That’s when you will find me curled up in the fetal position in the corner, clutching a bottle of Bushmills. (Cue the Flaming Lips’s “Do You Realize?”.) Most of the artists I love are all around the same age, meaning that Michael Stipe, Bono, and Neil Finn could all leave this world around the same time. The better half and I talk about this concept a lot: every band we love will break up someday. ![]() ![]() Right now, there is simply too much love. I sat at the computer tonight with every intention of writing a tidy “In Memoriam” post…but it ain’t happening. (The uninitiated can read about my quest to see them in concert last summer here.) Davy being the youngest of the Monkees, I never for a minute thought that he’d be the first one to go. Also, if you read this blog you likely know me, so you know how much I positively adore the Monkees. This is all hitting too close to home.īy this point, if you read this blog you have likely already heard that Davy Jones of the Monkees passed away, felled by a massive heart attack at the relatively young age of 66. ![]()
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