{"id":12431,"date":"2012-03-02T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2012-03-02T07:04:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:04:34","slug":"imagine-the-monkees-double-album-with-a-side-dedicated-to-each-band-members-personal-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/imagine-the-monkees-double-album-with-a-side-dedicated-to-each-band-members-personal-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine The Monkees&#8217; Double Album, With a Side Dedicated to Each Band Members&#8217; Personal Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMrMSfWLpbw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Check out this <em>Head<\/em>-era <strong>Monkees<\/strong> interview with longtime Philadelphia DJ <strong>Hy Lit<\/strong>. At the 4:07 mark, <strong>Mike Nesmith<\/strong> starts talking about the band&#8217;s next album, a proto-KISS solo album concept, in which each Monkee leads a side of a double album through his personal musical vision. <strong>Mickey Dolenz<\/strong> joins in with a note about his interest in electronic music and his Moog synthesizer, which goes way over Lit&#8217;s head. Soon after <strong>Peter Tork<\/strong> starts calling for an end to the interview. The late <strong>Davy Jones<\/strong> looks really cute.<\/p>\n<p>Rock Town Hall asks you to imagine the track listing, in descriptive terms, including sequencing and real and\/or imagined song titles, for this planned double album.<\/p>\n<p>If you can manage any of that challenge, how would your Monkees double-album concept release have stacked up against the KISS solo albums?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this Head-era Monkees interview with longtime Philadelphia DJ Hy Lit. At the 4:07 mark, Mike Nesmith starts talking about the band&#8217;s next album, a proto-KISS solo album concept, in which each Monkee leads a side of a double album through his personal musical vision. Mickey Dolenz joins in with a note about his <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/imagine-the-monkees-double-album-with-a-side-dedicated-to-each-band-members-personal-vision\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}