{"id":1778,"date":"2008-11-04T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-04T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T16:18:53","slug":"please-delete-me-davey-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-delete-me-davey-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Delete Me: Davy Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KIkCzs6KadI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Quick:<\/em> What&#8217;s <strong>Davy Jones<\/strong>&#8216; best moment with <strong>The Monkees<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><big>&#8230;<\/big><\/p>\n<p>His appearance as himself on <em>The Brady Bunch<\/em> does not count. He wasn&#8217;t appearing as a Monkee, and chances are a stoked <strong>Marcia<\/strong> was doing all the heavy lifting in the appeal that Davy appearance may hold for you to this day.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kxz_JBuyF4I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHonestly, &#8220;Daydream Believer&#8221; is not a bad song &#8211; and this clip from the show is pretty cool in a way that &#8217;60s television imagery is forever burned in our consciousness, but even here, in what may be Davy&#8217;s crowning moment, he manages to bum me out. At <strong>1:42<\/strong>, the second time he launches into his little <strong>Walter Brennan<\/strong> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVYaw5WMEA4&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Cappy<\/a> dance, I begin to feel that urge to delete the guy from The Monkees&#8217; otherwise fine record. However, I&#8217;m willing to write that and even the third appearance of &#8220;The Cappy,&#8221; at the <strong>2:01<\/strong> mark, off to the episode&#8217;s director. <strong>Mickey<\/strong> then tries to save us from the moment of truth at <strong>2:12<\/strong>, moving directly in front of Davy to block him out of possible further damage to the band&#8217;s never-ending struggle for artistic credibility. A fierce battle ensues, one that cannot be masked by band members&#8217; forced smiles. <\/p>\n<p>At <strong>2:34<\/strong>, <strong>Mike<\/strong>, the band&#8217;s patrician leader and guiding light for artistic cred puts an end to the nonsense, suspending his own attempts at nobly playing along with the chords to the song and extending his long arm out to ward off further efforts by Mickey and <strong>Peter<\/strong> at blocking Davy&#8217;s access to the limelight. It&#8217;s a move that speaks to Mike&#8217;s leadership and love for the band he would come to despise. It&#8217;s a move that Mike has surely regretted since then. It&#8217;s a move that likely spelled the beginning of the end of The Monkees. This moment alone is reason enough that Davy Jones should be forever deleted from the record!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick: What&#8217;s Davy Jones&#8216; best moment with The Monkees? &#8230; His appearance as himself on The Brady Bunch does not count. He wasn&#8217;t appearing as a Monkee, and chances are a stoked Marcia was doing all the heavy lifting in the appeal that Davy appearance may hold for you to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}