Name the mystery artist

[Kooperman]

I havent found the press conference info--where is the source

Although the source I used was Nesmith-related, this Hendrix source gives the exact date of the press conference/party announcing Nesmith's album.

09-10-70: Park Hotel, Mayfair, London

Jimi attends a party for Mike Nesmith (ex-Monkees)

09-11-70:

Cumberland Hotel, London - Interview by keith Altham forBBC Radio, and Record Mirror - Jimi's final interview

09-15-70: Ronnie Scotts, London

Jimi attends the Eric Burdon & War Concert

09-17-70:

Jimi to meet Mitch and Sly Stone at the Speakeasy in London for a jam, but never turned up.

09-17-70: Samarkland Hotel, London

Jimi writes his last song The Story of Life

09-17-70: Ronnies Scotts Club

Sat in w/ War

Mother Earth, Tobacco Road

09-18-80:

Jimi pronnounced dead, 11:45 am, at St. Mary Abbots Hospital, Kensington. After apparently taking sleeping pills and drinking heavy, Jimi Hendrix died due to inhalation of his own vomit.

09-29-70:

Gerry Stickells flies Jimi's body back from London to Seattle,Washington.

10-01-70:

Jimi buried in Seattle, U.S.A Greenwood Cemetery

http://www.nii.net/~obie/jimi_hendrix_live.htm

[DudeAsInCool]

BINGO!!! It is Michael Nesmith, guitarist for the Monkees. It wasn't suggested that he was British, only that the press conference was held there....and Hendrix never played on the same stage WITH the Monkees.

Actually, they did

Following the festival, the Experience played a short-lived gig as the opening act for pop group The Monkees on their first American tour. The Monkees asked for Hendrix because they were fans, but their mostly teenage audience did not warm to his outlandish stage act and he abruptly quit the tour after a few dates. Chas Chandler later admitted that being "thrown" from The Monkees tour was engineered to gain maximum media impact and publicity for Hendrix. At the time, a story circulated claiming that Hendrix was removed from the tour because of complaints made by the Daughters of the American Revolution that his stage conduct was "lewd and indecent". Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, accompanying the tour, concocted the story. The claim was repeated in Roxon's 1969 Rock Encyclopedia but she later admitted it was fabricated.

[Kooperman]

Actually, they did

Following the festival, the Experience played a short-lived gig as the opening act for pop group The Monkees on their first American tour. The Monkees asked for Hendrix because they were fans, but their mostly teenage audience did not warm to his outlandish stage act and he abruptly quit the tour after a few dates. Chas Chandler later admitted that being "thrown" from The Monkees tour was engineered to gain maximum media impact and publicity for Hendrix. At the time, a story circulated claiming that Hendrix was removed from the tour because of complaints made by the Daughters of the American Revolution that his stage conduct was "lewd and indecent". Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, accompanying the tour, concocted the story. The claim was repeated in Roxon's 1969 Rock Encyclopedia but she later admitted it was fabricated.

But that's not playing WITH the Monkees, only playing on the same bill with them. Hendrix playing on the same stage WITH the Monkees, at that point, would be like Kobe Bryant playing basketball with a 7th grade basketball team.

[DudeAsInCool]

Well, it depends on what your definition of "playing" is My definition would be playing on the same bill (stage), but not at the same time - that would have been hilarious

[DudeAsInCool]

The most interesting thing to me about the Monkees are the songwriters and musicians who wrote for them - Nesmith came in to his own afterwards: curious as to what his best albums are?

Kirshner had the good taste to use some of the best pop songwriters of the period, including Neil Diamond, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Harry Nilsson, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, as well as using top Los Angeles session musicians on the records.

[Warflower]

BINGO!!! It is Michael Nesmith, guitarist for the Monkees. It wasn't suggested that he was British, only that the press conference was held there....and Hendrix never played on the same stage WITH the Monkees.

Nesmith's mother was the inventor of liquid paper, used to white out mistakes in typing back in the old days before computers did that stuff for you. Nesmith inherited the patent for it at his mother's death and sold it for many millions of dollars.

Nesmith is much more than a Monkee though...he thinks way beyond the box, coming up with a unique idea called PopClips, used on the cable channel Nickelodeon, which incorporated video clips of music being played. It was so popular that Nesmith sold the idea of an entire channel devoted to this...you might remember the inception of MTV....Nesmith's idea. Nesmith also branched out into film, as executive producer for the cult hits Repo Man and Tapeheads in the 1980's. He's an ideas and concepts man.

Warflower, I had to howl when you picked Peter Tork...who truly did resemble the mystery artist even more than Nesmith did at that age.

WAY TO GO DUDE!

MICHAEL NESMITH!!! DAMNNNN! Thanks for the honorable mention Koop..LOLLLL

Damn..I was THIS CLOSE! ;)

Edited December 30, 2006 by Warflower

[Warflower]

That was fun...thanks Koop!

[Kooperman]

I'll try to come up with another one soon, but I was struck this time by how much Michael Nesmith had changed facially. I've been a fan of his country rock music, plus some of his 80's and 90's music, for over 30 years....and I wouldn't have recognized him if I met him on the street.

[Warflower]

That would be great.

[moodyblue]

I knew who it was!!! But I didn't see this until today. :(