Zilch #38 Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd - Side 2
We discuss Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd - Side 2! We announce our winner in our Zilch Tshirt contest & discuss the top 5 episodes of Zilch as chosen by you! -Ghosty/David Wills sums up PAC&J LTD. We dedicate this episode to Yvonne Craig
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You guys are right on the money about the songs "Hard To Believe" and "Don't Call On Me" sounding very out of place on the album. Both Davy and Mike sound like competing lounge lizards- I wonder if the fact that they share the same birthday has anything to do with it? (Good songs, though.) Also correct on "What Am I Doing Hanging Round?". It does have Nesmith's unmistakable stamp on it. I wonder if he didn't just hand off the credit to his former bandmate as a way of saying thanks. Also, you mentioned that Douglas Dillard played electric banjo on that track. He was best known as a member of the bluegrass-playing Darling Family on the Andy Griffith Show. I guess Mike wanted an "authentic" country feel to the track, even at the risk of pissing Peter off!
Hey, Zilchers, I wanted to be the first to point this out to you. The New York Times TODAY is trying to --- SAVE THE TEXAS PRAIRIE CHICKEN. Once again Nez is 50 years ahead of everybody else. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/the-fight-to-save-a-prairie-chicken.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0
Thank you for your very interesting discussion analysis and views ... am making my way through all your episodes having rediscovered the Monkees after many years .. in fact since the 60s!! As a Monkee and music lover, it teaches me, opens my mind.. adds to my vocab and ways of thinking about their music and all kinds of music, even if I don’t always agree! For example, I love “Hard to Believe” and it completes the album for me .. love hearing a young Davy singing a good ballad and one he wrote.. it’s particularly moving to listen to since he’s passed. He said it was a song he wished got more attention. It’s a mature song for a young man. Don’t know, but perhaps growing up in a home full of classical music, with a father who crooned and then living with guys who were in a rock band, playing a guitar and performing in musicals and singing in acapella groups means I’m so comfortable with ballads, slow or musical numbers and their being mixed in with more up tempo and rock stuff. Thanks again.. in celebration of the Monkees! ��
I'm working my way through the older shows, and this one is a gem. I like the live version you played of Davy doing "Hard To Believe" much more than the studio version!
In live version, his voice and interpretation more mature and fitting to the song am thinking? I like both I must say but live version has more feeling to it ...
You guys are right on the money about the songs "Hard To Believe" and "Don't Call On Me" sounding very out of place on the album. Both Davy and Mike sound like competing lounge lizards- I wonder if the fact that they share the same birthday has anything to do with it? (Good songs, though.) Also correct on "What Am I Doing Hanging Round?". It does have Nesmith's unmistakable stamp on it. I wonder if he didn't just hand off the credit to his former bandmate as a way of saying thanks. Also, you mentioned that Douglas Dillard played electric banjo on that track. He was best known as a member of the bluegrass-playing Darling Family on the Andy Griffith Show. I guess Mike wanted an "authentic" country feel to the track, even at the risk of pissing Peter off!
ReplyDeleteI did not know that about Douglas Dillard
ReplyDeleteTrue. In the words of Briscoe Darling, "Everybody on the truck!"
DeleteHey, Zilchers, I wanted to be the first to point this out to you. The New York Times TODAY is trying to --- SAVE THE TEXAS PRAIRIE CHICKEN. Once again Nez is 50 years ahead of everybody else. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/the-fight-to-save-a-prairie-chicken.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your very interesting discussion analysis and views ... am making my way through all your episodes having rediscovered the Monkees after many years .. in fact since the 60s!! As a Monkee and music lover, it teaches me, opens my mind.. adds to my vocab and ways of thinking about their music and all kinds of music, even if I don’t always agree! For example, I love “Hard to Believe” and it completes the album for me .. love hearing a young Davy singing a good ballad and one he wrote.. it’s particularly moving to listen to since he’s passed. He said it was a song he wished got more attention. It’s a mature song for a young man. Don’t know, but perhaps growing up in a home full of classical music, with a father who crooned and then living with guys who were in a rock band, playing a guitar and performing in musicals and singing in acapella groups means I’m so comfortable with ballads, slow or musical numbers and their being mixed in with more up tempo and rock stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks again.. in celebration of the Monkees! ��
I'm working my way through the older shows, and this one is a gem. I like the live version you played of Davy doing "Hard To Believe" much more than the studio version!
ReplyDeleteIn live version, his voice and interpretation more mature and fitting to the song am thinking? I like both I must say but live version has more feeling to it ...
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