The Original Pre-Fab Four
This is weird.
I was sitting at my desk working on a column this morning when I got an e-mail from a friend/fellow Creative Loafing freelancer asking me if I’d like to interview and photograph Micky Dolenz on Saturday.
I’m lousy at interviews and I wasn’t planning on covering Dolenz’s concert tomorrow in Woodstock. Nevertheless,it’s not everyday that a non-Yerkes employed Atlantan gets to experiment on a Monkee.
Now I need your help. Help me think of questions to ask Micky Dolenz. Assuming the interview takes place, I’ll ask as many of your questions as I can and post the answers on this page.
I already made this request of a friend and he responded with “Do you know Mike Nesmith’s phone number?” That’ll be pretty hard to top, but I have faith in you all.
All the interesting questions I can think of only have to do with the only interesting Monkee.
So was there a lot of White-Out around the set?
Perhaps get his take on the recent influx of tv shows centered around musicians (american idol, making the band, hit me baby one more time, etc.)… I guess most of those are more “reality”-based than the Monkees show, but it might spark some interesting conversation at least…
“Were they really too busy singing to put anybody down?”
Seriously? Well, if you look at Monkees episodes they’re pretty simple — setup, cute girl, bad guys, joke about Davy’s height, chase, song, climax. Given that Dolenz’s done a lot of directing since then, maybe he can comment on that whole TV-is-more-complicated-now meme. In general I bet he knows a lot about how TV shows get put together.
Less seriously? Okay, how high were they when they made Head?
I trust you will ascertain his position on the creationism vs. Darwinism debate.
When I was a kid, I had a bib-front shirt with two rows of buttons on the front because of Micky. Is it too late to thank him?