Hold on Forum Monkees, the other Monkees are back.
 
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4915738219001/the-monkees-are-back/?intcmp=hpffo&intcmp=obnetwork#sp=show-clips
 
 

They were jealous obviously.

They only have 50% of their original mebers.
 
We have 33.33% of our original mebers.

That's like 20-40% better, ya?

So there are enough sixty something screaming females out there who remain sufficiently nostalgic about being manipulated by a canned Beatles counterfeit boy band that they are going to shell out enough of their social security checks to keep a couple of the croaking survivors employed doing a pale imitation of their pale imitation original farce?
 
And we old codgers make fun of  the young.
 

Can't be much worse than what the "young" are producing currently anyway... 

IMHO, The Monkees got an undeservedly bad reputation at no real fault of their own. For the most part, others were writing their music but that is not uncommon. They were fighting with the producers about performing on screen and for control of the recordings but were overruled so that aspect was not really their fault either. If nothing else, they were doing the singing in the recordings and backing tracks.
 
I think the real issue is that the public was not aware of all the things when the curtain was pulled back to reveal the people behind the curtain. Most all of what was controversial then happens every day now but is not an issue. Does anyone believe George Clooney wrote and sang "Man of Constant Sorrow"? Same difference in my opinion...

slartabartfast
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And we old codgers make fun of  the young.
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It's not as bad as the clown outfits at YES concerts!

I side with DrLumen about the Monkees. They were better than their reputation, if you see what I mean.

They just happened along at not quite the right time. Ten years earlier or ten years later they'd have seamlessly merged with the other management created acts of the time. But in the mid 1960s the trend was for "serious" bands to be formed by people who wanted to make music together, were often very good musicians or knew how to work effectively within their own limitations and wrote their own repertoire. Though they would hire session musicians as required, just like the Monkees management did.