Keith Moon - After a couple years in The Who, Keith is looking to expand into acting and auditions for The Monkees. Moon was quoted when this story broke "Surely moving up to M from W means more quid in my trousers mate!" He then added "Oye, M and W, it's like 6 and 9 mate!" However, Moon's tenure with the Monkees was fleeting. After drinking during most of the first day of shooting the pilot, Moon became enraged with the constant stammering of a certain Charles Manson. During an altercation, Moon smashed a chair across Manson's head and stormed off the set. Manson was comforted by co-star Morrison who felt that Moon had gone too far.
Harry Nilsson wanted to put together a team that could take on the Beatles. His singing and piano skills got him the job, but he would only perform in a rubber gorilla mask because of stage fright. Young girls speculated that he was so handsome they had to cover his face to give Mickey and Davey a chance at being favorited. The mask started a trend that would take over pop stardom. Tiger Beat featured nothing but dreamboats wearing rubber on their heads. Zebras, Lions, Macaws, until the Beatles donned actual beetle masks. Sales plummeted, and the mask trend died.
I think Harry was still a computer programmer at that time, but thats my story and Im stickin to it.
Edit: Harry released his first album in 1966. It plays.
Karen Carpenter on the drums, Tina Turner as lead vocalist. Tina would push Karen to add faster beats, Karen would mellow Manson. Jim Morrison would convince the band to play 45 minute songs that alternately led audiences to a frenzy, then drugged them into an alternative state.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Maybe with the right musical treatment from the Monkees, his little-known "Constipation Blues" would've hit in more than just Japan (where "the pains of not bein' able to get it out were understood." - SJH)
Morrison and Manson will be joined by Anton Szandor LaVey in the Monkees. Inspired by John Lennon’s claim of the Beatles being bigger than Jesus, they will form a band with the intention of being “better than Jesus”. The plan is to develop records with subliminal signals, developing a truly cult following. The fourth member of the band will be actor Dick York, who found the last couple of years on Bewitched depressingly free of genuine occultism, and joined the Monkees on drums in the hopes of connecting with dark forces.
Their 1966 hit, “I’m a Believer” is specifically decried by Reagan during his gubernatorial race as a corrupting influence on the nation’s youth, primarily due to its clear references to belief in the dark lords of chaos.
In 1968 they relocate their musical cult to a compound in Florida, under the name “The Monks of Key West”, drawing the attention of the FBI…
Ted Bundy, let's make him the lead singer, put him up front cause he's the best looking of my bunch. He's also the only way we're getting groupies. Let's include Pee Wee Gaskins on the electric guitar. Boston Strangler on the bass. And may I also include Ed Gein? He'll bring in his own hand-crafted set of drums. Just don't ask him about the drum skin.
He loses the governor of California election, and no one wants him in their movies anymore. He tries to make his way as a Hank Williams impersonator and stumbles into a gig with the Monkees.
Diana Ross. Picture it.
Samuel L Jackson.
Think of it... The voice... The f-bombs... So many clutched pearls. 🤣
I’m gonna go with Janis Joplin because every band should have a bad ass woman with a killer voice. It makes everything better.
Keith Moon - After a couple years in The Who, Keith is looking to expand into acting and auditions for The Monkees. Moon was quoted when this story broke "Surely moving up to M from W means more quid in my trousers mate!" He then added "Oye, M and W, it's like 6 and 9 mate!" However, Moon's tenure with the Monkees was fleeting. After drinking during most of the first day of shooting the pilot, Moon became enraged with the constant stammering of a certain Charles Manson. During an altercation, Moon smashed a chair across Manson's head and stormed off the set. Manson was comforted by co-star Morrison who felt that Moon had gone too far.
Harry Nilsson wanted to put together a team that could take on the Beatles. His singing and piano skills got him the job, but he would only perform in a rubber gorilla mask because of stage fright. Young girls speculated that he was so handsome they had to cover his face to give Mickey and Davey a chance at being favorited. The mask started a trend that would take over pop stardom. Tiger Beat featured nothing but dreamboats wearing rubber on their heads. Zebras, Lions, Macaws, until the Beatles donned actual beetle masks. Sales plummeted, and the mask trend died.
I think Harry was still a computer programmer at that time, but thats my story and Im stickin to it.
Edit: Harry released his first album in 1966. It plays.
J. Fred Muggs.
Wait wait wait....
TIM CURRY!
Jimmy Buffett and Phil Collins. Jimmy in his Floridays wear, and Phil beating his drum with Raybans!
Karen Carpenter on the drums, Tina Turner as lead vocalist. Tina would push Karen to add faster beats, Karen would mellow Manson. Jim Morrison would convince the band to play 45 minute songs that alternately led audiences to a frenzy, then drugged them into an alternative state.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Maybe with the right musical treatment from the Monkees, his little-known "Constipation Blues" would've hit in more than just Japan (where "the pains of not bein' able to get it out were understood." - SJH)
Huey Lewis and the Monkees - Even if their early worked would be a little too new wave for my taste.
Morrison and Manson will be joined by Anton Szandor LaVey in the Monkees. Inspired by John Lennon’s claim of the Beatles being bigger than Jesus, they will form a band with the intention of being “better than Jesus”. The plan is to develop records with subliminal signals, developing a truly cult following. The fourth member of the band will be actor Dick York, who found the last couple of years on Bewitched depressingly free of genuine occultism, and joined the Monkees on drums in the hopes of connecting with dark forces.
Their 1966 hit, “I’m a Believer” is specifically decried by Reagan during his gubernatorial race as a corrupting influence on the nation’s youth, primarily due to its clear references to belief in the dark lords of chaos.
In 1968 they relocate their musical cult to a compound in Florida, under the name “The Monks of Key West”, drawing the attention of the FBI…
Ted Bundy, let's make him the lead singer, put him up front cause he's the best looking of my bunch. He's also the only way we're getting groupies. Let's include Pee Wee Gaskins on the electric guitar. Boston Strangler on the bass. And may I also include Ed Gein? He'll bring in his own hand-crafted set of drums. Just don't ask him about the drum skin.
And I'm changing the band name to The Munchies.
Ronald Reagan
He loses the governor of California election, and no one wants him in their movies anymore. He tries to make his way as a Hank Williams impersonator and stumbles into a gig with the Monkees.