When I stepped onto Michael Nesmith’s tour bus in Huntington, New York, on Oct. 28, the first thing he did was offer me some weed. I politely declined, as I did every time we sat down together, and asked about his health. The subject had been on my mind ever since I saw him at tour rehearsals early the previous month and was startled to find him gaunt and pale, unable to stand for more than a minute or two at a time.
“Don’t know,” Nesmith said between puffs on his vape pen.
“Don’t know,” Nesmith said between puffs on his vape pen.
- 1/9/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Monkees singer and guitarist Michael Nesmith, a pop visionary who penned many of the group’s most enduring songs before laying the groundwork for country rock with the First National Band in the early Seventies, died Friday from natural causes. He was 78.
“With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said in a statement. “We ask that you respect our privacy at this time and we thank you for the love and...
“With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said in a statement. “We ask that you respect our privacy at this time and we thank you for the love and...
- 12/10/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Most people know Michael Nesmith as the Monkee in the green wool hat who wrote some of their greatest songs (“Listen to the Band,” “Circle Sky”) and sat out most of their reunion tours. Others know him as a businessman who helped inspire the creation of MTV, or as the son of Bette Nesmith Graham, the multi-millionaire inventor of Liquid Paper. What virtually no one knows about Nesmith is that the 75-year-old singer-songwriter, who recently survived a major health scare, is also a die-hard fan of vaporwave music – a fringe...
- 8/22/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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