Micky Dolenz back in the day? Greatest voice on earth. Can I put an MP3 on here? Also? Dreamy. I had such a crush on (the 1960's) him when I was little. Having a crush on someone's past incarnation was tragic, but I guess it's kind of like little girls getting all worked up over horses. You know, investigating things without any danger of, okay, no more posting tonight.
Maybe all of our crushes are on past incarnations. CDeW, if you're reading, I feel like that sentence wants to run away from home and join your blog.
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ME TOO! I can't believe it, I never confessed to my huge (first, other than Speed Racer) crush on him. It was all well and good until one day in my 20's someone invited me to a live production of "Grease" (for reasons I can't remember, I was obligated to go. I remember trying like hell to avoid it), and Mickey Dolenz was Vince Fontaine. And he was OLD and SAD. Imagine the horror.
Now I'm extremely apprehensive about the new Speed Racer moving coming out - what if he, too, has aged ungracefully? For this and other reasons too many to list here, I will NOT be seeing that movie anytime soon.
Right? Young hot men are supposed to turn into old hot men! Isn't that the entire point of being male, that getting old means that you're not considered to be any less attractive?
My first concert was, yes, The Monkees, with my mom, and my first concert T-shirt was one that featured the old face of Micky Dolenz, but apparently that was okay because that was when I was young and love was pure.
Ok, so just last night I spent a lot of time you tubing Led Zeppelin from 1973. I have a huge problem with having a terrible crush on Robert Plant. It's really embarrassing, but those low low jeans with those little half shirts he used to wear, I'm just totally dying for him....but only in 1973. Now he's 60 and he looks like the Lion King's dad with that totally inappropriate frizzy blonde mane. Oh well. I also caught myself having a bit of a thing for the 1973 Jimmy Page, skinny little thing that he was. Yarks.
Re Dolenz's voice, here's a reconstruction of an e-conversation I had years ago with an alt-weekly editor you and I have written on assignment for.
Me: You [in your upcoming Monkees tribute show with one of those bands you're in] should totally cover "Shorty Blackwell", a weird latter-day Mickey song where he sings in great harmonies with some woman in a long epic song that changes keys, tempos, meters, and everything. Mama could sing the high parts.
Him: That's not some other woman, that's Mickey, singing the harmonies with his impossibly high voice.
And that song got so much cooler. Try to find it, it's a gem.
I remember Shorty Blackwell. That's just it - his voice can do anything. Have you heard "Goin' Down?" It's the most perfect thing ever.
I loved the Gothees' cover of "Daily Nightly," another Micky song. Not sure which editor you're talking about, though.
Retrospectively, I wish I'd had a crush on Peter.
Also, I image-Googled, and Robert Plant in 1973? I had no idea (probably mainly because i thought he was Robert Palmer). Can I just say that he looks(ed) just like the guy from the Cape whom I dated last fall, except B. had much shorter (though still goldish, shaggy, curly) hair?
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