Im live here in philadelphia live from mcgillins. A history making speech from Hillary Clinton. Our founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together. America needs every one of us to lenned our energy, our talents our ambition to making our nation better and stronger. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Our countrys motto is out of many, we are one. We will defend all our rights, civil rights, human rights and voting rights, womens rights and workers rights. Lgbt rights and the rights of people with disabilities. You have to keep working to make things better, even when the odds are long and the opposition is fierce. You know, Hillary Clinton was proving, you dont get in trouble for quoting somebody else if you give the footnote. She threw in fdr there. You have to throw that in there. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. That would have been a problem. I have to tell you how glad were here in philly and [ cheers and applause ] i grew up here, i follow
Berniece Gertrude Broihahn, age 94, of Madison, formerly of Platteville, Wisconsin, passed away peacefully on January 2, 2023, at All Saints Assisted Living of Madison.
Former Monkee Michael Nesmith died last week at the age of 78. Variety has a good obituary by Chris Morris as well as Morris s sidebar based on an interview with manager Andrew Sandoval. Nesmith s death prompted John s tribute to the Monkees. John linked to Andy Greene s Rolling Stone obituary. John s appreciation of the group made me pause to think about Nesmith s long career in music. Taking advantage of John appreciation
have control early on when they started. it was nesmith who led the charge and said, we want to participate on our own records, we want to write our own songs and play on them, and that was a real significant moment for the band. they broke away from don kershner, their original svengali producer, their auteur kind of guy, and went off on their own for a couple of years. nesmith was a real driving force behind the monkees having their own voice as a recording band. often when people think of the monkees, they think of them as being quite fun, they didn t really play by the rules in those days. but he would say maybe they were not too cohesive, they were not really a band, didn t have any kind of cause and they were sort of thrown together? yes, it was an interesting thing. they were actors, in a way, cast to play a rock band. then they became one as the time went on. kind of the exact opposite of what most bands do.
and significant he thought michael nesmith was on the 60s pop music scene. you know, he was very influential in terms of, he was, i guess you could call him the serious monkee. the monkees were seen as a disposable pop group, in a way, but nesmith was one of the guys in the band who wrote a lot of his own songs, he was the kind of quality control guy in that group. so that was a really important role in that band at the time. you say quality control and one of the serious guys, he was also a bit of a tour de force regarding the creative control, right? right, they did not have control early on when they started. it was nesmith who led the charge and said, we want to participate on our own records, we want to write our own songs and play on them, and that was a real significant moment for the band. they broke away from don kershner, their original svengali producer, their auteur kind of guy, and went off on their own for a couple of years.