Andrew..any chance the pre-Monkees recordings of Michael Nesmith will ever make it to CD ? He did record some for Colpix.

I second that - I would love to hear any of those recordings!

I'd love to hear this,as well...I've only heard his version of Buffy Saint-Marie's "Until It's Time For You To Go",but only a sliver (It was on the Videocassette of "Hey,Hey We're The Monkees"-it was taken from "The Lloyd Thaxton Show"),but it sparked my interest! Michael Boyce

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One of his pre-Monkees songs appeared on Rhino's "The Colpix-Dimension Story" CD, along with a pre-Monkees Davy Jones song, however it wasn't representative of his pre-Monkees material, and I thought it was a shame that they chose that particular song. The song included was "The New Recruit" along with Davy's "What Are We Going to Do?". The Jones cut was good, but not Nesmith's.

Don't forget that Nesmith also recorded some songs during this period that would later become Monkees songs, like "Don't Call On Me" and "All the King's Horses"-too bad that these couldn't have been included on the Deluxe Editions.

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Originally posted by ilovethemonkees:
I'd love to hear this,as well...I've only heard his version of Buffy Saint-Marie's "Until It's Time For You To Go",but only a sliver (It was on the Videocassette of "Hey,Hey We're The Monkees"-it was taken from "The Lloyd Thaxton Show"),but it sparked my interest! Michael Boyce

Speaking of "Hey, Hey We're the Monkees", I wish that would get a decent release on DVD (NOT The import garbage!)

There's also the official Japanese bootleg import: "Monkey Solo Recordings' that collects all the pre-solo releases.

You could probably find a copy on ebay or www.eil.com

I have "Monkey Solo Recordings" and it does not have all of Mike's pre-Monkees recordings. It omits "Wanderin'", "Well, Well" & "How Can You Kiss Me." It also doesn't have his pre-Monkees album he did with the group The Trinity River Boys. It would be nice to have all of that on a CD.

I didn't know that Nez did stuff with Trinity River boys!


I know that John London owned some stuff, and some stuff has circulated. There was the Belivin In Daydreams Bootleg set as Solo Sessions, Witcha Bootleg that had some rare early Nez pre-solo stuff as well.

Yes, John London had a lot of stuff that would have been awesome to hear. Early recordings of him and Nez, well before the Monkees. Too bad that stuff may never be released, now. Well, I say never. I wonder what it would take. First, who owns the tapes now that John London has passed away?

Some stuff has popped up on ebay, and some home recordings of Nez just talking into a tape recorder. I wonder where those came from?!?

Really? I ought to check Ebay more often. Those would be awesome to hear.

You have to check often and everyday, as some of them get pulled, I'd imagine for legal reasons or sometimes the seller not getting the reserve price.

I'll be looking for that. Who knows? I may find the original masters to 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee. I heard they were stolen several years ago.

That's interesting, I heard they never turned up, went missing. But stolen?

And who/why? Their populaitry was on the wan by then!