Saturday, March 31, 2018

50th Anniversary of the Last Episode

On March 25th, the world heard the final echoes of music from the Monkees TV Show.  The episode called "Mijacogeo" Aka "The Frodis Caper", which is somehow both a reference to Frodo from Lord of the Rings, and also cannibis.

Ironically, the episode starts with the Beatles' "Good Morning, Good Morning" and ends with Tim Buckley's "Song to The Siren".  Running the gamut from first inspirations to where they were at that moment in 1968, a siren song to all the teenagers in America.

You can get a sense of the feelings of the time, should they do something like "Laugh In"? If there was another season, how would the show evolve?  And if they did a movie, what would that be like?  Those and other historical comments can be found at http://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-monkees-final-episode/. 

The music is still echoing, so they must've done something right.