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Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

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Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

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Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

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I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

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Every country has it trade offs.

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Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

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Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.

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At that time, I never gave getting older a second thought. Now I am thinking twenty-years in advance. I have a twenty-year plan.

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I like to listen the blues and some classical.

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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

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The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.

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The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

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Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

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Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

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Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

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Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

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Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

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Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

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I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

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I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

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I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

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I got on with the Byrds much better. I was in Greenwich Village with Roger McGuinn, of The Byrds, we used to smoke and hang out.

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