The Monkees

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地区: United States of America 美国

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门基乐队创作了很多世界知名的歌曲，现在仍能不时作为怀旧流行乐听到。包括 "(Theme From) The Monkees", "Last Train to Clarksville", "I'm a Believer", "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", "Pleasant Valley Sunday" 以及"Daydream Believer"。他们的专辑跟单曲已经在全球售出了售出了6500万张。

组合成员

Davy Jones(主唱、吉他、手鼓、沙球)、Micky Dolenz（鼓手、主唱）、Peter Tork（贝斯、键盘、主唱）、Michael Nesmith（吉他、主唱），到2012年，乐队还剩下了前三位。

经历

门基乐队是一只美国本土乐队，由四人组成，于二十世纪60年代兴起，最初，乐队成员是应一则电视广告走到一起的。电视制作人想寻找四位很活跃又很会演奏的乐手。他们在报上登了广告，想招摇滚乐手，但是只招到一位符合条件的——也就是后来的乐队主唱弗雷迪。乐队的其他人只能用演员，演员不会唱，因此起初演节目时由别的歌手唱歌，而乐队其他成员假唱。门基乐队开始每个星期都要演唱由别的音乐家作的一两首歌曲。然而，经过大约一年，门基乐队逐渐对他们的工作严肃起来，他们像一支真正的乐队开始用自己的乐器演奏，并且自己作词作曲了。后来他们还出了自己的唱片，并开始旅行演出自己的乐曲。门基乐队虽然有模仿“甲壳虫乐队”的意思，但他们甚至比“甲壳虫”乐队还要受欢迎，出售的录音专辑还要多。他们在英国的旅行演出同样获得了巨大成功，英国的年轻人也开始对The monkees变得疯狂然而，门基乐队在1970年左右解散了，到80年代中期才又重组起来。1996年他们出了一张新的专辑，庆祝他们一起合作的愉快时光。

1967年，在一档儿童表演节目中演出的4个没有名气的年轻人，成为了全球最受欢迎的流行乐乐队。在美国，他们的唱片销量超过了猫王和甲壳虫乐队。他们就是——顽童合唱团！但是顽童合唱团不是一个真正的乐队，他们是一台被个性和雄心驱动的人造赚钱机器，最终陨落、消失了。这部纪录片讲述的是流行音乐乐坛第一个产业化乐队的内幕故事。这个四人组合是第一个产业化的流行乐队，凭借辐射很广的电视节目和朗朗上口的流行歌曲，他们至今还吸引了一批崇拜者。

甚至日前的门基乐队（THE MONKEES）还被收录到了高中英语课本里面当作课文了。2010年，香港电影《岁月神偷》使用门基乐队的“I wanna be free”作为电影插曲，很好地烘托了电影的气氛。

Formed primarily for the purpose of starring in a television series, the Monkees were on one hand a cynically manufactured group, devised to cash in on the early Beatles success by applying the most superficial aspects of the British Invasion formula to capture a preteen audience. On the other hand, they werent devoid of musical talent, and at their best managed to craft some enduring pop/rock hits. Im a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville, A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Stepping Stone, Take a Giant Step, Valleri, Words — all were pleasantly jangling, harmony rock numbers with hooks big enough for a meat locker, and all were huge hits in 1966-1968. Scorned at their peak by hipsters for not playing on many of their own records, the group gained some belated critical respect for their catchy, good-time brand of pop. It would be foolish to pretend, however, that they were a band of serious significance, despite the occasional genuinely serious artistic aspirations of the members.

The Monkees were the brainchild of television producers Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson, who decided to emulate the zany, madcap humor of the Beatles A Hard Days Night for the small screen. In September 1965, they placed in ad in Variety for four folk & rock musicians to appear in a TV series. Over 400 applied for the job, including Stephen Stills and Harry Nilsson, but as it turned out only one of the four winners, guitarist and songwriter Michael Nesmith, actually saw the ad. Micky Dolenz (who would play drums), Davy Jones (who would sing), and Peter Tork (bass) found out about the opportunity from other sources. Nesmith and Tork had experience in the folk scene; Dolenz and Jones were primarily actors (although Nesmith and Jones had already made some obscure solo recordings).

From the outset, it was made clear that the Monkees were hired to be television actors first and musicians a distant second. There would be original material generated for them to sing in the series, mostly by professional songwriters like Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Neil Diamond. There would be records, as well — had to be, with that kind of weekly exposure, to promote the tunes — but the group wouldnt do much more than sing, although the series would give the impression that they played their own instruments.

The TV show was a big hit with young audiences between 1966 and 1968, with slapstick comedy, super-fast editing, and thin plots that could be banded together by almost surreal humor. It wasnt A Hard Days Night, but it was, in its way, innovative relative to the conventions of television at the time. The irony was that, by the time the series debuted in September 1966, the Beatles themselves had just released Revolver, and had evolved way beyond their mop-top phase into psychedelia.

Also in September 1966, the Monkees debut single Last Train to Clarksville became their first big hit, reaching number one, as did the follow-up, Im a Believer. They were quickly one of the most popular acts in the business, yet they were not allowed to play anything on most of their first records, only to sing; the instruments would be handled by session players. This was particularly hard for Mike Nesmith, a serious musician and songwriter, to swallow, although he did manage to place a few of his own tunes on their records from the start.

Eventually the Monkees revealed that they didnt play on most of their own records, and Nesmith in particular incited the group to wrest control of their recordings into their own hands. Partly to deflect criticism of the group as nothing more than puppets, and partly to effect control over their musical destiny (some of their early recordings had been packaged and released without their consent), the Monkees did indeed play and write much of the music on their third album, Headquarters (1967), with a lot of help from producer Chip Douglas. It didnt prove the band to be hidden geniuses, in fact sounding not much different from their previous releases, but as a hard-won victory to establish their own identity, it was a major point of pride. They would continue, however, to rely upon industry songwriters for the rest of their hit singles, and frequently employ session musicians throughout the rest of their career.

Despite the questions surrounding their musical competence, the Monkees did tour before live audiences. They made their own contribution to rock history by enlisting Jimi Hendrix, then barely known in the U.S., as an opening act for a 1967 tour; Hendrix lasted only a few shows before everyone agreed that the combination was a mismatch (to put it mildly). But the Monkees were always a lot hipper personally than many assumed from their bubblegum packaging. Their albums are strewn with rather ambitious, even mildly psychedelic, cuts, some rather successful (Porpoise Song, Nesmiths Circle Sky), some absolutely awful. In 1968, they gained their freak credentials with the movie Head, a messy, indulgent, occasionally inspired piece of drug-addled weirdness that was co-written and co-produced by Jack Nicholson (before he had broken through to stardom with Easy Rider).

By 1968, the Monkee phenomenon was drawing to a close. The shows final episode aired in March 1968, and Head, released in November, was not a commercial success, confusing the teenyboppers and confounding the critics (not many people saw it to begin with in any case). Surprisingly, it was not Nesmith, but Tork who was the first to leave the group, at the end of 1968. They carried on as a trio, releasing a couple of fairly dismal albums in 1969, as well as producing a little-seen TV special. By the end of the 60s, Nesmith — who had established his credentials as a songwriter with Different Drum, which was taken into the Top 20 by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys — was also gone, to start a lengthy solo career that finally allowed him to stretch out as a serious artist. That left only Dolenz and Jones, who fulfilled the Monkees contract with the pointless Changes in 1970.

When enough years separated the music from the hype, the Monkees underwent a critical rehab of sorts, as listeners fondly remembered their singles as classy, well-executed, fun pop/rock. That led to a predictable clamor for a reunion, especially after their albums were reissued to surprisingly swift sales in the mid-80s, and their series was rerun on MTV. Nesmith was having none of it; by this time he was a respected and hugely successful music video mogul with his Pacific Arts company. The other three did reunite to tour and record a predictably horrendous album, Pool It! (Nesmith did join them once on-stage in 1989). Rhino has treated the Monkee catalog with a respect usually accorded for Charlie Parker outtakes, reissuing all of their original albums on CD with added unreleased/rare bonus tracks, and even assembling a box set.

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