Monkee Davy Jones, RIP

He was 66. Richard Metzger has more at Dangerous Minds.

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http://twitter.com/fractos Adam Christie

aw :(
http://twitter.com/steve_mayne Steve Mayne

http://www.b3tards.com/u/037e58b9e054b3c8dd7b/byebyedavey.gif
http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce

Now, I’m a believer.
dalgoda7

No Davy Jones, no Pavel Chekov. Also, we’d have “David Jones” instead of “David Bowie”, more than likely.
- freshacconci
  
  And what would Axl Rose have done with himself in videos?
http://profile.yahoo.com/WY75AE4BJSCYINTDUHONRKA2LM JOHN

Now, I’m a bereaver.
http://www.mikezed.com mzed

This monkee’s gone to heaven.
pita

Oh no! Davy Jones was legendary. He did more for tambourine playing than Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston did for pop music combined.
- Mikey
  
  Second greatest tambourine player of all time.
- Preston Sturges
  
  He was right up there with Mick Jagger.
Guest

This is a day that I am sad.
Guest

Great photograph.
- Preston Sturges
  
  He was “the cute one.”
petsounds

RIP, Davy. 66 is always too young, but I guess you could also say he had a fuller life than most. Certainly not my favorite Monkees member, and couldn’t write or play his way out of a paper bag, but had a good voice and seemed like a nice enough guy.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A3XRNHNAD3ZB6HY7T43BQVP2NQ Crunt
  
  I’d have to agree with all of that. I like most of the Monkees music they did or didn’t write, but although Davey was a lightweight, he always seemed like a nice enough guy. AND he once kissed Marcia Brady.
Preston Sturges

I saw their movie “Head” a couple months ago. I was expecting a real train wreck, but it was pretty good. Of course it was a bit loopy, but they put quite a bit of money into the project, it had a good director, and a “script” by Jack Nicholson.

Here’s Davie Jones and Frank Zappa (as a music critic) in “Head.”

http://youtu.be/ZPQpsipHKU8
- Donald Petersen
  
  I had occasion to work on a Bob Rafelson movie once. It was kind of hard to believe that he was the same guy who directed and co-wrote Head. Kind of a sourpuss.
Marble River

A little bit me, a little bit you.