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Mark Frauenfelder at 12:07 pm Wed, Feb 29, 2012

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

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000335676462 Mona Tara Morgan

    The porpoise is waving goodbye, goodbye!

  • 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.