These have been up for a while, but the official Monkees site has three great podcasts featuring Mike Nesmith being interviewed by Rhino’s Chief Monkees Officer, Andrew Sandoval. The best one is Part 2, wherein Nez talks about the band’s insane 1969 tour with a funk group (Sam & The Goodtimers) as their backing band. There are even a couple of lo-fi audio clips from bootlegs: almost unlistenably poor quality, but still, it’s the Holy Grail for Monkees freaks.

• An Interview with Michael Nesmith, Part One (17.11 MB)

• An Interview with Michael Nesmith, Part Two (12.5 MB)

• An Interview with Michael Nesmith, Part Three (19.7 MB)

Nez is awesome.

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