the night i bought micky dolenz a beer
Release Date: 1/10
Album: HELLO CLEVELAND
Writer: ADAM MARSLAND
Lyrics:
Sittin' at the bar at Jack's Sugar Shack
Got a long ponytail running down his back
Drinkin' a beer and nursing a grudge
A pop star in hiding and he wouldn't budge!
The night I bought Micky Dolenz a beer
The night I bought Micky Dolenz a beer
I wanted to say that the critics were wrong
I wanted to say I love "The Porpoise Song"
I wanted to say that Kirschner's a tool
My favorite movie was "Head"
"The Frodis Caper" was cool
The night I bought Micky Dolenz a beer
The night I bought Micky Dolenz a beer
I slapped him on the back and said "let me get you a beer"
Then he turned to his friend and said "let's get out of here"
The bartender smiled and gave me the bill
Just another ex-Monkee with time to kill
The night I bought Micky Dolenz a beer
The night I bought Micky Dolenz a beer
Adam sez:
As soon as the title of this song was announced (though the idea for the song has been around for a long time, as noted in the blog for "What The World Needs Now Is a Good Deus Ex Machina"), everyone wanted to know, "Did you really meet Micky Dolenz?" To which my reply is, "who cares?" If the song were a movie, it would have the tag line "inspired by real events." But I never bought Micky Dolenz a beer. I did, however, get to play a really disastrous gig at NAMM with the Wrecking Crew with him and Peter Tork in the audience. So I may have had Micky Dolenz throw a beer at me.
The point of the song, which probably isn't immediately obvious, is that Micky Dolenz should be allowed to drink a beer in peace without a fan boy coming up to him and talking about something he did 40 years ago that he's now sick of talking about. When we did a gig with Peter Tork in 2008 I personally witnessed him graciously handling one of the rudest and most socially clueless interviewers I have ever seen, who went on endlessly about...well, the same old shit. I felt deeply, deeply sorry for the dude. I personally think Micky Dolenz had one of the finest voices of the '60s and deserves a hell of respect. He also, as does any human being regardless of how famous, deserves to live his own life the way he sees fit.