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Mike Nesmith's Psychedelic Thanksgiving Dinner [Highlight From Episode 292] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Greenfield is the author of My Journey to Blue Sky.
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask about Thanksgiving dinner with Mike Nessmith
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  Speaker 1: of the Monkeys, and what was on Netsmith's tray of
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving treats that took you by surprise. We will finish
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  Speaker 1: with this story.
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  Speaker 2: Another wonderful guy. I was vi to his house with
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving dinner. Him was nineteen sixty eight Thanksgiving and he
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  Speaker 2: was in the Monkeys. Sort of the TV show is over,
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  Speaker 2: but they still toured. So I go to his house
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  Speaker 2: and we drive up the driveway and there's a big
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  Speaker 2: sign by his mansion do not leave car and attend it.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a German shepherd running around the car parking
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  Speaker 2: that was bigger than a building. Mike comes out, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the puzzles that must be shared. He was
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  Speaker 2: wearing his green monkey too Thanksgiving. That's just something I've
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  Speaker 2: never asked him. He took it off for a while,
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  Speaker 2: but he wore when he greeted us, and he spoke
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  Speaker 2: the dog in German and the dark sat down and
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  Speaker 2: we got out of the car and we had dinner,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought it was his wife, but at Washington
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  Speaker 2: was his his living girlfriend, Joanne. He wrote a great song.
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  Speaker 2: Her name was Joanne, Beautiful song, his best song. And
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  Speaker 2: we've had dinner, which was turkey and broccoli and pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: pie and very nice America everywhere America, salt and pepper
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  Speaker 2: shakers with red, white and blue stripes. Everything was nice.
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  Speaker 2: And then Mike was drinking wine and beer, and my
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  Speaker 2: friend Pete, who drove me there was a DJ in America,
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  Speaker 2: was drinking wine and beer, and I was drinking tea
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  Speaker 2: and coffee. And then we go into the living room
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  Speaker 2: and in walks Joanne with a proper English tray, a
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  Speaker 2: wide one. Will you hold the handles like this where
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  Speaker 2: you put the teapot in the cups and you go
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  Speaker 2: for English tea. But there was no tea on the tray,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no cups, there's no sources. It was like
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  Speaker 2: lines of pills, different colored pills, and a hash pie
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  Speaker 2: and a chunk of hash and I don't know eight
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember ten pills, maybe six of each, maybe more,
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  Speaker 2: but lined up by someone who's like add like they
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  Speaker 2: had to do it properly in the right space. I
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  Speaker 2: noticed all about shit and he put it down and
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  Speaker 2: Mike said, in his quote, it's time for dessert, gentlemen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Pete said, no, no from me, how to stick to beer.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, I could have another cup of coffee please.
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  Speaker 2: Another couple and they lit the pipe. And even though
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  Speaker 2: I didn't smoke pot or hashback then, I just always
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  Speaker 2: loved the smell. It was never like an offensive smell
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  Speaker 2: to me. So they were yeh room, just filled the
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  Speaker 2: mountain roof smell. And I learned later, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: it's true that night that you get contact eyes. So
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  Speaker 2: I was high and there was a lot of hash moke.
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  Speaker 2: They get filling the pipe and then they take a
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  Speaker 2: peak pill and they discuss it. It was so weird,
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  Speaker 2: and I described it in the Book of Thing, like
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  Speaker 2: two Italian chefs list something a Portuguese cheft. Well, if
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  Speaker 2: we take and they knew the names. If we take
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  Speaker 2: I'm making these names up. If we take andropleine and
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  Speaker 2: melolene and wait ten minutes and then take a doula data,
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  Speaker 2: it should be great. Oh, she takes an aropline and melopene,
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  Speaker 2: and then ten minutes later this add lady takes the doudla.
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  Speaker 2: But they never really got stupid. They just were normally.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Stone and he was so nice. And so
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  Speaker 2: they did a lot of drugs. I didn't do any
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  Speaker 2: he did a lot of drugs. And then Mike brings
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  Speaker 2: out two guitars and he said, play me something. So
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  Speaker 2: I played in New York's clothes tonight and he played
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  Speaker 2: me different drum and he played me Joanne, and he
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  Speaker 2: played me some monkey songs and it went on for
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  Speaker 2: an hour and a half. Then I taught him some
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  Speaker 2: I remember. I told him how to play play with fire,
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  Speaker 2: the Stone song e Minor d c Affy. He was
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  Speaker 2: really happy to learn that. And then Peter fell asleep
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  Speaker 2: on the couch because he passed out. Joanne disappeared hours earlier.
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  Speaker 2: She was borne on her on her own private high
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  Speaker 2: tied of talking about the Beatles and the Kings and
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  Speaker 2: the Stones and the Hollies and the foremost. And me
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  Speaker 2: and Mike went out to the pool and we were
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  Speaker 2: dressed in our clothes. Who weren't going simming. It was
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  Speaker 2: eleven o'clock and he had two speaker chairs in there.
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  Speaker 2: And Eric had never been to see love in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: No, well it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not anymore if it ever goes anywhere. It's beautiful, but
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  Speaker 2: it has a chair you sit in with the left
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  Speaker 2: speaker and the right speaker, and the music George Martin
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  Speaker 2: did for the Love Mix as it comes through, blows
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  Speaker 2: your mind. I had my eyes clills and even watch
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  Speaker 2: sirt the solatises and music most time. So we had
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  Speaker 2: these two speakers and he was raving about Paperback Writer,
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  Speaker 2: and he played Payperack Writer the single over and over
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  Speaker 2: and over again through these two speakers twenty times, twenty
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  Speaker 2: five times, and he kept them raving about Paul McCartney's
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  Speaker 2: base and Paul McCartney's bass had been recorded differently for
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  Speaker 2: the very first time on Rain and paper Writing. It's
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  Speaker 2: gone through an amplifier. And he kept on raving, and
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  Speaker 2: he kept saying how shit the monkeys were and how
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  Speaker 2: much he hated their music, and how he was going
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  Speaker 2: to go tomorrow to San Francisco and come back with
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  Speaker 2: ten grand and how he didn't deserve it. And I
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  Speaker 2: left at two in the morning after having the most
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  Speaker 2: pleasant evening with a very talented man.