by Robert Wilkinson Today we celebrate the birthday of the pioneering genius of country rock who has given us laughs, a lot of truly great songs, and THE original prototypical music video, Elephant Parts. When he died a year ago I felt like I lost a friend I’ve known for 50 years. Today we have some really fantastic videos for our concert, so let’s begin the party early! Michael Nesmith (30 December 1942 at 11:59 am, Houston, TX – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, media pioneer, and philanthropist. Yes, Papa Nez wore many hats in his extraordinarily creative life! He was of course the "serious Monkee" who actually played his instrument (as did Peter Tork) and wrote a bunch of their better songs, like "Papa Gene's Blues," "Mary Mary," "The Kind of Girl I Could Love," "You Just May Be The One," "You Told Me," "Daily Nightly," "Tapioca Tundra,...