Monkees singer’s wife guilty in $137,000 fraud

[Robeysays]

Source: MSN

NEW YORK - The wife of Monkees vocalist Micky Dolenz pleaded guilty Friday to charges that she defrauded a public housing program in New York City.

Authorities in the city's Department of Investigation said Donna Quinter, 54, illegally received $136,866 in government rental subsidies for an apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The subsidies were supposed to go to middle-income families who were in danger of being forced out of a rent-regulated apartment building that was being converted into luxury condominiums.



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Same douche who enterained the teabaggers if you rememeber... They're all the same, republicans = crimminals.

[hlthe2b]

1. Micky Dolenz is a Repug? Really?

Well, that is disturbing...

[Robeysays]

7. i was born in 87, so i don't know him very well...

but i know he was the best they could get, that and the nuge, but he sucks anyway too.

[GReedDiamond]

10. Dolenz "headlined" a July 4th Tea Bagger event in Texas...

...which was discussed here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=180&topic_id=58655&mesg_id=58682

Organizers expected a crowd of 50,000, actual attendance was reported to be 7500.

[Ken Burch]

16. Which begs another question:

If Charles Manson had passed the NBC audition and been cast in The Monkees, would HE be headlining teabagger events today?

(Or does that explain why they've been shouting "Helter Skelter" at the town hall meetings?)

[dflprincess]

42. Snopes says that isn't true

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/monkees.asp

Manson was in prison from 1961 to 1967.

This is very disappointing about Dolenz. I wonder if I can get my money back for that concert I went to in 1967.

[Ken Burch]

45. What you ought to do is to ask for the equivalent value of the ticket in today's dollars.

You'd come out with a significant profit.

[dflprincess]

49. I could make a nice profit on that

in 1965 my ticket to the Beatles concert cost $5.50 (and that was the highest price ticket).

Last time McCartney was in town I think his tickets were like $250 or so. My mom wondered if I were going to that and I said I'd hardly pay that price for one Beatle when 4 only cost $5.50.

[CountAllVotes]

20. my gawd

:wow:
I was madly in love with Mickey Dolenz when I was a teeny bopper! :rofl:

I even had the great luck of owning a little piece of his hair!

Glad I threw that damn thing away years ago (I swear I did, I swear it!). :rofl:

:dem: :kick: ;)

[shanti]

44. lol

mickey was my favorite monkee too:). too bad he turned out to be a jerk.

(i remember when the teen magazines had contests to win a lock of hair from a pop star. i wanted to win mark lindsay's ponytail!)

native californian of 53 years :hi:

[DesertDiamond]

50. Make sure you did, young lady! ;-) (j/k) Fortunately Davey Jones was my favorite...

and thank goodness he's not a repug, at least not as far as I've heard. I'd be so bummed if it turned out he was! I was in love with him for years!

[mwb970]

31. Very disappointed to read this.

What's wrong with him?

[Deja Q]

27. Not every musician and actor from the late 1960s is a Democrat.

That, or maybe something changed their lives (not necessarily money) and changed their ideologies.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

29. "... changed ..."?

Perhaps they're simply children of privilege who just adopted the beliefs with which they grew up. Life-long Republicans.

Never confuse long hair with liberalism.......................

[Ken Burch]

58. "Never confuse long hair with liberalism"

As THESE guys remind us:

[MaineDem]

38. You're not insinuating the Monkees were musicians, are you?

Ah, actors.

:)

[GReedDiamond]

46. Michael Nesmith is/was an accomplished musician...

...producer, music video pioneer; and also, Peter Tork could actually play guitar. He used to give guitar lessons back in the 80s in the Los Angeles area.

Mickey Dolenz had been a child actor on teevee ("Elephant Boy" I think), but he hung out with "real" musicians like Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield, and may have actually learned how to play the "Monkees" songs on drums (not an insurmountable goal, speaking as a drummer, imo.) They (the fake Monkees) apparently did play live. As another poster points out, Jimi Hendrix opened for them.

[Buns_of_Fire]

52. I think it was "Circus Boy" that Mickey Dolenz was in.

Mike was always my favorite one, anyway. I remember working my little uncoordinated fingers to the bone to get the beginning of "Pleasant Valley Sunday" correct until my half-sister's husband finally showed me the "easy" way to do it (not that I could do it today, easy OR flashy).

Ah, young and innocent days. Lucy and Ramona, crusin' through the jungles of L.A....

[Ken Burch]

56. Or even progressive and antiracist

Witness Eric Clapton's support for racist UK politician Enoch Powell.

On a different note(not quite as horrible as that last one, but still weird) Melanie(the "Candles In The Rain/Brand New Key" Melanie) now calls herself a Libertarian.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. She got FIVE DAYS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE????

Are you kidding me?

She wrote a check for the scammed amount, pled guilty, and got that sentence?

What a joke......................

[Ian David]

3. They should deport her on the last train to Clarksville. n/t

[WriteDown]

6. Wheres a rimshot when you need it. nt

[Ken Burch]

12. Here you go...

[Wilms]

26. Keep one in your bookmarks.

You never know when you may need one.

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

[wickerwoman]

53. Just keep her out of Davey Jones' locker...

:P

[Ken Burch]

60. Y'know, Davey really didn't age well after the group broke up

[Robeysays]

8. i know? right?

god damnit something is wrong with our justice system.

[Ken Burch]

17. Also, who knew Mickey Dolenz still HAD $137,000 to cover that check?

I mean, other than the teabagger thing, has Mickey had any gigs since 1969?

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. He became a TV producer after that

and, depending on the deal they got for The Monkees, that might make him pretty rich.

[Ken Burch]

19. That explains the Republicanism, then. Producers are management.

n/t.

[truthisfreedom]

24. Oh for crissakes.

Just stop.

[Ken Burch]

25. What? You're touchy about Mickey Dolenz all of a sudden?

:eyes:

[Demeter]

4. Gives a New Interpretation to Band on the Run, Doesn't It?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Uh -

"Band On The Run" was by Paul McCartney and Wings.

Many years after the Monkees disappeared.......................

[Robeysays]

9. i was just about to mention that.

that that wings was any good either.

[Ken Burch]

15. Is it true that Paul McCartney was in another band BEFORE Wings?

Did it ever record or anything?

That must mean he's really, really, REALLY OLD or something.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

32. Wings were great

The Monkees were great, but Mickey Dolenz is obviously a douchebag. What a disappointment.

[tabasco]

37. "The Monkees were great."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

They faked playing the instruments.

[GReedDiamond]

41. Not entirely correct...

...yes, they were mostly only singing (but not playing the instruments) on "their" (The Monkees) records, cuz the record label preferred to use session musicians, as was the big record label custom very often back in the early to mid-sixties.

For example, Carol Kaye is one of the most prolific and pervasive (if not THE most of either/both) bass (and sometimes guitar) players in pop music history.

She recorded with everyone from the Monkees, to the Beach Boys, to Simon & Garfunkel, to Frank Zappa, to Count Basie, to Paul Revere & The Raiders, to Tennessee Ernie Ford (!) to...well, see her bio at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kaye

She even played the fuckin guitar on Richie Valens' "La Bamba"!

But, back to the Monkees, they did put a live version of the band together, where they all played, and as another poster points out, Jimi Hendrix opened for them, not the other way around. That tour was nipped in the bud when the teenybopper Monkee audience was freaked out by Jimi, and the "Monkees" (the fake teevee band, now trying to PROVE themselves!) realized they were blown off the stage.

On a side note, my former bandmate (in a band called Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero), the late Dewey Martin, drummer of Buffalo Springfield, was a close buddy of Mickey Dolenz back in the day. I'm sure Dewey imparted some drum mojo to Mickey. Dewey was/is a true rock legend.

Unfortunately, that doesn't excuse the current version of Mickey Dolenz from being a FReepturd.

Edited for emphasis

[Ken Burch]

51. One of the wonderful ironies about the Monkees

Was that they were put together to be a corporate-controlled no-rebellion version of the Beatles, but then staged their OWN revolt, waging a long struggle for the right to actually play instruments on their albums.

I've always thought, for example, that part of their revolt was the deliberately bad lip-synching and instrumental "faking" on the filmed version of "Daydream Believer" in the series. You can actually see them making a point of not even trying to look like they were matching their voices and Mickey's "piano-playing" with what was happening on the record.

They finally won the right to play on their records as well as sing, thus showing that 60's rebelliousness couldn't even be stopped in situations that were deliberately designed to stop it.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. It's just another Pleasant Valley Friday

Here in Status Symbol Land.

[Ken Burch]

13. Ah, Cheer Up, Sleepy Jean.....

n/t.

[Darth_Kitten]

34. Oh, what could it mean?

:)

[Ken Burch]

36. To a Daydream Believer, OR a homecoming queen?

n/t.

[TerribleLarryDingle]

14. The lead singer of a Fake band

is married to a fraud. Birds of a feather.

[thelordofhell]

21. All the Monkees were "vocalists"

That's why I always call that asshat republican Micky Dolenz the "drummer" of the Monkees. He does have a hot daughter though.

[sendero]

28. Davey Jones..

.. provide most of the vocals in the Monkees. All were backups and some did the occassional song.

Mickey was the drummer.

[Blandocyte]

22. We're too busy singin'/To put any money down...

Hey, hey, we're the busted!

Ah, no wonder nobody's cutting my songs.

[Bossy Monkey]

23. Dolenz claims it was all Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's idea n/t

[carlyhippy]

30. meh, Mickey was not my favorite monkee, Peter Tork, and I still have a crush on him 45 years later

Mickey just didn't do it for me. Micheal was moody but hot.

[tomg]

47. Actually, Peter Tork was a very

accomplished musician. One of the people he beat out for the role was Stephen Stills, a former roomate. Mike Nesmith was also a legitimate musician and songwriter. Oh, and Mike Nesmith supported Kerry in 2004, I believe.

[BobTheSubgenius]

54. Another odd factoid:

Mike Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper.

[Ken Burch]

57. More curious still, on the night the Beatles first played "Ed Sullivan"

Davey Jones was ALSO on the show(he was in the Broadway cast of "Oliver!", playing the Artful Dodger.)

Granted, it would have been a better story if he'd been in the husband-and-wife plate balancing act that came on right AFTER the Fab Four(and had to do their act as hundreds of people who had only shown up to see the Beatles left the theatre en masse), but you can't have everything.

[Ken Burch]

48. Tork was the most committed musician of the group, and seemed like the most down-to-earth.

He's continued to record until recently. Tork was diagnosed with cancer a little while ago, although he appears to be responding well to treatment and is back playing concert dates.

[Politicalboi]

33. To think The Monkee's had

Jimmy Hendrix as an opening act. LOL!

[central scrutinizer]

35. Was he experienced?

<>

[pink-o]

39. I know! What clueless promotors and A and R guys came up with that?

My friend actually saw that tour in the Bay Area in 1967. She went and saw Jimi headline a year later, so I guess some good came out of it, if it could expose the greatest guitarist ever to the young, female, teenybop public.

[Ken Burch]

55. You sometimes got some TRULY weird concert lineups in the Sixties

At one point, The Beatles were the opening act for Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme. You'd have to smoke some wicked bad dope to think of THAT one.

[janx]

40. As my mother used to say, when I wanted the single:

A little dog bit me, and a little dog bit you.

:rofl:

[Joe Bacon]

43. Meanwhile, Peter Tork is struggling with cancer.

Peter is fighting cancer. He could sure use prayers and support. Here's a link to Peter's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/peter.tork

[John Kerry VonErich]

59. I still love the Monkees.

Mickey sang at a teabag party, big deal. He's still talented, pretty damn good guitar player (he was doin that before the Monkees), great voice, and most importantly produced a hot chick Amy.