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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com – Wednesday, February 29, 2012
I’ve always had an odd taste in music. Maybe not "odd" per se, but most definitely varied. I grew up in a house of music lovers — my father loved everything from classical to country, my mother liked anything that reflected her Latin roots, my oldest brother still composes classical music as a recording artist, my other brother loved all things 50′s and 60′s and introduced me to Elvis and Buddy Holly, and my sister was the reigning pop queen in the house who exposed me to George Michael and The Culture Club. I took all of those genres with me when I moved on to harder rock. I can sing every lyric to a Monkees song just as easily as I can sing along to a Nine Inch Nails song — so, I’m a bit of a musical chameleon to say the least! I first saw The Monkees when most of us did on TV, and tuned in everyday to catch Peter, Mike, Micky and Davy’s (sigh) hilarious adventures. Perhaps they were a kid’s version of The Beatles, but it worked — the boys went on to break away from their TV-kid-friendly constraints and become "real" musicians — crafting their own work and establishing themselves as artists. Even after the kid in me started to turn more towards darker stuff as I grew into an angst-ridden teen, I never turned my back on The Monkees — I was never "too cool" or "too angry" to stop loving them. When I was 15 years old I attended one of my first concerts ever — my boyfriend’s parents took us to see The Monkees (minus Mike Nesm

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