14 Interesting Facts About Michael Nesmith

1. #002

   Michael Nesmith invented the idea that would become MTV. He sold the concept to Time-Warner and created a proof of concept for 24-hour music television in the form of six half-hour programs called "Pop Clips." Time-Warner aired Popclips on the Nickelodeon Channel as a test, and it drew immediate strong interest. Nesmith moved on to other projects after the test phase because he did not want to be involved in running a television network.

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2. #003

   In the 1980s, Michael Nesmith built Pacific Arts Corporation into the world's largest non-theatrical home video catalog. It held the rights to everything from Koyaanisqatsi (1982) to Jacques Cousteau's The Undersea World (1966) to Ken Burns's The Civil War (1990). Pacific Arts licensed the right to use the PBS logo on titles in its catalog broadcast on PBS and developed the PBS Home Video label. The venture led to a lawsuit against PBS that resulted in a six-week federal court trial. The jury unanimously found PBS liable for intentional misrepresentation, intentional concealment, negligent misrepresentation, intentional interference with Pac Arts' contractual relationships with program producers, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. They awarded Pacific Arts and Nesmith more than $47,000,000 in actual and punitive damages combined. PBS and Nesmith later settled for an undisclosed amount.

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3. #004

   For his first interview for The Monkees, Michael Nesmith arrived riding his motorcycle through the city wearing a wool hat to keep his hair out of his eyes (Nesmith was also carrying a bag of laundry to be washed at a nearby laundromat on his way home). Producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider remembered him as "Wool Hat" and wanted to give the Monkees character that name, but Nesmith refused.

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4. #005

   Michael Nesmith spent fourteen months in the United States Air Force, where he flipped a general's plane while cleaning it.

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5. #009

   Before signing their Monkees contracts, the members had released several songs through different companies; Nesmith's song "Mary, Mary" had already been a hit for the Butterfield Blues Band. Along with Nesmith's deal with Screen Gems as a songwriter, the company bought Nesmith's earlier releases so that his songs could be used for the Monkees.

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6. #010

   Michael Nesmith attended San Antonio College, where he met John London and began a musical collaboration.

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7. #011

   Michael Nesmith remained active in all media, including video games and online media distribution, and was an avid golfer.

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8. #013

   Michael Nesmith attended Thomas Jefferson High School but enlisted in the United States Air Force before graduating (1960).

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9. #014

   Michael Nesmith had an online store called videoranch.com that allowed customers to buy his works directly from him. The products included CDs, DVDs and music downloads.

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10. #016

    Michael Nesmith shares his birthday with fellow Monkee Davy Jones.

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11. #020

    Michael Nesmith had actually been labelmates with Davy Jones earlier, since both were signed to the Colpix Records label (Nesmith recorded as "Michael Blessing"), but apparently they were never to meet. Jones released a modestly successful LP and single in 1965, while Nesmith's two singles had barely gotten past the promotional stage. The Colpix label (owned by Columbia Pictures and controlled by Screen Gems) was dissolved in 1966, making way for the new Colgems label with The Monkees at its center.

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12. #021

    Michael Nesmith founded a small video game development company called Zoomo Productions in Monterey, California.

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13. #023

    In October 2016, he received the Dallas Video Festival's Ernie Kovacs Award for his contributions to the video industry.

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14. #024

    He was the millionaire owner of a video company.

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