How does the always-busy Micky Dolenz, the loveable ex-Monkees star who is somehow already 69 years old, keep up his frenetic pace?
“No sex, no drugs, no rock ‘n’ roll,” Dolenz quips, in a talk with WGRR. “Well, no drugs, anyway.”
Dolenz simply doesn’t have the time. He is set to take part in an all-star tribute to Stan Freberg on November 2, 2014, in Hollywood. That comes in the wake of a run of Connecticut theater performances in the play Comedy is Hard, co-starring Joyce DeWitt of TV’s Three’s Company.
Meanwhile, bewteen Monkees reunion jaunts, he’s started a family woodworking business. Oh, and there’s also a series of late 2014 solo dates kick off in November, beginning at Niagara Falls, N.Y. on the 14th. Dolenz describes the typical tour routine: “We come rolling into a town at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and leave at midnight — and that’s about it,” he says, laughing again.
More seriously, Dolenz adds, “Well, I’ve been in the business my whole life. You get used to it. Frankly, it’s the traveling the wears me out. That wears me down, not so much the show. In fact, in our business, they say they pay us to travel, and we sing for free.”
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