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Surviving Monkee Micky Dolenz's Startling Admission
In an interview with Cousin Brucie on WABC Radio Nov. 30th, surviving Monkee Micky Dolenz, currently on tour, made an amazing admission.
He was asked if the music thing hadn't worked out what would he have wanted to do.
His answer: "I think I would have liked to be a nuclear physicist!"
Brucie laughed, thinking it as a joke. But it wasn't. Dolenz says he admires Queen guitarist Brian May, who is a nuclear physicist, is fascinated by science and if the Monkees thing hadn't been such a success, he might have gone back to school as a young man to pursue the field.
It did not sound like he was kidding and admitted it's one his regrets that he never got to pursue it.
Or I can say after hearing how earnest he sounded, "I'm A Believer."
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Re: Surviving Monkee Micky Dolenz's Startling Admission
Stranger things have happened. Many decades ago, I attended a small but highly respected university in Michigan whose academic strengths are engineering and bio sci emphasis in nursing, forestry. Despite it's relatively small enrollment (<4500) at the time, the University was once one of the top NCAA hockey schools in the country. All that said, most "hockey jocks" attended the University's school of business. Once in a awhile, one of the jocks graduated in engineering. While I was there, one of the top hockey jocks graduated in nuclear physics. Now THAT was a shocker!! Kind of like Mickey Dolenz.
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Re: Surviving Monkee Micky Dolenz's Startling Admission
A musician who made a surprising segue into another field is Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who had a successful career as a U.S. missile defense consultant.