Robert Michael Nesmith was born on December 30, 1942 in Dallas, Texas to Warren and Bette Nesmith. When Mike, as he was soon called, was very young his parents divorced. Mike then grew up with his mother Bette. Bette was the inventor of liquid paper, which would help Mike start his own company one day. As Mike tells in recent interviews, he was quite a normal kid growing up. He was just a normal little kid, attending school. In high school he participated in music a little, but it was really during college where he developed it more. Mike started to play guitar to regain dexterity in his fingers after a firecracker accident. It's a good thing he began to play to, because the Monkees wouldn't have been the same without Mike, the great guitar player!

Well anyway, during college he met Phyllis Barbour, and they were soon married. Soon they had a son which they named Christian DuVal Nesmith. Then it was on the road for the Nesmith's, who headed towards California for the wildest adventure of their life. In Sunny California, Mike recorded two singles for Colpix records under the pseudonym of Michael Blessing. He picked Blessing out of the phone book, he didn't like any of the A names. The records didn't go very far, but it's a good thing that they stayed in California and didn't give up.

And it's a good thing because one day Mike saw the ad for the Monkees audition. In fact, he was the only Monkee that actually saw the audition ad! Well he went to audition, and when he did Bert and Bob saw something in this guy with the green wool hat and the laundry slung across his shoulder. In fact Davy remembers Mike saying "How long is this going to take, I've got laundry to do." Well needless to say that wool hat, and that line got him the part. Soon he was indeed, Mike Nesmith, Monkee extrodinare.

Monkee-mania was wild! It also caused the fair share of scuffles between Phyllis and Mike. They even seperated for awhile, because of an affair Mike had with a woman named Nurit. This affair produced another son named Jason. But in 1968 Jonathan Darby Nesmith was born (by Phyllis), and brought another addition to the Nesmith clan.

Mike was the most serious Monkee, and took the music to heart. He was in love with gadgets and parties and splendid things, and the Monkee days flew by. During the Monkee era though he did sign a contract with Dot record, and he did write Different Drum for Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies which did very well. Already you could tell that Monkeemania was dying down slowly and surely. After The Monkees Present, Mike infact bought out his contract and when on his own, soon to form the First National Band.

In 1970 Jessica Buffler Nesmith was born. Mike was churning out records, and making it by alright. He seemed to have a handle on his life. But Phyllis and him did get divorced after all and he was a bachelor.

The 1980's exploded into a great decade for Mike. Mike made the movie Elephant Parts, won a grammy for it, and was praised for his work in making music videos become popular. With the money from the liquid paper he started the company Pacific Arts. It started off slow, but started to churn out money eventually. He also became remarried to a woman named Kathryn, and they lived happily in Carmel California.

Mike had to decline going on the 1986 tour with the Monkees, but the big highlite was when Mike joined Micky, Davy, and Mike at the Greek theatre. He performed Listen to the Band and Pleasant Valley Sunday, and it was like you had just taken a step back in the 1960's. If you ask anyone, they would probably say that is the most memorable Monkees concert of the whole 80 tour system.

Then Ta Da! Welcome to the 90's. Lately Mike just won a big court case against PBS. PBS plans to fight the judgement. Mike also has continued his career as a singer and producer. He has his own website/company called Video Ranch were he sells all the works he's done since the 60's. He has since divorced Kathryn and just recently married again, and as he says "for the last time." He joined the Monkees on the 1996 tour but had to drop out because of the court cases and his busy schedule. But in the midst Justus came around!

He has also turned writer. He has published his first book "The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora," and is now working on getting his movie script "Fried Pies" turned into a cinema feature in which he'd direct and perhaps act in. For the time being he has put his second book, "The American Genre" on the back burner. All I can say to Mike now is-Kudos director, writer, singer, actor Mike and I hope everything you do turns out just the way you want it to!

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