What If Stephen Stills Had Joined the Monkees?
You’re traveling through another history, a history not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, Alternate History X.” It is certainly not a question many people, even music historians, ponder, especially in 2010; however, what if Stephen Stills had successfully auditioned for The Monkees? How would that have affected the music of the 60s and 70s? One might be surprised at how many fingers Stills had in the stew. Before diving in to the life and times of Stephen Stills, a little background on the Monkees (both the band and the TV series) is needed. Most people born before the ’90s know that the Monkees were a completely prefabricated Hollywood construct much more than they were a musical act. (Those of you from the 90s onward who were aware of that fact, kudos to you). The concept was created by director/writer/producer Bob Rafelson, most famous for writing and directing
