just came across this newspaper clipping from The Troubador

Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette)

"Rose City Chimes" (B-side to "Little Red Rider")

Michael Nesmith and Ringo Starr in 1970

"They're not really just copies of us, now, are they? The Monkees have a fine way of their own, you know?" - Ringo

Japanese Release of "The Crippled Lion" & "Propinquity"

John London 1970

A friend of Michael Nesmith's from Texas, who had played with him (mostly bass guitar) in several working bands, he accompanied Nesmith and then-wife Phyllis Barbour to California, to try their luck in the Los Angeles-area music scene. When Nesmith was cast in The Monkees, he recruited London as his stand-in on the set, and when the originally-fictitious band began playing on their own recordings, London sometimes served as bassist, allowing Peter Tork to play keyboards, banjo, or another instrument. London also co-wrote "Don't Call On Me" with Nesmith, which was featured on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. and a second-season TV episode, and appeared in bit parts on the show.

a rare photo of Red Rhodes in Europe with The First National Band 1970 I delicately restored

A friend of Michael Nesmith's from Texas, who had played with him (mostly bass guitar) in several working bands, he accompanied Nesmith and then-wife Phyllis Barbour to California, to try their luck in the Los Angeles-area music scene. When Nesmith was cast in The Monkees, he recruited London as his stand-in on the set, and when the originally-fictitious band began playing on their own recordings, London sometimes served as bassist, allowing Peter Tork to play keyboards, banjo, or another instrument. London also co-wrote "Don't Call On Me" with Nesmith, which was featured on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd. and a second-season TV episode, and appeared in bit parts on the show.