Michael Nesmith inheritance from his mother's Liquid Paper fortune in 1980 eased those concerns. In a 1980 interview with "Playboy", he said of that time: "I had to start telling little tales to the tax man while they were putting tags on the furniture." While Nesmith had continued to produce his compositions with the Monkees, he withheld many of the songs from the final Monkees albums, only to release them on his post-Monkees solo records. Nesmith did not participate in the Monkees' 20th-anniversary reunion. However, he did appear during an encore with the other three members at the Greek Theatre on September
The Michael Nesmith Radio Special The Michael Nesmith Radio Special In 1980, Pacific Arts issued "The Michael Nesmith Radio Special" to promote Nesmith's album "Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma". Because "Infinite Rider" was originally designed as a multimedia project, the radio special was designed to increase awareness of Nesmith's audio-visual productions, as well as promote the album. The radio special comprises segments of an interview with Nesmith intercut with tracks from "Infinite Rider". Within the interview, Nesmith discusses The Monkees. The discussion of his (then-)former band was the first acknowledgement Nesmith made since his 1970 album, "Magnetic South". As with many of Nesmith's compositions,