A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You: The Monkees From A Fan's Perspective
Fred Velez (Born in New York City on October 11th, 1955) writes a Blog for the Monkees.net website and was a writer for Maggie Manus’ Monkee Business Fanzine, and co-wrote with animation historian Jerry Beck the article ‘Critic’s Choice: The Monkees’ for Video Review Magazine, 1984. Book credits include contributions to ‘The Monkees: A Manufactured Image’ by Ed Reilly, Maggie McManus and William Chadwick and ‘Mutant Monkees Meet The Masters Of The Multimedia Manipulation Machine!’ by Davy Jones and Alan Green. Fred has been the master of ceremonies for the Monkees Conventions from 1980 to 1989 and 2013/2014. As an actor Fred has performed in many productions including ‘Godspell’, ‘Damn Yankees!’, ‘Oklahoma!’, ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘A Mid Summer’s Night Dream’, ‘Twelfe Night’, ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘A Night In Elsinore’, ‘Beauty & The Beast’, ‘Oliver!’ and the films ‘When Nature Calls’, ‘A Price Above Rubies’, ‘Salt’, ‘Man On A Ledge’ and was a writer and cast member on the Uncle Floyd TV show. To connect with Fred Velez:  https://www.facebook.com/fred.velez.9 https://twitter.com/FredVel http://www.monkees.net/category/blogs/