EVEN MORE MORE OF THE MONKEES!
A few months ago a friend of mine—a collector of the first order—played a tape that had come his way. It was the Monkees from a live performance in Japan circa 1968 and it was, in a word, incredible. Suffice it to say that anyone who ever thought the Monkees "couldn’t play” would—after hearing this tape—revise his or her opinion.
EVEN MORE MORE OF THE MONKEES!
J. Kordosh
A few months ago a friend of mine—a collector of the first order—played a tape that had come his way. It was the Monkees from a live performance in Japan circa 1968 and it was, in a word, incredible. Suffice it to say that anyone who ever thought the Monkees "couldn’t play” would—after hearing this tape—revise his or her opinion. When I met the Monkees at a studio where they’d just finished rehearsing their stage show, I mentioned the bootleg tape, thereby indicting (albeit correctly) the recent Live 1967 LP.
"Gosh, I wish they would’ve released that (bootleg) instead,” said Micky Dolenz with no trace of guile. Davy Jones mentioned they had a fine potential live album from last year’s tremendously succesful tour.
"But that Japanese ’68 tour, that was good, huh?” Dolenz continued.
It was not only good, it was great. Mindboggling. One might wish every fiftieth band these days could turn in a set of comparable worth.
And above all that, it’s nice to know that a member of that band cares if a concert played some 20 years ago was any good.