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Just updated the Billboard Live '96 page. I recently came across an interview Nez gave to the Chicago Tribune in December 1996 which contained a lot of great quotes from him. I incorporated those quotes into the summary, so it has been expanded quite a bit. Check it out!
This poster promoted two new releases that year - Missing Links, a collection of previously unreleased Monkees songs, and Live 1967, featuring recordings from the band's 1967 summer tour.   Recently released on red colored vinyl by Rhino Records, Selections from the Headquarters Sessions features the following tracks: Side 1 1. All of Your Toys (mono) 2. The Girl I Knew Somewhere (mono) 3. Cripple Creek 4. Randy Scouse Git (alternate mix) Side 2 1. Nine Times Blue (demo) 2. Until It's Time For You to Go (demo) 3. Midnight Train (demo) 4. No Time (second version w/backing vocals) The original Headquarters Sessions was a 3-CD limited edition set (4,500 copies) released by Rhino back in 2000, which is long out of print and sold out.
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There are some additions to the photo galleries of the following tours: '66 Promotional, 1969, 1986 20th Anniversary, 1987 North American, 1989 US, and 2012. I've also added the KHJ audio file featured in a blog post from yesterday to the 1966 Promotional Tour page. (You'll see it towards the bottom of the summary.) Finally, the DJBH tour program is now featured as its own section on the DJBH page.
Be sure to check out this podcast recorded by Monkees archivist Andrew Sandoval on his "Come to the Sunshine" program that aired after Davy passed away. It's a very nice tribute to him, and the show also includes some unique alternate mixes ("Time and Time Again" and "French Song" being two of them).
You can listen to more of Andrew's "Come to the Sunshine" episodes and check out the program on Facebook, too. Today is Michael Nesmith's birthday. He was born on this day in 1942.
On this day in 1945, Davy Jones was born in Manchester, England.   Wembley 1967    1967  Hollywood Bowl soundcheck in 1967  Live in '67 Los Angeles radio station KHJ staged a promotional event for The Monkees before their television series debuted on September 12, 1966. A contest was held to meet The Monkees. Contest winners rode on a train to the coastal town of Del Mar, California, which had been renamed 'Clarksville' for the day by the town's mayor. Landing on the beach in two helicopters and dressed in their signature double-breasted shirts, the band met approximately 400 winners of KHJ's radio contest. After the event, the group traveled by train with the contest winners back to Los Angeles. On one of the train cars, The Monkees gave their first true live public performance.
This is a rare radio advertisment for the event!  The Monkees were originally scheduled to perform at Detroit's Olympia Stadium on July 29, 1967 but the show was canceled due to rioting.
In the above picture, you can see The Monkees advertised on the marquee as members of either the U.S. Army or the Michigan National Guard pass the stadium. The Monkees returned to Detroit and played a rescheduled concert at 3:30pm on August 13, 1967. These photos come from the last time all four Monkees would gather in the same recording studio until the sessions for Justus in 1996. The group recorded "Ditty Diego," a parody of the theme song to their television show, for the Head soundtrack in July 1968. 
 (Photo courtesy of Al Bigley)  Micky and Peter  Peter appeared with his band, The New Monks, at the Bottom Line Club in New York City on March 11, 1982. Head was screened that same evening as a special added attraction.  (Photo by Joe Russo)  Monkees West was a mini-magazine published by a variety of people including Gary Strobl (longtime Monkees collector) and Gene Ashman (wardrobe designer on The Monkees television series). There were only two issues ever released. Here is the first from the spring of 1987. It includes a recap of the 1986 Reunion Tour, an interview with rock photographer Henry Diltz, and a spotlight on the "Hitting the High Seas" episode. The second issue can be found here. For easier reading, click on each image and then click on it again.                  If you missed the Rhino limited edition "Girl"/"Rainy Jane" green vinyl single from earlier this year, Friday Music is taking pre-orders on a variation of it, this time with red vinyl.
More information can be found here. Courtesy of the Michael Nesmith Fan Page on Facebook, we are able to take a look at the recent yellow vinyl reissue of The Monkees Present by Friday Music.  The yellow vinyl and cover  Inside the gatefold album Several other Monkees albums have recently been released on vinyl by Friday Music, including Instant Replay, Changes, Pool It! and Justus. On a side note, I've read less than stellar reviews of the packaging for both Instant Replay and Justus (grainy photos, etc.) that I've decided to skip these items (though apparently they do sound fine). If Friday Music does it right all around, I'll be interested.
 1967 (Screenshots courtesy of Sunshine Factory) (Above) Performing "Riu Chiu" in 1967  (Above) The complete 1967 Monkees "Christmas Show" episode  1967 Ladies Home Journal (Courtesy of Al Bigley)  1986 Photographer Colin Beard has recently released some photos of The Monkees while on tour in Australia in late 1968. Check them out in the 1968 Australia/Japan photo gallery here.
Here's an article about the upcoming Michael Nesmith tribute album.
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