First ever joint Nesmith/Dolenz tour announced; Tickets and VIP packages go on sale this Friday2/20/2018 It's official! Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz will commence a 16-city concert tour on June 1 in Chandler, Arizona. Produced by Monkees archivist and author Andrew Sandoval, here is the complete list of dates (which arrived first via Rolling Stone) for "The Monkees Present: The Mike Nesmith & Micky Dolenz Show." June 1: Chandler Center For The Arts / Chandler, Arizona June 2: The Orpheum / Los Angeles, California June 3: Humphreys Concerts by the Bay / San Diego, California June 5: The Grove / Anaheim, California June 6: The Mountain Winery / Saratoga, California June 8: Bob Hope Theatre / Stockton, California June 9: Harrah's Lake Tahoe / Stateline, Nevada June 12: The Paramount / Denver, Colorado June 14: Copernicus Center / Chicago, Illinois June 15: Rose Music Center / Huber Heights, Ohio June 16: Cain Park / Cleveland, Ohio June 18: Sony Center for the Performing Arts / Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 19: Centre in the Square / Kitchener, Ontario, Canada June 21: Keswick Theatre / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 22: Beacon Theatre / New York, New York June 23: The Paramount / Huntington, New York June 25: Count Basie Theatre / Red Bank, New Jersey Tickets and VIP packages will go on sale February 23 at Monkees.com. VIP Packages include access to soundcheck, a signed, hardbound copy of the tour book, early entry to the show, and a commemorative VIP laminate. (UPDATE 2/26/2018: A concert in Huntington, New York has been added to the tour schedule. The link to purchase tickets now appears above.) "These 16 special performances will feature songs that span the group's entire career – from its 1966 eponymous debut to 2016’s Good Times," reads the press release, which appears in full below. "The shows will highlight many of Nesmith's compositions, including some that have never been performed live." Both Michael and Micky also issued statements about the upcoming performances. "I love being onstage with Micky," Nesmith says. "We've been collaborating for over 50 years, so it's hard to believe it’s never been just the two of us. I'm excited to dust off some tunes that I haven’t played for a long time too." Dolenz agreed, adding: "Right from the get-go, I admired Mike's songs," he said. "When we used to get together around the campfire to sing in the early days, we were always doing his songs. We always had such a great a vocal blend; he was the one who encouraged me to write songs of my own. I've always been a big fan and now we finally get to do the Mike & Micky show that we riffed on back when we were shooting The Monkees." The press release also discusses Peter Tork's absence from the tour. "Original Monkee Peter Tork will not take part in the tour," it reads. "Instead, he’s focusing on Relax Your Mind, a new album by Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues that honors the music of Lead Belly. The album is available now via CD Baby and Bandcamp. “I have in general made no secret of the fact that all these recent years of Monkees-related projects, as fun as they’ve been, have taken up a lot of my time and energy. Moving forward, I have blues projects that I want to give my attention to, hence Relax Your Mind. So, I’m shifting gears for now, but I wish the boys well, and I’ve learned to never say never on things further down the line.” THE PRESS RELEASELOS ANGELES – Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees will hit the road in June for their first-ever national tour as a duo. Billed as “The Monkees Present: The Mike & Micky Show,” these 16 special performances will feature songs that span the group’s entire career – from its 1966 eponymous debut to 2016’s Good Times. The shows will highlight many of Nesmith’s compositions, including some that have never been performed live. The tour also includes two shows in Canada, which represent Nesmith’s first “Monkees” concerts since the band played there in 1969.
Tickets and VIP packages will go on sale February 23 at Monkees.com. VIP Packages include access to soundcheck, a signed, hardbound copy of the tour book, early entry to the show and a commemorative VIP laminate. "I love being on stage with Micky,” says Nesmith. “We’ve been collaborating for over 50 years, so it’s hard to believe it’s never been just the two of us. I’m excited to dust off some tunes that I haven’t played for a long time too. These are going to be some fun shows.” "Right from the get-go, I admired Mike's songs. When we used to get together around the campfire to sing in the early days, we were always doing his songs,” says Dolenz. “We always had such a great a vocal blend; he was the one who encouraged me to write songs of my own. I've always been a big fan and now we finally get to do the Mike & Micky show that we riffed on back when we were shooting The Monkees." Original Monkee Peter Tork will not take part in the tour. Instead, he’s focusing on Relax Your Mind, a new album by Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues that honors the music of Lead Belly. The album is available now via CD Baby and Bandcamp. “I have in general made no secret of the fact that all these recent years of Monkees-related projects, as fun as they’ve been, have taken up a lot of my time and energy. Moving forward, I have blues projects that I want to give my attention to, hence Relax Your Mind. So, I’m shifting gears for now, but I wish the boys well, and I’ve learned to never say never on things further down the line.” “The Monkees Present: The Mike & Micky Show” is the latest chapter in Monkee-mania, a saga that began in 1965 when four young men were cast in a television show about a struggling rock band that was inspired by the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night. Few could have predicted the impact the Monkees would have on music and pop culture at large, one that still reverberates more than 50 years later. Formed in Los Angeles for the eponymous television series, the quartet of Dolenz, Nesmith, Tork and the late Davy Jones brought a singular mix of pop, rock, psychedelia, Broadway and country to their music. The Monkees’ first single, “Last Train to Clarksville,” was released in 1966 and quickly headed for the top spot of the Billboard charts, where it would ultimately sit for 13 of the 78 weeks it remained in the Top 200. (Two decades later, in the midst of a new burst of Monkee-mania, The Monkees popped back onto the charts, bringing the total number of weeks to 102.) By the time the series aired its final new episode on March 25, 1968, the Monkees had seen three further albums top the charts --More of the Monkees, Headquarters, and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. All were released in 1967, staggeringly enough, racking up several more hit singles, with “I’m A Believer,” “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You,” “The Girl I Knew Somewhere,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Words,” “Daydream Believer,” “Valleri,” and “Tapioca Tundra” all finding their way into the Billboard Top 40. The final tally: 16 million albums and 7.5 million singles sold in a mere 2 1/2 years. After the series’ two-season run, the group went on to star in the cult feature film Head (co-written by Jack Nicholson) and a TV special (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee) while also continuing to record new material. But as the ’60s gave way to the ’70s, the members of the Monkees eventually gave in to their individual musical interests and went their separate ways . . . for awhile. In February 1986, after MTV broadcast a marathon of The Monkees, Dolenz, Jones, and Tork reunited for a 20th anniversary tour, with Nesmith joining them onstage for the Los Angeles date of the tour. In 1996, all four members of the group reunited for a new album (Justus) and TV special (Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees). In the wake of Jones’s death on February 29, 2012, the surviving members of the Monkees reunited and performed a series of concerts. The shows were received so triumphantly that Dolenz, Nesmith and Tork returned the following summer for a tour dubbed, “A Midsummer’s Night With the Monkees.” To celebrate the Monkees’ 50th anniversary in 2016, the surviving members of the band recorded the critically acclaimed album Good Times. Much like the Monkees’ early albums, it featured tracks written for the band by a group of gifted songwriters, including Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Rivers Cuomo (Weezer), Andy Partridge (XTC) and more. To support the album, Dolenz and Tork launched a successful tour that featured Nesmith on four shows.
16 Comments
David Potts
2/20/2018 09:27:58
Happy to see them touring together, however I knew not to get my hopes up about them coming anywhere near Florida. Looking forward to the videos that will be posted though. Should be a great show!
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John
2/20/2018 11:00:58
Davy died Feb. 29th, not Feb. 12th - they really need to amend that typo...
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Monkees Live Almanac
2/20/2018 11:02:20
John,
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John
2/20/2018 11:26:40
Thanks, but I hope you don't think I was calling you out - it's on the actual press release.
JJ Lloyd
2/20/2018 14:54:33
I hope every show is a sell-out (or very close to it). Then, maybe they'll be encouraged to add more shows later in the year (and come to Dallas). :)
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Chris N.
2/20/2018 15:08:17
I agree about coming to Dallas!!! I was kinda bummed when I read 16 dates but realized 5 of them are in California. Was hoping Nez would have wanted to “come home” to Texas.
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Sunny Nestork
2/20/2018 20:36:02
There's a little confusion: On Ticketmaster's site, they list VIP Presale starts tomorrow, February 21. Are tickets only available on Monkees.com or also on Ticketmaster? And what about the dates of the presale?
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Monkees Live Almanac
2/21/2018 05:16:55
I would check the individual venue's website for the show you are interested in attending. Everything seems to be a bit all over the place regarding pre-sales.
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I. Zisman
2/21/2018 19:55:43
I really dislike how the blacked-out David from the photo! Can't they use new photos? Also, I though they weren't using "The Monkees" name anymore after 2016.
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Dan
2/21/2018 20:21:04
Technically they aren't. This is the Monkees Present: The Mike and Micky Show. They aren't performing as "the Monkees" (monkee mike/monkee micky), rather it will be Michael Nesmith and George Michael Dolenz playing songs by the Monkees and focusing on the music.
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Sunny Nestork
2/22/2018 11:00:55
Presale codes anyone? You can buy tickets today, but need a code on Ticketmaster. Help please.
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Monkees Live Almanac
2/22/2018 16:08:41
Sunny,
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Sunny Nestork
2/22/2018 17:08:03
THANK YOU! And for the information the other day, too! I have not seen Mike in concert before, so looking forward to hearing him sing his songs. Of course, Micky and Peter did a great job at the other shows singing those songs, too! :)
Suzanne
3/25/2018 08:21:56
These seats are selling only ok. My local theater, the keswick near Philadelphia, only has a couple of seats left. But the show in Kitchener on a Saturday night is half empty right now.
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Suzanne
3/25/2018 08:26:06
I meant that the show in Huntington on a Sat is half empty. (And so is the Kitchener show, but that's a Tuesday.)
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Lisa Wilkins
3/29/2018 02:41:14
BEGGING YOU to please come back to Virginia! there are SO many fans here & in North Carolina that need to see you!
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