It was 56 years ago Saturday night (December 3rd, 1966), that the Monkees made their first live appearance. The group Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork played a 40-minute set in Hawaii at the Honolulu International Center Arena. The "pre-fab four," as they were affectionately called, were riding high with their hit sitcom, which had premiered the previous September on NBC, along with their recent Number One smash, "Last Train To Clarksville." During the 1966 Honolulu show, the Monkees performed solely as a four-piece band, with Dolenz on drums, Nesmith on guitar, Tork on bass, organ and banjo, and Jones alternating between tambourine, maracas and drums. The show's producers had them play in the out-of-the-way destination hoping that if the group flopped, news would be slow to travel to the mainland. Shortly before his death, Davy Jones, who pushed for the group to perform live from the time the show hit, said that he still considered per
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