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t really does seem like there s a light at the end of the tunnel, after all. Mask mandates are being lifted, the weather is getting warmer, and live music is slowly but surely returning to the Inland Northwest. We ve been overwhelmed in the last couple of weeks by a barrage of concert announcements, so we re running down some of the most anticipated upcoming shows that have either been rescheduled from 2020 or were recently announced. Rock, punk, blues, country, classic R&B there s a little something for everybody. Get your pencils out and start marking your calendars, folks!
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Rolling Stone Micky Dolenz on the Monkees’ Farewell Tour, New LP ‘Dolenz Sings Nesmith’
“I will always be Micky, the wacky drummer on that classic old television show,” says Dolenz, “just like Leonard Nimoy was always Mr. Spock”
By Paul Undersinger
The Monkees have survived many logical endpoints. They first seemed like they were done when their TV show went off the air in early 1968, and then again multiple times after: when they disbanded as a recording unit in 1971, when their reunion tours fizzled out amid bitter infighting in the early 2000s, and when Davy Jones died in 2012 and Peter Tork followed in 2019.
The Monkees
The Monkees are an American/English rock and pop band originally active between 1965 and 1971, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series
The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968. The musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork and British stage and television actor and singer Davy Jones. The band s music was initially supervised by producer Don Kirshner, backed by the songwriting duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
For the first few months of their initial five-year career as the Monkees , the four actor-musicians were allowed only limited roles in the recording studio. This was due in part to the amount of time required to film the television series. Nonetheless, Nesmith did compose and produce some songs from the beginning, and Peter Tork contributed limited guitar work on the s
CLEARWATER â Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees will embark on their farewell tour beginning in September.
Commemorating 55 years of Monkeemania, the tour will make stops in major markets across North America through the fall, including a stop in the Tampa Bay area. Nesmith and Dolenz will perform Wednesday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m., at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen Booth Road, Clearwater.
Tickets, starting at $52.50, are on sale now. Visit www.RuthEckerdHall.com or call 727-791-7400.
The tour will feature the voice of Dolenz â who sang The Monkeesâ biggest hits â and the groupâs primary songwriter, Nesmith. Dolenz sang songs such as âIâm a Believer,â âLast Train to Clarksville,â âPleasant Valley Sundayâ and â(Iâm Not Your) Steppinâ Stone).â Nesmith wrote such classics as âMary, Mary,â âPapa Geneâs Blues,â âYou Just May Be the Oneâ and âListen to the Band.�