The Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville (live 1968) video free download

CRONOSMANTASVENOM

These guys still have no business being anywhere near the music biz. They sucked terribly. Memories dont make a band great. They had next to no talent and were just lucky kids.You all know it too.I don't give a fuck what this band means to anyone. They suck and always will. Fuck your memories as well. Move the fuck on.

Ram4 .

But John Paul Jones was the only rock keyboard player (that I know of) that played bass pedals when he played organ, mellotron, electric piano, etc. The keyboard bass Manzarek played was very basic, Jones REALLY could play moving bass parts with his feet.

tetloid

No, it's Japanese. This live recording was smuggled from a Japanese TV station that televised their concert in Japan in 1968 (alas, the image was said to have been lost already). The girl's voice was by an announcer of the TV station to explain Japanese viewers what they were playing and what the song was sung about in Japanese.

swacbro

Pete used to play keyboard bass too...a solid year before Ray Manzarek (sp?) did with The Doors

Kenichi Iwane

@mewrth Japanese rock band "Floral" plays it at secret place.

Kenny Finn

Mickey Dolenz said it best: "The Monkees becoming a real band was like Leonard Nimoy really becoming a vulcan." This is proof that this is exactly what happened. Not bad for a group of "actors" who were thrown together to do a TV show. A really incredible story not too many people know about....oh yeah, and they wrote some of their songs as well.

ther51

R.I.P. DAVY ...

DomenicDee

SOUNDS GREAT!! Really good stuff.

huskyjerk

Now this is more like. Junk that revival junk where they have session players play the instruments.

THeMaskedBlogCritic

@backbeat05 Actually, yes, Dennis Wilson played on a TON of Beach Boys recordings. You should also check him out live, I think you'll be pleasantly suprised.

John Smith

Okay, folks, for the last time, they may have not started off as a real band, (which is something they quickly admit even now,) but they indeed BECAME a real band. They sang all their songs, and by the third album--headquartes--they had full creative control and played every track themselves! They could also play well live. In Mickey's own words, they became a real band as if Lenord Nemoy had become a real Vulcan. It wasn't meant to happen, but they became a real band, and carved a legend.

Back Beat

@Mutt43 My point is you don't know the subject well enough to call people here idiots. For example, only one member responded to the casting call in Variety (Nesmith). Jones was primarily an actor first and foremost (Coronation Street and Oliver) whereas Peter was a musician in Greenwich Village.I know all about backing tracks and lip synch on TV shows, and do you think Dennis Wilson played drums on Beach Boys recordings ? I could go on but run out of characters :-)

Mutt43

@backbeat05 what's your point? I commented on a fabricated band created by auditions for a TV show, the real musicians behind it, and these people believing they were a "real" band. I wish you had explained why you mentioned a couple of vocal groups, with varying levels of talent, that were actually in the commerical music business. Don't confuse lip sync'ing and fake playing to your actual song (required for 1960's TV like Bandstand); and singing and actual fake playing (like the Monkeys)!!

Back Beat

@Mutt43 Most of the "idiots" here know who were the singers and who were the actors which you obviously don't. You probably also think the Beach Boys, Turtles, Mamas & Papas, Lovin Spoonful et al played all their own instruments too.

Mutt43

They're awesome..., Give me abreak! They were great, WHEN I WAS 12 (in the 60's) Any of you idiots ever heard of Boyce and Hart. It's sing and play-a-long to a recording..... Davy was actually a singer, mike was a musician wannabe, micky and Peter were actors. Hendrix opened for the Monkeys once and got booded off the stage, go figure.

mewrth

@philh37 Peter Tork and Davy Jones when Peter moves to play organ (at that concert)

philh37

so who's playing bass?

GrossOut16

This sounds better than the official Live 1967 album version. I guess the band got tighter live a year later.

AnaAerophina

And people say they couldn't play their instruments. What is this, then, a hallucination?! They sound fantastic to me!

dadadruma

howdy my friend hows it going? did u happen to see the recent uploads from 68 live in japan no video its audio i cant believe they did salesman since dolenz didnt drummed the studio version on PACnJ Ltd

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The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville 1966