The Monkees - Live in Phoenix, AZ. 1967 (6/7)

Part 6 of 7. Complete concert at the Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 21st, 1967. Earliest Monkees concert yet surviving. The vocals are buried, but this is very rare (and raw) stuff.

- I'm a Believer (Peter on organ and Davy on bass)
- I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone

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[DancingSpiderman]

DAYNG... girls really used to scream out loud at concerts... LISTEN to that

I'm actually enjoying the heck outta this live performance. I remember playing some gigs where, from where I was onstage, it sounded just like this... you just had to not lose your place in the song.

[mewrth]

@DancingSpiderman How satisfying was it to perform in such conditions I may ask?

[governorgilf]

I love the Monkees and their recordings which we all know were done with the top-notch studio players of the day and good producing, but this live stuff is God-awful. I can't believe they would even appear in front of people sounding like this. Even my first garage band was better than this!

[mewrth]

@governorgilf Given the conditions of the concerts and the rehearsal time that they were granted, this is true. I'm a believer was the least sounding performance of this concert. However, give a listen to the rest of it, I think they did a decent job, allthough you won't hear the singing most of the time because of the nature of the soundboard take. What and when was your band performing BTW? name?

[crowman1979]

They must have had better sound equipment than The Beatles, because I can actually hear them.

[ICAUCUSREGION6]

for those of us that were attending concerts in the "day" this is such a cool reminder of how much fun we had as kids.

[michaelMitchell1006]

horrible!!

[governorgilf]

@TheMonkeesRock Wow, a little hostile, aren't we? For the record, I love a lot of the Monkees songs, and Mickey Dolenz was one of the best pop voices of the day. The studio recordings of their hits were great. I know getting good live recordings back then was tough, as is the case here. I was just shocked at how bad this sounded. Chill...nobody needs to go die because of an observation....geez....

[TheMonkeesRock]

@governorgilf Go die..

[zettadom]

I'd say they're at least as good as, let's say the Sex Pistols early on, seriously though there were two real musicians trying to mesh with two actors trying to learn the craft, particularly Mickey learning drums which he didn't have a real affinity for, and the drumming is pretty rudimentary. There is a garage band rawness about it that is cooler than a more slick polished set. They did get much better as musicians later as they had more experience.

[bookwormgal1996]

I don't think they sound terrible at all, considering the circumstances, I've heard much worse before. I quite like the vocal harmonies in steppin' stone a lot..I would've definetely have enjoyed myself if I had been there! It's a shame that so little footage of them performing live in the 1960s exists..

[basenjib123]

No wonder studio musicians did the albums!

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

Love the Monkees, but this concert performance is wretchedly bad.

[64downtown]

they shouldve had a few weeks to rehearse at least---scrub this from the records-there probably two real musicians in the band--shouldve had a couple of support band members as they do these days...