The Monkees - August 7, 1989
Ontario Place Forum
Toronto, Ontario

Recording Info:
Unknown Audience Recording -- sound quality = C

Transfer Info:
? Gen Cassette=> CD Burner=> EAC=> Audacity=> FLAC

Notes:
-- d1t18 is abbreviated due to tape flip
-- show plays seamlessly


Disc One (46:40)

01. (Theme From) The Monkees [intro]
02. Hello Hello, I'm Back Again
03. Pleasant Valley Sunday
04. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
05. D.W. Washburn
06. No Time
07. Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again
08. She Hangs Out
09. Goin' Down
10. Your Auntie Grizelda
11. Hangin' By A Thread
12. Zilch
13. Mary Mary
14. I Wanna Be Free
15. That Was Then, This Is Now
16. Valleri
17. As We Go Along
18. Sea//Change

Disc Two (39:37)

01. Last Train To Clarksville
02. Cripple Creek
03. When Love Comes Knockin'
04. Sometime In The Morning
05. Take A Giant Step
06. What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
07. She
08. Baby, You'll Soon Be Sixteen
09. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
10. Daydream Believer
11. Steppin' Stone (Reprise) [outro]
12. Ditty Diego Rap
13. Listen To The Band/Intros
14. I'm A Believer


From The Monkees Live Almanac (http://www.monkeesconcerts.com):

The Monkees' 1989 summer tour featured one of their best stage shows ever (with rarely performed songs such as "D.W. Washburn," "She Hangs Out," "Mary Mary," "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" and "As We Go Along" featured), but the tour on the whole lacked the public enthusiasm and media publicity garnered by the two previous North American tours.

Before the 1989 summer tour commenced, Micky and his manager had proposed a three-year plan for The Monkees that would culminate in 1991 with the band's 25th anniversary. On the other hand, Davy was reluctant to tour the United States without a new album to draw songs from. (Jones also had a lucrative offer on the table to act in a theater production.) Plans for a follow-up studio album to Pool It! had been in the works at the time but nothing was ever recorded. With Dolenz and his manager claiming that future recording deals and projects were in jeopardy without a summer tour, Jones agreed to go out on the road. A full band meeting was to be held after the July California dates to look over offers on the table and other possible projects. It was around this time that Micky suddenly told his bandmates that he would be taking time off immediately after the summer tour to pursue solo endeavors. As a result, internal tensions flared and all future Monkees activities were abruptly cancelled.

Before the rift in the band took place in early July, the summer began with all four Monkees appearing on The Mark & Brian Show in June on KLOS Radio in Los Angeles, California. The quartet sang "Papa Gene's Blues" and "Daydream Believer" with Peter playing acoustic guitar. Nesmith appeared with the trio to hype his upcoming guest concert appearance with The Monkees in Los Angeles, California. The full quartet also appeared live on another radio program hosted by Rick Dees.

The final portion of the 1989 world tour in North America and Japan found Micky playing drums on most of the songs that he didn't sing the lead vocal. Peter supplied rhythm and lead guitar work, and played the banjo on "Cripple Creek" and "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?". Davy would play the tambourine and maracas. Two of Davy's solo songs, "Hangin' By A Thread" and "Baby, You'll Soon Be Sixteen," were added to the set, as was Peter's solo song, "Sea Change," which later was released on his 1994 solo album, Stranger Things Have Happened. The 1989 summer concerts opened up with an old Gary Glitter hit, entitled appropriately enough "Hello Hello, I'm Back Again." The Monkees appeared on The Pat Sajak Show and Nashville Now (the latter which included rare live television performances of "D.W. Washburn" and "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?") to promote the tour. The backing band consisted of Jerry Renino (bass), Doug Trevor (rhythm guitar), Frankie Hepburn (guitar), Lawren Roper (drums), Jim Belin (keyboards), Lawrie Hayley (backing vocals) and horn players Les Levitt(?), Scott Wright, and Mike Schmitt.

By 1989, the enthusiasm generated from the initial reunion in 1986 had subsided. Overall attendance wasn't as strong in America as it had been in 1986 and 1987. On the other hand, a lot of media attention was generated when Michael Nesmith joined Dolenz, Jones and Tork onstage in Los Angeles, California on July 9, 1989 at the Universal Amphitheatre. The following day, the four Monkees attended a ceremony in their honor when they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Though the mid-July Japanese dates, the first since 1968, attracted large and excited crowds, the 1989 world tour ended in September to little fanfare. Because of bad feelings leftover from the band meeting earlier in the summer, The Monkees immediately disbanded. The trio would not go back on the road again until 1996.