{"id":4935,"date":"2014-02-24T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2014-02-23T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:46:35","slug":"concert-flashback-the-monkees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/concert-flashback-the-monkees\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Flashback: The Monkees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01monkees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5158\" alt=\"01monkees\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01monkees.jpg\" width=\"743\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01monkees.jpg 743w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01monkees-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a>Following a resurgence in customer interest after their appearances on VH1&#8217;s <em>Behind The Music<\/em> and the <em>E! True Hollywood Story<\/em>, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork decided to regroup (sans Michael Nesmith) and go on their first tour since 1997 as the Monkees. \u00a0Their Chicagoland appearance was a Sunday afternoon at the Star Plaza Theatre in beautiful Merrillville, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>To say this was unlike any other show I had been to would be a bit of an understatement. \u00a0For one thing, it was a Sunday afternoon. \u00a0Also, the average age of the crowd was about 75, give or take a decade. \u00a0Which meant that everyone stayed in their seats for the entire show. \u00a0Thirdly, there was no opening act. \u00a0Instead, the supporting act, the never heard of before or since group known as Natural, came out in the middle of the show to give the old timers a bit of a break.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeesconcerts.com\/2001-north-american-tour.html\" target=\"_blank\">Interwebs<\/a>, the trio hit all of the bands biggest hits, even those originally fronted by Nesmith. \u00a0I suppose a good time was had by all in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a resurgence in customer interest after their appearances on VH1&#8217;s Behind The Music and the E! True Hollywood Story, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork decided to regroup (sans Michael Nesmith) and go on their first tour since 1997 as the Monkees. \u00a0Their Chicagoland appearance was a Sunday afternoon at the Star Plaza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[4369,4372,4370,4374,4371,4376,4373,4375,202,3040],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-behind-the-music","tag-davy-jones","tag-e-true-hollywood-story","tag-michael-nesmith","tag-mickey-dolenz","tag-natural","tag-peter-tork","tag-star-plaza-theatre","tag-the-monkees","tag-vh1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}