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OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
14. I bet that's the same tour I saw
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 11:26 PM
Dec 2011

I saw it in St. Petersburg, Fl...The Grass Roots and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap were also on the bill.

I married my wife in july of 86 but I had been dating her for 2 years before that. She had 2 sons from her previous marriage and they were always complaining that I went to concerts without them. (The were 5 and 9 when I started dating her). Concerts were my hobby and I did go to a lot of them but they were almost exclusively death and thrash metal shows back then and I probably would have taken the oldest with me but their mother said no. SO I made a deal with them - they were big fans of The Monkees as it was in reruns on MTV at the time and I told them (thinking Hah! Never gonna happen) that if the Monkees ever came around I would take them to the show.

Well I'll be damned if they didn't announce a reunion tour 3 DAYS after we made that deal and one of the dates was in St Pete on a saturday. A deal is a deal so we went and we had a great time.

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.... geardaddy Dec 2011 #1
I second that. nt raccoon Dec 2011 #2
I'm completely underwhelmed by this dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #3
I wonder if this is satire or a hoax on the media. MiddleFingerMom Dec 2011 #4
Man I loved their car. OriginalGeek Dec 2011 #5
I saw 3/4 of them live too... Amerigo Vespucci Dec 2011 #7
I bet that's the same tour I saw OriginalGeek Dec 2011 #14
That's the one... Amerigo Vespucci Dec 2011 #15
* - that was the sound of me smacking my head. OriginalGeek Dec 2011 #22
I saw all four of them "back in the day." Still Blue in PDX Dec 2011 #11
lol... what a rip! OriginalGeek Dec 2011 #13
I was much more into the Monkees-type music back then. Still Blue in PDX Dec 2011 #19
Oh hell, do I feel your pain... Amerigo Vespucci Dec 2011 #16
Boggles the mind, doesn't it? nt Still Blue in PDX Dec 2011 #18
I thought Michael Nesmith was killed by Mark David Chapman in 1980. Bucky Dec 2011 #6
I'd give it another few decades if I were you... Amerigo Vespucci Dec 2011 #8
If there's one damn problem with DU3 EastTennesseeDem Dec 2011 #9
I tried doing a RickRoll link... Amerigo Vespucci Dec 2011 #10
I thought this was going to be about Newt's butt on a pole Z_I_Peevey Dec 2011 #12
I wonder how long they're trying to be friendly?? center rising Dec 2011 #17
Must... not... click... on... video... link...nt... flying rabbit Dec 2011 #20
Must be a slow news day. No conservatives involved in a sex or child molestation scandal. YAY! Quartermass Dec 2011 #21
the monkees first manufactured pop group like the x factor usa process theundergrounddemocr Apr 2014 #23
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