Davy Jones doing "Daddy's Song" & 'For Pete's Sake" live in Birmingham, England 3-18-97. This includes Mike Nesmith who joined the group for tour of Europe in the spring of '97.
Pretty cool seeing ALL FOUR of them singing and playing "For Pete's Sake", with PETER singing lead!! RIP Peter & Davy. Thanks for the music & comedy.🎶🎤🎤🎤🎤🎶
thank god for the handheld devices we have now, and youtube. for they provide incontrovertible evidence that these guys where great live. these vids will probably still be here in 100 years
Peter had a most unusual singing voice when the Monkees first came together. I don't know why they didn't have him sing either lead or solo more often than they did...unless he didn't want to at the time.
It's very sad that this is the only video from these 1997 shows. It's looking more and more like this will be the last time the four ever perform together, and all we have are these grainy, poor-quality vids of their only full live concerts together post-1968. I was crushed when Mike quit again in April of '97!
This is so great! Yeah, the dancing is almost exactly the same as it was in Head. Davy ought to have been in more movie musicals. Come to think of it, was he ever in ANY? Also, For Pete's Sake is my favorite Monkees song and it's great to see all four of them perform it.
@lwallace3 Um, YES, Davy was in musicals! He was in the Broadway version of Oliver! The cast was on the Ed Sullivan Show the same night as...the Beatles first appearance...
I never liked Davy's music hall numbers or Mickey's pseudo-scatting, but the rest of their output (85% or so) I see as being fantastic. However one looks at The Monkees phenomenon, it was a creative and proficient aggregation that brought about some drop dead brilliant music.
Mickey originally sang this and Peter co-wrote it with another guy named Joseph Richards, NOT Harry Nilsson, but Harry was a genius and wrote better songs anyway.