Title: Yikes! Stick with the studio recordings!
Product review: This cd is interesting only as a novelty recording. I love The Monkees, but this live show just isn't very good. The sound is bad and unfortunately the boys just can't reproduce the songs on stage (they didn't really play on most of them originally, and they don't have the right equipment set up to do a decent job anyway). It's sort of embarrassing: Mike's eternal chord strumming (no leads or riffs...just chords); Mickey's limited drumming (drumming that he never actually did on most of the studio versions of the songs they cover). It's kinda cool to hear them out there giving it a try, but they really don't succeed. There's gotta be some recordings somewhere from '68 that must be better (I hope!).
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