Well gang, here's something way cool to get you into the weekend! In my last post, I started listing some of the acts I've seen through the years, and mentioned that I would possibly comment on some of the better, and worse, shows. A few weeks back, Tommy and Lindsay joined Karen and I at The Monkees show at the Paramount in Huntington. As we ate dinner before the show, I was telling them about one of the best shows I'd ever seen, which was The Monkees 1986 20th Anniversary Reunion show. Since the guys hadn't performed together for so many years, they opened the show with a really cool gag, spoofing the notion that they 'couldn't' play their own instruments, by lip-synching to the Theme From The Monkees, with a cool twist. About a third of the way through what was obviously the pre-recorded theme, the record started skipping, and the 'jig' was up, so to speak. The guys grabbed a huge prop stick of dynamite, and an oversize detonator plunger. Peter uncovered a turntable, put the 'dynamite' in it, and then the three guys hit the plunger. An explosion ensued, and as the smoke cleared, the backing band broke into "Clarksville" and off they went. A great opening. And one I thought was lost to the ages, since back in 1986, there were no cell phones, certainly none that could record video. Hell, even video cameras were rare and expensive, so who figured anybody could have captured that show? Well, thanks to YouTube, I found a couple of versions of it! Of course, they're recorded from the 987th row, badly lit, shaky, and worn out, but they exist. This one is from a show in Toronto, at a venue that has a rotating stage, similar to Westbury Music Fair. It's almost the complete show, until the video battery wore out. And so, for those of you who may have missed it (which is probably all of you), here it is for you to enjoy!