I saw the Monkees, show from the 70s, which I really liked and I was captivated by Micky s voice. Which I have followed since then. Thanks Micky for your music and shows.
It was so hard to watch how obviously difficult it was for Mike to do this. It feels like he knew he was dying. But he did it, and we are forever grateful.
Loved these guys. I was born in the same week the show first aired in 1966. Saw them live first in 1989 without Mike but later in 1997 with all four of the guys. Magic moments.
The love & care by which Micky ever the professional shepherds Mike through this is apparent as it was when I saw them in New Jersey a few weeks earlier. Thankful for the years, the music, & the joy.
Eric,and thank you for meeting this video post. I'm 42 years old,and I am a Japanese who has been a Monkees fan for about 31 years. I only had a chance to watch a live broadcast on Instagram last year, so it's a really precious video. It's been almost a year since my beloved Mike died🤍 My parents' generation of artists, but I still love them. I am ashamed of my poor English ability.But I wanted to say……THANK-YOU🙏💕☘️ ありがとうございます‼️
These guys were the soundtrack of my youth. I watched, knowing this was the last time that Nesmith would perform these songs, and that he would be gone in less than a month. I was doing OK until Daydream Believer, and that's when my eyes started to fill. Nesmith left the stage knowing these people loved him.
I am going to cry. This is absolutely beautiful Bless Michael Nesmith. I WISH DAVY PETER AND MICHAEL PEACE AND LOVE THROUGH OUT ETERNITY AND SENDING MICKEY HUGS.
My friends and I saw Mike and Micky on their last tour in Northfield, Ohio it was so great! Mike had to sit down a lot and leave the stage a few times but he could still sing good! RIP Mike!
The Monkees were on TV when I was born so when the reruns came on in the 70's. I became so infatuated with them and even joined Mickey's fan club that was still being run by his grandmother. They were my first favorite band. They are still in my heart. Blessings to all of their families and Mickey. May the gentlemen (Davy, Peter, and Mike) all be found in Heaven singing wonderful songs with the angels. ❤
So many people including my grandmother and father.. slowly wither away until they have physically and mentally faded away before the died. Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith were still fully functional and cognizant and performing right up until the time of their deaths. That is the way to go.
I don't know why, but I teared up watching Micky and Mike singing Daydream Believer. This was a great concert, I would have loved to have been there. I did get to see Micky and Davy perform at Disney in 2001, those were also great shows they put on.
Wow !!! Thanks for posting this historical farewell concert! I saw the show in Clearwater Florida in October,,,it too was a great performance.show!! RIP Papa Nez and carry on Micky,,,Monkees 4Ever!!!
My sister and I saw the Orlando show, on 10/10. I had to call my sister on 12/10, to let her know Papa Nez had passed away...on her birthday. 😢 I will always be thankful we got to see the show. Mike was my favorite Monkee since the show aired when I was 3~ and Micky was my sister's favorite. She even liked him on the show Circus Boy.
Lost it on the remaining Monkees band members, singing Daydream Believer at 1:35. Happy and yet sad at my age 12 (in 1966) idols still reclaiming my favorite Monkees song.
Really enjoyed this video. This took me back to my childhood. I remember watching their Monkeys TV Show every Saturday Morning. One of my favorite bands!!! I did get to see them at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater in the 90’s. It was a great show. Thanks Micky for keeping sound alive!!! RIP Dave, Peter and Mike!!!!
Thanks for concert. I saw Mickey at Disney world when he took over the concerts from Davy Jones. I was supposed to see them in The woodlands tx but they canceled the concert. My sister and I loved the monkees growing up. She is probably have a private concert in heaven.
I was at the Greek Theater for the last Monkees concert. I didn't know that it was the last concert ever for the Monkees. The most touching moment for me at the the concert was when they were doing Daydream Believer. Everyone at the concert put on their flashlights on their phones. Mickey said ,Wow ! What a sight! Or something close to that. The whole audience started singing the song, including me! Mike and Mickey stopped singing. I looked at my best friend and we both had tears streaming down our faces! It was a special moment! So glad that I got to see them in their last concert at the Greek! Always loved them! They should definitely be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! They are icons! Love them!😎💖😀😄👍
En 1966 tenia 11 años. Yo super enamorada de Mike Nesmith. Eran mis ídolos. Jamás los voy olvidar en sus programas de TV tengo todavía sus discos. Ahora los veo en por este medio. En paz Descanse.
saw them in Jacksonville - I think it was a better show than this. It was a sweet goodbye for us fans. Their voices (especially Micky's - he was really great still) were good and the band was really good. Thanks for putting this together. So glad to have seen before Mike passed.
Oh how I love these talented artists more and more as time goes on!!! It is amazing to hear Mike and Micky sing these tunes so well so many years later!! It was especially poignant when Mike sang alone, as it was the final concert........RIP DAVY, MIKE AND PETER!!! MICKY, KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!!!
I love The Monkees. I will always love The Monkees. If The Good LORD had spared them/us to still have them with us as long as they would favor us to sing I would GLADLY listen GOD Bless them ,period.
Eric Lapp, thanks so much for this compilation! I didn’t get to any of the last concerts so youtube and the generosity of others makes it possible to see it❤️
I saw them in Chicago June 14th, 2018, which was one of the last shows before Mike had to stop touring due to the heart issue. He was playing guitar so to me that was the true final concert. I also saw Mickey, Pete, and Davy in 2001 at the Fillmore one of the last shows before Pete left.
I was at that same concert in Chicago! It was fantastic! I have been a fan since 1967, and I was in awe even into my 60's to hear all these songs of theirs performed live sans Davy 😢 RIP. And yes you are right, just 2 shows later is when they had to postpone the tour, due to Mike's health (quadruple bypass surgery was needed! 😮)
Thanks for this Eric, appreciated hoping an official dvd is released in the near future surely something is in the pipeline, even an compilation of concerts from the last few years.
There are far too many complications for an actual official release of this particular tour but there are several other YT videos that can be edited this way. I would love to find more videos from this concert so I can finish a decent document of this one very special moment that I was so lucky to attend.
The Monkees don’t get their due, I’m still not over the loss of Peter & Mike, remember, Davy was back in 2012, anyhow, still heartbreaking losing my heroes in music & comedy, R.I.P. Davy Jones, Peter Tork & Mike Nesmith
Wasn’t the final concert Nov 14? I only got to see them once in AC in Oct. 😞 It’s so touching that Micky watched & gently guided Mike when needed & backed away when it wasn’t. ❤ Thank you for this! Thank you, Monkees!
Mike had to have heart attack. When they came back to holding the last concerts he was sickly, thin and weak. He didn’t even play guitar. He sat a lot. Sad.
I liked the Monkeys but watching Mike just stand like a rock was painful, I just wondered if he was sick or something, Micky was fun to watch he was all over the place, well I need to close this ......................
Thanks. I emailed Adam Sandoval just today to ask if there was an official Blu Ray of this concert in the works. His response: "No such project has ever been in development." :( :( :( :( I don't know about you, but I'd plunk down real money for a chronicle of the very last tour.
I collected a lot of videos and audio from that last 2021 tour. I keep thinking I'm going to make more videos and take the best bits of all those shows and do a compilation. Unfortunately, I don''t have any interview footage that would explain the background of this tour. I wonder if Andrew has even seen this. Either way, I have more footage for this video to edit in and finish it up but still nothing for "A Little Bit Me".
I at least wish there was a Blu Ray or DVD of the 2019 Mike & Micky Show that produced the live album. Two videos were released from that concert (Last Train To Clarksville and The Door Into Summer) which means cameras were professionally filming it. I wish they would release the whole thing!
Hello again ❤I'm sorry, the way I typed this ❤Honestly, I type like a monkey 🐒 No! I mean Monkees ❤ I'm just about 7yrs old 😂 AND MY FINGERS DON'T ALWAYS WORK THE WAY I WANT THEM TO. STIFF! HAHA ❤ LOVE, MARE❤
I love the Monkees, Mike is an amazing musician but I notice im this video that he lip sync the last song, i went to see him in Fort Lauderdale, i really enjoy the concert, honestly I dont care if he did.
Yeah, as you probably know by now, he could barely even stand up during this tour, but he somehow maintained his balance on the stage at every concert. I haven't watched this whole video yet, and so far it looks like Micky isn't concerned about his balance, but you can see other clips on UA-cam in which Micky looks like he is ready to catch him. He was in really bad shape, but he insisted on finishing the tour. RIP
Yo era muy pequeña en los sesenta, una niña de cinco seis años, cuando veíamos su programa, y me encantaba, en este momento estoy llorando , no sabía que ya se había ido otro más, que tristeza😭
Let's face it, Mike didn't need money his mom invented Liquid Paper and sold the company for 47 million in 1979. He did this because he finally realized he missed his band.
I saw the Monkees in 2004, without Mike of course, at The Forum in San Francisco. They were still so good then every song sounded straight off the album, no exaggeration. Mickey and Davey's voices still sounded like when they were filming their show. Their backup band was dynamite and really gave punch to every song. I've been a huge Monkees fan since '66 when I watched their debut show and every one after that and grabbing every album when it hit the stores. But when seeing these latest tours the past few years I can't help thinking maybe they stretched it just a little too far. It's one thing when you can't quite hit some of those higher notes, but when you can't hit any and your voice is cracking and fading out and off key and you can't harmonize then it's pretty much time to refrain from dishonoring the music you did so famously well. And it certainly doesn't help that the backup band stinks. They sound like a bunch of neighborhood musicians practicing in the garage. Seriously, they're really lacking in the kind of sound Mike & Mickey were needing behind them to make up for what the guys weren't capable of anymore. For their final days and last concerts together I really wish they could have had a really worthy band like when I saw them 17 years ago.
it might look great but given his frailty, having a guitar slung over his shoulder for 2 hours while standing up, night after night, would have been hard on him, i think, they can be pretty heavy, especially the larger models like he favoured. Maybe he also found it hard to lift up & put it on and off his shoulder. But yes maybe one or 2 songs, while sitting, that micky sung more of, might have been nice for him to do, one last time, especially since there were other guitarists as back up to take the pressure off him, & to help him manoeuvre the guitar around. But i would assume they did think of all that though, tried things, & figured out what was best.
@@ericlapp72 i read somewhere that he was even worse at the start, only sitting, barely moving etc, but as the days went on, he seemed to gain some strength - probably feeling more geared up by the audience, but also the boost of 'exercise' from him having been sedentary for quite a while.
Had a quadruple bypass surgery in the summer of 2018, but he did finish off the postponed tour a yr later with Micky. And then the pandemic happened early 2020....
@@Funtasaurus Which was always far less than any of the others. On top of that dude was a reprobate to the entire "band" for DECADES because of his ego. FAR too little and FAR too late but RIP to Mike anyway.....
Most of us fans think of it as him finally embracing his part in the whole group - unfortunately it took Davy passing for him to go on the road with them, then Peter and then his own mortality. Better late than not at all.
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@ my 66 years of age this brings a nostalgic tear to my eye and reminds my heart how fast time flies... Monkees Magic for sure.
RIP DAVY JONES, PETER TORK Y MICHAEL NESMITH
The Monkee's will go down in history as big talent and underrated.
I saw the Monkees, show from the 70s, which I really liked and I was captivated by Micky s voice. Which I have followed since then. Thanks Micky for your music and shows.
An important piece of history! I appreciate the work you're putting into this... Long Live Michael Nesmith!
Hi Michael and Mickey,
No one can't beat you two and we going
To miss Peter and Davy
Patty from Miami Florida
It was so hard to watch how obviously difficult it was for Mike to do this. It feels like he knew he was dying. But he did it, and we are forever grateful.
Loved these guys. I was born in the same week the show first aired in 1966. Saw them live first in 1989 without Mike but later in 1997 with all four of the guys. Magic moments.
The love & care by which Micky ever the professional shepherds Mike through this is apparent as it was when I saw them in New Jersey a few weeks earlier. Thankful for the years, the music, & the joy.
Eric,and thank you for meeting this video post.
I'm 42 years old,and I am a Japanese who has been a Monkees fan for about 31 years.
I only had a chance to watch a live broadcast on Instagram last year, so it's a really precious video.
It's been almost a year since my beloved Mike died🤍
My parents' generation of artists, but I still love them.
I am ashamed of my poor English ability.But I wanted to say……THANK-YOU🙏💕☘️
ありがとうございます‼️
These guys were the soundtrack of my youth. I watched, knowing this was the last time that Nesmith would perform these songs, and that he would be gone in less than a month. I was doing OK until Daydream Believer, and that's when my eyes started to fill. Nesmith left the stage knowing these people loved him.
Wow . . . all of that amazing talent . . . . still going strong: ) This is hard to watch.
I am going to cry. This is absolutely beautiful Bless Michael Nesmith.
I WISH DAVY PETER AND MICHAEL PEACE AND LOVE THROUGH OUT ETERNITY
AND SENDING MICKEY HUGS.
My friends and I saw Mike and Micky on their last tour in Northfield, Ohio it was so great! Mike had to sit down a lot and leave the stage a few times but he could still sing good! RIP Mike!
Absolutely phenomenal
yes
hey tina,,, long time no thee
Just like when I watched Monkees re runs at four years old, watching this made me feel like it was happening right now. Thank you.💜
The Monkees were on TV when I was born so when the reruns came on in the 70's. I became so infatuated with them and even joined Mickey's fan club that was still being run by his grandmother. They were my first favorite band. They are still in my heart. Blessings to all of their families and Mickey. May the gentlemen (Davy, Peter, and Mike) all be found in Heaven singing wonderful songs with the angels. ❤
Mike still had that magnificent voice right up until the end. Rest in peace, sir.
So many people including my grandmother and father.. slowly wither away until they have physically and mentally faded away before the died. Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith were still fully functional and cognizant and performing right up until the time of their deaths. That is the way to go.
Actually Mike looks terrible here, but his voice was still good!
This is great to see of these concerts
I don't know why, but I teared up watching Micky and Mike singing Daydream Believer. This was a great concert, I would have loved to have been there. I did get to see Micky and Davy perform at Disney in 2001, those were also great shows they put on.
Wow !!! Thanks for posting this historical farewell concert! I saw the show in Clearwater Florida in October,,,it too was a great performance.show!! RIP Papa Nez and carry on Micky,,,Monkees 4Ever!!!
My sister and I saw the Orlando show, on 10/10. I had to call my sister on 12/10, to let her know Papa Nez had passed away...on her birthday. 😢
I will always be thankful we got to see the show. Mike was my favorite Monkee since the show aired when I was 3~ and Micky was my sister's favorite. She even liked him on the show Circus Boy.
Lost it on the remaining Monkees band members, singing Daydream Believer at 1:35. Happy and yet sad at my age 12 (in 1966) idols still reclaiming my favorite Monkees song.
What an amazing show! I was there and it was very emotional!
He told us He'd come back.... And here he is...What a man...
This is the holy grail. Thank you so much for this historical recording!
Qué comentario más baboso!
Lots of shakey footage but it is what it is! I know the time it takes to do this thx for the undertaking.
Keep us updated. This is fantastic what you're doing, here!
I'm still going to make a final cut or draft. Still waiting for more footage. If you have any, please contact me. :)
Mike was my Favorite Monkee!❤
Really enjoyed this video. This took me back to my childhood. I remember watching their Monkeys TV Show every Saturday Morning. One of my favorite bands!!! I did get to see them at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater in the 90’s. It was a great show. Thanks Micky for keeping sound alive!!! RIP Dave, Peter and Mike!!!!
Mike looks absolutely terrible here, but considering the circumstances. But he sounds surprisingly good! SWEET YOUNG THING, ya gotta love it!
Thanks for concert. I saw Mickey at Disney world when he took over the concerts from Davy Jones.
I was supposed to see them in The woodlands tx but they canceled the concert.
My sister and I loved the monkees growing up. She is probably have a private concert in heaven.
Great work!! This is awesome!!! Im a big fan (I caught the AC NJ show). Thanks so much!!
This is a tremendous undertaking. Thank you so much for doing it.
I was at the Greek Theater for the last Monkees concert. I didn't know that it was the last concert ever for the Monkees. The most touching moment for me at the the concert was when they were doing Daydream Believer. Everyone at the concert put on their flashlights on their phones. Mickey said ,Wow ! What a sight! Or something close to that. The whole audience started singing the song, including me! Mike and Mickey stopped singing. I looked at my best friend and we both had tears streaming down our faces! It was a special moment! So glad that I got to see them in their last concert at the Greek! Always loved them! They should definitely be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! They are icons! Love them!😎💖😀😄👍
couple of cry babies checking in!
It does get you like that, doesn't it. Am pleased for you that you were able to be there. What great memories for you.
Pues si esos cuates están el el Salón de la fama! Qué chafa Salón de la Fama!
That’s awesome! 😊❤
I was so privileged to get to see them in Dallas in September 2021. They were amazing!
En 1966 tenia 11 años. Yo super enamorada de Mike Nesmith. Eran mis ídolos. Jamás los voy olvidar en sus programas de TV tengo todavía sus discos. Ahora los veo en por este medio. En paz Descanse.
Thank you for compiling and posting this. Some of us wanted to be there but couldn't.
saw them in Jacksonville - I think it was a better show than this. It was a sweet goodbye for us fans. Their voices (especially Micky's - he was really great still) were good and the band was really good. Thanks for putting this together. So glad to have seen before Mike passed.
Great video.
Beautifully done. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this - being in the UK I couldn't see this show, & now I never will - so thanks for a wonderful edit x
HA HA HA!!! YOU NEVER GOT TO SEE THE MONKEES IN PERSON. I DID. ALL 4 OF THEM AND I SAW THEM GET THEIR STAR AS WELL
Oh how I love these talented artists more and more as time goes on!!! It is amazing to hear Mike and Micky sing these tunes so well so many years later!! It was especially poignant when Mike sang alone, as it was the final concert........RIP DAVY, MIKE AND PETER!!! MICKY, KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!!!
I'm so glad I caught the 2018 tour in Denver. This is hard to watch with the way Mike had failed.
2023, RIP Mike Nesmith, you were, really, my favorite Monkee. Wish you were still here, but this is our human nature, get old and die.
Watched the series years ago. Was always fun and entertaining.
I've got a s**t eating grin on my face! Smiling big time! Really enjoyed this concert! Thank u!
Thanks for sharing I loved Mike
I love The Monkees.
I will always love The Monkees.
If The Good LORD had spared them/us to still have them with us
as long as they would favor us to sing
I would GLADLY listen
GOD Bless them
,period.
Eric Lapp, thanks so much for this compilation! I didn’t get to any of the last concerts so youtube and the generosity of others makes it possible to see it❤️
Agreed and same.
You did a great job putting this all together and you deserve alot of credit! Thankyou for sharing this historic event with us all! God Bless
66 years old, I love the Monkeys!!!
Unbelievable that Nez passed away about 3 weeks after this show. El Bummero
Awsome Two greatest 60s monkees there music was great
Monkeetastic Thank you.
I saw them in Chicago June 14th, 2018, which was one of the last shows before Mike had to stop touring due to the heart issue. He was playing guitar so to me that was the true final concert. I also saw Mickey, Pete, and Davy in 2001 at the Fillmore one of the last shows before Pete left.
I was at that same concert in Chicago! It was fantastic! I have been a fan since 1967, and I was in awe even into my 60's to hear all these songs of theirs performed live sans Davy 😢 RIP. And yes you are right, just 2 shows later is when they had to postpone the tour, due to Mike's health (quadruple bypass surgery was needed! 😮)
wow.. thank you!
Thanks for this Eric, appreciated hoping an official dvd is released in the near future surely something is in the pipeline, even an compilation of concerts from the last few years.
There are far too many complications for an actual official release of this particular tour but there are several other YT videos that can be edited this way. I would love to find more videos from this concert so I can finish a decent document of this one very special moment that I was so lucky to attend.
@@ericlapp72 Good luck, hope you are able to.
thank you this is amazing
im glad this popped up, great stuff
Don't know why Mike did this; he clearly wasn't up to it. Bless him.
Andrew Sandoval has said nothing/no one could stop him from performing for the fans.
Thanks Eric!
Thank you.
Saw them in September on this tour and at that time Mike walked out with a cain, it was said to see, crazy after this 2 weeks later he passed
The Monkees don’t get their due, I’m still not over the loss of Peter & Mike, remember, Davy was back in 2012, anyhow, still heartbreaking losing my heroes in music & comedy, R.I.P. Davy Jones, Peter Tork & Mike Nesmith
Thank you so much
Wasn’t the final concert Nov 14?
I only got to see them once in AC in Oct. 😞 It’s so touching that Micky watched & gently guided Mike when needed & backed away when it wasn’t. ❤
Thank you for this!
Thank you, Monkees!
I had video of them in concert on Long Island - a few months before this show
Mickey is a F$cking legend!
He truly is!
I agree!
Rip Mike Nesmith 1942-2021 😢😢
😞
Love this and love the Monkees
i like them i saw them in ks
Mike was not all there but was awesome!!! RIP Mike, Davey & Peter!
Let's hear it for that band! I can't tell anybody apart anymore, but I bet those guys have a resumes a mile long.
Mickey Dolenz is truly one of the greatest voices in rock music..
Ja ja ja! Is this a joke?
@@esthelabarrera5016 No.
The Days Of Melody xx
I love the nez
Mike had to have heart attack. When they came back to holding the last concerts he was sickly, thin and weak. He didn’t even play guitar. He sat a lot. Sad.
He had a quadruple bypass operation a few years before this
Summer 2018 it was, so it was just over 3 years that he had left
😞
Wow. Wow..what. 2. Great. Of. My. Guys
Excellent. When was this filmed? Michael died on December 10, 2021
I liked the Monkeys but watching Mike just stand like a rock was painful, I just wondered if he was sick or something, Micky was fun to watch he was all over the place, well I need to close this ......................
Thanks. I emailed Adam Sandoval just today to ask if there was an official Blu Ray of this concert in the works. His response: "No such project has ever been in development." :( :( :( :( I don't know about you, but I'd plunk down real money for a chronicle of the very last tour.
I collected a lot of videos and audio from that last 2021 tour. I keep thinking I'm going to make more videos and take the best bits of all those shows and do a compilation. Unfortunately, I don''t have any interview footage that would explain the background of this tour. I wonder if Andrew has even seen this. Either way, I have more footage for this video to edit in and finish it up but still nothing for "A Little Bit Me".
I at least wish there was a Blu Ray or DVD of the 2019 Mike & Micky Show that produced the live album. Two videos were released from that concert (Last Train To Clarksville and The Door Into Summer) which means cameras were professionally filming it. I wish they would release the whole thing!
the one song i was waiting to hear by Mike, was "her name was Joan" shame they didnt do it
Hello again ❤I'm sorry, the way I typed this ❤Honestly, I type like a monkey 🐒 No! I mean Monkees ❤ I'm just about 7yrs old 😂 AND MY FINGERS DON'T ALWAYS WORK THE WAY I WANT THEM TO. STIFF! HAHA ❤ LOVE, MARE❤
I love the Monkees, Mike is an amazing musician but I notice im this video that he lip sync the last song, i went to see him in Fort Lauderdale, i really enjoy the concert, honestly I dont care if he did.
Yeah, as you probably know by now, he could barely even stand up during this tour, but he somehow maintained his balance on the stage at every concert.
I haven't watched this whole video yet, and so far it looks like Micky isn't concerned about his balance, but you can see other clips on UA-cam in which Micky looks like he is ready to catch him.
He was in really bad shape, but he insisted on finishing the tour. RIP
モンキーズよ永遠に
Yo era muy pequeña en los sesenta, una niña de cinco seis años, cuando veíamos su programa, y me encantaba, en este momento estoy llorando , no sabía que ya se había ido otro más, que tristeza😭
I love Jehovah!
TOP THIS ,IF YOU CAN. R.I,P Mick
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Griffith is spelled wrong on the title screen.
Let's face it, Mike didn't need money his mom invented Liquid Paper and sold the company for 47 million in 1979. He did this because he finally realized he missed his band.
Exactly!
I saw the Monkees in 2004, without Mike of course, at The Forum in San Francisco. They were still so good then every song sounded straight off the album, no exaggeration. Mickey and Davey's voices still sounded like when they were filming their show. Their backup band was dynamite and really gave punch to every song. I've been a huge Monkees fan since '66 when I watched their debut show and every one after that and grabbing every album when it hit the stores. But when seeing these latest tours the past few years I can't help thinking maybe they stretched it just a little too far. It's one thing when you can't quite hit some of those higher notes, but when you can't hit any and your voice is cracking and fading out and off key and you can't harmonize then it's pretty much time to refrain from dishonoring the music you did so famously well. And it certainly doesn't help that the backup band stinks. They sound like a bunch of neighborhood musicians practicing in the garage. Seriously, they're really lacking in the kind of sound Mike & Mickey were needing behind them to make up for what the guys weren't capable of anymore. For their final days and last concerts together I really wish they could have had a really worthy band like when I saw them 17 years ago.
COVID 19 pandemic shut us inside! Hard to stay fit! Mike was weaker I think due to that! But His voice is awesome still!
Yes, that clearly was bad timing for him, with the pandemic raging everywhere. 😞
Seems a bit odd that Mike didn't have a guitar with him. Even if he did not play it, it makes for a great prop.
I think it's amazing he actually made it through the tour considering his health. When he cried we all cried. It was a very emotional night.
He tried using a guitar in rehearsals but he could basically either do one or the other but not both at the same time so they stuck with the singing.
it might look great but given his frailty, having a guitar slung over his shoulder for 2 hours while standing up, night after night, would have been hard on him, i think, they can be pretty heavy, especially the larger models like he favoured.
Maybe he also found it hard to lift up & put it on and off his shoulder.
But yes maybe one or 2 songs, while sitting, that micky sung more of, might have been nice for him to do, one last time, especially since there were other guitarists as back up to take the pressure off him, & to help him manoeuvre the guitar around.
But i would assume they did think of all that though, tried things, & figured out what was best.
@@ericlapp72 i read somewhere that he was even worse at the start, only sitting, barely moving etc, but as the days went on, he seemed to gain some strength - probably feeling more geared up by the audience, but also the boost of 'exercise' from him having been sedentary for quite a while.
What year did Mike toss his wool cap?
2021 December 10th
Hard to watch with Michael struggling.
When exactly, did Nez lose the ability to hold or play guitar?
Had a quadruple bypass surgery in the summer of 2018, but he did finish off the postponed tour a yr later with Micky. And then the pandemic happened early 2020....
What exactly does Nesmith add to this?
His presence.
@@Funtasaurus Which was always far less than any of the others. On top of that dude was a reprobate to the entire "band" for DECADES because of his ego. FAR too little and FAR too late but RIP to Mike anyway.....
Most of us fans think of it as him finally embracing his part in the whole group - unfortunately it took Davy passing for him to go on the road with them, then Peter and then his own mortality. Better late than not at all.
Ugh. Noticably Cold Voices 😱
Mike went downhill fast
A triple bypass ain't nothing to bat your eyes at. It took much steam out of him, but he kept the train going, didn't he??
@@WeerdMunkeeyes, he did.
Rumors of a not too good assistant either as I recall.