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Monkees considering another attempt at a reunion tour
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 October 2011
The Monkees are nothing if not persistent. Despite calling an abrupt halt to their 45th anniversary tour earlier this year, they’re considering giving it another go, or so says Peter Tork.
As previously reported, no official reason was given for the cancellation of the band’s most recent reunion tour, but a rep for Micky Dolenz said at the time: “Management had booked a number of dates with the venues without running them by the group first … so we had to cancel the remaining dates”.
Speaking to Rolling Stone this week, Tork gave a much longer explanation, though without really telling us anything more, except that another reunion tour wasn’t an impossibility. He told the music mag: “I’m not really at liberty to get into detail about what happened, but there were some business affairs that couldn’t be coordinated correctly. We hit a glitch and there was just this weird dislocation at one point. I can’t say anything more without getting into the stuff that we have to keep down. We need to work on this stuff outside of the public eye. [But] between everybody’s behaviour changing enough and restructuring the way that we related to one another… we did it all right. We had a good time onstage, laughed and created jokes”.
He continued: “I’d say that the odds of another tour are better than 50/50… it would probably be in the next year or two. But obviously nothing is settled yet, and until we see a settlement in sight, we can’t even begin to arrange a tour. Once you start arranging a tour, you may be able to get it mounted about six or seven months down the road”.
Some people might say it would be more dignified if they just left it alone. But what fun would that be?
