How strange is it that I just assumed these tracks were actually that old? Weird the way the mind works – I’d heard a couple of these on the radio, but I had no idea there was a new album. I just assumed it was from the 60s (because it’s The Monkees) even though my ears tell me otherwise.
Monkees-related story: shortly after my son turned 1, we took him to a Labor Day Carnival (an annual event in Greenbelt, MD). A band was playing “Stepping Stone,” but it sounded more like the Sex Pistols’ version than The Monkees. Then the band played “Auntie Grizelda,” and I couldn’t figure out “why all the Monkees songs?” Turns out it was Peter Tork himself.
