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Monkees in Phoenix episode

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Legend City

Pax channel is doing a Monkees marathon, and they are shoing the one where they tour in PHX, must be circa 1969 or so.

Great stuff, they take over KRUX, the hotel, which looks a lot like the old Ramada on Van Buren (it was nice back then), Veterans Memorial, dirt biking just N of Camelback in the desert that is now a bunch of strip malls and ugly Paradise Valley homes.


Great stuff, takes you back....
 
Phoenix was a red hot radio market back then. KRUX certainly scored a coup on that one.
I'm pretty sure Veteran's Memorial Collesium in Phoenix was the, or one of the first stops in their very first concert tour.
They stayed at Marriot's Mountain Shadows there on Lincoln.
They also show Mickey, at the "just being built" Cosanti, Paolo Soleri's private home there on 64th St. and Doubletree, amidst the Soleri windbells.

Enjoyed seeing the old KRUX studios and equipment.
 
I thought it was Mountain Shadows after I saw more of it.

I noticed the Soleri bells, interesting.

Cool stuff.
 
..."The Monkees On Tour" was the last first-run episode of the 1966-67 season (aired on NBC April 24, 1967). The Phoenix concert it depicts was, in fact, a one-off not actually part of an ongoing tour, although the group had played concerts in Detroit and Cleveland the previous weekend; it took place on January 21, 1967. Filming on the first season of "The Monkees" continued after they got back to Hollywood. Interestingly, their 1968 Salt Lake City concert was also a one-off primarily for filming purposes (to get the footage of their live performance of "Circle Sky" that appears in the theatrical film HEAD)...
 
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