Does anything good remain unreleased in The Monkees' vaults?

Yes, you might be.

 

Not so fast ...I posted this is another thread; I would love any of this and that's the fun about wanting everything Monkees...they have plenty still left for completists (even the reunion years):

Then & Now/Pool It! Era
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere -unreleased Bobby Hart produced version
Daydream Believer - Stereo Mix 2: Bass, Drums and Piano are re-recorded
*In the Music Box Disc 4 liner note...it mentions that they were offered 4 new tunes for Then & Now...what was the fourth one?
MTV Christmas Medley
Reunion Blues - Pool It! Photo Sessions
Going To The Chapel - Pool It! Photo Sessions
Other Chatter (Riu Chiu, Mr. Sandman, Amazing Grace, etc.) - Pool It! Photo Sessions

Justus Era
Manchester Boy - Justus Sessions
Regional Girl - Alternate Lyrics: Hey Hey It's The Monkees TV Special
Antarctica - Hey Hey It's The Monkees TV Special
Monkees Medley - Hey Hey It's The Monkees TV Special
Monkees Theme - Hey Hey It's The Monkees TV Special
You And I - Acoustic Start: Justus Video

Not Fade Away - Boys Meets World
My Girl - Boy Meets World

Other
Christmas Is My Time Of Year - Both Mixes
White Christmas - Both Mixes
Christmas at The Isthmus - Chip Douglas Produced (Check out interview with Chip Douglas via monkeeconcerts.com: (http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/blog...ee-exclusive-a-conversation-with-chip-douglas)

Not sure if these were ever recorded, but interesting
Daydream Believer - 2001 With Natural
I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone - 2001 With Natural
Valleri - 2001 With Natural
http://www.mtv.com/news/1438874/monkees-swing-back-into-action-on-the-road-in-studio/

 

At 72 Mickeys voice is still great and is on some of Circe Link and Christian Nesmiths living room concerts. I ran across this snippet of Randy Scouse Git on u-tube.

 

That was terrific! Thanks for posting it.

 

Did that "I can't wait to play the violin" or something like that, sung by Davy, ever get released?

 

It was on Headquarters Deluxe I believe..
"If I Learned To Play The Violin"

 

"If I Learned to Play the Violin" was first released on the Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees CD-ROM in 96, I believe. It had the virtual Monkees pad you could explore, extensive inteviews, videos, etc.. I haven't looked at it in years.

 

I had a low budget Monkees cd I bought in 97 "I'm a believer" with Ceiling in my room"!

 

There are a some interests still in the vaults. Off the top of my head:

I'd like to have a discs worth of sessions for MOTM, PAC&J and BB&M. I think that would be an easy order for Andrew.

Rhino has the 1968 Concert in Japan source cassette tape that was traded around and has considered releasing it, from what I heard. I'd pair that with the Phoenix show from 1967, or tag then onto some other deluxe box.

Also, Head incidental music from a master source (I'm pretty sure this exists, since Andrew played bits of this over a Nesmith interview podcast), it may possibly exists in stereo - especially would like a wider stereo of Strings - Ken Thorne (the released version is darn near mono). Andrew just recently hinted of a find on the newly discovered extra reels/video from the 33 1/3 special. I would speculate that there are removable audio tracks, like those found on the series tapes. If the 33 1/3 tracks could be lifted off the tape, that would be a "holy grail"-type find....at least in my opinion.

I wouldn't mind a Missing Links deluxe box set when they finished the deluxe box set series....a nice ribbon and bow on the end of an awesome campaign. The BB&M sessions stuff could land here, and maybe those concerts, etc.. Any "missing links" would qualify, a real vault raid. Sweep it clean.

 

And being it was cut into two half hour airings, that'd explain why most of Mike's songs aren't in the show... They probably filmed the entire show and edited stuff/songs out to allow for commercial breaks... Their shows were generally an hour long, so something had to be cut out...

I think they opened the floodgates on backing tracks with the deluxe edition of "Instant Replay": Nearly the entire third disc is backing tracks...

 

While I'm not a big fan of their "Pool It!" album, I'd still probably buy something like you're suggesting... "Pool It!" has a few okay moments, it just sucks that Jones put the stops on Peter's ideas which, according to the album producer, were very good/interesting...

 

It's not unreleased, but I'm surprised that Christmas Is My Time Of Year and White Christmas have not featured anywhere in the Rhino campaign. The Changes reissue would have been a good place for the originals, and the revamped version could have gone on Pool It.

 

Maybe the master recordings don't exist anymore? Also, it would be kind of weird to have Christmas songs tacked onto an otherwise secular recording.

 

I don't know if they'd fit in on a "Pool It!" reissue, but they'd probably be okay on some sort of "Monkees 70s/80s revival" compilation: Where else could they go?

 

Yeah, I guess they'd fit on a 70's/80's compilation but the problem si that not enough people would buy it (unless maybe it was a Rhino Handmade thing?).

 

The Chip Douglas Christmas tracks should be out, but where would they go? (Calling Ian)

I know a lot of the Friday Music releases are superfluous, but I wonder if they even made any attempt to add the three Arista tracks to Pool It. (The live "I'll Love You Forever" should have been on there too, as well as the 1986 "Daydream Believer" remix.)

As far as actual unreleased stuff we haven't heard, it does seem we are down to backing tracks and alternate mixes, as was stated earlier. I do want to see the rest of the TV mixes come out, and it would be great if the Snuff Garrett session and Changes outtakes could surface some day too.

 

I think you're right about that...

 

An album of all the true, proper TV mixes (including all the unreleased ones) in order of when they were broadcast would be pretty cool.

 

I wouldn't mind if they released a CD with all the songs that were released on the bonus 45s that came with the various deluxe sets... (And wasn't there also a 45 released if you ordered the original 2 CD editions "The Monkees" and "MOTM"?)

 

I'm sure we'll get that stuff in the bonus material of the eventual Super Dee Duper Extra Special Deluxe Editions of the albums.

 

I don't recall that. The 45 of "I Didn't Know You Had It In You, Sally" / the "no-horns" mix of "Daydream Believer" was an extra if you bought both the 2-CD deluxe editions of Headquarters and Pisces directly from Rhino's website, as I recall.

Unless I really missed something!

 

Wow. That is a voice that has really held up over the years.

 

There is the ever-popular "Pinball Machine." Sorta their Carnival of Light!

 

no 45 with the 1st 2 albums

 

I remain unconvinced!