Hey Dan.....Your "toothmate" Karen is exactly the right age and was a huge Monkees fan. They did have some great writers and were very talented in their own right as I later learned through assorted TV docus. At the time however I was more a curmudgeon of pop than a listener/ enthusiast. Additionally, the only Clarksville I had been to was real pit and I wouldn't have gone back there on a train or magic carpet for all the tea in China.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.


Spaw