Last night, Lisa and I saw Peter Tork in concert at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia!!!!!!! He was playing with his Blues band: The Shoe Suede Blues. I don’t know if I would call it a Blues band; I guess if I had to call it something it would be: Happy Funky Blues. Peter is getting old. He is also getting petite. But he seems happy. Our seats (stools, actually) were very close to the stage so we had a great view. The other band members were real characters! The drummer looked like Ronald Reagan with a pompador and ducktail. The guitar player looked like he might have toured in Jesus Christ Superstar while the keyboard player was rather obnoxious like Penn from Penn and Teller. The bassist was very quiet and hid in the shadows. There was a heckler in the crowd, a drunk lady who kept asking Peter if he was the one who wore the wool hat. “No I was the small British one,” he kept replying. Thankfully he did play some Monkees’ songs: Last Train to Clarksville, I am a Believer, etc… Sadly, he did not play Daydream Believer or Auntie Grizelda. It was a great performance and I feel a little guilty knowing I probably infected the band and audience with my cold.