An appreciation of Peter Tork. | Frequently used tags | Curated by @harrisonarchive. “We’ve all got to stick together or we’re all going to come unglued. Without community, the individual is dead.” - Peter Tork, The Life, May 3, 1996
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thislovintime : August, 1989. Photo and story via Ann Moses on Facebook. "Caption on the hug pic from 'Karen': I am so glad my friend took this picture! It was taken at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Stevens Point ,WI in August 1989. The Monkees and their crew hung around the Holidome that day…my friends swam with Davy in the pool and I and a group were with Peter as he talked to us about so many…
thislovintime : Photo featured in this video: Peter Tork and photographer Mike Barich’s girlfriend Vicki Peters in Minneapolis on August 4, 1967. Photo © Mike Barich, via twincitiesmusichighlights dot net. On August 4, 1967, Peter was a guest DJ on KDWB. (You can find another portion of The Monkees’ takeover of the radio station here .) However, it wasn’t Peter’s debut as a DJ: “I was a DJ on KARL…
thislovintime : Peter Tork backstage (with author Ellen Mandell) and onstage at CBGB in New York City on July 31, 1977. Photos 1-3 by Renay Morris; photo 4 and 5 possibly by Meri Browning; photo 6 by Meri Browning, via an old eBay listing. “In the dressing room before the show [Lester Bangs] asked him why he wanted to play there, and he said, ‘Because I like the atmosphere. The other guys like…
thislovintime : On set for the episode “The Wild Monkees,” 1967; the black and white photo is from the collection of Ginny Gan. “Peter never seems to stop making music, whether it’s singing ‘Pleasant Valley Sunday’ at the top of his lungs, plucking the guitar on the ranch lawn, or strumming the banjo while the whole crew stands around hand-clapping and toe-tapping. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what…
thislovintime : Peter Tork at New York City’s Warwick Hotel, July 1967; photos 1 & 2 scanned from a Teen World (?) clipping, photo 3 scanned from Tiger Beat’s Monkee Spectacular. “While Peter clowned around and chatted with them [for an impromptu 15 minutes], the girls [on the street outside the hotel] were in absolute ecstasy. Sighed one girl […], ‘he’s even groovier in person than he is on the…
thislovintime : Happy Father's Day. Sending thoughts to Peter's kids. Clip from People Are Talking, 1989.
Come On In (alternate) Peter Tork Peter Tork's Efforts Q: “Combining a slow and fast tempo, Jo Mapes’s ‘Come on In’ is a gentle Monkees tune that remained under lock and key until 1990’s Missing Links, Volume Two. It contains one of your best vocals.” Peter Tork: “Aha… I used to sing it in Greenwich Village back in my folkie days. Actually, I first heard a lady named Alix Dobkin performing the…
Micky and Peter interviewed at the Hard Rock Cafe in NYC on May 28, 1986.
thislovintime : Backstage in Salt Lake City on May 17, 1968. Photo by Henry Diltz. “Can You Dig It started off as a chart, I mean, the basic signature chord change I wrote in college and didn’t knew what to do with it, and then a couple years later — and I’d always wondered what to do with it — and the a couple of years later, I just… I was daydreaming on the subject of esoteric reading I’d been…
thislovintime : From Peter Tork’s MTV guest VJ spot on May 4, 1986: The Tork Touch Method of Semi-Professional Banjo Playing.
