#1967 Tork

[thislovintime]

Peter Tork, summer of 1967. Photo 1 by Henry Diltz, photo 2 by Ann Moses.

“Dolenz chewed a jaw-breaker and snapped pictures of Peter. Jones sat nearby and munched his lunch. Tork said he believes in doing anything ‘as long as you’re totally committed to what you’re doing.’ Is Peter committed to starring in a television series, making hit rock ‘n’ roll records and living in Hollywood? ‘Sometimes,’ he said, ‘but I’ve got my best men working on it.’ Peter gets up and goes to the diving board. He clowns a while, starting to dive, then stopping suddenly at the end of the board. Teen-age girls at the side of the pool cry out, ‘Oh, Peter.’ Finally, Peter dives. The girls applaud and sigh. He comes back to the side of the pool and digs his hand into a box with the words ‘Peace’ and ‘Love’ painted on the side. The box, called a ‘Super Survival Kit,’ is filled with things Monkees are fond of, like Plasticman and Tarzan comics, a bushy-headed figure with a sign that says ‘Stamp Out Haircuts’ and a feathered hat. Tork, resting up beside the pool, commented, ‘It’s not hard work.’ He added that he spends what little free time he has ‘balancing my checkbook.’ ‘
We’ve been accused of copying the Beatles,’ said Peter, ‘but we’re picking up on the same things.’ Referring to the Beatles’ new hit ‘Baby You’re A Rich Man,’ he said that it means anyone can make it big. Did he think two years ago when he was a folk-singer in New York City’s Greenwich Village that he would make the big-time in the pop music field or television? ‘Sure, although I didn’t believe it as firmly as I do now. Now I’m a believer,’ Peter said with a grin. One of the Monkees biggest hits was ‘I’m a Believer.’ Other hits have been ‘Last Train to Clarksville,’ ‘Stepping Stone’ and the currently popular ‘Words.’
 A cha-cha came blaring over the loudspeaker at poolside. Peter glanced up. ‘That’s obscene,’ he remarked. A young girl in a blue bathing suit nervously stepped forward requesting an autograph. Peter signed: ‘Love, Peter Tork’ and drew a flower.
 ‘I dig flowers,’ he said. ‘I always put a flower after my autograph, because it’s more gentle that way. But that doesn’t make me a flower child or a hippie. No one can call himself a flower child. ‘I also wear beads all the time now, any beads, colorful beads,’ said Peter, who attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., from 1959 to 1963. Then he settled back in the deck chair to read a ‘Peanuts’ book — out loud.” - article by James Beaumont, The Des Moines Register, August 7, 1967

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #60s Tork #The Monkees #Monkees fans #Monkees #Micky Dolenz #davy jones #michael nesmith #<3 #Tork fan recollections #long read #been typing up a lot of interviews/articles so long reads will be frequent #love his mind #1967 #1967 Tork #The Des Moines Register #can you queue it

[balladofsallyrose]

Buffalo Springfield at Monterey Pop Festival (1967)

#buffalo springfield #monterey pop #david crosby #peter tork #stephen stills #richie furay #dewey martin #bruce palmer #outtakes #60s #1967 #because this is nowhere online.. i'd thought i should share it on here at least #edit: this was such an effort to post this !!! my god don't want to go through that ever again

[mystical-one]

i still cannot believe that the monkees and the beatles had their gay little party and then george LITERALLY asked peter if he wanted to go home with him. what the fuck is all this then

#the july 3rd-5th 1967 harrison tork connection is driving me up the wall right now. MEN WILL LITERALLY. #emi's meandering jotts

[notursteppingstone]

#vote like it’s 1967 teen beat magazine people! #the monkees #davy jones #mike nesmith #peter tork #micky dolenz #head 1968 #33 1/3

[shockyhorror]

Peter Tork ↳ Love Is Only Sleeping - The Monkees

#the monkees #monkees-song #love is only sleeping #peter tork #1967 #1960s #60s #60s tv #60s music #monkees song #mine

[monkeesmvs]

Peter Tork - Tear the Top Right Off My Head From Season 2, Episode 12 - "Hitting the High Seas"

#a bonus before head~ see you at noon! #tear the top right off my head #peter tork #& #micky dolenz #the monkees #hitting the high seas #1967 #s2 #live

[cripplecreektork]

Peter being interviewed by Ann Moses, 1967

Ann: Peter, what do you have so much of you could afford to give some away? Peter: The only thing there is so much more of to give away. Ann: Which is? Peter: The power of love.

#i have a bunch of drafts saved that i will be posting soon <3 #1967 #1960s #60s #peter tork #sixties #quotes #ann moses #tiger beat #interview

[strawberryfields4now]

The Monkees: Charlton Lyric Library Book No. 1, Spring 1967

#the monkees #mike nesmith #peter tork #davy jones #micky dolenz #whoever wrote this clearly had a lot of love and respect for them <3 #my magazines #Charleton Lyric Library Spring 1967

[gameraboy2]

1967 Show Biz Babies - Peter Tork of the Monkees

#1967 #1960s #peter tork #vintage #toy #toys #vintage toys

[harrisonarchive]

From Peter Tork’s banjo contribution to the Wonderwall Music soundtrack (featured only in the movie, not on the album). The photo in this video is from that session.

The creation of Wonderwall Music, a series marking the 55th anniversary of the recording sessions - part 5:

“George was working on the musical score he wrote for the movie, “Wonder Wall.” When Peter arrived at the studio George asked him if he would play five-string banjo on one of the cuts. Peter was more than delighted and after a time they put down some beautiful sounds. Peter mentioned to George that he’d like to see the ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ film so George made arrangements for Peter to have a private screening at the hotel. Peter really flipped for the Beatles’ fantasy film and watched it through several times. One time he even took color slides while it was being projected on the screen.” - Monkee Spectacular, May 1968

“I remember [Peter Tork] from The Monkees played banjo on a session. Peter was so nervous that his hands were shaking.” - Colin Manley, Beatles Gear (2001)

“I remember George asking me, ‘Why don’t you come back and play banjo on this session [for ‘Wonderwall Music’] I’m producing in December?’” - Peter Tork, Medium, August 3, 2010

Peter Tork: “George invited me to play banjo on Wonderwall. He was working on the soundtrack for Wonderwall, and he invited me to come and play, and I did. You can’t hear it on the album, you can’t hear it on the album, but apparently — and I never have seen the movie.” Q: “But it’s in the film.” PT: “It’s in the film.” Q: “Yeah.” PT: “I think it was Paul’s banjo. Paul had a five-string banjo, which he had strung backwards of course, being left-handed. But it was alright with him if I restrung it. So… and British five-string banjos are different from American. The fifth string, instead of having a tuning peg right in the middle of the neck, it hits a tunnel and the string goes through a tunnel to a fifth string peg at the regular peg head. Very interesting, very weird. But it was okay. Got some music in, that’s all that mattered.” - Breakfast With The Beatles, June 16, 2013

“‘[George] invited me to his house. He played the sitar and said: ‘I’m working on a soundtrack album, I’d love to have you play a little banjo.’” Tork had traveled without his instrument, so Harrison borrowed McCartney’s five-string banjo for the session — ‘which Paul couldn’t play — at least conventionally, because the folk five-string banjo can’t be restrung in reverse order for left-handers, it must be custom made. I played for 45 minutes, George said, “Thanks very much,” and we went our separate ways.’ 
Tork’s breezy contribution didn’t make the record, but it can be heard 15 minutes into the film, after Collins is chided by his mother for spying through the wall. ‘And I did not get paid,’ he laughs. ‘George said: “We’ll figure that out later.” He knew that the honor itself was payment enough!’” - The Guardian, March 23, 2017

“[George] was as kind and as gentle a man as you could imagine.” - Peter Tork, Liverpool Echo, November 28, 2011 (x)

More on two July 1967 meetings between George and Peter here and here.

#George Harrison #Peter Tork #Mal Evans #Wonderwall Music #Wonderwall Music 55 #harrisonarchive videos #1967 #1960s #The Beatles #The Monkees #Monkees #<3 #fits queue like a glove

[prominentmen]

From the September 1967 issue of Monkee Spectacular

#the monkees #mike nesmith #michael nesmith #mickey dolenz #peter tork #davy jones #1967

[thislovintime]

Peter Tork, sleeping (on set and on planes), 1967. Photos 1 & 2 by Henry Diltz.

Q: “What do you do in your (non-[existent]) spare time?”

Peter Tork: “Sleep a lot. But mostly I talk. I love to talk, as anyone who has met will confirm. It’s because I love people and I love to learn all about them and tell them all about me and I have to talk to do this. It’s one of my great pleasures in life. I used to go out quite a bit. If we didn’t have to get up too early in the morning, I’d go to the Whisky a Go Go just about every night and dance. Then there was all the trouble on the Strip and the Whisky stopped having rock and roll groups, so I quit going. I play my banjo — I’ve gotten very rusty since the old days. I write a great deal as well. Just about what I think and what happens to me and the people around me. And I think. Just sit and think. There’s so much to think about and so much you have to consider before you make decisions. I started to say judgements, but I don’t believe that you should judge others. You can only judge as far as your personal opinion goes. There’s no other basis on which to judge people, and that’s not a particularly good one. How do you know you’re right? You can say, well it’s only my opinion. But you’re still judging. Do you see what I mean?” - Flip, August 1967

#Peter Tork #1960s #60s Tork #The Monkees #Monkees #Tork quotes #<3 #love his mind #Monkees Season 2 #1967 Tork #mesh shirt Tork #1967 #Flip Magazine #can you queue it

[tantrumofdarkness]

#Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me😎 #micky fag monday #dolenzmith #The Monkees #monkees 1x26 #Monkees Chow Mein #1967 #Dave Barry #Davy Jones #Peter Tork #Micky Dolenz #Mike Nesmith #Spandau Ballet - True #i don't even know wtf i'm doing anymore #dolensmith #60s TV #shitposting

[fuckyeahpetertork]

#peter tork #twitter #mesh shirt #1967 #jimi hendrix

[john-lennon-unofficial]

if I met The Monkees:

Mike: oh my god!

Davy: whot?

Mike: someone is respecting our boundaries!

Peter: really!? even though they are a big fan of our music and television series they aren't chasing us and trying to cut pieces of our hair?

Mike: yeah!

Micky: Yeah well that's probably because she isn't that big of a fan.

Me: *in the distance* I AM A HUGE AND RESPECTFUL FAN DON'T BE MEAN

#the monkees #funny #jokes #the monkees funny #mike nesmith #peter tork #micky dolenz #davy jones #rayaswriterblog #1967

[shockyhorror]

#the monkees #michael nesmith #peter tork #mike nesmith #monkees 2x08 #1967 #monkees marooned #1960s #60s tv #60s television #mine