#80s Tork

[thislovintime]

July 1967; photo by Micky Dolenz.

“A Greenwich Village hippie in younger days, Tork was the first to leave the group. And as legend has it, he was the most freaked out by the Monkees experience. ‘That’s accurate in my case,’ he said from Toronto this week. ‘Pop entertainers in the ‘60s had no experience with fame. It takes a balanced personality, beyond that usually attracted to entertainment, to be able to handle it. I knew Jimi [Hendrix] and Janis [Joplin], and I know they both came to music out of loneliness. I once heard Jimi sing backstage, singing full out, like he never did onstage. When I told him it sounded great he gave me this embarrassed laugh, like a kid rejecting a compliment.’” - The Boston Globe, August 10, 1989 “[We would] watch him from backstage. What he did was simply exquisite. I loved to watch the way his hands worked — it came so easily to him it looked as if he wasn’t playing at all. Most guitar players have so much tension in their arms, they hunch over. But the easier you are — and Jimi was extraordinarily easy with it — the wider your range of expression.” - Peter Tork, A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross (2006) “Michael and I would sit backstage and listen [to Jimi Hendrix] and just marvel.” - Peter Tork, Newsday, April 14, 2007 “Genuine, reliable and huggable, Peter is a natural person — really gets off on talent — loves other musicians and can jam along with the best of ‘em. I saw him holding his own with Hendrix, Stills, Young.” - Davy Jones, They Made A Monkee Out Of Me

#Peter Tork #Jimi Hendrix #Micky Dolenz #Michael Nesmith #Davy Jones #The Monkees #Monkees #60s Tork #80s Tork #00s Tork #long read #can you queue it

[gratefulnez]

The Monkees and The Beatles being friends is something that can be so personal

#the greatest crossover ever (in my opinion) #also I will never shut up about the picture of michael and george #my beloveds #the monkees #the beatles #michael ❤️ #michael nesmith #george 💛 #george harrison #peter 🧡 #peter tork #paul 🤍 #paul mccartney #micky 💚 #micky dolenz #john 🍋 #john lennon #davy 🩵 #davy jones #ringo 🥁 #ringo starr #60s #70s #80s #honey chats

[neek00draws]

I’ve been thinking about the 80’s Monkees a lot…

#artists on tumblr #fanart #neeko’s art tag #digital art #digital painting #monkees #monkees fanart #the monkees #the monkees fanart #davy jones #peter tork #mike nesmith #micky dolenz #80’s

[the-mozzarella-brothers]

HI everyone

as y'all probably know, the monkees episodes on archive.org got taken down unfortunately. thankfully though, i downloaded all the files from there that i could a while ago and i have a google drive with those exact files!

everyone can feel free to use it, it is here. i'm not sure how stuff like this works with copyright so don't spread it around unnecessarily just in case (though i can always remake it because i have the files on my laptop still), but if you need it then feel free to use it!!

it also has elephant parts for anyone that wants that :)

if anyone else finds any other monkees content (television parts as a file, etc etc) that i can put on there feel free to send it to me to add it :) im not sure how much storage i have on there but i can always figure out a solution!

hope this helps!

edit: it seems i kind of put the wrong link on the original version of this post that leads straight to the season 1 section (thats the section i had open when i made the post) and i've fixed it but on the versions that have been reblogged it still opens that link. i think with that link you should be able to go backwards to the part with all four sections (S1, S2, films and specials, michael's stuff) but i'm not exactly sure. sorry about it not working properly before i should've checked the link when i posted it :/

#the monkees #monkees #mike nesmith #peter tork #davy jones #micky dolenz #michael nesmith #60s #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #i think all those tags with the decades are allowed becuase there is content from each of them #70s #80s #90s

[monkeesdaydream]

The Monkees play Michael Nesmith's "Cruisin'" (live at the Universal Amphitheatre on July 9, 1989). The very brief snippet of footage is courtesy of CNN, the rest of the audio is courtesy of the indispensable Monkees Live Almanac.

#The Monkees #Monkees #Peter Tork #Michael Nesmith #Micky Dolenz #Davy Jones #80s Monkees #(where's the rest of the footage CNN come on please share) #do I have to queue this all over again?

[bee-in-a-box]

My emotional support old man from real life

#unsure if the ref was 80s or 90s peter. Don't think he aged at all in those decades so I guess it doesn't matter- #Peter Tork #monkees posting #the monkees #kept showing my brother this drawing as I was working on it #and every time I showed it to him he would be like 'oh you fixed it!' 'oh you fixed it!' #BOY TELL ME WHATS WRONG WITH IT AND I CAN FIX ALL OF IT

[rodeoromeo]

what’s wrong with you

#the monkees #peter tork #80s peter tork #op

[davyrp100]

What would you say to Mike if you met him

#davy jones #peter tork #the monkees #911 fox #mike nesmith #mcr #the winchesters #the mandalorian #the last of us #shadow and bone #the monkey king #micky dolenz #davyjones #70s #80s #90s #70s music #mikexdavyxpeterxmicky

[lugosis]

#80S PETER TORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wife city #the monkees

[monkee-mobile]

saving up photos for weird girl wednezday and may I just show…

to me this is charlie’s angels.

#the monkees #mike nesmith #davy jones #peter tork #80s monkees #sorry about their watermark #maybe it ads character to the image #they’re the barbie-pink ‘starphotoz ebay’ angels

[sgt-celestial]

Top ten photos taken 56 seconds before falling down a flight of stairs and landing in the dead peter griffin pose at the bottom + bob dylan for scale

#skirt made by my abuela in the 80s/90s 😁😁😁 #emi's meandering jotts #feeling very joni mitchell laurel canyon 1969 esque . i think peter tork would want me

[thislovintime]

"‘I used to ask myself, “Why me?” before,’ [Tork] says. ‘Now I’m saying, “What the hell, why not?”’” - The Gazette, May 27, 1982

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #80s Tork #can you queue it

[out-on-the-weekend]

How to play the banjo according to the Tork Touch Method

#the monkees #peter tork #80s #MTV #monkees

[mickgaydolenz]

#what if the nunees were an 80’s pop group?? and what if micky was the it girl!?!? #anyways i wanted to draw the girls again 💖 #micky dolenz #mike nesmith #davy jones #peter tork #aka micky. michelle. dani. petra 💖 #the monkees #the nunees

[mrsarcadian]

the monkees: our life in 15 songs - 13/15

"mtv started showing the old show and we reunited for a tour. it just exploded. it was the biggest selling tour of that year for anybody." - micky dolenz

#the monkees #monkees #davy jones #mike nesmith #peter tork #micky dolenz #* #monkees* #15monkees #actually no dont even try to talk to me about 80s monkees #im the only one who gets them #this is a safe space for 80s monkees #i dont care if they were 40 and dads #let davy do That #let micky speak his truth #80s peter was such a moment leave me alone #wish mike could have been there but tbh i would have avoided it too HGIKJGHIKJHGHUIUH #pool it top 5 album of the 80s i'm not joking

[rodeoromeo]

this performance also includes this dumb bit about mike btw

#I’ll be fucking honest I want Peter carnally in this tank top with that hair #the monkees #Davy jones #Peter tork #micky dolenz #mike nesmith #op #80s monkees