#Tork houses

[thislovintime]

On the set of Head (1968).

“‘Did you ever see that documentary on television, the one where the camera showed a South Vietnamese officer shooting [a] Viet Cong prisoner?’ [Peter] asked. ‘No,’ I [Judy Sims] faltered. ‘Well, this officer… just pulled out a gun and shot the guy, a prisoner, no provocation, and the camera caught the whole bloody thing, a human being disintegrated while you watched… that film clip appears in our movie several times.’ And later he said: ‘In spite of the fact that I think our movie is really good, heavy and all that, I don’t dig it. It’s too violent.’ The movie, still called ‘Untitled,’ is not just a Monkee romp; apparently it makes some strong statements that a lot of people won’t like. I don’t know how much control the Monkees themselves had over the production, but I can’t help but think this is one way for them to move away from their limiting ‘teeny‘ image and perhaps do more meaningful things. When I recovered from the movie thing, Peter led us into the living room and played some records he had produced for a Monkees album. And they were very nice; one was ‘Lady’s Baby,’ a tune Peter wrote, another was ‘Alvin the Alligator,’ a talk-song his brothers wrote some them ago; another was sung by Micky. Then he played what he called a ‘taste treat’: Steve Stills singing the Stevie Winwood song, ‘Mr. Fantasy’ (produced by Steve, not Peter). We listened to a few more records while we stretched out on Peter’s comfortable red rug, and then headed down the long, narrow drive to the city.” - Disc and Music Echo, August 17, 1968

“Besides transforming The Monkee image, the film’s other stated goal, as explained by Peter Tork, was to ‘…grab a little reality and walk through the scenes and talk about ourselves and put a little objectivity behind the whole thing — show the people what it was really like.’” - The Charlotte Observer, August 7, 1996

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #The Monkees #Monkees #Head (1968) #Davy Jones #Micky Dolenz #michael nesmith #90s Tork #long read #Tork songs #Lady's Baby #Tork houses #can you queue it

[monkee-mobile]

Not the right season AT ALL but

The guys all helping Davy dress up for Halloween and taking him trick or treating. Of course the guys are also dressed up but some of them Michael use Davy as an excuse to why he’s dressing up and going out.

All the other people their age are going to big crazy parties and the guys are just happily trick or treating. And of course there’s one neighbour (probably Babbitt) who always chooses trick and Davy busts out a little dance all excitedly. They then all go crazy on a sugar high :p

TRICK OR TREATING YES!!!

the boys love trick or treating. like whaddaya mean they’re adults? Naw! gotta get the free candy!!

of course davy loves dressing up, mike tags along with him as the tired parent™️ (even though he secretly loves it. davy will sit mike down and start dressing him up in all sorts of things and mike thinks it’s very cute… until he almost gets poked in the eye with a makeup brush and they have to have a talk about watching for people’s eyes. but its halloween, any chance to get a ton of free sweets, c’mon?)

micky LOVES halloween, he’s having a groovy time. his goal is to spook peter, but for some reason the kid won’t get spooked! peter is sometimes worried the holiday will be too scary for him, but he’s found he really likes it! he finds a way to sympathize with all the monsters and so micky has a hard time getting him to be just plain scared.

#they have to put micky on a child leash though #especially after he eats some of the candy #mike has to make sure nobody actually turns into a werewolf and starts terrorizing a neighborhood or something #because with the monkees it could happen #you never know #always best to be prepared #there was that one year where peter wandered into someone’s house and ended up getting mailed to florida… #but mike prefers not to think about that year #it makes his blood pressure go up #their favorite part of halloween is dumping all the candy out on the living room floor when they get home #and they often host a little party where they play some music at the pad the day before or after halloween #because they’re saving the day itself for trick or treating of course #(not my autocorrect immediately changing ‘day’ to ‘davy’) #the monkees #davy jones #mike nesmith #peter tork #micky dolenz #asks

[ninetimesbluedemo]

#have some girls :) on the house:) #the monkees #peter Tork #Davy jones

[tiredeyes1975]

living in southern california is crazy like theres so much pop culture/music history here and im supposed to be normal about it

#shout out to my family for being filipino and immigrating to the west coast #now im in close proximity to the house where peter tork had orgies #idk why that was my first thought but also like. everything else. am i supposed to be normal

[mothric]

I missed about half the Linnell interview due to connection issues but I nevertheless have a handful of highlights:

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Q: Where's a good place to have a little private cry in New York?

JL: Oh! You can cry right on the sidewalk. Nobody will bother you.

JL (after some more thought): Between 49th and 50th, and between Broadway and 6th, there's a little pedestrian walkway. It has a tube to pass from one way to the other. You could probably use that [...] but you'd probably have to plan ahead.

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Q: I've failed my practical driver's test four times. What's the most fantastical way you've ever failed at something?

JL: I also failed my driver's test once, [immediately after] my mom said "don't worry John, only an idiot could fail this."

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Linnell's favourite Monkee is Peter Tork, whom he's personally met (and whose daughter is a TMBG fan!), but Mike Nesmith gets an honorary mention; he highly recommends his autobiography Infinite Tuesday.

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He also went into detail about the logarithmic timeline of the universe he'd drawn on the walls of his house, spanning the house's entire length. His wife and son also contributed, before they ultimately painted over the whole thing. Affectionately, that's an insane thing to do. Go off, Linnell family.

#john linnell #tmbg #tmbptmbg #they'll have the stream up later so i can listen to the whole interview eventually #but wanted to get some notes down in the moment anyway! #he also has good book taste in addition to nesmith's autobio he's also been reading things fall apart by chinua achebe #and a detailed critical history of the british monarchy #tbh his book recs are one of the most fun/interesting things about this whole event #nov 2023

[kafkaguy]

how it feels to see photos of people hanging out at peter tork and stephen stills house in the 60s

[joegramoe]

“Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.”

Former Byrd, Chris Hillman as quoted in his memoir “In Between” and photographed with fellow Flying Burrito Brothers bandmate Gram Parson and friends at Peter Tork’s house in 1968.

Photo by Nurit Wilde

#chris hillman #gram parsons #flying burrito brothers #the byrds #classic rock #country rock #grievous angel #cosmic american music

[bloodenjoyer]

you guys have to help me build a time machine so i can go to 1960s laurel canyon and attend all the clothing optional drug parties at peter torks house

#it’s important . i’ll do anything i’ll start eating brown rice

[harrisonarchive]

Photo 1 (from the arrival back in London) by Watford/Mirrorpix via Getty Images; photo 2 cross-posted at This Lovin' Time.

“First social call was to Peter Tork’s house. When we arrived Peter was wearing a string of beads and very little else, since it was far too hot to be anywhere but a swimming pool that day. Dave Crosby (Byrds) was there, too, and we had a good get-together. […] I suppose the highlight of L.A. this time for us was the session we had at Peter Tork’s place. Peter Asher joined us there — he played bass, Peter Tork was on piano, George and Dave Crosby on guitars and Ringo drumming.” - Mal Evans, The Beatles Monthly, August 1968

“Ringo Starr and George Harrison dropped by the Studio City home, Tork recalled. ‘We went swimming for a while in the pool.‘“ - The News Journal, July 16, 1989

“Just relaxed, just played what you could play. […] I played with Ringo Starr, Ringo, and George once, played with those guys. Same thing: bam, everything settles down, everything’s in order, everything is taken care of, and play what you can play.” - Peter Tork, Musicgroups, 2007

“Steve [Stills] was there [too], and he was embarrassed; he shook hands with George and kind of turned his back on him, the way shy guys will do. [...] We all jammed, Stephen and George and Ringo, and I was on keyboards, and I don’t remember who played bass. It was fabulous to hear Ringo play. My God, what a drummer. God, he was good. He was so solid, and the authority was astounding. I learned so much just by playing with him for five minutes; it was a wonderful experience.” Q: “It’s a bummer it didn’t get recorded.”
 PT: “It is too bad, nobody thought to record it. The best we had at the time was cassettes, but even so, that would have been a wonderful jam.” - Peter Tork, Rolling Stone, 2007; published 2019 (x)

(In connection with today's post: July 1967, post 1, July 1967, post 2, and January 1968.)

#George Harrison #Riongo Starr #Peter Tork #Mal Evans #Stephen Stills #Peter Asher #Pattie Boyd #Maureen Starkey #et al #1968 #1960s #quote #David Crosby #George and Ringo #The Beatles #The Monkees #quotes about George #(GH and PT hanging out and jamming lifts my soul; my two favorites meeting up just makes me really happy <3) #fits queue like a glove

[rosandguilarehead1968]

peter tork gay sex house

#wizardspeak #stealing this post sorry nez. i need it on my blog

[acceleracers-baby]

Acceleracers Rant - Nolo Edition!

Okay- I’ve been thinking about Nolo A LOT lately. Especially since, according to the Acceleracers Wiki, Nolo and Tone were orphaned at a young age. This means that Tone has been taking care of Nolo since they were both pretty young- and if we’re going to continue to assume the Wiki is right, there was also a time when they were straight up just on the streets.

This honestly makes me think that after their parents passed, Tone was terrified that the Foster system would separate them, so he just did what he could to keep them together, even if that meant sleeping in his car for a few weeks before he could win enough street races to be able to afford steady housing for them. Nolo was probably still pretty young at the time too so I’m sure Tone was working hard to make sure that Nolo didn’t fully understand how bad their situation was.

Like, when Tone raced he was probably thinking “Damn, if I don’t win this, we might not eat tonight,” but to Nolo he was probably just like “Watch me smoke this guy, little bro!”

This makes Tone’s death hit 1000 times harder for me. Like this eighteen-year-old kid just watched his brother die in a firey explosion which I'm sure not only traumatized him but also left him without family. Sure, he has the Teku, but Nolo IDOLIZED his brother to the point where the thought of Tone messing up and crashing was unfathomable so he literally made up a nerative where Tork maliciously murdered his brother in cold blood.

ALSO if you think THATS sad- I just realized that the car that Tone is racing when he crashes in the flashbacks is SYNKRO!!! or at least it looks exactly like it. So that means Nolo took the wreckage from his brother’s fatal crash and spent countless hours rebuilding it from the ground up!! It EXPLODED and he rebuilt it!!! AHHHHH!!!

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#hot wheels #acceleracers #hot wheels acceleracers #hot wheels highway 35 #acceleracers headcanons #hot wheels hcs #nolo pasaro #this has kept me UP dude #like can you imagine tone trying to make sleeping in the car fun??? so nolo doesn't get scared???? #can you imagine them trying to find somewhere safe to sleep??? #the teku taking turns staying at nolos apartment after tones passing cause he can't handle being alone #nolo spending COUNTLESS hours fixing Synkro as he grieves his brother #GODDDDD #Gig this is so sad…play despacito… #I will never recover from this #if y’all need me I’ll be in a padded room. #also take this with a grain of salt #all I know about the foster care system comes from cinema

[thislovintime]

Peter Tork at Monterey Pop Festival (June 16-18, 1967). (All?) photos © 2006 Bryan Costales.

And the story behind that candle...

“One of the nicest surprises for me while I was up there [in Monterey] was a gift, given to me by a girl-friend, Kay Zar. She knows just how much I dig candles, and when she was wandering around the display booths, spotted a gigantic candle, it has to be at least two feet high. I now have it standing in the center of the fireplace in my house, and it looks just fantastic. As the flame burns, all different colored wax drips… really groovy looking.” - Peter Tork, Fabulous 208, July 15, 1967

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #Kay Zar #Monterey Pop Festival #1967 #Tork houses #The Monkees #:) #<3 #Fabulous 208 #can you queue it

[tweeterwilbury]

OPENLY BISEXUAL PETER TORK I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER YOU ARE LIKE A DOG THAT IS MY FRIEND'S PET AND I GO TO THEIR HOUSE ONLY TO PET YOU

[cripplecreektork]

“I had many interviews with the affable and sincere young Peter Tork (five years my senior), who was the bass player for the TV pop group, The Monkees. And in every one he would respectfully answer my questions, sign his autograph a dozen times for us to superimpose over his color pin-ups for his droves of adoring fans, and then, politely, try to treat me like ‘one of the gang,’ by encouraging me to come to his house and try LSD. What can I say? It was the ’60s.” — Ann Moses

#peter tork #ann moses #the monkees #monkees #quotes #1967 #1968 #tiger beat #60s #sixties #1960s #hbd my beloved <3

[mystical-one]

wait ok so tork harrison timeline so far

- sometime in 1966 post-monkees casting but pre-production (May 31st 1966) at cass elliots house (briefly)

- july 3rd 1967 in london at the speakeasy party

- july 5th 1967 at georges house 😏

- december 1967 (or january pre-7th since that's when george flew to bombay) for the sexy sexy wonderwall banjo session

- ??? AT PETERS HOUSE???? supposedly in 1968 given when the article about it came out (aug 1968) but ummmmmmmmm hello. For the love of god hi

#whats happeninggggg #emi's meandering jotts

[sgt-celestial]

tagged agesss ago by @arthur1969 to list 10 fave songs of the month ^_^

Vagabond John - Peter Tork

Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond) - Don McLean

Gimme Some More - Labi Siffre

Woodstock - Joni Mitchell

House of Jansch - Donovan

Grand Ennui (McCabe's Tapes) - Michael Nesmith & Red Rhodes

Time Passes Slowly - Bob Dylan

Circle Game - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Fountain of Sorrow - Joan Baez

Let The Wind Blow - The Beach Boys

No-Pressure Tagging @swallow-wind @ninetimesbluedemo @tedhead anddddd @bedlund and using it as an excuse to say hi guys 😊👋

#SPECIAL HUGEEEEEEE SHOUTOUT TO ROLL WITH THE FLOW which is currently the only thing keeping me afloat 👍 #i showed it to my dad the other day and HE REALLY LIKED IT TOO which gives it extra specialness points #tag games #emi's meandering jotts