Peter Tork, May 1986.
“The human race strives toward growing equal. And the question is, ‘Are we going to be equal in comfort and mutual support or are we going to be equal in squalor and misery?’ And I for one don’t see any reason to make my neighbor unhappy.” - Peter Tork, Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
Peter Tork on the set of The Monkees, 1967. Photo by Henry Diltz.
“‘They had two regular guys and a tiny heartthrob and they needed an offbeat kind of guy,’ says Peter Tork. ‘So I brought that simpleton in, a part I had developed on the Greenwich Village scene. I enjoyed that role. I still do, sometimes.’” - Washington Post (July 27, 1986)
Photo by Henry Diltz
“Well, you know, we smoked a little dope. But by that time, you know, everybody pretty much realized you can’t smoke too much dope and do your work. There’s really a limit.” - Peter Tork, The Courier News (March 11, 2001)
Clip from Peter’s MTV guest VJ spot (1986).
Genuine spontaneity with The Monkees (1986).
‘80s Peter for the day.
Peter Tork holding a koala in Australia, 1980s.
Hope this picture brings a smile to your day!
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The Tork song “MGB-GT” (live in 1986).
“[‘MGB-GT’ is] my Homage to my old car, one of the great loves of my life. It used to stop running within coasting distance of service stations and like that.” - Peter, Stranger Things Have Happened 1994 CD liner notes
Some of “Cruisin’” (at the Universal Amphitheater in 1989) to start off the week.
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Peter relaxing, 1967. Photo by Henry Diltz.
“When we’re not playing music or listening to music, we’re usually picking things apart — groups, ideas we hear from people, pieces of music, each other’s brain.” - Stephen Stills on Peter Tork, Tiger Beat (July 1967)
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Photo by Henry Diltz
These pictures of Peter Tork from the filming of Head are dated April 11, 1968 on the contact sheet.
“The gist of the movie [Head] is the Monkees remain trapped and it seems like they’re never getting out of it, which was peculiar because the movie was an effort to get out of it.” - Peter, Entertainment Weekly (2008)
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Pics from April 11, 1968
Peter Tork at Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967.
“I don’t believe anybody, given the full choice — except for sociopaths — would prefer to be operating on a basis of greed and acquisition, because everybody knows that the actual possession of things themselves does not generate any longterm satisfaction.” - Peter
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![“[This] is the last picture of Peter we received from Hollywood before he left the Monkees.
It’s one of the best photos we’ve had of Peter for several months now and it shows him hard at work on perhaps his favorite occupation — recording in the studio.” - Monkees Monthly (March 1969)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g4yg7i72z4nj26ln6ewk3npq/bafkreianlnhtz7ldz5u552axbo4hn74ibitkvcvn2iklknwsl6mhyxtwmi)
“[This] is the last picture of Peter we received from Hollywood before he left the Monkees. It’s one of the best photos we’ve had of Peter for several months now and it shows him hard at work on perhaps his favorite occupation — recording in the studio.” - Monkees Monthly (March 1969)
“[This] is the last picture of Peter we received from Hollywood before he left the Monkees.
[…] [I]t shows him hard at work on perhaps his favorite occupation — recording in the studio.” - Monkees Monthly (March 1969)
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A bearded, smiling Peter Tork during the Headquarters sessions, 1967.
“We made a record called Headquarters and I was as happy as a clam. For a garage band, which is what we really were, that record seems to me to stand up very well. It was four funny, imaginative guys with a range of capacities.” - Peter, The Star (2011)
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Color photo of Peter Tork grinning, with his chin resting on his knee, 1967. Photo by Gene Trindl.
“[Peter Tork is] very serious about music, however. […] He reminds me of a cocker spaniel puppy, ya know what I mean? He’s so eager to please and excited when people are around.” - article by Tracy Thomas, Flip (September 1967)
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Pic by Gene Trindl
Peter Tork, smiling and holding a to go coffee cup and a paper bag, stands outdoors in Portland, Maine, on April 6, 1995. Photo by Sue Rioux.
Peter in Portland, Maine, on April 6, 1995. He was there to perform the National Anthem at the opening game of the Portland Sea Dogs.
Photo by Sue Rioux.
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Peter Tork makes two appearances on the 1982 album The CooP: Fast Folk Music Magazine (June 1982, Vol 1, No. 5): Traditional Music Revisited — playing banjo and singing on “I Truly Understand” (in this clip from 1997; footage courtesy of derekup), and playing banjo on “The Eunuch’s Lament.”
Peter Tork, circa winter of 1966.
On April 3, 1966, Peter Tork opened for Muddy Waters at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
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A smiling Peter Tork, holding a camera as he goes sightseeing in Paris during the on location filming for the episode “Monkees in Paris.”
“Peter’s the only Monkee who can speak French so he probably had a better time than the other three. He talked to everyone...” - article by David Price, Monkee Spectacular (Oct. 1967)
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Pic: Peter sightseeing in Paris, 1967
Monkee antics, 1966.
“I went downstairs to get something and was almost crushed to death by these girls. I had to be rescued by the security guards. Right then and there I realized we had been accepted as pop stars.” - Peter
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Monkee Mail from Peter’s stint as guest VJ on MTV, 1986.
Quote from Ask Peter Tork (2008); read more at www.instagram.com/p/DWjjlXhjJa....
Closeup of Peter Tork onstage, 1967.
“Those of us [in the ‘60s] who were truly interested in liberty, fraternity and equality, however, knew we were onto something good and real. What had been called democracy [was & is] a pretext for wrapping the will of the greedy and aggressive in a mantle of public acquiescence.” - Peter Tork
A slightly glum looking Peter on the set of The Monkees; he signed it for a teen magazine with the tongue-in-cheek comment, “Joy Peter” 😁.
“More and more I try to meet anger with love. The world is love. Sooner or later everyone will love everyone else.” - Peter Tork, interviewed by Edwin Miller for Seventeen Magazine (August 1967)
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Closeup of Peter on the set of The Monkees, circa late 1966/early 1967.
“‘My life as a celebrity I’m not happy with,’ says Tork, who writes stream-of-consciousness essays about this subject on the back of his scripts.” - Saturday Evening Post (January 28, 1967)
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A bearded Peter smiling, 1969.
“I wrote the song [‘Easy Rider’] with some friends, and I played it for Bert, and Bert said, ‘Well, we’ve decided to go a different way. We have a couple of other composers named Dylan and McGuinn.’” - Peter Tork, In This Generation show (2013)
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“The Peter Tork character reached a lot of people. He was an outcast — he lurched around, not getting hurt by his own bumbling idiocy.” - Peter, The Tampa Tribune (1982)
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Clip from MTV, 1986
The Carny Band in 2010: Peter Tork, Danny Bryck, Nick Thorkelson, Maurice Martin, and Tim Jackson; photo by Daniel J. van Ackere.
“For Nick [Thorkelson] and me, this reminds us most of ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. […] There’s something luscious about it, like New Orleans on a foggy winter’s evening…” - Peter, The Boston Globe (2010)
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“I started with the horns [sings] and I wonder what happens if I try to do that on banjo…” - Peter Tork, The Hi-lo (June 2013)
More about Peter’s cover of Jackie Wilson’s “Higher and Higher” at www.instagram.com/reel/DWUL6y1....
Footage from 1997, courtesy of sunnygirlfriend13.
Peter playing the banjo onstage with Davy Jones at the Starwood Club on March 24, 1977.
Peter playing the banjo onstage with Davy Jones at the Starwood Club on March 24, 1977.
Peter playing the banjo onstage with Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Coco Dolenz at the Starwood Club on March 24, 1977. Photo by Henry Diltz.
Peter with Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Coco Dolenz, Rodney Bingenheimer and members of the Elton John band backstage at the Starwood Club on March 24, 1977. Photo from the collection of Rodney Bingenheimer.
Peter with Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Coco Dolenz, Rodney Bingenheimer and members of the Elton John band at the Starwood Club on March 24, 1977. Photo 3 by Henry Diltz; photo 4 from the collection of Rodney Bingenheimer.
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Can’t let National Puppy Day go by without this clip, right? (No sound to, hopefully, avoid the video being blocked.)
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