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NFT: RIP Peter Tork (the Monkees)

Mr. Bungle : 2/21/2019 12:17 pm
I knew he was sick. I just didn't know how seriously.

Two Monkees gone now - ( New Window )
R.I.P.  
Anakim : 2/21/2019 12:19 pm : link
If I'm not mistaken, he was one of the actors to play Topanga's father on "Boy Meets World"
time  
GMAN56 : 2/21/2019 12:21 pm : link
is a crappy thing. Luckily I got to see him perform twice in concert. One a few years ago and then 32 years ago when they had their Monkee 25th reunion tour.
Wow, another one  
section125 : 2/21/2019 12:25 pm : link
is gone. Think he gets buried in his stocking cap?

R.I.P.
Aw... damn  
BamaBlue : 2/21/2019 12:27 pm : link
He was always my favorite. Another gut-punch reminder that getting old sucks...
RE: Wow, another one  
BamaBlue : 2/21/2019 12:27 pm : link
In comment 14302274 section125 said:
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is gone. Think he gets buried in his stocking cap?

R.I.P.


That was Mike Nesmith.
As lame as this sounds...  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 2/21/2019 12:30 pm : link
'Daydream Believer' always cheers me up.
sad  
giantfan2000 : 2/21/2019 12:35 pm : link
The Monkees were created from two musicians
Tork and Nesmith
and two actors
Dolenz and Jones

Tork was always the clown on tv show but actually was the most accomplished musician

on Daydream Believer Tork wrote the iconic piano part -that makes the song
he also wrote "For Pete's Sake" the closing theme for the Monkee's show

my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
RE: As lame as this sounds...  
rnargi : 2/21/2019 12:41 pm : link
In comment 14302282 SFGFNCGiantsFan said:
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'Daydream Believer' always cheers me up.


Not lame at all....they had a ton of great songs. Tork was a very good musician, too. They weren't a completely made up band and they had some of the best songwriters in history write for them. Daydream Believer was written by John Stewart, of Kingston Trio and solo fame.
RE: sad  
dpinzow : 2/21/2019 12:43 pm : link
In comment 14302290 giantfan2000 said:
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The Monkees were created from two musicians
Tork and Nesmith
and two actors
Dolenz and Jones

Tork was always the clown on tv show but actually was the most accomplished musician

on Daydream Believer Tork wrote the iconic piano part -that makes the song
he also wrote "For Pete's Sake" the closing theme for the Monkee's show

my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?


They aren't? How on earth is that, they were one of the most popular bands of all time in their day
RE: RE: Wow, another one  
section125 : 2/21/2019 12:45 pm : link
In comment 14302279 BamaBlue said:
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In comment 14302274 section125 said:


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is gone. Think he gets buried in his stocking cap?

R.I.P.



That was Mike Nesmith.


Damn, you are right - sorry. Peter had the floppy hair...
What a weird life he must have lived....  
Britt in VA : 2/21/2019 12:49 pm : link
Serious musician gets a big break only to find out it's a curse, hopefully he came to grips and embrace it later in life. Sounds like he did by participating in the reunion shows and such.
RE: sad  
jonnyess : 2/21/2019 1:02 pm : link
In comment 14302290 giantfan2000 said:
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my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?


My guess is they just weren't loud enough.

Oh...and no flashpods.


Or lasers.

- Gene Simmons
RE: sad  
Peter from NH (formerly CT) : 2/21/2019 1:07 pm : link
In comment 14302290 giantfan2000 said:
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my question is why the hell aren't The Monkees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?


They were viewed by many as not a real band and instead a TV show creation. I don't happen to agree with that, but it is a pretty common view. I was a kid when they were popular and we would hang out in a neighbor's basement strumming tennis rackets pretending we were the Monkees. It was happy music whoever was most responsible.
I liked the Monkees  
Gman11 : 2/21/2019 1:22 pm : link
when I was growing up in the 60s. The only problem with Peter is I always associated him with the song "Your Auntie Grizelda" which probably was recorded as a joke, but sounded like nails on a chalk board.
Very  
AcidTest : 2/21/2019 1:53 pm : link
sad. Like many others, I watched and sang along with "The Monkees." RIP. God bless.
Childhood favorites, Neil Diamond influence  
Bill in UT : 2/21/2019 6:28 pm : link
I've always loved Monkees. I blame his death on global warming's effect on his rain forest home
RE: Aw... damn  
Bill in UT : 2/21/2019 6:29 pm : link
In comment 14302278 BamaBlue said:
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He was always my favorite. Another gut-punch reminder that getting old sucks...


How could Davey Jones not be your favorite?????
I believe Nesmiths mother  
Hazlet Giant's Fan : 2/21/2019 6:43 pm : link
invented whiteout for all you old enough to remember what that was .
They definitely belong in the Hall of Fame  
Deejboy : 2/21/2019 7:48 pm : link
and it sucks that two of them are gone and won't ever see them get inducted.
Come on Bill...  
BamaBlue : 2/21/2019 8:00 pm : link
Peter was the best of that bunch... Davy Jones was the teenage girls heart throb. His poster was the female teenager's 60's rival to the favorite teenage male, Farrah Fawcett poster of the 70's... What guy wanted in on that?

That left Mickey Dolenz who was just too goofy and Michael Nesmith who was dark, quiet and brooding.

Peter Tork was the lively and funny. He always seemed to be the person who would be the most fun to hang-out with... It was the 60's.
RIP  
Steve in ATL : 2/21/2019 8:04 pm : link
Good memories. This makes me feel old.
RE: Come on Bill...  
Bill in UT : 2/21/2019 11:54 pm : link
In comment 14302801 BamaBlue said:
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Davy Jones was the teenage girls heart throb. His poster was the female teenager's 60's rival to the favorite teenage male,



Oh. please. Davy Jones, cute as he was, couldn't hold David Cassidy's jockstrap :)
RE: I believe Nesmiths mother  
Bill in UT : 2/21/2019 11:56 pm : link
In comment 14302732 Hazlet Giant's Fan said:
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invented whiteout for all you old enough to remember what that was .


Anyone who's been to Vermont knows that a whiteout is driving in a snowstorm.
Bill...  
BamaBlue : 2/22/2019 7:39 am : link
David Cassidy was the early 70's teenage girl heartthrob. After Cassidy's 15 minutes, it was Leif Garrett and Andy Gibb to round-out the late 70's...
one note  
giantfan2000 : 2/22/2019 7:40 am : link
if you have not heard The Monkees last album
Good Times released a couple of years ago

produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne

it has songs by Andy Partridge (XTC) Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller( Oasis and the Jam) and Ben Hibbard (Death Cab for Cutie)


check it out .. It is a truly a great record


RE: As lame as this sounds...  
cjac : 2/22/2019 9:18 am : link
In comment 14302282 SFGFNCGiantsFan said:
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'Daydream Believer' always cheers me up.


Last train to Clarksville is my fave
Sad. He was 77. How could Peter Tork EVER BE 77?!?!  
x meadowlander : 2/22/2019 10:38 am : link
This just makes me feel... OLD.

Monkees was one of my favorite TV shows when I was little. They took the Beatles "Hard Days Night" movie and ran with the idea. Silly irrelevant skits, bad jokes, loose morality plays. But they were so much FUN!! The first real Music Videos were on those shows and others like them.

Who didn't want to be in a band? Me and my brother would make believe we were in one, we'd crank records and jam on brooms, blowing out the windows with imaginary amplifiers made of stacked couch cushions. For kids like us, the Monkees were a FORCE - THAT was what we wanted to do with our life!

There were neighborhood bands and we'd peek in the windows, my cousin would borrow our basement and his mega band show up - what a sight, in my 70's white neighborhood, mixed race band loading amps and a full size Hammond B3 with Leslie, leather vests and AFRO's, horn section congas and they were like freakin gods, kids packed around the basement windows.

By the time my brother and I learned guitar, it seemed my whole town could play - bands everywhere! BATTLES of the Bands!

While I never lived the dream beyond bars and coffeehouses, an entire generation of musicians WAS born our of the impact of the Beatles and yeah, the Monkees were the TEEVEE component of that.

They definitely deserve their place in the R&R HoF.

(For that, so does Spinal Tap!)
RE: Bill...  
Bill in UT : 2/22/2019 10:44 am : link
In comment 14302954 BamaBlue said:
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David Cassidy was the early 70's teenage girl heartthrob. After Cassidy's 15 minutes, it was Leif Garrett and Andy Gibb to round-out the late 70's...


ok, you win. I won't ask why you know all this stuff, lol
Bill...  
BamaBlue : 2/22/2019 11:00 am : link
My knowledge of 60's teen icons is purely vicarious. My wife had a huge teenage crush on Davy Jones. I was conscious of it, but it really came to the front when Jones died. My wife went into a 2 week funk and I heard all about it...
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