#Peter and Micky

[thislovintime]

Behind the scenes during the filming of Head, 1968.

“The first thing I heard was Mike, ‘All I can say is, “Man, am I in pain!”’ And you could that he was, so the director yelled, ‘OK bring ‘em down and let’s see if we can adjust those things.’‘Those things’ were harnessed attached around their waists to enable them to seemingly fly through the air. […] ‘Shoot’ yelled the director and Mike, Micky and Peter began flailing while two men shoved the huge hose down past them in a gigantic rush of noise. ‘Wow, was that wild’ exclaimed Micky. ‘Well, it scared the #%&$# out of me,’ groaned Mike. I have to admit the whole thing was rather frightening, but the director seemed intent on making the guys do it themselves rather than using stand-ins. All four of them do almost all of their own stunt work in the movie. […] I kept watching Mike, wondering how much more he’d be able to take, until finally they let him down for a few minutes rest. Peter and Micky seemed OK; but Mike looked like he felt awful. […] Mike picks up a large cigarette butt and says ‘Well, it’s not one of your standard brands.’ This line turned out to be quite a problem as they argue over how to deliver the line — should it be obvious what they are talking about or subtle. Mike wanted to do it like W.C. Fields, one of the all time great comedians and one of Mike’s idols, would have done it, but he and the director couldn’t seem to agree. At one point, Peter seemed about to reach the breaking point of his patience, when he suddenly walked to the end of the set, stomped up and down once, shouted, took a deep breath, turned and said ‘OK, I’m ready.’I learned later that Peter was actually feeling quite bad also. A week earlier he had had an abscessed tooth, which had swollen up one whole side of his face and they hadn’t had time for him to take a week off and wait for it to go back down, so he’d had the infected tooth removed without missing a day of work. On top of this, he felt a cold coming on and was stuffing down cold tablets all day. Micky’s only problem seemed to be an insatiable hunger.” - Carol Deck, Flip, August 1968 “[In the vacuum bag] Michael finds […] the butt end of a marijuana cigarette. He wanted to say, ‘Oh, look, a marijuana cigarette.’ Bob [Rafelson] said, ‘No, no, it’s gotta be El Zoomo.’ Which is what happens [in the Final Cut of Head]. Micky pokes the thing and says, ‘El Zoomo.’ We thought saying, ‘Oh, look, a marijuana cigarette,’ was far and away hipper. Bob was concerned just saying marijuana on a movie was enough to get us in trouble. We actually went off to cool our heels. We were three or four hours screwing our minds around to going with what he said. ‘And if you don’t like it, get off my set’: another example of Bob’s exquisite delicacy with his actors and his extraordinary human relations skills.” - Peter Tork, Shindig Magazine, 2010

[historymakesmeangry]

I love them

[jungle--cruisin]

defending my honor, isn't that groovy

[murderoticwoman]

The Monkees, 1966

[margflower]

[paulmccartneyexplodingonstage]

music was better when the artists were having gay affairs they couldn’t tell anyone about

[libramooon]

Monkees in Paris ݁˖❀ The Monkees 2x22

[ghostfrog81]

Happy Monkee day!!

[barrysucks12]

[crackerboxpal]

just got hired by the beatles biopic producer/director Sam Mendes as the casting director for the upcoming monkees biopic lmk what you think of my casting choices ! Jacob Elordi as Mike Nesmith Tom Holland as Peter Tork Dwayne Johnson as Micky Dolenz (we'll get him a party city wig) Ryan Reynolds as Davy Jones the budget is $150 million

i don't take constructive criticism btw and these are final . thanks xo

[thislovintime]

September 1, 1966. Footage from the Blu-ray set, with audio in this edit from KHJ Radio.

“We were doing some pretty heavy publicity before the show hit the air. And we were in Philadelphia, and I looked over the edge of this mezzanine. And I saw few little girls down there with their autographs books and I said, ‘Hey, I’ll sign some autographs.’ What I didn’t know was there was a vast, much more solidly packed mob of kids under the balcony that I didn’t see. And when they stormed up the stairs and came after me, with all the furor of the banshees unleashed, I knew that I was in for a very heavy trip. And that was when it occurred to me that, ‘Hmm, this might be pret-ty big.” - Peter Tork, The Belleville News Democrat, June 6, 1996

[bettercallbianca]

coming out the closet as a davy jones and monkees fan... ⋆｡°✩ sorry for not posting a lot, school's been tough :/ love u guys!!<3

[jungle--cruisin]

comic practice

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[gollybubz]

idk if it's been done before (probably) with them but I wanted to do one..!