#Peter and Micky

[thislovintime]

Backstage in Salt Lake City on May 17, 1968. Photo by Henry Diltz.

“Despite a mutual admiration, The Monkees, according to Peter, fought constantly. ‘But that’s OK. When a lot of tension is created, you get interesting art. You don’t get it from single-mindedness.’” - The Sioux City Journal, January 13, 1980 “In any quartet there are six pairs of relationships and each one had its positives and negatives. I loved them differently and respected them differently and not in proportion to my loving of them.” - Peter Tork, When The Music Mattered (1984) “It’s like every traditional group and like any place of work. I mean, all the people that you work with… you know, some of them you like, some of them you respect, some of them you love, all in different variations. I mean, I liked, loved, and respected each of them differently. And I believe that they me and they each other as well… I was talking like this once and somebody said, ‘Gee, it sounds just like life.’” - Peter Tork, MTV's I Was A Teenage Monkee (1986) Q: “I’m curious about the various reunions that happened over the years. Is it safe to say that you guys were never really friends?” Peter Tork: “Oh, I don’t know. I would say I was pretty good friends with Micky, and there was a lot of love between me and Davy. I have a lot of respect for Mike Nesmith and we’ve structured ways to work together. Things rotate. It’s like having a basketball team. You know, gosh, it’s like having a championship basketball team. They go on the road every so often and do tours, you know, just exhibition tours but fortunately your music skills don’t deteriorate as fast as your basketball skills do, but I wouldn’t know what else to compare it to. We had a chance to go out together and we took it, and we had a great time, and if we were not friends at all we would not have been able to do it. We played tours months and months long: ‘86, ‘87, ‘89, ‘91, ‘92, ‘96, ‘97, 2001, 2002 and 2011, so we couldn’t have been such enemies.” - Phawker, circa 2012; re-published 2019

[jungle--cruisin]

defending my honor, isn't that groovy

[murderoticwoman]

The Monkees, 1966

[historymakesmeangry]

I love them

[kyurochurro]

🧭 "see? i told you man, we're lost!"

[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

[taxmaaan]

The monkees except they're... animals

[margflower]

[libramooon]

Mijacogeo/The Frodis Caper The Monkees 𖦹 2x26

[monkee-mobile]

i’ve been inspired by all the communal monkee bed art i’ve seen recently to finally check monkee bed off my drawing list and oughh i actually can’t stop staring at them…. my cutes….. they’re so little and small and sleepy and they’re a family !!!!

anyway, goodnight!

[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

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[danicattleya]

sock monkees

[kyurochurro]

🎶🚗 all aboard the Monkee Mobile! 🙈

[pumpkinmonster8]

be FREAKY and FUZZY for Micky Dolenz

be SMALL and BRITISH for Davy Jones

be TEXAN and SPITEFUL for Mike Nesmith

be AUTISTIC and BISEXUAL for Peter Tork