#Pool It!

[the-mozzarella-brothers]

Peter Tork in The Monkees' video Don't Bring Me Down

[thislovintime]

The Pool It! sessions, Cherokee Studios A & B, 1986. Photos 2 & 3 via Roger Bechirian/Tape Op.

Roger Bechirian: “[Micky Dolenz] and Davy Jones showed up one day and had coffee in my home. They'd heard the Squeeze album, East Side Story. Micky loved it and wanted to make a record like that. I thought I could see it, but we made an album that was really middle of the road. Davy Jones brought in all these schmaltzy ballads. The sessions ended with us having a big row in the studio one late afternoon. Davy was calling me every name under the sun. I really lost it. I told him to get out of my studio. Anyway, there were two songs on the album that could've been big hits. ‘Heart and Soul’ was one. The other was a version of a Wreckless Eric song [‘(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World’]. The album was not great.” Q: “Did they play on it?” Bechirian: “Yeah, Micky played some drums and some guitar, although we had session drummers and whatnot. You know who was good? Peter Tork was an amazing multi-instrumentalist. I had no idea! He had a bunch of songs that would've made a great album. But of course they wouldn't have it — Jones wouldn't have it. Peter was great. I was really, really taken with him. He was full of life and had loads of ideas. He'd had a really rough time since they broke up, but he'd really come out of it all.” - Tape Op, July/August 2012

Pool It! also features the Tork song “Gettin’ In”:

“[Peter] played us [Lou Natkin and Pool It! producer Roger Béchirian] that song [’Gettin’ In’] on guitar; I thought it was interesting. He said, ‘Do you like it? Do you like it? I say, ‘Yeah, I like it; it’s interesting.’ He said, ‘Oh that’s your way of saying you don’t like it, [that] it’s not a hit.’ I said, I was honest, ‘It’s not a hit single, but it’s an interesting song.’” - Lou Natkin, Stranger Things Have Happened vinyl sleeve notes

“Your eyes are getting heavy, you are falling asleep. When you awaken, you will obey my commands and remember nothing of this conversation.” - Peter Tork on “Gettin’ In,” Stranger Things Have Happened 1994 liner notes

“The inspiration came to me on West 57th Street one day. I don’t remember the initial form of the piece, but I was charged. I immediately started to make a demo on a dinky little four-track. I had one little synthesizer, it was Casio’s first. It was a genuine synthesizer in that it had an ADSR generator and a primitive sequencer. The reason the bass goes the way it does is that I couldn’t get any lower notes on the keyboard, that’s where it stopped! So Iso I had to write a bass part to fit its limitations. Even when I got more synthesizers I kept the same arrangement, and that’s what I gave to Roger Bechirian. The lyric starts off as a ‘I’ve got you now little girl’ lyric. But one of my goals in my adult songwriting life — the last ten years — has been to have some measure of ambiguity. So, I have sort of shifted over to the spiritual mode. Not like, ‘I’m just out for your body,’ although that would be nice!” - Peter Tork, Listen To The Band liner notes, 1991 (x)

[mickgaydolenz]

Heart and Soul is literally the gayest song I’ve ever heard. “Love is a key that fits a million locks” Where are we?! Pride?!

pool it! my most beloved of 80’s albums 💖😔. heart and soul, our monkees gay pride anthem 🏳️‍🌈?!?!?!?

um but also i take your gayass heart and soul, and up you the super sus song micky and davy wrote together for justus👇

[ai-dream]

Poolroom 4.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so we are all just whacking each other with pool noodles on this fine april's day

[starredforlife]

hey you 🫵

make ur personal dashcon for all I care. as many snacks and as much nudity n weed as you want for whichever scenario lol. go nuts show nuts yknow? or whatever we used to say

[rosecolouredheart]

YEAH NO SHIT MY GUY.

[huariqueje]

Blue Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon"  -   Eline Brontsema

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 68.2 x 51.3 cm

[mickgaydolenz]

I just need to know your opinions on ‘She’s Moving in With Rico’ from Pool It! cause I learned some people really don’t like it but it’s one of my favorites

okay so ironically i also was NOT a fan and thought it was a wet noodle of a whatever song when i first heard it. also, i had been ensnared by my girl Midnight (ultimate bop etc) so nothing else really mattered. BUT my twin loves that fucking song, so when we went on our road trip it was added to our playlist and….well it fucking grew on me after scream singing SHE’S MOVING IN WITH RI CO OH OooOoOOH one too many times. so yes, i now consider it a certifiable bop ✌️😔

[0pooleart]

Cliche

[0poolesketch]

Huggaddiction

[pickledfingers]

THIS IS IT

MY MAGNUM OPUS

POOL NOODLE AXOLOTLS

(and yes, they are lovers)

[wizard-legs]

I hate Justin McElroy for validating my lifelong fear of invisible ocean creatures in my pool with the ‘glass shark’ bit, because now every time I am in ANY body of water I have to act like I’m not afraid of Glass Shark so it can’t smell my very real fear

[vangoghcore]

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