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“I remember a Thanksgiving Day [in 1965] when the air was crystal clear in a way that I’ve never seen it before or since in L.A., and you could see all the way out to Catalina. It was wonderful. That crystal clarity symbolizes the whole era for me.” - Peter
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November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“I remember a Thanksgiving Day [in 1965] when the air was crystal clear in a way that I’ve never seen it before or since in L.A., and you could see all the way out to Catalina. It was wonderful. That crystal clarity symbolizes the whole era for me.” - Peter
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“The song was weirdly prophetic. I had no idea that was going to be my attitude about anything having to do with music when I wrote that song.” - Peter Tork, Listen To The Band liner notes
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🎥: Speakeasy, November 1988; footage courtesy of orangeneko
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🎥: Speakeasy, November 1988; footage courtesy of orangeneko
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“The song was weirdly prophetic. I had no idea that was going to be my attitude about anything having to do with music when I wrote that song.” - Peter Tork, Listen To The Band liner notes
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🎥: Speakeasy, November 1988; footage courtesy of orangeneko
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🎥: Speakeasy, November 1988; footage courtesy of orangeneko
Peter played NYC’s Speakeasy on November 25, 26 & 27, 1988.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Peter played NYC’s Speakeasy on November 25, 26 & 27, 1988.
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“It’s taken Peter a while to get his head straight again. He was never mentally suited to all the pressure, to the studio demands, the girls always tugging and pushing and mauling us.” - Davy Jones, Edmonton Journal (October 24, 1972)
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November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“It’s taken Peter a while to get his head straight again. He was never mentally suited to all the pressure, to the studio demands, the girls always tugging and pushing and mauling us.” - Davy Jones, Edmonton Journal (October 24, 1972)
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“We were the cast of a TV show about a band and played a band on TV. And then there was another thing where we hit the road and played in front of 10,000 and 18,000 screaming teenagers.” - Peter, The Modesto Bee (2016)
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🎥: Entertainment Tonight, 1984
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🎥: Entertainment Tonight, 1984
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“We were the cast of a TV show about a band and played a band on TV. And then there was another thing where we hit the road and played in front of 10,000 and 18,000 screaming teenagers.” - Peter, The Modesto Bee (2016)
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🎥: Entertainment Tonight, 1984
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“Mike was a monster time keeper. In fact, Mike was our time keeper onstage. Micky played melodic drums, he played them like you would a melodic instrument. Mike kept time.” - Peter, Headquarters Radio (1989)
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November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“Mike was a monster time keeper. In fact, Mike was our time keeper onstage. Micky played melodic drums, he played them like you would a melodic instrument. Mike kept time.” - Peter, Headquarters Radio (1989)
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“Peter was a much more skillful player than I was by some orders of magnitude.” - Michael Nesmith, The Monkees Tale
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November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Peter was a much more skillful player than I was by some orders of magnitude.” - Michael Nesmith, The Monkees Tale
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“There’s one song that Peter Tork sings on that Missing Links album where he sounds absolutely super. He sounds great; he’s right on the button. Sings it good and he wasn’t supposed to be a singer.” - Davy Jones on “Come On In”
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November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“There’s one song that Peter Tork sings on that Missing Links album where he sounds absolutely super. He sounds great; he’s right on the button. Sings it good and he wasn’t supposed to be a singer.” - Davy Jones on “Come On In”
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“Peter was a great musician, great banjo player, but he was mainly from New York, and he had a different process for thinking about songs. It didn’t quite fit with what we had in mind for the group called The Monkees.” - Tommy Boyce
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November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Peter was a great musician, great banjo player, but he was mainly from New York, and he had a different process for thinking about songs. It didn’t quite fit with what we had in mind for the group called The Monkees.” - Tommy Boyce
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“Peter was absolutely handsome in an all-white outfit for a banjo solo. Nobody wanted him to go.” - fan Charlene Steffens reports on The Monkees concert at the Cow Palace for Movie Teen Illustrated (October 1967)
Photo from the Phoenix show in January 1967; photo by Richard Weize.
Photo from the Phoenix show in January 1967; photo by Richard Weize.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Peter was absolutely handsome in an all-white outfit for a banjo solo. Nobody wanted him to go.” - fan Charlene Steffens reports on The Monkees concert at the Cow Palace for Movie Teen Illustrated (October 1967)
Photo from the Phoenix show in January 1967; photo by Richard Weize.
Photo from the Phoenix show in January 1967; photo by Richard Weize.
The Boy Meets World episode “Rave On!” — guest starring Peter, Davy, and Micky — originally aired on this day in 1995.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Boy Meets World episode “Rave On!” — guest starring Peter, Davy, and Micky — originally aired on this day in 1995.
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“I have a feeling that Peter Tork folk-singer would have been a revelation.“ - article by Keith Altham, New Musical Express (July 1, 1967)
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“I have a feeling that Peter Tork folk-singer would have been a revelation.“ - article by Keith Altham, New Musical Express (July 1, 1967)
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
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Pictured: Peter on the set of “Hillbilly Honeymoon,” 1967. Photos by Henry Diltz.
“Peter Tork endeared himself to everyone [in London] by being funny and drily witty and genuinely kind.” - from an article by Trudy More, Teen Life (December 1967)
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“Peter Tork endeared himself to everyone [in London] by being funny and drily witty and genuinely kind.” - from an article by Trudy More, Teen Life (December 1967)
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
Pictured: Peter at The Monkees’ press conference in London on June 29, 1967; photo by ANL/Shutterstock.
The Wings episode “She’s Gotta Have It,” guest starring Peter Tork, originally aired on this day in 1995.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Wings episode “She’s Gotta Have It,” guest starring Peter Tork, originally aired on this day in 1995.
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“[At the newly opened shop, Peter] smiled and wished me luck, and I realized how much I love him because he always tries to encourage me and inspire me.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (June 1968)
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“[At the newly opened shop, Peter] smiled and wished me luck, and I realized how much I love him because he always tries to encourage me and inspire me.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (June 1968)
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
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📷: Peter in one of Genie’s tailored outfits, 1967
“Peter Tork is a pretty funny boy on television and a wonderful actor, but in real life he is beautiful, dreamy, intelligent, and tremendously knowledgeable about everything and very warm and understanding.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (March 1968)
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Peter Tork is a pretty funny boy on television and a wonderful actor, but in real life he is beautiful, dreamy, intelligent, and tremendously knowledgeable about everything and very warm and understanding.” - Genie the Tailor, Tiger Beat (March 1968)
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
📷: screenshots from the Blu-ray set
“Good Clean Fun” (live in 1987).
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Good Clean Fun” (live in 1987).
A bit of Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley live in 1997; footage courtesy of derekup.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A bit of Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley live in 1997; footage courtesy of derekup.
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“I love music. The craft of it remains endlessly fascinating to me. There isn’t much that I want to do other than music. I love a good joke. I love to laugh. Humor is an important part of music.” - Peter, MLive (August 21, 2012)
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🎥 from 1988
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🎥 from 1988
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“I love music. The craft of it remains endlessly fascinating to me. There isn’t much that I want to do other than music. I love a good joke. I love to laugh. Humor is an important part of music.” - Peter, MLive (August 21, 2012)
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🎥 from 1988
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🎥 from 1988
“Peter’s about the most good natured person I’ve ever seen. […] [H]e never gets mad when you kid him a lot.” - Micky Dolenz, Flip (September 1967)
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November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Peter’s about the most good natured person I’ve ever seen. […] [H]e never gets mad when you kid him a lot.” - Micky Dolenz, Flip (September 1967)
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“[Peter is] the ‘flower child’ of the quartet — hip to love, peace, beauty and all that (not that the others are in favor of hate, war and ugliness, but you see what I mean).” - Tracy Thomas, Flip (September 1967)
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November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“[Peter is] the ‘flower child’ of the quartet — hip to love, peace, beauty and all that (not that the others are in favor of hate, war and ugliness, but you see what I mean).” - Tracy Thomas, Flip (September 1967)
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Happy anniversary to Head! The movie premiered on this day in 1968.
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy anniversary to Head! The movie premiered on this day in 1968.
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
“I think they’re [the Tork songs ‘Can You Dig It?’ and 'Long Title…’] the best songs in the movie [Head]. I love both of them. […] When those two songs start up in the movie, it comes alive for me.” - Michael Nesmith
Q: “Why did you leave the Monkees?”
Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Q: “Why did you leave the Monkees?”
Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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Peter Tork: “I was suffering from an overdose of idealism at that point. I think it was important to me relative to my development at that time.” - Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2, 1982)
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“[George Harrison] said: ‘I’m working on a soundtrack album, I’d love to have you play a little banjo.’” - Peter Tork, The Guardian (March 23, 2017)
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“[George Harrison] said: ‘I’m working on a soundtrack album, I’d love to have you play a little banjo.’” - Peter Tork, The Guardian (March 23, 2017)
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
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Audio (with photo from the 1968 recording session) from Wonderwall.
“[The banjo is] a facet of me that I would like to flower — though I don’t know when it will.” - Peter, Disc and Music Echo (January 13, 1968)
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“[The banjo is] a facet of me that I would like to flower — though I don’t know when it will.” - Peter, Disc and Music Echo (January 13, 1968)
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.
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Footage and photo from the 1968 tour with an attempt at syncing the audio from the Live In Japan recording.