Spotlight on: Minus 5 - “Song for Peter Tork”
Mike Faloon: “[O]ne song that comes to mind is ‘Song for Peter Tork.’ That chorus really resonates: ‘You just work, and it works, to keep on working.’ It would have been easy to mock his fall from grace. Instead, you chose to focus on his work ethic after the Monkees broke up.” Scott McCaughey: “Yeah, Chuck [Carroll] and I were living in Sonoma County, and we were coming back from seeing somebody at Berkeley Community Theatre or something, maybe the Kinks. I don’t know. [laughs] But we saw this sign in the town he lives in, ‘Tonight Peter Tork.’ And we’re thinking, ‘No way, you’ve got to be kidding me.’ We pull in and it was literally like two in the morning. They’re putting the chairs on the table and Peter was there just winding up his guitar cables, packing up. I was thinking about that when I wrote the Peter Tork song, just about the keep on working thing. There’s something to be said about it.” - Razorcake 091, April-May 2016
