#peter shaving

“The moment the Tork beard was taken off.”

“Peter’s opinions are very definite, but he doesn’t have a closed mind; he’ll listen to someone else’s opinion. He’s into the Eastern thing — God is within you, the great oneness of man, the universal cosmic energy that exists, and so on.
 He’s in sympathy with the meditation thing, although he himself doesn’t actually meditate. He’s against the war in Vietnam and doesn’t approve of the economic excesses and cut-throat business attitudes so obvious in America today (and other countries too, for that matter). He has an almost naive belief in the basic goodness of his fellow man (a trait which hasn’t changed one iota through the years), and he thinks there is hope for everyone. […] Peter isn’t as happy as he could be, but he’s relatively content. He’s working at things he likes and feeling creative about what’s going on. He has the freedom to do all the things he wanted to do years ago, such as producing records and making movies and getting into artistic things that are expensive to do. At present he is producing his own songs and tracks for the next Monkee album, starting a movie production company and a recording company, and going into management for old friends who have a lot of talent but who never got out in front. Peter doesn’t regret being a Monkee, but he regards his experiences objectively. He realizes that he has learned a great deal about film and television and recording, all the things that would take so many years and dollars to learn normally — without the sudden fame and fortune. His strongest desire is to be a record producer; music is more to him than acting, although he digs acting. Peter once told me that it’s impossible to ‘categorize’ things like actor, musician, etc. ‘It’s all the same, everything overlaps,’ he said. ‘An actor has to know rhythm and timing. A musician must be able to interpret, to communicate. I can’t say I’d rather be this than that, I just want to do whatever it is that feels best.’” - Judy Sims, Disc & Music Echo, May 11, 1968 (more from Judy's article in an older post, here)