If you pass the Rabid Child

Q: “Combining a slow and fast tempo, Jo Mapes’s ‘Come on In’ is a gentle Monkees tune that remained under lock and key until 1990’s Missing Links, Volume Two. It contains one of your best vocals.” Peter Tork: “Aha… I used to sing it in Greenwich Village back in my folkie days. Actually, I first heard a lady named Alix Dobkin performing the song while I was living there. It just sounded so much like the kinds of things that I wanted to sing about, so I had to eventually record it in 1968. I have no idea why it wasn’t originally released. I just made these things and put them out there. Other people made the decisions, and I didn’t think much to fight for things. It’s a shortcoming of mine, and I have to work on that. I’m still working on that.” - Medium, interview conducted in 2011

Brian was very straightforward with me about being gay. We could talk about it quite openly, particularly once we got to know each other. He never hit on me at all. There was never any question of it. We lived so intimately together that there would have been one evening when he was sort of drunk and so on. It would have been in his character to do that. But we didn't really talk about that. I remember sitting in his car one night talking about a girl that he'd once sort of loved at RADA and this was his lost love. His family hadn't liked her. She'd not been up to par or something. Brian had a bit of sorrow about this. I don't know what the strength of it was but we talked a long time about that and he seemed quite sad that it had not worked out. But that was the extent of that. From then on he was just kind of openly gay and none of us minded, really.

I MISSES MY BABIES SO MUCH 😭😭❤️‍🩹

It feels so refreshing drawing TOH stuff again after so long 🥹 I am BEYOND excited for the upcoming graphic novel so I wanted to contribute to the fandom ✨