Peter Tork vs. John Linnell

John Linnell and John Flansburgh are in the Monkees Beach House🐒

John Linnell and John Flansburgh are in the Monkees Rainbow Room🌈

“Peter is very idealistic, very enthusiastic and artistic.” - Micky Dolenz, Australian TV Week (September 1968) “My first impressions of the other guys was a lasting one and hasn’t really changed much over the years: Peter Tork: Bohemian, heart of gold, tortured, compassionate, sometimes annoying, intellectual, altruistic, and one of the kindest men I have ever known.” - Micky Dolenz, I’m A Believer: My Life of Monkees, Music, and Madness (1993)

hmm?

JF: I have a calendar with the date on it I think. Other songs among the earliest songs that we rehearsed regularly were Space Suit, What Am I Doing Hanging Round? (a Mike Nesmith song) and, although I doubt we played it live sit was perhaps too "progressive", Complete Paranoia. I am trying to think of others... Maybe Cabbagetown?

...I could ponder this for an hour but I gotta watch Succession!

PETER TORK in “THE DEVIL AND PETER TORK”

JF: I kind of think of the Monkeys as a monolithic thing-but if you are keying into their voices I would say Mickey Dolenz really had the style that we both, and many other singers, responded to the most. His singing is fully committed but his volume exists entirely in a mediated, middle level. He doesn't croon and he doesn't belt, but it feels very rocking and really serves the song.

Peter Tork

ROBERT MICHAEL NESMITH: 1942 - FOREVER

i love him  🤧

john linnell, accordionist extraordinaire