Rest In Peace Peter Tork

[willywonka666]

www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/music/news/peter-tork-the-monkees-dies-dead-1203144914/amp/

Half of the Monkees are gone

[Paul]

I thought he was really funny on the show and a very talented musician. RIP.

[fw91]

Well at least Topanga still has like 5 other dads.

RIP Sir

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

RIP

I miss The Monkees.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I'm just going to copy and paste what I put on another forum.

I haven't read much of the music press in quite a long time, and I don't know what kind of critical stock The Monkees have, but they damn sure deserve a better reputation than they had the last time I was paying attention.

The Monkees were one of the greatest examples of the manufactured band being successful. It didn't matter that they were totally manufactured. The songs were often magnificent. She. Last Train to Clarksville. Take a Giant Step. The still-underrated-for-its-foresight Steppin' Stone. And Pleasant Valley Sunday, which is one of my single favourite songs from that entire decade.

The Monkees were the 60s. They were the commercialisation of the 60s, yes, but what a lot of people don't realise is that shit like Woodstock was plenty commercialised too and advertisers tend to catch up pretty quickly.

The TV show is criminally underrated, and Peter as an absolute dork was probably the second most entertaining member ahead of Mike 'I'm the one genuine musician but I hate acting' Nesmith, Davy 'glass of water' Jones and behind Mickey 'oh shit I'm the one that's actually an actor' Dolenz. I remember once as a young man being ill and unable to sleep, and the UK TV channel Trouble was showing a marathon of the Monkees' TV show. There are a lot of much worse ways to spend your time when you're doing the digestive Catherine wheel than many, many hours of that show.

Like the computers from sci-fi movies, The Monkees became self-aware a few years in and made Headquarters, which for a while was the only album that they put together mostly themselves. It's rarely remembered but Peter was a crucial part of that. He was a multi-instrumentalist - guitar, bass, keys, banjo (which so many 60s musicians could play and now that almost nobody does, they don't realise how difficult it is).

Peter also took lead vocals on one verse of 'Shades of Gray,' which despite being a high-schooler's idea of a moral quandary, could definitely be considered one of the songs that best summed up the feeling of lost innocence so often associated with the late 60s.

I wish I had managed to see one of their reunion tours before Davy and Pete passed, and even if Mike will always be my favourite member, when I think of my childhood, Peter Tork's face is one of the things I see.

RIP Peter.

[DASH 243✅]

Rip sir
I grew up with the monkees on Nick at nite
Still listen to them

[BlackoutCreature]

When I was a little kid in the 80's The Monkees reruns were aired on broadcast television, but only during the day when I was usually in school so I only got to watch it when I was home sick. About 6-7 years ago I decided to marathon the series from Netflix and he quickly became my favorite of the bunch. At some point in the bonus features they mention that while the producers positioned Davy Jones as the heartthrob of the group, they were surprised to find out that Peter was getting the most fan mail from girls. He just came off as a likeable dude and I'm sorry to see him go.

[Paul]

From the episode "Monkee vs. Machine":

DJ-69: Take a seat please. To preclude the variable factor inherent in the human equation, we have instituted this new electronic personnel procedure requiring... Your name, please.
Peter: What?
DJ-69: Thank you. Last name: What. And your first name, Mr. What?
Peter: N - It's not 'What'.
DJ-69: Notwhat. Mr. Notwhat What.
Peter: Wait a minute, that's not my name at all. My name is...
DJ-69: [interrupting] Occupation?
Peter: ...Peter, ya dig? Pete.
DJ-69: You dig peat. Occupation: Peat Digger. And your mother's maiden name?
Peter: Thompson.
DJ-69: Mother's name: Thompson. Sex, please?
Peter: Female, of course.
DJ-69: All right, Mrs. Notwhat.
Peter: No, my *mother* is female.
DJ-69: What do you do in your spare time, Mrs. Notwhat?
Peter: Listen, I'm a man!
DJ-69: In your spare time, you are a man.

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Their music and tv show were a big part of my childhood, really sad news today. 😭

[bitteroldman]

I had quite the choice as a kid, The Monkees on NBC or Batman on ABC. Most times The Monkees won

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

R.I.P

Love many of the Monkees songs like Randy Scouse Git, Daddy's Song (which is a song that resonates with me) and the Porpoise Song,

The last two featured in the enjoyable movie of there's Head

[tartsonawire]

I loved watching the show when it ran in syndication with shows like Gilligan's Island during the summer, and I've always liked they're music. RIP.

[The Barber]

[The Thread Barbi]

RIP sir. Thanks for the memories.