Clips from Hey, Hey We’re The Monkees (1996).
“I remember when we were playing that [‘Sunny Girlfriend’] in Osaka. I would play the boogie-woogie guitar line on bass, because basically we were just a trio live — Davy didn’t play much. We just locked into something that was remarkable. Davy came over to me banging his tambourine, screaming above the din of the crowd, ‘We’re going to form a group!’ It was really good, it’s what you live for as a musician.” - Peter Tork, Headquarters 1995 liner notes
“[The feeling onstage in Osaka during ‘Sunny Girlfriend] was just the kind of thing that I got into music to do in the first place. And we’re playing to 18,000 screaming kids and Davy’s banging on the tambourine and he comes waltzing over to me right in the middle of this wonderful thing and he yells, ‘We’re gonna form a group!’ Which is why I love Davy Jones, because he noticed and he knew what it was about.” - Peter Tork, Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees (1996)
“We were playing Sunny Girlfriend, and it hit the pocket. The energy is cranking, and it’s really tight. It was just transcendental for me. Davy Jones is banging the tambourine, and he bounces over to me, and, at the top of his lungs, over the screaming of the crowd, yells, ‘We’re gonna form a group!’ That’s the Davy that I miss.” - Peter Tork, USA Today, July 14, 2013
