#ann moses

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Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz with Ann Moses from Tiger Beat magazine and friend on a lunch break during filming of Head, 1968.

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Photos by Nurit Wilde and Ann Moses.

Tying in with a recent post (and an older one)... “[Peter] has had a great effect on the way I perform. The way he used to move, the way he used his accent, his whole attitude toward the theater, the entire theater, gave him a great basis from which to work. He never looks past the fact that he’s supposed to be up there: to entertain the people. And every time he got up there he would perform and do his whole number, exuding all the personality he could and he did some marvelous comedy routines. It was mostly by watching him that I picked up some of those things.” - Stephen Stills, Tiger Beat (June 1967) “When we’re not playing music or listening to music, we’re usually picking things apart — groups, ideas we hear from people, pieces of music, each other’s brain. The quality I respect, more than anything else in Peter, is his honesty. More than any person I know, Peter gives of himself. If you have a problem you can always depend on him for some kind of answer or some kind of suggestion, no matter what it is. He doesn’t worry about offending you, because he just wants to be honest. To me, that’s being a true friend.“ - Stephen Stills, Tiger Beat (July 1967) “David [Crosby] let me stay there [at his house] for most of a year. It was sort of by way of interest on the loan I gave him to buy his boat, and… I stayed there with my, with my then-girlfriend, and our daughter was born in that house.” - Peter Tork, GOLD 104.5 (1999) DJ Ola: “The story where Stephen Stills went for The Monkees audition and didn’t get it cause he was to ugly and he recommended you, who looked like him but had better teeth and hair is established Monkee lore. Later when you lost your house etc I read that either Stills or David Crosby used you and then just forgot about you when it went to crisis phase. Is this true? Crosby Stills and Nash went on to great acclaim and The Monkees were considered ‘Bubblegum’ at the time. Looks to me like Stephen Stills was going for the ‘Bubblegum’ thing, maybe he just didn’t have what it took?” Peter Tork: “Stephen was by no means ugly. He recommended me on account of he looked like me, only his hair and teeth were deemed non-telegenic. He was a pretty cute guy, and I think you’ll get a lot of agreement on the point. Stop with the dissing of Stephen (Stills) and David Crosby. Neither one of them ever used and discarded me. Quite the contrary, David loaned me his house for about a year, and Stephen never abused my generosity one bit! Stephen may well have taken The Monkees gig if it’d been offered him, but he was a fabulous musician, as everyone knows, and may not have been able to stand the Bubblegum... Neither one of those two ever spoke ill of The Monkees to my knowledge.” - vinceynzunza-thisweekingrooviness blogspot (2011) “[J]ust everybody tried to take advantage of the Monkees and then turned their backs when they began to slip: I saw Peter do a real lot of things for Steve Stills but there was a time when Peter wasn’t allowed on Stills’ property when the Rolling Stones were visiting. Poor Peter, he bought David Crosby a boat and stuff but they all bled him dry with peace signs and bullshit.” - Lynne Randell, quoted in Monkeemania: The True Story of The Monkees (1997) “Peter was a kind, gentle guy. He helped a lot of people, you know; that’s why he went broke.” - Nurit Wilde, The Monkees Pad Show

[idasessions]

Mike Nesmith: Hi, I’m Robert Michael Nesmith, and I want the world to know I love women. I completely adore and totally respect women. I’m probably the biggest male feminist on planet earth. My own mother is one of the most important feminists in the history of the universe, and she said she was proud of me supporting Women’s Lib. Songs like ‘Never Tell a Woman Yes’ and ‘Get Out of My Life, Woman’? Absolutely 100% fictional narratives and not a reflection on my own morals. Nope, not a single iota of chauvinism in this body. 😎

Jan Freeman: Mike Nesmith and I have a connection I can’t even really describe. The day we met, we had this long, beautiful walk on the beach and then the next thing I know, I broke up with my boyfriend just so I could spend more time with Mike. He completely changed my whole life, he’s just that magical and amazing. 🥰🥰

Valerie Kairys: Mike Nesmith is the perfect man. So handsome, so smart, so talented, so charming. Swoon. He has the best blend of masculine and sensitive, and can make you feel confident and beautiful at the same time. OMG, I’m gonna cry, he’s so wonderful 😭😭

Winona Ryder: Mike Nesmith is AWESOME. When I was 15, he took me to a Monkees concert and some other Hollywood events, and called me a lovely, fetching, young girl. 😊

Barbara Hamaker: Michael Nesmith might be the most cerebral, anal-retentive person I’ve ever met. Great talker though.

Keith Allison: When Mike Nesmith and I were schoolmates at San Antonio College, there would always be 4 or 5 great looking, folkie type girls sitting at Mike’s feet while he strummed an acoustic guitar on a bench. He kept hogging all the chicks.

Nurit Wilde: For about 8 months, Mike Nesmith let me secretly live in his La Cienega penthouse as long as I never invited any of my male friends over. It was kind of a bummer not being able to hang out with Jackson Browne as much, but the sex with Mike was hot and the rent was free, so I guess it was worth it.

Kathryn Bild: Michael Nesmith is a boomer ass cliché who left me for a teenager. He and his mom convinced me to stop going to the doctor and the dentist too.

Victoria Kennedy: Mike Nesmith called me the love of his life, but he also treated me like a child a lot of the time, and probably shouldn’t have gotten involved with me when I was 19 and he was a 44-year-old married man.

Carole King: Mike Nesmith was once so rude to me when I was trying to help him finish writing a song that I ended up running out of the room crying. He also called my music crap.

Marilyn Schlossberg: Mike Nesmith chained me to a file cabinet for his own amusement the day I met the Monkees.

Rochelle Reed: Mike Nesmith slut-shamed me and refused to cooperate for my interviews.

Ann Moses: Mike Nesmith belittled me, propositioned me and sabotaged me when I was literally just doing my job. He insisted he only harassed me to get me to write a ‘real’ article, but then he still ignored me when I reunited with the Monkees in 2013, soooo 🤷‍♀️

Phyllis Barbour: Michael Nesmith humiliated me, set back my creative potential and pretty much stalled my life for a whole decade. But he also gave me three wonderful children, so at least there’s that…

Pt 2

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How Would You Like To Interview Your Fave? Tiger Beat May 1969

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BOBBY SHERMAN & ANN MOSES

Tiger Beat • Dec. 1970

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I Visit with The Monkees (Part 19) by Ann Moses from Tiger Beat (July 1968)

Dear TIGER BEAT Readers,

There were many mad-cap moments on the set of the Monkees' "Untitled" movie before they finished filming in May. The four boys returned to the California desert for more shots there, they filmed some football scenes at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and then it was back to the Columbia Ranch in Burbank.

At the Ranch they filmed some western set shots and some unbelievable underwater scenes...

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“I had many interviews with the affable and sincere young Peter Tork (five years my senior), who was the bass player for the TV pop group, The Monkees. And in every one he would respectfully answer my questions, sign his autograph a dozen times for us to superimpose over his color pin-ups for his droves of adoring fans, and then, politely, try to treat me like ‘one of the gang,’ by encouraging me to come to his house and try LSD. What can I say? It was the ’60s.” — Ann Moses

[jathis]

I couldn’t post yesterday because I was in the hospital having my gallbladder removed but

Yesterday was Ann Moses’ birthday!