Peter Tork vs. John Linnell @torkvslinnell - Tumblr Blog

Photo by Micky Dolenz; from I'm Told I Had A Good Time: The Micky Dolenz Archives, Vol. 1.

“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)

#peter tork #🥰

bard-o-lator

hmm?

#john linnell #how have i never seen this before?#love it!

John Linnell on Bluesky: “Our birthday tribute to Mickey Dolenz, who just turned 80.”

#monkeesvstmbg #2025 #zilch #i love this #even though i have no idea what danny and dan are talking about #(spanking tunnel?!?!)#happy belated birthday micky

tmbgareok

Favorite Monkees song?

She? Mary Mary?

Recently--Me and Magelana.

I love the song Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow in general, but I also want to point out you can hear Davy Jones coughing/clearing his throat ON THE BEAT at the top of the song. (It was a different time!)

#monkeesvstmbg #good choices

zirafail

he looked so pretty in this episode! (ignore micky tweaking out)

#peter tork #yes

iv1ech

#happy birthday #john linnell

tmbgareok

Hi John! In the spirit of cataloging as much info as possible about the band's earliest public performances on TMBW, I'd love to pick your brain about the time you busked on the Brooklyn Promenade. What we know: it was 1983 and JL borrowed an accordion from a friend in your building for the performance. Songs included Cowtown, Alienation and Maybe I Know, then Ellie Greenwich's aunt heard MIK and gave you a $20. Are there any other details you can place - stories, songs, maybe the month/date?

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?

#monkeesvstmbg #what am i doing hangin round

tmbgareok

Silly question, but as someone who grew up during the golden age of TV theme songs, I'm curious - what's your favorite(s)?

Sure! Off the dome...

Twilight Zone (the second season and after, I guess, with the guitars. The one made famous by the Ventures)

Gigantor (Japanese animated series)

Addams Family - written by Vic Mizzy, the composer of In the Middle (which we covered on the No! album) as well as Green Acres.

Time Tunnel (by Johnny Williams AKA John Williams)

The theme to Lost In Space (also Johnny Williams). Like the Twilight Zone, this is the improved, second season theme.

Perry Mason

Naked City

The Monkees

Hawaii Five-O

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

#monkeesvstmbg #theme from the monkees #👍

mrsarcadian

PETER TORK in “THE DEVIL AND PETER TORK”

#peter tork #❤️

tmbgareok

which monkees do you think you are both most similar to?

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.

#monkeesvstmbg