My wife and I got to meet Peter in Bordentown, NJ. Very gracious man. He was playing with his band Shoe Suede Blues. I don’t think the “dummy” he played did the real Peter much justice. But he proved he had more acting talent than even he probably thought.
Miss you and Mike and Davy. Micky has quite a burden .... to keep the Monkees alive. You were all so much a part of my life since 1966. I was 10! Thanks for the memories!💗💗💗💗
Okay, as a person (not as a singer) Peter Tork is now my favorite Monkee. I hope his post-Monkees life was not as difficult as he seems to hint it might have been.
A great interview. Peter was always so under appreciated. It takes a pretty sharp guy to convincingly play a dunce. He was very intelligent and talented. I was so sad when he quit the Monkees. I finally got to see him in concert in 2016.
Absolutely loved the Monkees the tunes were brilliant, but there was always so much more to them than that. They created an ora that will never be repeated. I'm just so greatful that I was alive during there adventure. Thank you guys 😉
What do you mean Peter's dead.. he can't be dead.. he just can't! He will live forever and ever, and then a little bit more! That's right you heard me!
SUPER! STELLAR and still has those dimples! He said, "you haved dimples, just like mine" he told me--March 8, 1980, and let me tell you he has a VERY charismatic way, very loving, and caring- my mother ADORED him, He gave me 26 French kisses and 3 hours of bliss... Oh, man he was SOMETHING! I was 16 and utterly mezmerized by him He said to me, "THisis YOUR day, and we will BOTH remember this forever, I will never forget this..." OH MY GOD, can you imagine that?!! It is true! He was so beautiful Kim
What an interview. Just the last couple of minutes, even, where he is giving advice to people who want to be artists - WOW! What a profound commentary.
Peter was such an intellectual for his age back in the sixties. He portrayed a goof so convincingly on The Monkees but if you look at other interviews of him from back then you can see the sense of awareness of what was happening politically as well as other issues that were happening in and around that time. Such a great human being he was. I've been rewatching The Monkees in recent times and it's really making me wish I was alive back then. ♥️
Jessica Pilgrim Yes, he was the most intellectual of the group, but I think Mike wasn't too far behind. If you've read any of his books, you can tell. It's just a shame Peter was never given the credit due him. He seemed very aware and caring and just a generally good soul. I've grown to dislike his character on the show because it was so unlike him, but that's what acting is all about. Miss him. Oh, yeah, I was there, and it was a lot of fun. My daughter was watching the show in the '70s.
@@lindas.5191 I remember in an interview with Mickey who said in a way, Peter had the hardest job on the show. Unlike Mickey (by his own words) and Davey, he did not come from an acting background. Mike didn't either but Peter's show character was so completely different than his real self.
This was such a good interview ... Peter was more than just goofy.. there is a real depth to him .. never knew that about him .. I appreciate him so much more .. :) Rest in Peace Peter !!!!
RIP sweet Peter ❤️ I was nine years old when the Monkees first came on television and you were always my favorite 😘 the sweetest and most adorable of the Monkees
I love that this isnt a typical Q&A session, it's so intimate. Peter doesn't feel the need to perform or force one-liners here. This allowed him to open up and have all the time he needed to get out every thought in a natural way without being rushed along. I loved hearing everything he had to say and wished the interview went on for hours to gain more of his knowledge. RIP Sweet Peter
Tigris TheLynx I hated how in most interviews with the other Monkees, he had to fight to be heard most of the time. Peter was so intelligent, he deserved the time and space to have his say.
There were a couple of moments where I wish I had heard the question, but Peter did such a good job speaking, and the interviewer allowed him the time to speak, that it worked very well. After all, we don't tune in because we want to hear the interviewer.
Peter was a class act. He clearly was the stand out and dare I say the brightest of them all. I have my opinions of how Mike N treated him. Peter was the most adorable and loving one. My first crush I hope to see him in heaven.
Shelley Wantiez I feel the same. I've read some ugly things about how Mike treated him. Very condescending to say the least. I think it may have been professional jealousy as Peter had years of classical musical training unlike Mike.
@@alfx5432 Nope. I read in a book by Sergio Farias that Peter started doing a book with a writer but after six months, they only had about two chapters so let it slide. The book by Farias is Love is Understanding The Life and Times of Peter Tork and The Monkees. I got the paperback, and it was $30. A good read with some interesting things I hadn't heard before.
You cannot get on with everybody.Peter was my honey,just brimful of talent.Nez was a genius.Davy was a charmer.Micky was funny if sometimes over the top.If there's a heaven I too would love to meet them all.
This interview is fantastic. It’s so real and like Pete is just having a conversation with the viewer. I didn’t want it to end, and I could listen to him talk forever. 🧡
What a great start to a New Year.An interview with my fellow Aquarian & fav Monkee Peter Tork,after finding a tv show with Jan Michael Vincent guesting.Looks like it's goin' to be a Grrreat Year.Happy New Year to all you subscribers out there!
@@lindas.5191 Hi honey,nice to hear from u.Writing this under great difficulty as Amber is on my chest & her long whiskers r very tickley!What's going on with you?
@@susanmccormick6022 Hi, Susan. My best friend in UK passed yesterday. We were friends since 2009. That's the third friend I've lost this year. I'm being kicked to the curb! I'm still not over D, P and Mike! I am trying to figure out how we can email instead of doing this. Have a good day! 🌞
A shared a cab with Peter back in the early 90s in Manhattan it was raining hard that day and the cab pulled up to curb and the guy in the back said hey jump on in your soking wet. We talked for like 20 minutes and then said goodbye he was a very sweet guy.
Petere may be forgot some of the more unusual song experiments that they started toying with after their initial "studio-created" personas began to evolve. (I suggested in a letter to them at the time---ha, as if my letter would be noticed in the shuffle of piles of fan letters that was pouring in at the time---that they should do an album called EVOLVER as a kind of big wink/satire of the Beatles's REVOLVER, as they (the Monkees) began to grow, change and, well, evolve into their own thing. Perfectly fitting since they were, after all, in the ape-family!---and I thought that that's what the album graphics could've been, a visual spoofy-take on the REVOLVER album but with them swinging around amid techno-looking trees in kind of ape-like postures playing instruments...a kind of meta-thing, tho, at the time, that whole "meta-take" on things was not generally grasped. But their film, HEAD, more or less reached for the same overhanging branch, portraying them in their struggle to be more than what they were conceived as.
The LEAST they could have done was as they're answering the question, SCROLL it across as they speak. SHEEEEESH.. . . it's not that hard to break new ground.
The Monkees was a musical COMEDY show! Got it? It worked. It shouldn’t have changed in its second year. It should have stayed on for at least one more year. At least. It was funny. Peter’s character was clueless! He played that so well! He couldn’t sing well. He was a musician!
Since he was speaking music acts, it most likely was acts like The Vogues, Herman's Hermits, early Beatles, etc.. A polished act was suit & tie type of thing. Then there was Paul Revere & the Raiders. Tho suited up still gave a clownish act to go along with the theme. Sgt. Peppers was another example.
My wife and I got to meet Peter in Bordentown, NJ. Very gracious man. He was playing with his band Shoe Suede Blues. I don’t think the “dummy” he played did the real Peter much justice. But he proved he had more acting talent than even he probably thought.
Miss you and Mike and Davy. Micky has quite a burden .... to keep the Monkees alive. You were all so much a part of my life since 1966. I was 10! Thanks for the memories!💗💗💗💗
BEST interview I have EVER seen of sweet Peter! That charisma shows here....
Okay, as a person (not as a singer) Peter Tork is now my favorite Monkee. I hope his post-Monkees life was not as difficult as he seems to hint it might have been.
He was always my favorite when I was a kid...
Seems like such a sweet man ~ R.I.P. ❤ Peter
A great interview. Peter was always so under appreciated. It takes a pretty sharp guy to convincingly play a dunce. He was very intelligent and talented. I was so sad when he quit the Monkees. I finally got to see him in concert in 2016.
So smart and understatedly handsome!
Absolutely loved the Monkees the tunes were brilliant, but there was always so much more to them than that. They created an ora that will never be repeated. I'm just so greatful that I was alive during there adventure. Thank you guys 😉
I love the album HEADQUARTERS
What do you mean Peter's dead.. he can't be dead.. he just can't! He will live forever and ever, and then a little bit more! That's right you heard me!
SUPER! STELLAR and still has those dimples! He said, "you haved dimples, just like mine" he told me--March 8, 1980, and let me tell you he has a VERY charismatic way, very loving, and caring- my mother ADORED him, He gave me 26 French kisses and 3 hours of bliss... Oh, man he was SOMETHING! I was 16 and utterly mezmerized by him He said to me, "THisis YOUR day, and we will BOTH remember this forever, I will never forget this..." OH MY GOD, can you imagine that?!! It is true! He was so beautiful Kim
Just listened to the interview again.Oh Peter,I miss you!
The Monkees Rock to this day! Micky is my favorite! They all are far more than what they showed on TV!
What an interview. Just the last couple of minutes, even, where he is giving advice to people who want to be artists - WOW! What a profound commentary.
Rest in Peace Peter. February 13, 1942 to Thursday, February 21, 2019.
This is a great historical interview.
Peter was such an intellectual for his age back in the sixties. He portrayed a goof so convincingly on The Monkees but if you look at other interviews of him from back then you can see the sense of awareness of what was happening politically as well as other issues that were happening in and around that time. Such a great human being he was. I've been rewatching The Monkees in recent times and it's really making me wish I was alive back then. ♥️
Jessica Pilgrim Yes, he was the most intellectual of the group, but I think Mike wasn't too far behind. If you've read any of his books, you can tell. It's just a shame Peter was never given the credit due him. He seemed very aware and caring and just a generally good soul. I've grown to dislike his character on the show because it was so unlike him, but that's what acting is all about. Miss him. Oh, yeah, I was there, and it was a lot of fun. My daughter was watching the show in the '70s.
@@lindas.5191 I remember in an interview with Mickey who said in a way, Peter had the hardest job on the show. Unlike Mickey (by his own words) and Davey, he did not come from an acting background. Mike didn't either but Peter's show character was so completely different than his real self.
@@cycologist7069 I remember seeing that, too. His character was so unlike his actual self, I suppose it was harder for him than the others.
love him clean and sober
Sunday nooner! He was frequently there.
This was such a good interview ... Peter was more than just goofy.. there is a real depth to him .. never knew that about him .. I appreciate him so much more .. :) Rest in Peace Peter !!!!
Enjoy
Mike did not have much of a relationship with Peter but there were no hard feelings of Peter toward Nez.
@@andyb811 Funny thing is they shared a house for a spell.Both were musical genius's in my opinion.
@@susanmccormick6022 Now rhat’s really, really pushing it.
@@jeffryphillipsburns Explain?
Miss you Pete....💔
Thank you Peter, i just needed your interview. I appreciate you and your dearly soul. Big thanks from 🇧🇷🍃🌷💥✌🏼
Greatest advice of all time at the end
Good interview Peter.
RIP sweet Peter ❤️ I was nine years old when the Monkees first came on television and you were always my favorite 😘 the sweetest and most adorable of the Monkees
He was always my fave, too! What I wouldn't have given for an "interview" with him :)
I love that this isnt a typical Q&A session, it's so intimate. Peter doesn't feel the need to perform or force one-liners here. This allowed him to open up and have all the time he needed to get out every thought in a natural way without being rushed along. I loved hearing everything he had to say and wished the interview went on for hours to gain more of his knowledge. RIP Sweet Peter
Tigris TheLynx I hated how in most interviews with the other Monkees, he had to fight to be heard most of the time. Peter was so intelligent, he deserved the time and space to have his say.
There were a couple of moments where I wish I had heard the question, but Peter did such a good job speaking, and the interviewer allowed him the time to speak, that it worked very well. After all, we don't tune in because we want to hear the interviewer.
He was deep. And intelligent too. Continue to fly high Peter. 💔
Peter was a class act. He clearly was the stand out and dare I say the brightest of them all. I have my opinions of how Mike N treated him. Peter was the most adorable and loving one. My first crush
I hope to see him in heaven.
Me too! My favorite always.. ❤
Shelley Wantiez I feel the same. I've read some ugly things about how Mike treated him. Very condescending to say the least. I think it may have been professional jealousy as Peter had years of classical musical training unlike Mike.
Did peter write a biography about his life. I dont know. I wish I was able to see him perform. Long live Peter Tork. 🙏
@@alfx5432 Nope. I read in a book by Sergio Farias that Peter started doing a book with a writer but after six months, they only had about two chapters so let it slide. The book by Farias is Love is Understanding The Life and Times of Peter Tork and The Monkees. I got the paperback, and it was $30. A good read with some interesting things I hadn't heard before.
You cannot get on with everybody.Peter was my honey,just brimful of talent.Nez was a genius.Davy was a charmer.Micky was funny if sometimes over the top.If there's a heaven I too would love to meet them all.
This interview is fantastic. It’s so real and like Pete is just having a conversation with the viewer. I didn’t want it to end, and I could listen to him talk forever. 🧡
Met him in 2001 at concert. RIP Peter.
Excellent excellent interview. Easily the best Monkees interview I've seen.
Very pleasant interview.
"it got a little scary in Cleveland" love it! my hometown!
i will never forget the concert where I blew peter a kiss and blew one right back to me. 💗💗 rip:(
Wow!
I LOVE YOU PETE ALWAYS ♥️🎸🎤♥️🇨🇦🌟
Thanks for sharing this wonderful interview.
Peter Tork was one HECK of a dummy. At no time did Peter need a puppet master to talk for him.
Still miss you Pete.
Peter Tork Memoral 2020
Loved him
We love you guys are the best tv in years 💜❤️♥️💕
thank you for sharing. ❤️👏❤️ loved Peter
I had all their records my nieces loved them too and I gave them to a grand nephew. Ageless
Definitely saw another side of Peter than was projected on the Monkey’s TV show.
Monkees
@@fidlemel53 oops, you are absolutely correct. I apologize for my error. Just wasn’t thinking as I typed, I suspect.
David Jones Memoral 2020
My sweet friend….
RIP
What a great start to a New Year.An interview with my fellow Aquarian & fav Monkee Peter Tork,after finding a tv show with Jan Michael Vincent guesting.Looks like it's goin' to be a Grrreat Year.Happy New Year to all you subscribers out there!
Susan McCormick Are you feeling better? you were under the weather last time we wrote.
@@lindas.5191 Hi honey,nice to hear from u.Writing this under great difficulty as Amber is on my chest & her long whiskers r very tickley!What's going on with you?
@@susanmccormick6022 Hi, Susan. My best friend in UK passed yesterday. We were friends since 2009. That's the third friend I've lost this year. I'm being kicked to the curb! I'm still not over D, P and Mike! I am trying to figure out how we can email instead of doing this. Have a good day! 🌞
A shared a cab with Peter back in the early 90s in Manhattan it was raining hard that day and the cab pulled up to curb and the guy in the back said hey jump on in your soking wet. We talked for like 20 minutes and then said goodbye he was a very sweet guy.
Petere may be forgot some of the more unusual song experiments that they started toying with after their initial "studio-created" personas began to evolve. (I suggested in a letter to them at the time---ha, as if my letter would be noticed in the shuffle of piles of fan letters that was pouring in at the time---that they should do an album called EVOLVER as a kind of big wink/satire of the Beatles's REVOLVER, as they (the Monkees) began to grow, change and, well, evolve into their own thing. Perfectly fitting since they were, after all, in the ape-family!---and I thought that that's what the album graphics could've been, a visual spoofy-take on the REVOLVER album but with them swinging around amid techno-looking trees in kind of ape-like postures playing instruments...a kind of meta-thing, tho, at the time, that whole "meta-take" on things was not generally grasped. But their film, HEAD, more or less reached for the same overhanging branch, portraying them in their struggle to be more than what they were conceived as.
12:38 SWEET!!!!
Peter eventually had to take a "day job" to survive, until the monkees hit it again in the 80's
Lucky students.Math,Euck!
@@susanmccormick6022 that's what I thought too!!
yes king
Crazy that I was born a month before this lol
❤
He was my favourite Monkee.
Only hearing the answers, not hearing the questions. *NOT* a good way to edit an interview.
The LEAST they could have done was as they're answering the question, SCROLL it across as they speak.
SHEEEEESH.. . . it's not that hard to break new ground.
According to Micky, Peter was the only Monkee who was not like his screen persona. He played the dummy, but it was just a character.
❤️🙏🎵🎶🎹🎤
The Monkees was a musical COMEDY show! Got it? It worked. It shouldn’t have changed in its second year. It should have stayed on for at least one more year. At least. It was funny. Peter’s character was clueless! He played that so well! He couldn’t sing well. He was a musician!
It would be a LOT better if we had heard the questions as well. At 14:29, I have NO idea what he is referring to.
Do you think it might be American Idol or something like that?
Since he was speaking music acts, it most likely was acts like The Vogues, Herman's Hermits, early Beatles, etc.. A polished act was suit & tie type of thing. Then there was Paul Revere & the Raiders. Tho suited up still gave a clownish act to go along with the theme. Sgt. Peppers was another example.
He does look like Steven Stills
they're both cute
Peter was the geekiest guy Ive ever seen on Letterman. He looks totally normal here. Jekyll and Hyde.
What’s the daydream believers movie?
It's a dramatized biography of the Monkees with four actors playing them. It was produced by VH1. You can find the whole 90 minute movie on UA-cam..
That movie was a joke, and I get the feeling Peter was doing his best to steer away from it as much as possible.
Annoyed Grunt = D'oh!