RIP Peter Tork

[Count Machuki]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ob ... story.html



oh, man!

Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb. 21. He was 77.

His death was confirmed by his sister Anne Thorkelson, who did not say where or how he died. Mr. Tork was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer affecting his tongue, in 2009.

[Tom Waits For No One]

This Monkee's gone to heaven.

[Walk In My Shadow]

RIP the George of the Monkees.

[Minnie the Minx]

Oh no

[Sneelock]

"Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor!"

[Matt Wilson]

Well, there's two left now - just like the Beatles.

Yet only one Stone has died in all these years, who would have figured?

[Sneelock]

you know, on some level I've always felt sort of bad for Peter Tork. I mean, he had every expectation that the Monkees was the beginning of something when he quit the band & was living large in Laurel Canyon. who would have guessed that the Monkees would be his bread & butter (more or less) for the rest of his days? certainly not him.

bummer.

[Hugh]

I just read about this elsewhere and I gasped like I’d been hit in the stomach. The Monkees were my Beatles before the Beatles became my Beatles.

[GoogaMooga]

I think it was Peter Tork who insisted that the Monkees play on their own recordings, with the Headquarters album, the moment they stopped being just a fabricated boy band. RIP

[Matt Wilson]

It was mostly Mike who wanted them to play on their own recordings.

[Sneelock]

He was supposedly the best musician of the bunch. I only like a couple of his songs but "For Pete's Sake" will always remind me of being sad when an episode was over.

[never/ever]

That's a shame.

[Charlie O.]

"For Pete's Sake" will always remind me of being sad when an episode was over.

That's kinda sweet.

I'm sad but not surprised. I don't have much more that I can say now, but (fair warning) I might later.

[Sneelock]

I heard Dolenz on a podcast about a month back. he seemed to imply that Peter Tork was in pretty bad shape.
somebody sent me Nesmith's send off. it was nice.
https://www.facebook.com/michaelnesmith ... 4684445116

[kath]

I heard Dolenz on a podcast about a month back. he seemed to imply that Peter Tork was in pretty bad shape.
somebody sent me Nesmith's send off. it was nice.
https://www.facebook.com/michaelnesmith ... 4684445116

very nice indeed.

sniff.

[Hightea]

RIP Peter