[Ipg-smz] So bummed

Fri Feb 22 19:15:44 UTC 2019

So sad about Peter Tork. I never knew that Stephen Stills had been turned
down for the Monkees. I used to love CS&Y (and CSN&Y).

I just heard a fun story about Peter Tork from a cousin of mine, who grew
up near his home town in Connecticut. My cousin's father owned a store near
there, and Peter's parents were customers of his. Mr. and Mrs. Thorkelson
(Peter's parents) used to complain to her dad about girls hiding out in the
bushes outside their house in hopes of catching a glimpse of Peter.

I have a story about Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. I met him once, just before
he became famous, when I was a student at Emerson College in Boston. One
summer, two friends and I were looking for an apartment for the following
school year. As we were walking down the street, we saw a sign in a window
that said, "Apartments for Rent." It was a Sunday, and the real estate
office was closed, so my friend suggested that we enter the building and
knock on a few doors to try to find out if any three-bedrooms were
available.

We knocked on one door, and Steven Tyler appeared. At the time, Aerosmith
had released one album, but they were still pretty much a local band. I'd
seen Aerosmith play at a local club, though, so I recognized Tyler's face.
He very graciously ushered us into his 3-BR, which he shared with one
bandmate, and showed us around the place. They were using one BR as a place
to store their instruments. Another was all set up as a formal dining room
with a white tablecloth, china place settings, and glassware. Apparently,
they used the supposed living room as a second bedroom. (We didn't see the
bedrooms or bath.) The walls of the area we did see were covered entirely
in a very shiny patterned wallpaper which I'd also noticed at another local
hotspot, named Zelda's.

Anyway, when September rolled around, my friends and I did move into a 3BR
apartment in the same building, located just one floor above and with the
same layout (although not the same wallpaper). By then, though, Aerosmith
had begun national touring, and Tyler had moved out.

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 9:41 AM Ken Hess <kenneth.hess at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh man. To have been there and done that. I loved the Monkees when I was a
> little kid. I waited patiently for the episode where they sang Steppin'
> Stone and my brother kept throwing stuffed animals at me which made me not
> enjoy the episode. It was years later until I saw it again. It, of course,
> was awesome. I think that everyone had the Greatest Hits Monkees album
> --the black one with The Monkees written in bright orange. I think the RIAA
> issued that one to every kid like they did later with the Frampton Comes
> Alive album.
>
> I want Mr. Schneider. I wonder who has him?
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
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> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:19 AM Stephen Lawton <sl at afab.com> wrote:
>
>> In the mid-1960s I lived in North Hollywood, Calif. There was a band that
>> used to play in an elderly woman’s garage (elderly? I’m probably older now
>> than she was then). It wasn’t a very good band but they practiced a lot and
>> improved. Years later I came to learn that it was the Monkees practicing in
>> Mickey Dolenz’s grandmother’s garage. The studio had put the band together
>> and they were just getting to know each other. I never did go to visit the
>> band – at that point in my life I was a lot more interested in playing and
>> listening to baseball than listening to a band try to figure out what it
>> was. Years later two of my sisters-in-law ended up working for Mike Nesmith
>> as babysitters.
>>
>>
>>
>> In 1967, about a year after the Monkees was formed, a new TV live dance
>> show starting filming in the Los Angeles area – The Groovy Show. It
>> generally filmed near Santa Monica Pier, but would occasionally film at
>> local parks around the LA. It once took over the baseball diamond where I’d
>> play to film an episode. I ended up meeting Linda Ronstadt and the Stone
>> Poneys.  Ah, to live in LA during the ‘60s. Rock & roll. Griffith Park
>> love-ins with the Jefferson Airplane (when they weren’t in San Francisco),
>> and a ton of great bands playing free concerts in parks every weekend.
>> That – and the Monkees.
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>> *From:* Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Pam
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>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:20 PM
>> *To:* Ken Hess; Ipg-smz at netpress.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] So bummed
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>> Dang. I hate that
>>
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>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 2:39 PM Ken Hess <kenneth.hess at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> about Peter Tork. RIP.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Ken
>>
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