[Ipg-smz] So bummed

Fri Feb 22 19:55:30 UTC 2019

Crosby, Tork, Nash & Young doesn't sound right.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:16 PM Jacqueline Emigh <jacwriter20 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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
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>>> *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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