![]() Pretty soon I was cutting my hair to be more like his and buying the same shirts. (And Bobby Sherman too, but that’s another story). The conflict was even deeper because at 15 or 16, I was a dead ringer for Davy Jones. ![]() So while my musical affiliations lay with The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, I had to acknowledge there was something special going on with that half hour faux band TV show. The final episode of season one was a behind the scenes documentary of one of the band’s first concerts in Phoenix, Arizona. Some featured wall to wall music beginning to end. Part sitcom, part musical, part weekly recreation of The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night”, it constantly pushed the envelope of television creativity at the time.Įpisodes introduced songs that would top the next week’s hit parade. On the other, their TV show was by far the freshest and most anarchist creation on the tube. On one hand their music was pure bubblegum. I was personally conflicted by “The Monkees”. The printed admonition urged him to take part in more school activities like sock hops and basketball games – which of course would have benefitted the Student Council by attracting those carloads of girls to pay their way in to such dances and games. Lil Bro pretty much kept to himself to the point the school paper took him to task for saying his previous high school in LA had been “more fun”. I think dad was a math prof at the University and they’d just happened to move into town the same Summer “The Monkees” went Supernova. ![]() But to glimpse his little brother, who was 14, kinda nerdy and still went by the family moniker of Thorkelson. Not catch sight of Peter Tork, who lived in LA and more or less played Bass guitar for the original boy band. When school let out, there were always a couple of carloads of girls from other high schools waiting to catch sight of him. Peter Tork’s little brother went to my high school. ![]()
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