Ao3 Turns 15 Today

on wikipedia straight up "learning it". and by "learning it" i mean, lets just say.. information

mike nesmith was literally born to be an old queen bitching about in his 50s and 60s but unfortunately he grew up in the american south in the middle of the 20th century and then had all his disorders and insecurities exacerbated by stardom in his early 20s and it made him a freak but not in the fun way and so his true colours only occasionally shone ie with elephant parts and cruising and princess gwen and some of the gayass things he was saying on the monkees and in head. but despite all that he stayed repressed and alas the only label one can ascribe to him is straight diva. but that is not his true nature. mike nesmith is a faggot

let’s have a moment of silence for all the concerts we missed because we became a fan too late

Peter maybe you didn’t have sex in the meat locker but how do you know no one else did that thing was completely soundproofed anything could’ve happened

we have to start killing random men until peter tork comes back

I don't feel like adding this onto someone else's post, but:

Sometimes I think about how Freddie actually did use the band for Mr. Bad Guy, but just hired other musicians to sound like them for the final cut of those songs, and this upset Brian for decades, if a post on his old Soapbox blog is anything to go by

Peter Tork onstage at Wembley in 1967; photo courtesy of Melody Maker.

Q: “Peter, starting with Headquarters in 1967, it seems you were one of the first guys to actually make the banjo a significant element of pop-rock songs.” Peter Tork: “I wasn’t even thinking about doing that. I just thought, ‘The banjo would sound good here.’ If I’m fond of my own work at all, it’s the opening lick to ‘You Told Me’ from Headquarters. The guitar starts off [mimics guitar] and then the banjo cuts in [mimics banjo] and suddenly, you’re in a whole new realm. To me, building those kinds of textures is what music is all about, and there are a couple of places where the banjo contributed nicely to the Monkees’ basic rock. It seems I’m a rocker who happens to play banjo, or a banjo player who happens to rock. I don’t know.” Q: “Was it pretty seamless when you first started working out your parts for Headquarters, or did the whole studio look at you and go, ‘Peter, what are you doing with a banjo?’” Peter: “It was seamless. Everybody knew I had a banjo, and so they knew it was part of what I brought to the table musically. Nobody was surprised.” - Guitar Player Magazine, October 2016 “[On ‘You Told Me,’] it really kills when the banjo comes right in the middle and then the band hits with that nice bass drop. That moment is really exciting, that’s what music is supposed to be.” - Peter Tork, Headquarters, 1995 liner notes