Peter Tork and Davy Jones Come to Blows

As The Monkees fought for creative control of their music, tensions began to mount and tempers raged out of control leading to a few "punch-ups".

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• Smithsonian Channel
• The Monkees
• Davy Jones
• Peter Tork
• Michael Nesmith
• Micky Dolenz
• Making The Monkees
• Pop
• Rock
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[MaskedMarvyl]

The biographer called their music more "idiosynchratic" towards the end: I call it more interesting and mature; in other words, finding their own voice. I wish they'd stayed together another year or two with a strong producer; we'll never know what kind of unique songs they would have produced.....

[Philtration]

@camoflaugetampex

So the Beatles and the Stones sounded like Dolenz?

Maybe in your little world.

[Earthlinked]

@bd9598 It was also in the 1960's - an NEW VW Beetle cost $1,995!!!! Today that same VW Beetle cost about $25,000 - so it was lilke they were making about $7,000 per week today - and for UNestablished actors - that was a greta payday!!!!!

[bd9598]

@etrax2000 It was Ringo first, then George that walked out at the beginning of the end.

[bd9598]

@Earthlinked read about the whopping $400 a week they made......

[bd9598]

@duffh Yes they were put on a TV show they KNEW this you can see the ad they answered on the web, it turned out they did have talent, popularity and WERE a real band with real music. No one ever said they were not on a TV show FIRST, obviously they had talent and learned much more along the way and were very popular, they did NOT want to be the Beatles.

[DontForgetTrousers]

@Earthlinked clearly you're lacking in your monkee knowledge. micky played the guitar prior to the monkees, but was, as you said, an actor. mike and peter played multiple instruments (PETER was the one with formal training prior to the monkees, with many instruments under his belt), and neither were 'actors'. no amount of caps lock or extraneous exclamation points are going to bring your point home. seriously, just stop. you're a fucking adult, so act like one.

[duffh]

They wanted to be the Beatles, but they didn't have the talent. They were just puppets in a TV show. It went to their heads. So they were replaced by 2-D cartoons that had no ego.

[Earthlinked]

@tryithere Yes - they COULD hold an instrument and make a sound with it - but they were nowhere close to good musicians!! Nesmith was the ONLY musician - and he played the guitar - and on a 1 to 10 scale - he'd never rank above 5! Eventually - they did play their instruments in concerts - but by then the joke was over - and the gig was up!! But they do get the "most times disbanded" award - OFFICIALLY probably 5 or 6 times - ALWAYS brought back by the MONEY! They were ACTORS - NOT musicians!!!

[tryithere]

@Earthlinked They got the roles as actors but they could all play except Dolenz who learned how to play the drums. Don Kirshner didn't want them to play and augmented them on the the first 1 or 2 albums. It was one of the reasons Kirschner was fired after the first season.

[Earthlinked]

@tryithere NO - they really could NOT play - they get the parts for the TV show NOT becasue they were musciains - but ONLY becasue they were actors - PERIOD!!! The only person with ANY musical training was Nesmith - he had played guitar - but he was an ACTOR - not a musician!!!!!!!! And of course when they figured out that they could make even more money touring as a band - so OF COURSE they learned an instrument - that meant more money for them!!! I'd learn how to play a guitar also!!!!!

[tryithere]

@buck6233 Micky sang lead on a number of their songs.