PETER TORK

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

Every country has it trade offs.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

Yes, I am a good singer.

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.