Peter & Mike - Silver Springs (live Version)

from 'rise of the ogre'

forever the funniest quote in the world ever

asking "hey is it fine if I smoke in here" and before you're able to answer I've already set up a full rack of salmon over a fire in your living room

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to obsess over rockstars the rest of my life

“i don’t wanna die, i sometimes wish i’d never been born at all” remains the rawest fucking lyric in the history of music thanks freddie

I love when my mutuals are reading a monkees biography and they post the most evil unhinged quotes. You’ll be scrolling and randomly see shit like “Mike saw Peter crying and decided the torture was still not complete…. He then told his bandmate that no one would ever love him and began firing blanks at his feet…..” or “Davy Jones and Peter got into a knife fight after Davy discovered that Peter was cheating on him with his longtime secret lover, Stephen Stills of The Buffalo Springfield” or “The producers locked the band in a meat locker with a bag of cocaine, four naked women, some black light posters, and instructed them not to leave for the next seventy two hours.”

“They were clearly soulmates: they’d often sit together, giggling”

-Jim Hutton (about Freddie and Roger)

✨TIMELINE CLEANSE✨

I made a supercut of Brian's affectionate, mischievous, and nostalgic comments through his stereoscopic photos of Freddie, Roger, and John in Queen in 3D 🥰

I'm sure nobody sat through 90 mins of this when I posted the first time lol, so I tried to paste together the sweetest little bits. Many are cut out of context tho and the full video has so much more content, so I encourage you to watch that as well!

I love that you can clearly tell how much Brian loves the boys like they're his own family, and if anyone else tries to convince you of the opposite(!), I hope this video is enough proof of how ridiculously untrue that kind of claim would be.

Enjoy!

It is kinda insane how wild the Monkees are when you look into it. They were hired for a TV show but started an internal revolution where they kicked out their music supervisor to have control of their own music. They made a movie deconstructing their image and Hollywood in general. Their music spanned several genres including some very experimental stuff that would influence later music. They met and befriended the Beatles. They wrote and/or directed some of their episodes. One of them is the son of the woman who invented liquid paper (white-out) and then he would go on to basically invent MTV before he sold the concept to those who made MTV. They have some of the first music videos. They fucked. One of them even was known for his orgies. They sometimes hated each other but still loved each other as brothers. There is an FBI file on them allegedly spreading communist and anti-american propaganda at their concerts. They had a song that had to have its lyrics changed because it was too intensely political, even alluding to JFK’s assassination not being done by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1969. Their TV show was revolutionary in structure and content. Disney stars and boy bands would not exist without them. They had Jimi Hendrix open for them. One of them was a member of the Hollywood vampires. And that isn’t even all.

And yet most people don’t take them seriously.