MONKEES 2001 REUNION TOUR CONCERT TICKET AND BACKSTAGE PASS.
PETER TORK
At a concert in conjunction with the recording of Cambria Hotel.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, circa 1970 atop The Empire State Building.
Additional Muses in the Producer's life:
A Celebrated Man - Tol-Puddle Martyrs
Psych Out U.S.A. by The Tol-Puddle Martyrs
Peter Rechter - Tol-Puddle Martyrs Keyboard player and singer in Australian 60s
band Tol-Puddle Martyrs, and an earlier band Peter & The Silhouettes, which came from the Bendigo Region of Victoria. His more recent band in The Secrets.
The oddly
named Australian group the Tol-Puddle Martyrs (evolving out of the mid-'60s band Peter & the Silhouettes, who had a track on a 1966 compilation
LP) put out a couple of singles in 1967-1968 that are highly regarded by garage rock collectors, though not many people heard
them outside of Australia at the time of their release. (Actually, not a whole lot of people heard them inside Australia either.)
The 1967 single "Time Will Come"/"Social Cell" is taut, distressed garage rock on the verge of getting
slightly psychedelicized, with cutting minor-keyed distorted guitar/organ riffs and ominous, distrustful lyrics. By contrast,
their 1968 single, "Love Your Life"/"Nellie Bligh," is rather fey, extremely late-'60s Kinks-influenced perkiness. All four tracks were reissued on a 2003 EP in Italy by Misty Lane, with some historical
liner notes. Their name, incidentally, wasn't as contrived a bit of '60s weirdness as might be assumed, inspired by
an 1834 incident in which six farm workers in Tolpuddle, England, were banished to Australia for unionizing, subsequently
becoming known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
