This is a quote by Peter obviously. Who
knows who's sitting behind him?
Janis Joplin. These guys were friends. So
there's also this ridiculous myth that
nobody in music like The Monkees back
then. That's all not true.
They lived in Laurel Canyon which is an
area right above Hollywood. They had
houses next to Mama Cass Elliot, Eric
Clapton lived in the neighborhood and
Frank Zappa buy a house there eventually.
John Lennon would visit Mickey Dolenz'
home all the time because Mickey had
married a woman from England and Lennon
and Ringo, of The Beatles obviously, made the joke
that that was the house they could go to
where somebody knew how to serve tea at
four o'clock. So you know they were just English guys hanging out in
America. So but Peter, very much against
the character he was asked to play which
of course was the dummy, he was a very
intellectual very smart gentleman and
saw right from start that their message
would actually have more power than The
Beatles.
