He plays a fantastic Harpsichord solo in The Monkees " The Girl that I knew somewhere ", could pretty much play anything ,also a fantastic banjo player .. RIP Pete
@Wandering_4ever I agree with you!!! Mike said in his tribute to Peter that when he heard You Told Me, the combination of his 12 string and Peter’s banjo was something pretty special!??
Thank you for sharing! And to all those who said the Monkees didn't play their own instruments I send a raspberry! You can learn how to do this in a few years--it takes a lifetime!
Some idiot commented a couple days ago that Peter didn't play his own instrument. He said there is always a band back stage. I told him that Peter was extremely talented and could play almost any instrument. He not well that he could barely play. I got irritated and told him he was jealous, because Peter was so talented and intelligent and adorable and sexy. 😂 😂 he shut up after that. 😂 😂 got to stick up for Peter! 😢
Kudos to you! There's always someone who loves to think they sound educated and chime in with, "The Monkees never played their own instruments". Been fighting that battle since 1986. At this point I like to say their voices were dubbed as well, and they're really just holograms.
R.I.P. Peter, and David the sound is great on this video especially when I selected my Bose 901's. Thanks for posting this that had to be great to see this as it took place.
Excellent Mr. Tork, think you were best musician in the group; definitely not "the quiet one" at all for can't even imagine how you're blowing them all away wherever you are!♡🙏⚘
When I was much much younger, I guess about 9 or so, I had all the Monkees' albums and 45's. Loved watching the show and Peter was always my favorite one. Nice to see him again after all this time. At the beginning of the video it was so dark at the console. I'm glad they finally turned some lights on for him. Also, this is another great organ that didn't get sent to the dump. It's sad to know how many of these musical works of art were destroyed along with the fabulous theaters they were in. I go to the Atlanta Fox as often as I can to see the Moeller organ they have.
I think Mike Nesmith an Peter Tork were the two at the time were musically talented and could play musical instruments. the more you learn about what happened back then it is crazy what they had to endure at the hand of corporate hollywood greed and fraud.
@cindykrista Why so hateful? You must be very young to not remember what Peter and the other Monkees had to endure. They all played at least 2 instruments.
Among the music I recognised was Bach: 2 part Invention in F; Bach: Well Tempered Clavichord - Prelude in D minor; Bach: Toccata in D; CPE Bach: Solfeggietto in C minor. All my personal favourites and on high rotation on my piano!! Does anyone know what the fragment at about 7.10 is? I fully expected to her Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - after all, he did play it once on the banjo!!
I,m from Detroit and have been to a concert at the fox. played by lance luce. with my life organ group. from evola music in canton where I am still a student. and we all got a chance to play the beautifull Wurlitzer organ. .it was a great honor for me I,m so humbled to be able to have this awesome experience.thanks to lance and the awesome staff at the fox theater.i alos have a photoe of me playing it on my lowrey home organ
Recently the founder of The Binghamton (NY) Theater Organ Society, Paul Staple, died. I had helped out a little bit with graphics and such but didn't have anything near the talent it took to play our instrument. Paul got me access to one of these amazing instruments one day. I played a medley of Alice Cooper's "Ballad of Dwight Fry" and the Beethoven 7th symphony's 2nd movement--the Allegretto in A minor. Paul didn't really get my rock'n'roll side but was kind enough to call my played by ear performance "interesting." Thanks to Peter for this serendipitous memorial. Paul could play better than Peter but Peter can play better than Luke, John and me. I believe that Paul saw me as a monkey on a keyboard. Organic irony? Thanks again to Peter for allowing me to stumble into this unintended but very appropriate honorific to Paul Staple.--Mister Misanthropy
Peter Tork as The Phantom of the Opera. Seriously, Pete is one of the greatest musicians of his generation... or of any generation. He should do an album of Classical music on different instruments.
One thing to keep in mind is that Peter is playing from the slave console located on the balcony. His only controls are the single swell pedal. the thumb pistons and toe studs. The stop tabs don't do anything.
This is quite possibly the best thing ever. Thank you so much for sharing! (How amazing is that organ? Is it a Wurlitzer? That's what is usually in these awesome historic theaters.)
As Paul noted, it is a Wurlitzer, one of the larger ones ever built and still in its original installation. This is the slave console which is up in the seating in the balcony. The master console is on a riser under the stage. Search here for Dave Calendine (house organist) playing Radetsky March to get a sense of the instrument and space. The swell pedals and combo pistons work on the slave but the individual tab stops are for show.
The Detroit “Fox Special” is a 4 Manual/36 Rank shipped by Wurlitzer on June 14, 1928. ... very little lost pipework (like 3 pipes/75 years [info from Dec. 2002]), ESSENTIALLY AS INSTALLED, probably the largest original Wurlitzer left ...
Amazingly, with most of the movie palaces now no more than a memory and with most of the few remaining no longer having their organs, both the Detroit Fox and it's exact twin the St. Louis Fox still stand and both still have their Mighty Wurlitzers. I believe these are among the very largest Wurlitzer built - 4x36 as I recall.
They had to put up with a lot of indignities. It must have frustrated him a lot as he was classically trained and could play almost anything but violin.
My late Aunt was Icelandic.The way her name is pronounced is Thorbeyog but I haven't a clue how it was spelt.I wonder how hard a language it is to learn.
@@susanmccormick6022 : Your late aunt's name sounds like it may have been spelled "Þorbjorg" the first letter might create confusion, Susan. This is a very old letter in the history of language - it is a P with a long tail, going upwards. I've used the upper case form here. It sounds like our "th". There is another Icelandic letter that denotes a similar sound - it is a 'd' with a cross, 'ð'. It does take a while to master the language, and, there are only 366,000 people living in Ísland today. The wonderful thing is that the Icelanders are very proud and protective of thier native tongue. One other factoid: the United Nations declared that Iceland was the best country in the world 🌎 to be a woman.
@@19gregske55 Regret I never visited before my aunt passed & I had my wings well n truly clipped.Grounded for life after a dumb decision.Thanks for feedback.
And this isn't even the real console, which is in the orchestra pit. This is the slave console which used to sit stage left, but now is in the balcony.
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One cannot deny the talent of Peter Tork.
He would have been 80 today!
This man was always underrated. He is an EXCELLENT musician, and always has been.
I am most impressed by how he plays from memory!
look there are thousands more underrated musicians out there, I don't think it bothered him.
he certainly was,right there.jpj
He plays a fantastic Harpsichord solo in The Monkees " The Girl that I knew somewhere ", could pretty much play anything ,also a fantastic banjo player .. RIP Pete
@Wandering_4ever I agree with you!!! Mike said in his tribute to Peter that when he heard You Told Me, the combination of his 12 string and Peter’s banjo was something pretty special!??
Peter Tork could play almost anything! Talented!
Cute too!
Exactly. He was a very accomplished musician. He’s so very missed.
So glad the private moment was captured and shared. Thank you. Like a kid in the candy store...exploring.
Peter was quite the accomplished musician.
He was such a talented man - this is wonderful!
Thank you for sharing! And to all those who said the Monkees didn't play their own instruments I send a raspberry! You can learn how to do this in a few years--it takes a lifetime!
Playing in heaven now 🎶😢 RIP Peter
What happened?
@@slendermanRblx :( He passed away in 2019, cancer :'(
@@paisleybabee and now Mike has joined him and Davy. May they all Rest In Peace. 💔
Such a genius and so underrated! Loved him, miss this talented man
WOW!!! Love this...thank you🌹🌹🌹🌹
What a joy..thank you for sharing !
I miss him!
He was such an amazing musician.
Some idiot commented a couple days ago that Peter didn't play his own instrument. He said there is always a band back stage. I told him that Peter was extremely talented and could play almost any instrument. He not well that he could barely play. I got irritated and told him he was jealous, because Peter was so talented and intelligent and adorable and sexy. 😂 😂 he shut up after that. 😂 😂 got to stick up for Peter! 😢
Kudos to you! There's always someone who loves to think they sound educated and chime in with, "The Monkees never played their own instruments". Been fighting that battle since 1986. At this point I like to say their voices were dubbed as well, and they're really just holograms.
Great post I completely agree
Peter was born to be a great
Musician,and I would say he
Was one of the few who could play many instruments very well
Thanks Dave....Peter playing Bach is one of the highlights if my life.
If it was any one else I wouldn't have watched the whole thing, but it's "Peter Tork!!!!" Brilliant!!!
love this I play the orghan and this is so beautriful! trhbank you for sharing! Love and Miss Peter
I love hearing Peter talk. His voice is just so cool.
R.I.P. Peter, and David the sound is great on this video especially when I selected my Bose 901's. Thanks for posting this that had to be great to see this as it took place.
Peter , rest in Peace ! Thank you so much !!
How cool is this?!?! Thanks so much for sharing this amazing video!
Wonderful,thankyou for sharing ❤
Excellent Mr. Tork, think you were best musician in the group; definitely not "the quiet one" at all for can't even imagine how you're blowing them all away wherever you are!♡🙏⚘
So missed... 😢
When I was much much younger, I guess about 9 or so, I had all the Monkees' albums and 45's. Loved watching the show and Peter was always my favorite one. Nice to see him again after all this time. At the beginning of the video it was so dark at the console. I'm glad they finally turned some lights on for him.
Also, this is another great organ that didn't get sent to the dump. It's sad to know how many of these musical works of art were destroyed along with the fabulous theaters they were in. I go to the Atlanta Fox as often as I can to see the Moeller organ they have.
Love it!
And there are idiots out there who STILL insist Peter was never classically trained and never played his own keyboards or instruments!!!! HAH!!!!!!!!
Watch Peter’s performance of Solfeggietto on 33 and a third from 1968. He had the chops back then.
I think Mike Nesmith an Peter Tork were the two at the time were musically talented and could play musical instruments. the more you learn about what happened back then it is crazy what they had to endure at the hand of corporate hollywood greed and fraud.
Can you see me laughing at that?! I saw the group in concert when I was 16, all very impressive.
@cindykrista Why so hateful? You must be very young to not remember what Peter and the other Monkees had to endure. They all played at least 2 instruments.
Is there anything the man couldn't play?'!
This is so badass!!
Wow!! Peter Tork from TV show,always liked him!!
Among the music I recognised was Bach: 2 part Invention in F; Bach: Well Tempered Clavichord - Prelude in D minor; Bach: Toccata in D; CPE Bach: Solfeggietto in C minor. All my personal favourites and on high rotation on my piano!!
Does anyone know what the fragment at about 7.10 is?
I fully expected to her Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - after all, he did play it once on the banjo!!
I loved right at the beginning when he started playing Night On Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky.
Such a fine musician!! There wasn't much he couldn't play!!
yeah,Peter is awesomely talented ! I'm from Detroit and have been to the Fox quite a few times,didn't even know they had one of those.
I,m from Detroit and have been to a concert at the fox. played by lance luce. with my life organ group. from evola music in canton where I am still a student. and we all got a chance to play the beautifull Wurlitzer organ. .it was a great honor for me I,m so humbled to be able to have this awesome experience.thanks to lance and the awesome staff at the fox theater.i alos have a photoe of me playing it on my lowrey home organ
Amazing! I love this guy!
Peter playing Bach's six-part inventions brings back memories of Glenn Gould...What a talented artist....
Wow!! This is awesome!!
Imagine the organ part on "..Stepping Stone" done with one of these monsters ?
That goes for " I'm A Believer", too.
And I thought watching him play Bach on a keyboard was amazing. Wow.
It's fun to hear it in theatre organ registration. It sounds very different, but I like it.
I think I hear the angels singing.
AWESOME...Thanks so much for sharing....
Fantastic
Peter the ever eternal trip
Recently the founder of The Binghamton (NY) Theater Organ Society, Paul Staple, died. I had helped out a little bit with graphics and such but didn't have anything near the talent it took to play our instrument. Paul got me access to one of these amazing instruments one day. I played a medley of Alice Cooper's "Ballad of Dwight Fry" and the Beethoven 7th symphony's 2nd movement--the Allegretto in A minor. Paul didn't really get my rock'n'roll side but was kind enough to call my played by ear performance "interesting." Thanks to Peter for this serendipitous memorial. Paul could play better than Peter but Peter can play better than Luke, John and me. I believe that Paul saw me as a monkey on a keyboard. Organic irony? Thanks again to Peter for allowing me to stumble into this unintended but very appropriate honorific to Paul Staple.--Mister Misanthropy
Peter Tork as The Phantom of the Opera.
Seriously, Pete is one of the greatest musicians of his generation... or of any generation. He should do an album of Classical music on different instruments.
I'm sure that after a couple of hours of getting the feel of the instrument that he would play the hell out of it.
Bach! He loves Bach....he plays the french horn too....wonderful!
One thing to keep in mind is that Peter is playing from the slave console located on the balcony. His only controls are the single swell pedal. the thumb pistons and toe studs. The stop tabs don't do anything.
Night On Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky at the beginning.
Peter is so talented. He makes me want to be a better musician (I sing and play piano)
If you are not readily convinced wait just a few moments, once the sounds he wanted to engage were set, his skill becomes quite clear.
After some monkeying around... by 8:20 you've created a Monster. We want more Dr. Phibes movies!
Hey, Hey, he was great
Badass!
This is quite possibly the best thing ever. Thank you so much for sharing! (How amazing is that organ? Is it a Wurlitzer? That's what is usually in these awesome historic theaters.)
It is indeed a Wurlitzer.
As Paul noted, it is a Wurlitzer, one of the larger ones ever built and still in its original installation. This is the slave console which is up in the seating in the balcony. The master console is on a riser under the stage. Search here for Dave Calendine (house organist) playing Radetsky March to get a sense of the instrument and space. The swell pedals and combo pistons work on the slave but the individual tab stops are for show.
The Detroit “Fox Special” is a 4 Manual/36 Rank shipped by Wurlitzer on June 14, 1928.
... very little lost pipework (like 3 pipes/75 years [info from Dec. 2002]), ESSENTIALLY AS INSTALLED, probably the largest original Wurlitzer left ...
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The whole Headquarters album was them playing and Chip Douglas.
R.I.P Peter Tork
Amazingly, with most of the movie palaces now no more than a memory and with most of the few remaining no longer having their organs, both the Detroit Fox and it's exact twin the St. Louis Fox still stand and both still have their Mighty Wurlitzers. I believe these are among the very largest Wurlitzer built - 4x36 as I recall.
the fox in atlanta still has its wurlitzer
jason gorman
Wrong, the Atlanta Fox has a Moeller.
The Fox Wurlitzers were the best of their breed? This is i believe the slave console up in the balcony on this particular Wurlitzer?
This is so cool. I know nothing about organs, but I assume hearing this life would be epic.
The library organ left to the Monkees in Monkee See Monkee Die?
hell is there any instrument this guy can't play?
I just now seen this.......Wish I knew how many different instruments he could play.
@@Baku202 Keyboards, Banjo, different guitars. I love reading about musicians, and you can find out everything you want to know about Peter.
Can u imagine how Pete must have felt with that whole "monkees" don't play their own instruments thing
They had to put up with a lot of indignities. It must have frustrated him a lot as he was classically trained and could play almost anything but violin.
Is this Peter Tork from the Monkees?
+jam8854 -- Of course.
The one and only
This feels like a religious moment
His first time at a TO? Maybe someone tell him, for which music an TO was builted.
Also first time playing an organ with more than two manuals, I bet.
I was hoping he would break into a version of “I’m a Believer”
Peter Tork (formerly of The Monkees) was born Peter Thorkelson, he is of Icelandic heritage.
My late Aunt was Icelandic.The way her name is pronounced is Thorbeyog but I haven't a clue how it was spelt.I wonder how hard a language it is to learn.
@@susanmccormick6022 : Your late aunt's name sounds like it may have been spelled "Þorbjorg" the first letter might create confusion, Susan. This is a very old letter in the history of language - it is a P with a long tail, going upwards. I've used the upper case form here. It sounds like our "th". There is another Icelandic letter that denotes a similar sound - it is a 'd' with a cross, 'ð'.
It does take a while to master the language, and, there are only 366,000 people living in Ísland today. The wonderful thing is that the Icelanders are very proud and protective of thier native tongue.
One other factoid: the United Nations declared that Iceland was the best country in the world 🌎 to be a woman.
@@19gregske55 Regret I never visited before my aunt passed & I had my wings well n truly clipped.Grounded for life after a dumb decision.Thanks for feedback.
And this isn't even the real console, which is in the orchestra pit. This is the slave console which used to sit stage left, but now is in the balcony.
waaay cool.
Eternal TRIP (oops)
After all this, wish he'd of just owned this one at the Fox.... Get Richard Hills on this thing!!
Why didnt you guys play on the master console it doesnt have dummie stop tabs.
brrrrr nothing at your back you can fall down..... scary
Wurlitzer fox special organ in stl is better