Peter is perhaps the most unlike his character on The Monkees. He played the part of "the dummy", but as we all know, he is so much more that that! He had the most musical experience of all four of the boys on entering into The Monkees: 5-string bango, bass, 6-string guitar and Piano. (He probably played more, I just don't know the rest!) And now everyone seems to think that Peter had no musical experience and really was stupid...wow, look who got fooled!
Look who's the dummy now!
"Peter Tork was playing guitar, ukelele, five-string banjo and bass before his voice changed. LAter he picked up piano, french horn and others, all of which he learned well.
He began his musical career in New York City's Greenwich Village, preforming as singer-musician in various pass-the-hat hide-aways where the music ws always new. When money became something of a necessity, he toured with the Phoenix Singers as accompanist, but The Village was his "scene" until a little over a year ago when he hit Los Angeles.
There he appeared alone and with others in carious clubs and music houses, including the Troubadour in West Hollywood. He had been on the Coast only two-months when an audition at Screen Gems landed him a starring role in "The Monkees" - A Raybert Production.
Bron in Washinton D.C., Febuary 13, 1944, Peter was raised in Connecticut. His father, H.J. Torkelson, is Associate Professor of Econimics at the University of Connectisut. Pete attened Carleton College in Minnesota for three years before dropping plans for a teaching career. From there, he moved to New York and The Village.
Pete is 5-feet 11-inches tall, weighs 152 pounds, has reddish-brown hair and brown eyes."