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"The Spin was that Tork didn’t know how to play in instrument when he joined the band. That was the official Tiger Beat version."

I had always heard that Tork and Nesmith were actually musicians before the Monkees and Jones and Dolenz were purely actors. Which is ironic in that Micky Dolenz was the one Monkee who actually appears on most of their records as lead singer. He actually had one of the great pop voices of the 60s.

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Tiger Beat was pushing the narrative that Tork was exactly like his character.