“All of Your Toys (rehearsal)”

[instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: Know what I mean? We’ll do the introduction a third time, right after the bridge. And then we can also go—

Just like all of your toys
Don’t wanna be
Just like all of your toys
Just like all of your
Just like all of your toys

?: You hear that? You didn’t hear that?
Peter: Nope.
?: It didn’t have the full—now listen, once. Alright, we go.

Just like all of your toys
I don’t wanna be
Just like all of your toys
I don’t need to be
Just like all of your
Just like all of your toys

Peter: You’re making it worse. That’s already pulling down on that [???]. Only the, the, the chord changes. Every—You change a key like that, and you, you compound the difficulty involved in it, in the.
?: Well.
Peter: The fact that the bridge is [???] you actually go [???]
?: Well, no, that’s not what bothers me. It’s the fact the bridge is weak, and so far it has this.
[plays bridge]
?: It doesn’t, it doesn’t have any balls, the bridge. It’s.
?: Hey Pete?
Peter: Yeah?
?: Would you come in here, for just a minute?


  1. The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the ’60s TV Pop Sensation (2005), Andrew Sandoval, p. 286.