The Monkees Members of the Monkees, Nesmith in particular, cite the soundtrack album as one of the crowning achievements of the band. Tensions within the group were increasing. Peter Tork, citing exhaustion, quit by buying out the last four years of his Monkees contract at $150,000 per year, equal to about $ per year today. This was shortly after the band's Far East tour in December 1968, after completing work on their 1969 NBC television special, "33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee", which rehashed many of the ideas from "Head", only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role. In the DVD commentary for
Washington DC LDS Stake Washington DC LDS Stake The Washington DC Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the regional center for Mormon congregations in the Washington, D.C. area and surrounding towns and cities. The Washington DC Stake became the first stake in the mid-Atlantic region on June 30, 1940, with President Ezra Taft Benson serving as the first stake president. Members of the stake at that time lived anywhere from Richmond, Virginia, to Fairview, Pennsylvania, as well as from Maryland's Chesapeake River to Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Since then, the original stake has branched off into 24 additional stakes