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2008-02-01 18:42:51 UTC
I was fwded this from a DJ in KC, who said it made a 'best of"
grouping of some kind of music articles. I love the quote that ends
the article. Davy always give such great quotes.
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The Kansas City Star
Davy Jones isn't a happy Monkee about new 'Teen Idols Tour'
TAMARA IKENBERG The Baltimore Sun
At 52, Davy Jones is one angry old Monkee. Terse and bitter during a
phone interview from his Los Angeles apartment, the pint-size flower-
power heartthrob admits, however sardonically, that money was a big
reason he teamed with Bobby Sherman and Peter Noone of Herman's
Hermits for the ``Teen Idols Tour. '' ``No, I don't want any money,''
Jones says dryly. Sarcasm makes his saccharine English accent sound as
alien as Alvin & the Chipmunks doing Marilyn Manson covers.
``I don't want to be paid for it,'' Jones continues in the same biting
tone, ``I just want a cheese sandwich and a roof over my head. '' One
would think a man who'd serenaded Marcia Brady on ``The Brady Bunch''
could put shallow material wants behind him.
But ``potloads'' of money are high on the priority list of the
performer who gained fame in the '60s as a member of a faux rock group
assembled for the psychedelic TV show ``The Monkees. '' As a Monkee,
Jones and his pals Mickey Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork held
instruments they weren't allowed to play as they sang songs they
didn't write.
However, Jones will perform such Monkees classics as ``Daydream
Believer'' on the tour; new material includes a song recently written
by Noone and himself. According to Jones, he has never had conflicts
with his old Monkee handlers over whether he could perform old Monkees
songs on his own or with the group on reunion tours.
``We don't have to ask permission for things like that,'' he said.
After all, it would hardly make sense for Jones not to sing his hits
for an audience sure to include die-hard Monkees fans hungry for a
blast from the past.
``I have my theme songs, and people know me. It's not something I have
to work terribly hard at,'' he said. ``I'm not looking for success; I
already have it. '' Many of the fans attending the ``Teen Idols Tour''
probably considered the Monkee boy a '60s sex symbol, something Jones,
who has appeared at Starlight Theatre in productions of ``Oliver!,''
seems a bit confrontational about discussing now.
``If it's the sex symbol thing, that's their personal business,'' he
said. ``I don't perform one song for the people who want to see my
(rear) and another for the people who just want to hear me sing. ''
grouping of some kind of music articles. I love the quote that ends
the article. Davy always give such great quotes.
_____________________________________________
The Kansas City Star
Davy Jones isn't a happy Monkee about new 'Teen Idols Tour'
TAMARA IKENBERG The Baltimore Sun
At 52, Davy Jones is one angry old Monkee. Terse and bitter during a
phone interview from his Los Angeles apartment, the pint-size flower-
power heartthrob admits, however sardonically, that money was a big
reason he teamed with Bobby Sherman and Peter Noone of Herman's
Hermits for the ``Teen Idols Tour. '' ``No, I don't want any money,''
Jones says dryly. Sarcasm makes his saccharine English accent sound as
alien as Alvin & the Chipmunks doing Marilyn Manson covers.
``I don't want to be paid for it,'' Jones continues in the same biting
tone, ``I just want a cheese sandwich and a roof over my head. '' One
would think a man who'd serenaded Marcia Brady on ``The Brady Bunch''
could put shallow material wants behind him.
But ``potloads'' of money are high on the priority list of the
performer who gained fame in the '60s as a member of a faux rock group
assembled for the psychedelic TV show ``The Monkees. '' As a Monkee,
Jones and his pals Mickey Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork held
instruments they weren't allowed to play as they sang songs they
didn't write.
However, Jones will perform such Monkees classics as ``Daydream
Believer'' on the tour; new material includes a song recently written
by Noone and himself. According to Jones, he has never had conflicts
with his old Monkee handlers over whether he could perform old Monkees
songs on his own or with the group on reunion tours.
``We don't have to ask permission for things like that,'' he said.
After all, it would hardly make sense for Jones not to sing his hits
for an audience sure to include die-hard Monkees fans hungry for a
blast from the past.
``I have my theme songs, and people know me. It's not something I have
to work terribly hard at,'' he said. ``I'm not looking for success; I
already have it. '' Many of the fans attending the ``Teen Idols Tour''
probably considered the Monkee boy a '60s sex symbol, something Jones,
who has appeared at Starlight Theatre in productions of ``Oliver!,''
seems a bit confrontational about discussing now.
``If it's the sex symbol thing, that's their personal business,'' he
said. ``I don't perform one song for the people who want to see my
(rear) and another for the people who just want to hear me sing. ''