> At 52, Davy Jones is one angry old Monkee. Terse andbitterduring a
> phone interview from his Los Angeles apartment,<snip>

Nooo, pumpkin!!

> ``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. ''

Ouch!  He must be a delight in the morning before coffee :/

> 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. ''

I mean, yes, he has grandchildren, after all, PLUS:  he is a POP
CULTURE ICON.

Mo McCormick, by the way, is STILL boy crazy ;)

> 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.

Of course not!

> 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.

...including the 90s, such as "You & I" & "It's Not Too
Late" (please?).  :)

> ``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. ''

Word.  :)

> 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. ''

AHAHAHAHAHA!  Love him. :)