Davy Speaks Out

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From: “Jennifer Kwilos”

Here are a couple URLs to websites featuring articles about Davy Jones and
his museum.

http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/insider/000321a.asp

Davy Jones Monkees With Museum
Tuesday, March 21, 2000

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could be in for some competition this fall
when ex-Monkee Davy Jones opens his dream museum in Beaverton, PA.

Jones, who topped the charts in the 1960s with hits such as Daydream
Believer, tells TV Guide Online that he’ll open his Davy Jones Rock and
Roll Museum this September in a barn-like former Lutheran church in the
region he now calls home. Featured bands, he says, will include
chart-toppers like the Monkees and KC and the Sunshine Band that haven’t
made the cut into the original Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“I’m not going to wait to be inducted into that,” says Jones, whose own
museum will be packed with Monkees mementos plus memorabilia from such
music biz pals as Pete Townshend and Neil Young. “I can’t believe the
Monkees are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That is a joke. We were
the forerunners from the ’60s.”

Jones hopes his museum will also play host to his many esoteric interests,
including a film school, a lecture series on horseriding (he’s an
ex-jockey), table tennis, a cancer research fund and a boxing ring where
he’ll manage women boxers.

Meanwhile, the indefatigable singer says he’s busy thinking up new tour
ideas. He says he’d like to tour with singer Jill Sobule (I Kissed a Girl)
in gay bath houses. He’d also like to do a show with Reba McIntire at the
Grand Old Opry, or possibly with Sheena Easton, who’s currently starring
with David Cassidy in Las Vegas.

“You’ve got David Cassidy and Sheena Easton dying there because he has no
soul, no rhythm,” he says of the ex-Partridge Family star. “He’s just a
name. He couldn’t sell a ticket. He couldn’t organize a piss-off in a
brewery right now. He was lucky to get F/X and he was great in Blood
Brothers, I’m told. But now here comes Davy Jones, here comes the emotion,
the drama, the real. Underneath the tinsel and fabric is real tinsel and
fabric. I have no competition with any of the little teen idols or anybody
else.” – Rich Brown

http://www.vh1.com/thewire/news/03_21_00/monkees.jhtml

LAST TRAIN TO SANITY
By C. Bottomley

A Monkee is opening his own rock ‘n’ roll museum, while VH1 seems to have
found some Monkees of their own. Davy Jones is opening his Davy Jones Rock
and Roll Museum in Beaverton, PA in September. And casting is complete on
the Monkees TV movie Daydream Believer, a look at the lives of the prefab
foursome who had hits with songs like “Last Train to Clarksville” and
“Stepping Stone.”

TV Guide revealed that Jones is setting up the museum in a former Lutheran
church near his home. The cute one explained that he saw his museum of
Monkees memorabilia as an alternative to Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, which has yet to pay his band the respect they deserve. “I’m not
going to wait to be inducted into that,” Jones said. “I can’t believe the
Monkees are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That is a joke. We were
the forerunners from the ’60s.” He said his museum would also honor
forerunners like KC and the Sunshine Band.

But the Rock and Roll Museum isn’t all about just the Monkees – or rock and
roll for that matter. Jones is creating other exhibits that would allow him
to indulge his passion for film, table tennis, cancer research, and women’s
boxing. The former jockey will also lecture on horse riding. Well, it beats
hearing about Lightnin’ Slim’s guitar picks.

Jones also took time to deliver an inexplicable verbal beat-down to
Partridge Family member David Cassidy, who is currently performing with
Sheena Easton in Las Vegas. Jones observed that Cassidy’s star was in
descent. “You’ve got David Cassidy and Sheena Easton dying there because he
has no soul, no rhythm,” Jones told the magazine. “He’s just a name. He
couldn’t sell a ticket. He couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery right
now.”

Rock and roll, though, has a new savior. “Now here comes Davy Jones, here
comes the emotion, the drama, the real,” he said. Well, he certainly has a
real something. “Underneath the tinsel and fabric is real tinsel and
fabric,” he continued. “I have no competition with any teen idols or
anybody else.”

Jones will get a chance to look through the past darkly when Daydream
Believer airs on VH1 in the summer. The four stars of VH1’s Monkees movie
were plucked from nationwide auditions last month. Would-be Monkees had to
sing, be able to pretend to play an instrument and, obviously, look like a
Monkee.

The lucky thespians are Aaron Lohr (Mickey Dolenz), George Stanchev (Davy
Jones), Jeff Geddis (Mike Nesmith) and L. B. Fisher (Peter Tork). The
23-year-old Lohr is something of a show biz veteran, having played a Bash
Brother in the Mighty Ducks films opposite Emilio Estevez, “Mush” in the
1992 film Newsies and appeared in a Pia Zadora music video. Lohr also sings
in a Los Angeles band called RC Cru. Stanchev and Geddis are both from
Toronto, while Fisher lives in New York. The film is currently in the midst
of a month-long Toronto shoot. VH1 hopes to air the completed Daydream
Believer sometime in the summer.

Jenni
kwilossjc@netzero.net

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