stephannv said:
Hmmmm......I know not of this incident.....would anyone like to share? 
Lets see how fast I can type this all out...
"Walking home through a dark tunnel, Bono insists we throw our arms over each other's shoulders and sing the theme from
The Monkees . He's still upset because he was shot down in his bid to get U2 to adopt the names of the Monkees as hotel pseudonyms for this tour. Bono wanted to be Davy Jones, the short, maracas-shaking singer. Edge was to be Mike Nesmith, the serious, wool-hatted guitarist. He thought Adam might object to being the troublemaking blond bimbo Peter Tork, but Adam said no problem. The whole idea sank when Larry refused to be Mickey Dolenz.
Edge's version of the story is slightly different; he told me it wasn't Larry who shot down the plan; it was the fact that the Monkees names are more famous than the names of the members of U2. 'We'd still have fans ringing the rooms,' Edge protested, 'but it'll be somebody else's fans!'"
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"Many such stupid things sound funny when you've been up all night drinking. It's even something of a knee-slapper when Bono throws himself so completely into
The Monkees theme while parading through the auto tunnel that he doesn't see the car headlights bearing down on him until I yank him out of the way. (Imagine if I had not. People would be asking me Bono's last words and I'd have to say, 'Hey hey, we're the Monkees, and people say we monkey around.')"
The Monkees were the first group I really liked. I don't even remember how old I was. I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4, and my mom bought me a Monkees' record at Kmart.
Thanks for posting the excerpt!
The Monkees!
