OK, here it is! I have put together the ultimate set list for the best Michael Nesmith concert ever! This covers all bases and phases (except The Prison) and offers a great mix to please everyone, a load of different styles, and mostly familiar songs that everyone will know. I challenge you all to improve on this set and we could agree on the best show he could possibly do. I think it really shows how creative he has been in the music AND video fields! ---------------------------------------------------------------- (lights dim) (curtain opens) (giant video projection shows Pacific Arts logo film, followed by into to Elephant Parts with Michaels "Rodan") (Out of the smoke appears Michael, band is already in place) Main Show: Solo Career, multi-media, comedy Tonight (video, lights) Total Control (video) Roll with the Flow (rock version, lights in sequence, film of trains) Upside of Goodbye (relaxing flying Pink Floyd type video) Propinquity Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority (video) Laugh Kills Lonesome (other clips from Elephant Parts, no audio) Eldorado to the Moon (video) Bye Bye Bye (semi-trucks in film) Some of Shellys Blues Release Crusin' (video) Listen to the Band (Loose Salute version, no fade, extended ending) Here I Am Crippled Lion Rio (video) Encore 1: Reconciling with the past (following is a medley of slightly shortened songs that run together. They were pretty short to begin with!) (psychadelic lights, strobes, films of lava lamps, kids screaming, etc.) (ok, maybe coming out with a green wool hat on is pushing it) What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round Tapioca Tundra The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Just once to hear Mike sing this song!) You Just May Be The One Papa Genes Blues All The Kings Horses (Is there a better known non-lp Monkees track?) Circle Sky Good Clean Fun (emphasis on the last line "I told you I'd back, and here I am!, song ends loud and sharp) Encore 2: Past, Present, Future (Michael alone on the stage with no band) Joanne Light Moon Over the Rio Grande (curtain closes) (Michael comes from behind curtain to bow, then exits) (lights rise) (An exausted and totally amazed audience files into the night saying to themselves "Well, I guess the DID play their own instruments!) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Who wants to see this show?!! Brad Waddell bradw@aztec.asu.edu ======================================================================= Well, here's my setlist. I for one would love to see either your or my setlist. Actually, I'm sure I'd love any setlist that Mike chose anyway! Show opens with First National Band backup: Mama Rocker Calico Girlfriend Nine Times Blue Little Red Rider The Crippled Lion Silver Moon Some of Shelly's Blues Continuing Release Grand Ennui I Looked Away Hollywood Nez and Red: Tomorrow & Me The Upside of Goodbye Listening Two Different Roads Band: Marie's Theme (seguing into) Rio (seguing into) Casablanca Moonlight Tonite Flying Cruisin' Total Control I'll Remember You I Am Not That Capsule Mike solo encore: Joanne While I Cry Propinquity Different Drum THE END Ken Wang kkwang@seas.ucla.edu ======================================================================= You're missing "Beyond the Blue Horizon", played as the final song of the final encore, Mike walks away from the microphone, crooning away. Slowly the curtains close with the music still playing, softly. End of concert. - Fred. frkboak@world.std.com (Fred RK Boak) ======================================================================= how can there be a best-ever nez show without nevada fighter and grand ennui? i'd also put "the other room" and "wisdomm has its way" in my ideal nez show Randolph Burbach