{"id":3094,"date":"2018-11-19T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T20:17:50","slug":"songs-michael-nesmith-the-first-national-band-redux-grand-ennui-at-the-troubadour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2018\/11\/19\/songs-michael-nesmith-the-first-national-band-redux-grand-ennui-at-the-troubadour\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED Songs: Michael Nesmith &#038; The First National Band Redux &#8220;Grand Ennui&#8221; at the Troubadour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Nesmith finished his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videoranch3d.com\/category\/first-national-band.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tour with the First National Band Redux<\/a> in September, <a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/michael-nesmith-first-national-band-reissue\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrating the re-release of his post-Monkees proto-Americana work with the original First National Band<\/a>. I was happy see the Boston stop on the First National Band tour. The band was tight and swinging. Nesmith was spry and in good humor. He walked on to a cheering crowd and gave a little background on his \u201cNudie\u201d cowboy hat. The audience was silent for the next minute while Nesmith got his guitar situated, and he addressed the awkwardness, laughing a bit as he said, \u201cWon\u2019t be long now!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The material is worth another look, if you haven\u2019t listened in a while. \u201cCalico Girlfriend,\u201d \u201cNine Times Blue,\u201d \u201cListen To the Band,\u201d \u201cJoanne,\u201d all lost classics in Nesmith\u2019s catalogue. Most of the songs were rendered fairly faithfully, with a little bit of tinkering. \u201cNevada Fighter\u201d got a bracing new a cappella opening, and there was a lot of hot guitar work throughout the evening. Not sure if Nesmith with ever go out with this material again, at least not highlighting it the way this tour did.  <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot going on in Nesmith\u2019s world. There is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monkeeslivealmanac.com\/blog\/week-2-christmas-party-on-the-billboard-charts\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monkees Christmas album out<\/a>. Nesmith just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monkeeslivealmanac.com\/blog\/the-mike-micky-show-2019-tour-dates-venues-and-ticket-links\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced some new dates for March 2019 with \u201cThe Mike & Micky Show\u201d with former Monkees bandmate Micky Dolenz<\/a>. And yesterday, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Videoranch3D\/photos\/pb.17132976095.-2207520000.1542588560.\/10156943078096096\/?type=3&theater\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Nesmith\u2019s VideoRanch3D Facebook page, a graphic popped up that states, \u201cNovember 19 \u2013 NEZ has something to announce.\u201d<\/a> I\u2019ll update this post once the announcement is officially made (see below). <\/p>\n<p>But before we move on to all of the new stuff, I wanted to take one more look at the First National Band Redux. This is the video that announced the tour, with NEZ and the new band playing \u201cGrand Ennui\u201d at the Troubadour, where Nesmith established himself decades ago before he got the gig with the Monkees. <\/p>\n<p> Nesmith was the featured interview on the Department of Tangents Podcast EP33. You can download it on iTunes or Stitcher, or <a href=\"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/06\/14\/dot-podcast-ep33-my-infinite-tuesdays-with-michael-nesmith-new-music-from-banditos\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">listen to it online on the DoT blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atWb_ZhFJJc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Videoranch3D\/photos\/a.10150745151871096\/10156945135141096\/?type=3&theater\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today\u2019s announcement is news about yet another tour, six dates in California, Washington, and Oregon, which will feature Nesmith and pedal steel player Pete Finney playing songs from Nesmith\u2019s 1972 album <em>And the Hits Just Keep On Comin\u2019<\/em>.<\/a> That album featured Nesmith and pedal steel player O.J. \u201cRed\u201d Rhodes, and included Nesmith\u2019s first studio recording of his song \u201cDifferent Drum,\u201d which had previously been recorded by the Greenbriar Boys and Linda Ronstadt. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Nesmith finished his tour with the First National Band Redux in September, celebrating the re-release of his post-Monkees proto-Americana work with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1329,2010,1311,2011,2012,1330],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-michael-nesmith","tag-micky-dolenz","tag-the-department-of-tangents-podcast","tag-the-first-national-band","tag-the-first-national-band-redux","tag-the-monkees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Songs-Michael-Nesmith.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-NU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}