Michael Nesmith
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
London, U.K.
Dec. 30, 1975


In memory of Michael Nesmith (Rest in Peace): Dec. 30, 1942 - Dec. 10, 2021


TheCommish notes:
Here's a show that I downloaded here on DIME back in Mar. 2006 when it was shared by forthelonely. It's often listed as a soundboard but it's like just a pretty nice-sounding audience recording since you can hear the microphone rustling every once in a while.

The tracking of the original files was poor; the number of files exceeded the number of songs in the tracklisting so nothing lined up. Further, there were occassional gaps (most often in the between-song applause). So for this torrent I re-tracked the show and removed the small gaps and a couple other small flaws. However, no adjustments were made to the volume or sound quality of the recording.

There's quite a bit of talk before/after songs so for tracking I tried to best match the talking to the related songs. It's not perfect by any means but it's a lot better than the tracking of the original FLAC files.

There are still some occasional flaws in the recording (for example, during Different Drum) but overall it's a good listen given the age of the recording.


Disc 1
01. Introduction / Calico Girlfriend
02. Joanne
03. Mama Nantucket
04. Silver Moon
05. Listen to the Band
06. Crippled Lion [Red Rhodes]
07. Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)
08. Different Drum
09. Roll With The Flow
10. Some of Shelley's Blues
11. Grand Ennui

Disc 2
01. Introduction
02. Harmony Constant
03. One Rose
04. The Other Side of Goodbye
05. Wax Minute
06. Life the Unsuspected Captive
07. Dance Between The Raindrops
08. Marie's Theme
09. Lampost

Michael Nesmith - guitar, vocals
Red Rhodes - pedal steel
Steven Leach - guitar
Dave Pegg - bass
Dave Mattacks - drums


Lineage: Original FLAC files downloaded from DIME in Mar. 2006 > Trader's Little Helper > WAV > Nero WaveEditor (to combine files and to edit out gaps) > CD Wave Editor (to parse tracks) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC


Original torrent notes from forthelonely (Mar. 2006):
A great soundboard recording, 2 hours long and very funny stage banter here and there. He pretends he's the opening act for Michael Nesmith in the first solo acoustic set. The set with the Fairport guys and Buddy Emmons in pedal steel is awesome.

Featuring Dave Pegg who also plays bass on the Amory Kane album.


Original version shared on DIME by forthelonely, Mar. 2006
Re-tracked and edited version shared on DIME by TheCommish, Dec. 2021