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Yeah, he's been Nesmith's regular bass player for years. He played with him on his UK tour last year.

And this is of interest to Beach Boys fans because....? I'm familiar with his Nez connection....I must've missed something.

He played with the BBs in the late 70s/early 80s.

He worked with Dennis on POB

... played bass on the disco version of "Here Comes The Night" plus arranged the track with Curt Becher & Bruce Johnston.

nez's live at the britt dvd is a great dvd recording of a nez show. very very good. get it while you can.
chemay playing bass.

He's the bass player for Live at Knebworth.

Somebody smack me upside the head!  I thought the bass player through all those years was....oh...of course now I blank on the name...curly haired guy that was in the touring band for eons....

Ed Carter. He was on guitar at the time. There were a few shuffles around in the band in 79/80, with Billy Hinsche being out of the band for a while, Carly Munoz leaving and so forth. Chemay only played with the band live for a very short period of time, and I suspect (though this is pure conjecture) that they needed someone to cover Billy's vocal parts (Chemay is a decent singer) and so moved Ed Carter from bass to guitar and got Chemay in.

Ed Carter was primarily a bass player -- and I think pretty much solely a bass player from 1981 onwards -- but he played quite a lot of guitar in the studio and occasionally on stage.

Didn't know that was out on DVD -- the live CD of it is fantastic

Ed Carter can play a good bass, but he can also play rhythm and lead when called upon. Hear that lead guitar in the middle of Rhonda on the "In Concert" album? That's Steady Eddie. They didn't give him that name for nothin'.

Hey Steve, Nesmith will be playing in my neck o' the woods very soon. You think it's a good show to see? The Monkees played in the Bay Area a couple of times already and I skipped it because Nesmith wasn't with them. I mean, guys like Fogerty are just fine to see solo but I can't see going to see Nesmith without the Monkees. It seems like a link in the chain is missing.

hey mikie...nez can be an acquired taste but i like him. had all his records until you know what. i saw where he is in philly in april and i'm thinking i'm gonna go. always liked him so what the heck. i say see him while you can. that britt dvd show is great.

Saw Nez with the Monkees in November and his voice is in absolute great shape. Belted out stuff like "Sunny Girlfriend" and "You Just May Be The One". They dropped the key for "What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round", but still sounded good. Of course, a solo Nesmith show is certainly likely to concentrate on....solo Nesmith. But, I'd reccomend seeing him. He's a bonafide legend.

See, that's the deal. More than likely Nesmith will play his solo stuff, which I'm not familiar with at all. I'd rather hear the Monkees material, even non-hits/album cuts. I'm sure the musicianship will be great and he'll put on a good show, but it helps to be familiar with the songs going in....

Hey, remember that correction fluid called "White-out" that they use to use in the manual typewriter days? You know who invented it and made millions off of it?

Mama Nez.

Yep.  And you win two tickets to see Mike Nezmith!

Saw Nez live last year (and saw the Monkees the year before -- you really missed out by not seeing them, they did a great show). Pretty much everything was his earliest solo stuff, along with a few Monkees-era tunes. Ones he did that were originally recorded by the Monkees (though many of them were only released as bonus tracks, so you may not know them) -- Papa Gene's Blues, Propinquity, Different Drum, Some Of Shelly's Blues, Tapioca Tundra.

You should definitely see him if you get the chance. His voice has held up as well as Al Jardine's has.

so is the dvd...amazon was where i got mine (a replacement after the fire). it really is a great dvd.

In the 90's Eddie Carter would play lead guitar in concert on "Summer in Paradise" while Billy Hinsche would take over the bass

Chemay also was in the same sessions as Bruce for 'The Show Must Go On' for Pink Floyd.

Not only did Joe Chemay play bass on the Beach Boys 1980 tour, he played bass on the MIU album, L.A. Light album, and Keepin' The Summer alive album. Also POB and Goin' Public and he sang on The Wall with a couple of The Boys. Also played on quite a few Nesmith recordings.

I hear that Joe Chemay is touring with Mike Nesmith.

It appears Nez is coming to Seattle, but no venue listed yet - and I wonder how much the tickets are gonna be. The last time the 3kees came up here, 2011, the cheap seats were $70, and that is way out of my price range. If he can keep it down in the neighborhood of $25-$35 then I will go.

only Bruce.

Nez just posted the venues on Facebook. Seattle's show will be at the Neptune Theatre. University District I believe. Portland will be at the Aladdin Theatre, which is a great place to see a show - saw Jr. Brown there some years back.

I downloaded a recent show in his UK tour prior to the November Monkees run. FYI that he does quite a bit of storytelling, setting up the songs poetically. It's not your typical bam-bam knock out the hits kind of show. Then again, Nez marches to his own different drum.

I used to   go to the Neptune to see old movies. In fact, saw a double bill of A Hard Days Night and Head back in 1987. Will be surreal seeing Nez in the same surroundings....assuming, again, the ticket prices aren't astronomical.

I know someone who saw Nesmith play a nightclub a few decades ago where the ticket price was 99 cents. And said it was too much at that price. Something about how Mike slowed down all the songs and wasn't very good. I'm not that impressed by the clips I've seen of his latest shows in England. I enjoyed seeing him on the last Monkees tour, but he played the songs mostly like the original arrangements, which I don't think he will for his solo shows. His ego gets in the way. He's also a very, very wealthy man, so I'm not sure why he should charge high ticket prices.

I have the Live at the Palais album from 1978 Australian tour, and he does slow down all the songs there. Joanne just crawls. Propinquity works well, as does Calico Girlfriend....but it's far from my favorite Nez record. Watched Live at the Britt Festival with my folks, and dad, of all people, complained about the music not being lively enough. But I'd go see him anyway, as it's not likely to happen again, and I've got a copy of Headquarters that Davy, Micky and Peter have signed for me (separately). But being wealthy will not stop Nez from charging a high price for his shows - Paul McCartney certainly never needs to make another dollar in his life, but his shows are priced up there for the 1% among us. And the BB's reunion shows were not bargain priced, either.

The show looks like it will be much closer to the original arrangements than the more experimental UK tour.
For those wondering if they should go, all I can say to give you an idea of the quality of the show, having actually been to see him solo last year, is that he was better than the two reunion shows I saw in Italy, not as good as the Wembley show, and about equal with the Van Dyke Parks shows I've seen.

That Joanne single was one of the first that I ever bought when I was a kid. I use to love that song, but at the time didn't pay attention that he was a Monkee. Too bad Davy Jones wasn't around the last couple of months to join Nesmith, Tork, and Dolenz on stage as a group.

I think the death of Davy made Michael realise that he missed his former bandmates. Wish they would release a dvd of their 1997 UK tour.

Actually, they were in talks to tour together before Davy died. The main thing that got Nez interested in performing again, both Monkees and solo, was that around the same time he both got divorced and had cataract surgery so he could see properly for the first time in years.

I didn't read until recently that Mike was a Christian Scientist.  Cataracts are such an easy thing to diagnose by a GP or an optometrist that he must never have gone to doctors to have let something like that slip by for years (either that, or he was too scared when he started losing vision, I suppose a lot of people don't think cataracts are a possibility until they are older than their 60s).

I know that's the story going around now, but forgive me if I'm a bit cynical about Mike wanting to have reunited with the other guys before Davy died. He's a great artist, but as a person, can  be difficult - like leaving the guys after the 97 UK tour without a word of warning.

I read an interview with Micky right after Davy's death where he said that there had been discussions about the four of them touring. Nez and Micky also definitely met up at the back end of 2011 at Nez's first solo show.

Got my Nesmith tickets for the Union County Arts Center! 4th row...