Persians 2005 Setlists

 

Roxie's (John solo) - Starkville, MS 2/25/05: SET 1 - No Myth (Michael Penn) / Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon) / So Help Me Something / Levi Stubbs’s Tears (Billy Bragg) / Tractor Rape Chain (Guided by Voices) / Vienna (Billy Joel) / Cuts You Up (Peter Murphy) / Daguerreotype / The Front Steps in Summer / God’s Comic (Elvis Costello) / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits (Magnetic Fields) / Life-Size Stencils / Driftwood (Travis) / Gold Soundz (Pavement) / And I Don’t (So Now I Do) (Robert Pollard) / U.V.A. / Mullet Boy Enumerates / High and Dry (Radiohead) / Divorce Song (Liz. Phair) / That Kind of Funny / A Host in Heresy / Everyday I Write the Book (Elvis Costello) / One (U2); SET 2 - Writing to Reach You (Travis) / Are You Wearing Argyle? / Trigger Cut (Pavement) / I’m Allowed (Buffalo Tom) / Acoustic Guitar (Magnetic Fields) / Show Me Mary (Catherine Wheel) / Everlong (Foo Fighters) / America (Simon & Garfunkel) / Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat (Bob Dylan) / Now to War (Guided by Voices) / Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis) / Married with Children (Oasis) / Wonderwall (Oasis) / There is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths) / Jane Says (Jane's Addiction) / Register 5 (Bon Jovi + others)

The Grill (John solo) - Starkville, MS 4/9/05: SET 1 - I’ve Been Waiting (Matthew Sweet) / She’s Got a New Spell (Billy Bragg) / So Help Me Something / Vienna (Billy Joel) / Writing to Reach You (Travis) / Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Elvis Costello) / The Front Steps in Summer / High and Dry (Radiohead) / Same Boy You’ve Always Known (White Stripes) / Hey Julie (Fountains of Wayne) / Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon) / Mashed-Potato Sky / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) / Cuts You Up (Peter Murphy) / One (U2) / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits (Magnetic Fields) / Wonderwall (Oasis) / No Myth (Michael Penn) / Who Are You (Tom Waits) / U.V.A. / Here, There & Everywhere (Beatles) / California Stars (Guthrie-Bragg-Wilco) / Crazy (Seal) / Show Me Mary (Catherine Wheel) / I’m Allowed (Buffalo Tom) / Everlong (Foo Fighters) / America (Simon and Garfunkel) / Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis); SET 2 (not sure about the order of these) - When I Grow Down / Tractor Rape Chain (Guided by Voices) / Daguerreotype / Life-Size Stencils / Driftwood (Travis) / That Kind of Funny / Everyday I Write the Book (Elvis Costello) / The Indifference of Heaven (Warren Zevon) / There is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths) / Married with Children (Oasis) / Register 5 (Bon Jovi + others) / Jane Says (Jane's Addiction)

NOTE: During the Grill show above, I also had requests for "Ain't No Sunshine," Third Eye Blind, Dave Matthews (big surprise), "somethin' country," Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" (which I probably need to learn), and many crappy others I've now forgotten about - John

Cotton District Arts Festival (1st gig with Lee Graham on bass) - Starkville, MS 4/23/05: So Help Me Something / Spasmatron / The Front Steps in Summer / That Kind of Funny / No One Else (Weezer) / Arbor Day / Jessie’s Girl (Rick Springfield) / Accidental Physics / U.V.A. / Hey, Johnny Park! (Foo Fighters) / I Have Followed You / Daguerreotype

The Grill (John solo) - Starkville, MS 5/14/05: One Headlight (Wallflowers) / Mashed-Potato Sky / Driftwood (Travis) / I’m Bound to Pack It Up (White Stripes) / Breathing in Vain / Allison (Elvis Costello) / Yellow (Coldplay) / Things Could Turn Around (Firehose) / Mallory-Free / Game of Pricks (Guided by Voices) / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits (Magnetic Fields) / Who Are You (Tom Waits) / Swimming Herward / No Myth (Michael Penn) / Show Me Mary (Catherine Wheel) / That Kind of Funny / City Song (Jane's Addiction) / Gold Soundz (Pavement) / Are You Wearing Argyle? / Vienna (Billy Joel) / A New England (Billy Bragg) / So Help Me Something / The Indifference of Heaven (Warren Zevon) / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) / Accidental Physics / I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor/Cake) / Same Boy You’ve Always Known (White Stripes) / Daguerreotype / There is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths) / U.V.A. / Hey Julie (Fountains of Wayne) / Running to Stand Still (U2) / Life-Size Stencils / America (Simon & Garfunkel) / Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself? (Morrissey) / Here, There and Everywhere (Beatles) / Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat (Bob Dylan) / Acoustic Guitar (Magnetic Fields) / Blimps Go 90 (Guided by Voices) / One (U2)

NOTE: For chemically influenced reasons, I'm not sure about the order of much of the set above - John

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern (John solo) - Starkville, MS 5/28/05: SET 1 - Same Boy You’ve Always Known (White Stripes) / Daguerreotype / The Official Ironmen Rally Song (Guided by Voices) / Hey Julie (Fountains of Wayne) / Mallory-Free / Cheap Reward (Elvis Costello) / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) / Accidental Physics / I Will Survive (Cake/Gloria Gaynor) / Say It Ain’t So (Weezer) / So Help Me Something / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits (Magnetic Fields) / (And I Don’t) So Now I Do (Bob Pollard) / One (U2) / Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis) / New Slang (Shins) / If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Manic Street Preachers) / The Front Steps in Summer / Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon) / Cuts You Up (Peter Murphy) / Writing to Reach You (Travis) / Wonderwall (Oasis) / Everlong (Foo Fighters) / I’m Allowed (Buffalo Tom) / High & Dry (Radiohead) / There is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths) ; SET 2Married with Children (Oasis) / One Headlight (Wallflowers) / America (Simon & Garfunkel) / Mashed-Potato Sky / Driftwood (Travis) / I’m Bound to Pack It Up (White Stripes) / Yellow (Coldplay) / No Myth (Michael Penn) / Show Me Mary (Catherine Wheel) / That Kind of Funny / Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat (Bob Dylan) / I Will Survive (yes, again!)

NOTE: For chemically influenced reasons, I'm also not sure about the order of much of this show - John

Jagermeister / Rock 93.9 Battle of the Bands (1st show with Steve Chrestman on guitar; Lee Graham absent) - Left Field Sports Bar & Grill - Jackson, MS 6/3/05: Spasmatron / The Front Steps in Summer / Daguerreotype / Accidental Physics / So Help Me Something / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Beneficial Neglect / Register 5

Roxie's - Starkville, MS 6/4/05: SET 1 - I Have Followed You / Via the Migration / The Bends (Radiohead) / Mashed-Potato Sky / Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin) / Mallory-Free / So Help Me Something / Goat is Got / Offend in Every Way (White Stripes) / Swimming Herward / Until the End of the World (U2) / Fell on Black Days (Soundgarden) / That Kind of Funny / No One Else (Weezer) / Innard Yank / Vienna (Billy Joel) / Mexican Wine (Fountains of Wayne) / Arbor Day / Spasmatron / Accidental Physics / Daguerreotype / I Will Survive (Cake / Gloria Gaynor); SET 2 - Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Jessie’s Girl (Rick Springfield) / Bulldog Skin (Guided by Voices) / Me and My Kind / Hey, Johnny Park! (Foo Fighters) / Are You Wearing Argyle? / The Front Steps in Summer / (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? (Elvis Costello) / Register 5 / Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions) / Mountain Song (Jane's Addiction)

The Grill (John solo) - Starkville, MS 6/18/05: Driftwood (Travis) / Daguerreotype / Tractor Rape Chain (Guided by Voices) / One Headlight (Wallflowers) / Mallory-Free / The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure (Magnetic Fields) / God’s Comic (Elvis Costello) / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) / Accidental Physics / Vienna (Billy Joel) / Show Me Mary (Catherine Wheel) / So Help Me Something / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits (Magnetic Fields) / Yellow (Coldplay) / One (U2) / Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis) / New Slang (Shins) / I Will Survive (Cake / Gloria Gaynor) / The Front Steps in Summer / Cuts You Up (Peter Murphy) / High & Dry (Radiohead) / America (Simon & Garfunkel) / Mashed-Potato Sky / Same Boy You’ve Always Known (White Stripes) / That Kind of Funny / Blow ‘Em Off (Monster Magnet) / U.V.A. / No Myth (Michael Penn) / Me and My Kind

NOTE: I have no idea in what order I played most of this one above. Sorry. - John

Jagermeister / Rock 93.9 Battle of the Bands (FINALS) - Left Field Sports Bar & Grill - Jackson, MS 6/24/05: Spasmatron / The Front Steps in Summer / Daguerreotype / Accidental Physics / So Help Me Something / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / I Will Survive (Cake/Gloria Gaynor) / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Beneficial Neglect / Register 5

NOTE: It took me a ridiculously long time to think of this, but I'm now going to stop stating the artist for every cover we play simply because we play so many of the same ones all the time. Um. - John

Left Field Sports Bar & Grill - Jackson, MS 7/14/05: SET 1 – Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Mashed-Potato Sky / No One Else / So Help Me Something / Daguerreotype / Arbor Day / Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / That Kind of Funny / Life-Size Stencils / Accidental Physics / I Will Survive / Beneficial Neglect / U.V.A. / (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? / Until the End of the World / Mullet Boy Enumerates; SET 2 – Mexican Wine / I Have Followed You / The Bends / Houses of the Holy / Mallory-Free / Vienna / Goat is Got / Offend in Every Way / Jessie’s Girl

The Grill (John solo) - Starkville, MS 7/16/05: Greetings to the New Brunette / Daguerreotype / Tractor Rape Chain / One / Mallory-Free / Everyday I Write the Book / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue / Accidental Physics / Vienna / Show Me Mary / So Help Me Something / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny… / Yellow / That Kind of Funny / One Headlight / Don’t Look Back in Anger / New Slang / I Will Survive / Cuts You Up / High & Dry / No Myth / America / Same Boy You’ve Always… / Everlong / U.V.A. / Crazy / Allison / I’m Allowed / The Indifference of Heaven / Married with Children / Wonderwall

NOTE: The order above is, uh, probably incorrect. - John

Roxie's - Starkville, MS 7/21/05: SET 1 - Goat is Got / So Help Me Something / The Front Steps in Summer / Until the End of the World / That Kind of Funny / Breathing in Vain / No One Else / Accidental Physics / Arbor Day / Bulldog Skin / Spasmatron / Daguerreotype / U.V.A. / I Will Survive / Mullet Boy Enumerates; SET 2 - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? / Tomorrow / Wants to Extend / Mashed-Potato Sky / Beneficial Neglect / Mallory-Free / Sometimes / Mexican Wine / The Bends / Hey, Johnny Park! / Offend in Every Way

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern (w/ the Puerto Rican Rum Drunks) - Starkville, MS 8/5/05: Arbor Day / The Front Steps in Summer / So Help Me Something  / Until the End of the World / That Kind of Funny / Spasmatron / Accidental Physics / Bulldog Skin / U.V.A. / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Mallory-Free / Goat is Got / The Bends / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? / I Will Survive

The Grill (John solo) - Starkville, MS 8/6/05: SET 1 – Show Me Mary / The Front Steps in Summer / Lawyers, Guns & Money / Daguerreotype / No Myth / Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / Mashed-Potato Sky / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue / Vienna / Life-Size Stencils / Driftwood / Don’t Look Back in Anger / U.V.A. / Mallory-Free / High & Dry / Who Are You / Same Boy You’ve Always Known / Are You Wearing Argyle? / New Slang / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits / Cuts You Up / So Help Me Something / One / Headlight / Hey Julie / Greetings to the New Brunette / Bricks Aspire / I’m Allowed / One; SET 2 – I Will Survive / If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next / That Kind of Funny / Yellow / Tractor Rape Chain / Accidental Physics / America  / Whirlpool / The Indifference of Heaven / There is a Light that Never Goes Out / Fell on Black Days / The Ordinary Women (a Wallace Stevens poem set to original music)

NOTE: As usual for a Grill show, I'm unsure about the above order. - John

Roxie's - Starkville, MS 8/19/05: SET 1 – I Have Followed You / Daguerreotype / The Bends / That Kind of Funny / Mallory-Free / So Help Me Something / No One Else / Mashed-Potato Sky / Accidental Physics / Goat is Got / Until the End of the World / Are You Wearing Argyle? / Spasmatron / Bulldog Skin; SET 2 – Arbor Day / The Front Steps in Summer / Breathing in Vain / Life-Size Stencils / U.V.A. / Jane Says / I Will Survive / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Register 5 / Vienna / Jessie’s Girl

NOTE: Todd had outpatient surgery the day of this show and almost didn’t play at all. Then, about 4 hours before we played, he decided to play using only his left arm (his right arm had been stuck a bunch of times as part of his surgery). And he's right-handed! He is, without question, a hero. - John

Hurricane Katrina Homecoming Benefit Concert - MSU Amphitheater - Starkville, MS 10/20/05: Tomorrow Wants to Extend / So Help Me Something / Spasmatron / Mallory-Free / U.V.A. / Bulldog Skin / Goat is Got / Mullet Boy Enumerates

NOTE: Also playing this show were the Bill Cooke Trio, Waco Dead, the Jim Tomlinson Band, Falter, and Young Agent Jones.

The Haupt Halloween Party - Starkville, MS 10/28/05: The Front Steps in Summer / Spasmatron / So Help Me Something / No One Else / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Mallory-Free / Houses of the Holy / The Bends / I Have Followed You / Until the End of the World / I Will Survive / Mexican Wine

NOTE: (a) We had no real setlist, so the order above is a guess; (b) Some nearby moron (whose name I know but won't reveal) got the Sheriff's Department on us - twice - which means we got shut down at 9:01pm. Harrumph.

The Grill (John solo) - Starkville, MS 10/29/05: SET 1 - She's Got a New Spell / Mashed-Potato Sky / Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / Whatsername (Green Day) / Breathing in Vain / Vienna / One Headlight / So Help Me Something / Same Boy You've Always Known / Don't Look Back in Anger / I'm Allowed / Lawyers, Guns & Money / Now to War / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Mallory-Free / Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits / I Am the Highway (Audioslave) / I Will Survive* / Whirlpool* / Killing Me Softly with His Song* (Roberta Flack); SET 2 - One / Angels (Robbie Williams) / Cuts You Up / High & Dry / Our Little Angel / That Kind of Funny / And I Don't (So Now I Do) / Driftwood

NOTE: Songs marked with an asterisk above were sung by the amazing Lauren Prince!

The Boar's Head - Starkville, MS 11/5/05: SET 1 Mexican Wine / Spasmatron / The Bends / Mashed-Potato Sky / Mallory-Free / So Help Me Something / U.V.A. / The Front Steps in Summer / Until the End of the World / Bulldog Skin / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Houses of the Holy / Swimming Herward / Fell on Black Days; SET 2 Tomorrow Wants to Extend / No One Else / Breathing in Vain / I Have Followed You / Arbor Day / Jane Says / Accidental Physics / Offend in Every Way / Mullet Boy Enumerates / I Will Survive / Hey, Johnny Park! / Jessie’s Girl; SET 3 – Sometimes / Me & My Kind / Mountain Song / Daguerreotype / That Kind of Funny / Are You Wearing Argyle? / Beneficial Neglect / Rock You Like a Hurricane / Register 5

The Boar's Head (John solo w/ Tim Menzel as part of the Starkville Songwriters Night series) - Starkville, MS 11/16/05: So Help Me Something / The Front Steps in Summer / Accidental Physics / Mallory-Free / Mashed-Potato Sky / Are You Wearing Argyle? / Spasmatron / God's Comic / That Kind of Funny / Daguerreotype / Life-Size Stencils / Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits

WMSV & Backstage Music's Live and Stripped Down Series - MSU State Fountain/Bakery, Starkville, MS 11/17/05: SET 1 - I Have Followed You / The Front Steps in Summer / Spasmatron / So Help Me Something / …Peace, Love & Understanding? / Mallory-Free / Swimming Herward / Are You Wearing Argyle? / U.V.A.; SET 2 – Sometimes / Vienna / Fell On Black Days / That Kind of Funny / Mashed-Potato Sky / Arbor Day / Breathing In Vain / Register 5

The Boar's Head (John and Lee acoustic; to be known now and in the future as "Ex-Supermodel") - Starkville, MS 11/19/05: (NOTE: We had no setlist, and I've no idea what the order was, but I'm reasonably certain we played these songs) I Am the Highway / Mallory-Free / U.V.A. / The Same Boy You've Always Known / The Front Steps in Summer / Everyday I Write the Book / Are You Wearing Argyle? / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Everlong / Vienna / Mashed-Potato Sky / Swimming Herward / Fell on Black Days / I Will Survive / One / Allison / One Headlight / Whatsername / Don't Look Back in Anger / (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits / Jessie's Girl / Wonderwall / Yellow / Register 5 / Say It Ain't So

The Del Rendon Tribute - Part of WMSV & Backstage Music's Live and Stripped Down Series - MSU State Fountain/Bakery, Starkville, MS 12/1/05: Me and My Baby (NOTE: each act played one or two songs that Del either wrote or was famous for covering)

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 12/10/05: SET 1 – Hey, Johnny Park! / I Have Followed You / Daguerreotype / Krakatoa / The Bends / The Front Steps in Summer / Arbor Day / Until the End of the World / Spasmatron / Mexican Wine / Mallory-Free / The Lung (Dinosaur Jr.) / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Houses of the Holy; SET 2 – I Will Survive / Bulldog Skin / Swimming Herward / So Help Me Something / No One Else / Accidental Physics / Offend in Every Way / That Kind of Funny / U.V.A. / Jane Says / …Peace, Love & Understanding?; SET 3 – Mullet Boy Enumerates / Black Metallic (Catherine Wheel) / Mountain Song / Father Christmas (The Kinks) / Until the End of the World (pt. 2) / Rock You Like a Hurricane / Goat is Got / Register 5

NOTE: On "The Lung," Steve sang, Lee played lead guitar, and John played bass; we played "Until the End of the World" twice because some friends wanted to hear it again much later (and much drunkerer!).

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 12/16/05: SET 1 – Whatsername / Hey, Johnny Park! / Offend In Every Way / So Help Me Something / Don't Look Back In Anger / Mashed Potato Sky / Sometimes / Arbor Day / Until The End Of The World / Mallory Free / Vienna / Everlong; SET 2 – Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits /  Say It Ain't So /  U.V.A. / Houses of the Holy / I Will Survive / The Bends / Accidental Physics /Bulldog Skin / I Am the Highway / The Front Steps in Summer / Fell on Black Days / One; SET 3 – Tomorrow Wants to Extend / War Pigs / Mountain Song / Father Christmas / Heart-Shaped Box / The Lung / Jane Says / Black Metallic / Jessie's Girl

NOTE: Steve was out of town for this show.

The Boar's Head (as Ex-Supermodel) - Starkville, MS 12/30/05: (NOTE: no setlist or reliable order, but these are the songs we did) I Am the Highway / Mallory-Free / U.V.A. / The Same Boy You've Always Known / The Front Steps in Summer / Everyday I Write the Book / Are You Wearing Argyle? / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Everlong / Vienna / Mashed-Potato Sky / Swimming Herward / Fell on Black Days / One / One Headlight / Whatsername / Don't Look Back in Anger / (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits / Jessie's Girl / Yellow / The Bends / High & Dry / Say It Ain't So / Until the End of the World / Me & My Kind / Accidental Physics / Life-Size Stencils / Daguerreotype