Persians 2007 Setlists 

Armstrong’s – Columbus, MS 1/6/07: SET 1 – Ziggy Stardust / Spasmatron / Goat Is Got / Until the End of the World / Breathing in Vain / Welcome / In Bloom / The Bends / That Kind of Funny / Mallory-Free / Football Blood / Hey, Johnny Park! / I Have Followed You; SET 2 – Houses of the Holy / Being a Saint / Fell on Black Days / Sometimes / Daguerreotype / Arbor Day / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Come As You Are / So Help Me Something / Cold Gin / Careless Whisper / Mullet Boy Enumerates; SET 3 – I Will Survive / Register 5 / No One Else / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Jessie’s Girl / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Orange Is for Eyebrows / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love / War Pigs

 

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 1/12/07: SET 1 – Daguerreotype / Drain You / I Have Followed You / Hey, Johnny Park! / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Spasmatron / NIB / Sometimes / Mallory-Free / Arbor Day / Krakatoa / Ziggy Stardust / Mexican Wine / Careless Whisper / So Help Me Something / Cold Gin; SET 2 – (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Welcome / Being a Saint / Sweet Emotion / The Bends / On a Plain / At Five in the Morning / Whatsername / Everlong / Orange is for Eyebrows / Jessie’s Girl / Purple Rain / War Pigs

 

Zachary’s – Columbus, MS 1/26/07: SET 1 – So Help Me Something / Sometimes / Mashed-Potato Sky / Lawyers, Guns & Money / Ziggy Stardust / U.V.A. / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / No One Else  / Same Boy You’ve Always Known / Sometimes a Ghost is All You’ve Got / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue / Going to California / Come As You Are / Jessie’s Girl / I Will Survive / Outfit / High & Dry / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits / Careless Whisper; SET 2 – Mexican Wine / Say It Ain’t So / Welcome / Whatsername / Everlong / Burn One Down / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Don’t Look Back in Anger / Mallory-Free / Until the End of the World / The Bends / Strange Condition / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love / One

 

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 3/9/07: SET 1 – At Five in the Morning / Mexican Wine / Spasmatron / Fell On Black Days / So Help Me Something / Hey, Johnny Park! / I Have Followed You / Drain You / NIB / Sometimes / Welcome / Being a Saint / No One Else / Goat Is Got / Badge / Careless Whisper; SET 2 – Cold Gin Jessie’s Girl / Begin the Begin / The Bends / Sometimes a Ghost Is All You’ve Got / Mallory-Free / Whatsername / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Come As You Are / Colossal / Football Blood / Ziggy Stardust / Orange is for Eyebrows / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love / Jessie’s Girl / War Pigs

 

Armstrong’s – Columbus, MS 3/16/07: SET 1 – Begin the Begin / The Front Steps in Summer / Until the End of the World / So Help Me Something / Sometimes / Houses of the Holy / Via the Migration / Fell on Black Days / NIB / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Hey, Johnny Park! / Come As You Are / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Careless Whisper / Being a Saint / Welcome / Sweet Emotion / Cold Gin; SET 2 – Colossal / Whatsername / U.V.A. / The Bends / At Five in the Morning / Mountain Song / Football Blood / Say It Ain’t So / In Bloom / Badge / Offend in Every Way / Beneficial Neglect / Mallory-Free / I Am the Highway / Ziggy Stardust / Mexican Wine / I Will Survive / Jessie’s Girl / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love / Purple Rain / War Pigs

 

NOTE: This was a mammoth night – 3.5 hours and 39 songs!

 

Cotton District Arts Festival Starkville, MS 4/21/07: Welcome / Being a Saint / Sometimes a Ghost / Swing on By / Mallory-Free / Football Blood / At Five in the Morning / The Bends / U.V.A. / NIB

 

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 4/28/07: SET 1 – Houses of the Holy / Daguerreotype / Mexican Wine / So Help Me Something / Until the End of the World / I Have Followed You / Colossal / Drain You / Innard Yank / Sometimes / Fell on Black Days / Goat Is Got / Being a Saint / NIB / Clever Arnold / Badge / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?; SET 2 – Welcome / Careless Whisper / Spasmatron / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Begin the Begin / Cold Gin / The Bends / Mallory-Free / I Am the Highway / At Five in the Morning / Orange is for Eyebrows / War Pigs

 

Market Street Festival (Ex-Supermodel) – Columbus, MS 5/05/07: Mashed-Potato Sky / The Same Boy You’ve Always Known / Swing on By / Strange Condition / Sometimes a Ghost Is All You’ve Got / Come As You Are / Mallory-Free / Lawyers, Guns & Money / I Am the Highway / At Five in the Morning / Ziggy Stardust

 

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 5/18/07: SET 1 – Krakatoa / Via the Migration / Arbor Day / That Kind of Funny / Bulldog Skin / Stop / Clever Arnold / Orange is for Eyebrows / Everlong / viii / Me & My Baby / Mullet Boy Enumerates / The Front Steps in Summer / NIB / Purple Rain; SET 2 – Heart-Shaped Box / I Have Followed You / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Colossal / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Offend in Every Way / Goat Is Got / Football Blood / Swing on By / Sometimes a Ghost Is All You’ve Got / I Am the Highway / The Bends / Cold Gin / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits / War Pigs / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love

 

Camp JabberJaw – Mississippi State 6/6/07: Badge / Begin the Begin / The Bends / Bulldog Skin / Cold Gin / Come As You Are / Houses of the Holy / I Am the Highway / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / I Will Survive / Register 5 / Sometimes a Ghost is All You’ve Got / Until the End of the World / U.V.A. / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / Whatsername / Ziggy Stardust / Purple Rain

 

NOTE: Todd was out of town for this show, so good ol’ Scooter sat in with us.

 

Zachary’s – Columbus, MS 6/15/07………Not a clue, folks. Lee and I just winged it.

 

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 6/16/07: SET 1 – Football Blood / No One Else / Clever Arnold / So Help Me Something / Ziggy Stardust / Sometimes / Welcome / Being a Saint / NIB / Mexican Wine / Sometimes a Ghost Is All You’ve Got / Mallory-Free / Badge / Begin the Begin (plus one other song, don’t remember what, though); SET 2………Um, this set was among the craziest (and funnest) in our history, so the order is anyone’s guess, but these songs definitely reared their heads: I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Heart-Shaped Box / Hey, Johnny Park! / Whatsername / Colossal / I Will Survive / Until the End of the World / Careless Whisper / Cold Gin / Sweet Emotion / Jessie’s Girl / War Pigs / Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love / Purple Rain

 

Zachary’s Columbus, MS 7/13/07: As usual, we had no set setlist (heh – get it?), but several new covers made their debut this night, in no particular order: Bob Dylan’s “I Want You,” the Lemonheads’ “It’s a Shame about Ray,” the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind??,” and Elvis Costello’s version of the Grateful Dead’s “Ship of Fools.” We also played Ben Harper’s “Burn One Down” and U2’s “One” on our new ukeleles. Mahalo!

 

Wasson’sStarkville, MS 8/3/07: No idea.

 

Dave’s Darkhorse Tavern – Starkville, MS 8/11/07: SET 1 – Swimming Herward / Goat Is Got / Chuck of 8 Chins / Drain You / Hey, Johnny Park! / Accidental Physics / So Help Me Something / Vienna / Swing On By / At Five in the Morning / Jessie’s Girl / Badge / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits / Cold Gin / Say It Ain’t So / (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? / NIB; SET 2 – U.V.A. / Houses of the Holy / I Will Survive / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Ziggy Stardust / I Am the Highway / Mallory-Free / Purple Rain / War Pigs / Spasmatron

 

NOTE: Steve was out of town this night.

 

Wasson’s (Ex-Supermodel w/ Steve and Ed) – Starkville, MS 8/23/07: It’s a Shame about Ray / Lawyers, Guns & Money / [and here the memory fades…] I Don’t Wanna Grow Up / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Everyday I Write the Book / Burn One Down / One / High & Dry / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue / Going to California / Wish You Were Here / Strange Condition / Mallory-Free / At Five in the Morning / etc.

 

Wasson’s (Ex-Supermodel)Starkville, MS 8/30/07: We played from an alphabetical setlist this night, so your guess is as bad as ours.

 

Zachary’s Columbus, MS 9/7/07: An unbelievably fun night. In other words, we have no idea what we played.

 

Zachary’s (John solo) – Columbus, MS 10/20/07: (sorted by artist, not sequence, no idea about the exact order) So Help Me Something / Sometimes a Ghost Is All You’ve Got / Mallory-Free / U.V.A. / Allison / Deep Dark Truthful Mirror / Lawyers, Guns & Money / Splendid Isolation / Same Boy You’ve Always Known / I’m Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman Everyday / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / Outfit / Strange Condition / It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue / America / High & Dry / I Am the Highway / Ship of Fools / Burn One Down / One Headlight / I’m Allowed / She’s Got a New Spell / Jessie’s Girl / I Will Survive / Vienna / Tractor Rape Chain / Come As You Are / Say It Ain’t So / Everlong / One / It’s a Shame about Ray / Show Me Mary / Whatsername / New Slang / Going to California / Ziggy Stardust / Driftwood / Don’t Look Back in Anger / Crazy

 

Zachary’s – Columbus, MS 11/9/07: SET 1 – Until the End of the World / Via the Migration / No One Else / Houses of the Holy / Being a Saint / Begin the Begin / Sometimes / Drain You / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Everlong / Chuck of 8 Chins / Jack the Ripper / So Help Me Something / NIB; SET 2 – Badge / Cold Gin / At Five in the Morning / The Bends / Bulldog Skin / Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits / Mallory-Free / Careless Whisper / Rockin’ in the Free World

 

NOTE: The beloved Joe Whaley sang the last two songs (he also played guitar on the very last one). Hey Joe!