during the Monster World Tour?
Actually, the outfits Mike was wearing are known as “Nudie” suits, after the late tailor Nudie who designed many such outfits for country stars of the 1960’s/70’s. Nudie suits became hip with the rock crowd through their being worn by the band that’s been credited with initiating the music called country-rock, the Flying Burrito Brothers (including the legendary Gram Parsons.) It’s been mentioned in an interview with the band that the one Mike wears in the “Kenneth” video was in fact once owned by Parsons. o A12. “There’s this kind of wacky song whose lyrics talk about all the songs on _Reckoning_ and about the guys in R.E.M.
