Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma (or simply, Infinite Rider) is Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith

Robert Michael Nesmith is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name...

's ninth post-Monkees studio album and the third studio album from his own company, Pacific Arts. To continue developing Pacific Arts' multimedia projects, Nesmith originally developed the album as a "video album" (however, to date, Infinite Rider has only been released as a music album). It peaked at No. 151 on the Billboard

Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

 Pop albums charts.

All the tracks on Infinite Rider have only one word in their title.

Although the album was never released on video, Nesmith has released the album on compact disc. However, several songs from the album have been produced as music videos, which were featured in Nesmith's Elephant Parts

Elephant Parts

Elephant Parts is a collection of comedy and music videos made in 1981 by Michael Nesmith, former member of the Monkees. Nesmith produced the video through his company Pacific Arts, using money he inherited from his mother, the inventor of Liquid Paper...

 "video album".

Promotional materials

To promote the release of the Infinite Rider, Pacific Arts released a promtoional album entitled, "The Michael Nesmith Radio Special

The Michael Nesmith Radio Special

In 1980, Pacific Arts issued "The Michael Nesmith Radio Special" to promote Nesmith's album Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma. Because Infinite Rider was originally designed as a multimedia project, the radio special was designed to increase awareness of Nesmith's audio-visual productions, as well as...

". The promotional album intertwines an interview with Nesmith and the anticipated slate of songs for his then-fothcoming album.

Track listing

All songs written by Michael Nesmith except "Capsule," which was written by Michael Nesmith, Al Perkins, David Mackay, Paul Leim, John Hobbs and Lenny Castro.

1. "Dance" – 2:32
2. "Magic" – 3:42
3. "Tonite" – 3:56
4. "Flying" – 4:46
5. "Carioca" – 4:06
6. "Cruisin'" – 3:51
7. "Factions" – 3:24
8. "Light" – 3:21
9. "Horserace" – 3:21
10. "Capsule" – 5:16

Bonus tracks only available for download on Michael Nesmith's Videoranch:

"Walkin' In The Sand" - 3:09

"Rollin'" - 3:30

Music videos

The following videos were produced from Infinite Rider:

• Magic
• Tonight
• Carioca
• Crusin'
• Light

Credits

• Michael Nesmith
  Michael Nesmith
  Robert Michael Nesmith is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name...
  
   - Rhythm and Lead Guitars, Vocals, Producer, Arranger
• Joe Chemay - Arranger, Vocals
• William Bottrell - Engineer, Mixing Assistant
• Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son...
  
   - Percussion
• John Hobbs - Keyboards, Vocals
• Paul Laim - Drums
• David MacKay - Bass
• Al Perkins
  Al Perkins
  Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....
  
  - Lead and Slide Guitars
• Tom Saviano - Saxophone
• Tom Trefethen - Engineer, Mixing
• Charles Bush - Photography
• Jerry Takigawa - Art Direction, Design, Hand Tinting