Melvyn Bragg, he's very high brow, he does intellectual/art programmes (that are excellent), but the dude is like, 80 years old now, so he probably would've been in his 60s here, the circles he moves in probably don't discuss Bono very often. But ask him about baroque post-modernism or some 12th century Arabic mathematician, and he'll be all over it.
@@elijaprice But it’s a basic part of a presenter’s job to pronounce things / names correctly. Plus the show has a staff of producers, so someone should have caught it even if he didn’t know better - ugh 🙄
Editing is terrible on this. They play songs throughout that have no correlation to what period of music or song is being talked about at the moment. Some editor got payed for slapping footage and interviews together randomly. Go back to editing college whomever you are that did this waste of time years ago. Horrible.
I remember listening to REM, seriously, for the first time in my dorm room at the Univ. of Georgia in 1986. Those first records mesmerized me. It blew me away when they became so big globally. I always thought they were our band down in the south. Freaking love them, always will.
Cannot imagine what my teenage years would have been like without REM. Got to see them on the Green tour, amazing live. I long for those days. That's the problem with nostalgia, it's not what it used to be
Finally someone (Bono) figured out who Peter Buck is by his comments in this documentary - he plays like he's saying f-off! He's not into the publicity of it all but loves music. I always had a tough time figuring out his disdain for recognition - now I get it
The mixing board in the studio is enormous. I find it amazing, that each and every button and knob, has a purpose. It looks like overkill, but I can only suppose that an engineer understands how to operate the board
I won't disagree with anyone, that Mike Stipes voice, is the signature sound of REM, without his voice, they are just another band. But I also know that each and every member of REM, is part of the complex puzzle that makes REM who they are, I feel minus anyone in the band, it's not the same, including especially the man on the kit
The music business ain't for the weak, nor is it built for longevity in some cases....REMs body of work is complete, it is an essential and vital body of work, that is a cornerstone of Alternative rock, and arguably unsurmountable by those who attempt to parallel, or surpass what these 4 men have created. To me, it won't ever happen, not the way it did with 4 dudes from Athens Ga......
That Mr. Stipe pulls out the word 'nascent' then asks, "Is that a word." and that word be precisely what he is pointing to, is poetry in notion... 05:30
25:14 those are some of the wisest words I've heard a successful musician say. 100% true. It takes a big person to not just know it, but actually live by it.
Uh, Bono, it's nice that you're so supportive of R.E.M. & Michael Stipe, but Michael Stipe's writing has absolutely nothing to do with Jack Kerouac's writing.
Bullshit! Especially early R.E.M. was basically- get in the van and find the heartbeat of America. They had the same tender folkiness. Like the Byrds played by the Ramones with a collegiate Walt Whitman in the front. Let alone the stream of consciousness lyrics .
@@georgesandchopin299 Yes, Jack Kerouac got in a van, and he and Neal Cassady signed an $80 million contract with Warner Brothers. Kerouac's writing was not "tender folkiness" nor was he a tender folkie, Auld Swodge. All of Kerouac's books were written on amphetamines. Jack Kerouac's writing is most certainly not "stream of consciousness." Perhaps you're thinking of James Joyce's Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake. But that is the illusion of "stream of consciousness". Like James Joyce, Jack Kerouac was a meticulously disciplined writer. His first novel was a 1,069 page, four years in the making, studious imitation of Thomas Wolfe. All of that discipline went into the single teletype scroll of On The Road. Kerouac's greatest work is Visions of Cody, which is also a very far cry from "stream of consciousness." The bullshit is not mine, Auld Podge. You don't know what you're talking about. The notion of a "collegiate Walt Whitman" is absolutely hilarious! And poor Johnny Ramone couldn't tune a twelve string guitar, nevermind play one! Now get back to the salt mines, Sonny!
@@ericmalone3213 on William F Buckley's talkshow (also with Abbie Hoffman) Kerouac summarised the entirety of the beat movement as a 'call for tenderness in attitude toward life' *sic* and your presumption of him as a barbed wire hardcore writer has shown me you have entirely missed the point he was trying to make. Yes, ofc he was on benzedrine, writing On The Road in a 'speed-fuelled stream of consciousness,' the original manuscript clearly indicates a lack of editing in it's creation. Infact, REM were speed freaks also in the early days, Stipe has mentioned this many times. His best work is in his letters to Allen Ginsberg, or the Dharma Bums in my humble opinion. Johnny Ramone is a wonderful guitar player and also Peter Buck has mentioned his own lack of technical ability, ESPECIALLY mentioning that he finds playing 12 strings challenging in his recent live interview with the REM podcast in a Portland theatre. I will go back to bed, you should go back to the library.
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