Saw REM at the Fox Theater in Atlanta late 1980s. They walked out into the lobby amongst us all after the show. Great band and great times I wouldn't trade for anything!
Saw them in Wildwood NJ…. At the end of the show we were told if we were with the band to go backstage….which we did. Earlier in the evening, before the show I had the pleasure of taking a leak in the bathroom and having Michael Stipe and Peter bucks on each side of me using their respective urinals, lol
@@michellelambert8729 Just think back to the late 70's for a sec. they were gonna tear The Fox down to make room for a new Bell South Co. skyscraper!! There is a PBS show about how the hustled up the cash to save The Fabulous Fox!!! Long live the Fox and all the great events that continue to perform there!!
One of the few American artists that went to the UK and blew em away. (Old Blues artists, Little Richard, Otis Redding, Springsteen, Ramones and not many others )
One of the few American artists that went to the UK and blew em away. (Old Blues artists, Little Richard, Otis Redding, Springsteen, Ramones and not many others )... Hendrix? Hello!
PB = Peter Buck. Also, Party ion a Box. "In case everyone forgot how to have a good time, you do it like this!" The whole band was phenom. But Mills was one of a handful of bassists from this era that I love, love, love.
What they looked like when I first met them at a record store in NC. Real. They sang for their supper. Lady Gag I know you've worked hard... not this hard though. REM Forever.
Great to hear REM mentioned by a bloke from the other side of the pond alongside Boomtown Rats and others. Don’t support any of their politics, but, loved the music and performance giftedness.
I know Kurt loved R.E.M. but did he ever actually say they were his favorite band? Not saying it's not true, I just don't think I've ever heard that before. And I agree that R.E.M. were EXTREMELY influential but I think other bands like Husker Du, The Replacements, Sonic Youth and The Pixies were all just as important. What a great time for music! Even if most of the world didn't know about it.
• He said 'Automatic for the People' was one of all time favorite albums. • Kurt and Courtney moved next door to guitarist Peter Buck after finding out he recently relocated to Seattle from Athens. • Witnessing the 25th anniversary rollout of their underrated 'Monster' album, Stipe said that one of his biggest regrets in life was not intervening sooner in hopes to prevent his suicide. Although, suicide is the ultimate act of self-pity and thinking that you're the remedy to longwithstanding mental illness, drug addiction or neuroticism just in general only proves how big your ego is. • Nirvana's upcoming album that was slated for release in late-'94 was going to be mainly acoustic. Kurt mentioned in interviews that he wanted to make his own version of AFTP. • Peter Buck was given a couple of Kurt's guitars after his death.
A friend was trying to tell me that REM wasn't even the best band out of Athens, GA. Arguing Pylon and B-52s. My response was to send this video. I followed that with "I win" and this isn't even REMs best. How can you lose with Mike Mills and Peter Buck.
@ScotRanger1960 I was thinking the same thing! I guess that it's something legal due to the fact that Moon river was written by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini (I think!). So I guess VEVO couldn't show that part!
Great clip! But now it looks strange to see Stipey with long hair! Bringing everyone in Britain 🇬🇧 the Jingle Jangle guitar 🎸! What a sound! I think Buck copied Roger McGuinn for that style and Big Star. 💥🔥🎸😎
He didn't start using AC-30 amps until around 1987-88. Until then, Fender Twins were indeed his amp of choice, mixing them with some Mesa combos around 1985-86. But also, this is fully live, not playback. You can easily get a full-yet-chimey tone out of those Teles with the old Wide Range humbuckers.
+seismodrum That's am untitled song from the original pressing of Reckoning at the very end after Little America. It was added back on the Deluxe Edition of Reckoning (see the Wikipedia article on Reckoning). What you are seeing is a film called 'Left of Reckoning' with the first half of Reckoning playing. From Wikipedia: Eager to explore the music video medium, Stipe secured funding for a short film that would accompany music from the first half of Reckoning. Stipe's concept was to film the project at folk artist R.A. Miller's Whirlgig Farm, and he recruited Athens filmmaker James Herbert to direct it.[47] In March 1984 R.E.M. filmed Left of Reckoning at the Whirlgig Farm in Rabbittown, Georgia.[33] The short film draws its title from the fact that it is soundtracked by five songs that appear on the "L" side of the vinyl version of Reckoning: "Harborcoat", "7 Chinese Bros.", "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)", "Pretty Persuasion", "Time After Time (AnnElise)", in addition to "Second Guessing" from the R side.
Geezus, THANK YOU. I bought Reckoning cassette right when it came out and it had this song bit at the end. When tape died, the new cassette didn't have it and I thought I was going crazy all these years explaining to people that a song was missing. The mystery ends-- thank you, seriously.
@fromthispoint This is just a silly comment. Britain didn't have a monopoly on "multi colored mullet and synths shit [sic]," nor did the US have a monopoly on "powerful artistally [sic] music and creative [sic]."
Apparently, one of the pickups in Mike's Rick crapped out on him, so he started experimenting with a couple different basses (particularly the Guild Pilot, which you see here) before settling on the Fender Precision Bass.
I think a lot of Kurt's vocal styling (and "grunge" singing in general) came straight from REM-particularly Fables of the Reconstruction. From what I've read, Kurt looked to REM as mentors of how to not suck after fame.
REM was always better when they were impressionistic and you couldnt undrtstand Stipe. Saw them in the early years in Atlanta and they blew me away. Each time aftee that it got a little less special. By the time Green came out I was done. They just weren't made to be a stadium band and that's what they had turned into. First 4 or 5 albums were great!
I agree completely, but they kind of lost me at Document and definitely after they left I.R.S. Records. Those of us that were there following them at the beginning from college radio days all kind of feel the same way. There was a song on occasion that I liked that seemed to evoke the old REM that I loved here and there from Green onward but they were very few and far between.
*apparently the consensus is that this is an anti-capitalist song* *I've read Stipe say he wrote it about sexual orientation confusion, hence the 'he' and 'she' object switching*
