Green

I thought dead letter office thread was going to be about the album 

 

I would travel great distances for an REM reunion 

Peter Buck lives here in town and often sits in with other artists.   Came out and jammed with Wilco when I saw them at the Edgefield a few years back.

Murmer...........

don't go back to Rockville 

Reckoning

R.E.M.

Grateful Dead

Both great in vastly different ways.

Saw Peter Buck & Mike Mills onstage together in January.

 

 

 

R.E.M. - Live at the Raleigh Underground (10th October 1982) 

 

This was filmed less than two months after "Chronic Town" was released on I.R.S. and it's an outstanding document. It is also the earliest known professionally show footage of an R.E.M. show.

 

The setlist:

1. Wolves, Lower 0:52

2. Laughing 5:41

3. 1,000,000 9:46 (NOTE: Mitch Easter, who produced "Chronic Town" as well as "Murmur" and "Reckoning" (with Don Dixon), joins the band on guitar)

4. Moral Kiosk 13:07

5. Catapult 16:25

6. West of the Fields 20:14

7. Radio Free Europe 23:15

8. Ages of You 27:59 (NOTE: Originally intended for "Chronic Town", replaced by "Wolves, Lower" at the request of Miles Copeland, later turned up on "Dead Letter Office")

9. We Walk 31:45

10. Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars) 35:38 (NOTE: As identified by peechpanda in the comments section, Peter Holsapple appears to join the band on guitar for this song)

11. Skank (Jam) 40:25

 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBVX9kRmBE

 

R.E.M. - 9 June 1984, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (COMPLETE - HQ)

 

Main Set:

0:00:00 - Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground cover)

0:02:47 - Second Guessing

0:05:42 - Hyena (first live performance)

0:09:16 - Letter Never Sent

0:12:21 - Harborcoat

0:16:02 - 7 Chinese Bros.

0:20:04 - Pretty Persuasion

0:23:59 - So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

0:27:15 - Gardening at Night

0:30:55 - 9-9

0:33:48 - Windout

0:35:54 - Old Man Kensey (first live performance)

0:39:45 - Sitting Still

0:42:59 - Driver 8 (first live performance)

0:46:20 - Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)

 

Encore:

0:50:18 - Radio Free Europe

0:54:02 - Little America

 

Encore 2:

0:56:49 - So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (The Byrds cover, with Roger McGuinn)

0:59:29 - Do You Believe in Magic? (John Sebastian cover, with John Sebastian)

1:01:29 - Gloria (Them cover, with John Sebastian)

 

 

=========================== Show Notes: Three songs are performed for the first time live: "Driver 8" and "Old Man Kensey", which would appear a year later on their third album, FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION (released on June 10, 1985); and "Hyena," which appears on their fourth album, LIFES RICH PAGEANT (release date: July 28, 1986). Their second album, RECKONING, was released less than two months before this show (US release date: April 19, 1984), and they play seven of its 10 tracks: Second Guessing, Letter Never Sent, Harborcoat, So. Central Rain, 7 Chinese Bros., Little America, Pretty Persuasion. They play three songs from their classic first album, MURMUR (release date: 4/12/83): Sitting Still, 9-9, Radio Free Europe. From their debut EP, CHRONIC TOWN (release date: August 24, 1982): Gardening at Night, Carnival of Sorts. Source: Performed exclusively for MTV's special: "Rock Influences: Folk Rock". It was broadcast on 17 July 1984.

 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRTH8eqZbPM

Stand

Orange Crush

World Leader Pretend

 

 

Michael Stipe and The National's Aaron Dessner are appearing on The Tonight Show this evening to perform their new single:

https://jambands.com/news/2020/06/23/michael-stipe-and-aaron-dessner-to-...

Nice find on the 1982 video OCLT!   At that point in time, they were my favorite band.

The track time for "Wolves Lower" is wrong.  It should be 4:22 not 0:52.

D'oh!  I just realized that 0:52 is the start time for Wolves Lower.  Slow waking mind clicking into gear.  Thanks for this incredible document.

 

Glad you like it, Dave.

 

 

R.E.M., 2 October 85 (Complete and Unedited Show, HQ)

 

 0:00:55 - Feeling Gravitys Pull

0:06:22 - Harborcoat

0:10:12 - Sitting Still

0:13:33 - Maps and Legends

0:17:00 - Fall On Me

0:20:00 - Green Grow the Rushes

0:23:57 - Driver 8

0:27:44 - Hyena

0:30:49 - So.Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

0:34:48 - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

0:37:43 - Can't Get There from Here

0:41:43 - King of the Road

0:43:02 - 7 Chinese Bros.

0:47:18 - Auctioneer (Another Engine)

0:50:30 - Old Man Kensey

0:54:38 - Little America (Big Little USA)

0:57:28 - Pretty Persuasion

 

Encore 1:

1:03:23 - Theme From Two Steps Onward

1:08:23 - Toys in the Attic

1:11:06 - See No Evil

1:13:51 - Second Guessing

 

Encore 2:

1:18:03 - Ghost Riders in the Sky

1:21:34 - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

1:26:08 - We Walk / Falling in Love Again / Behind Closed Doors

1:30:24 - Paint it, Black

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jckCwlAw6y8&t=29s