R.E.M.
Auditorium, Franklin County Veterans Memorial
Columbus, OH
Tuesday 10 December 1985
Support: The Minutemen
Venue no longer exists
Lineage: ??? -> Maxell XLII cassette -> Tascam CC-222MKIV -> EAC -> CD Wave Editor. Digital conversion by justatouch from their collection and shared to http://remtimeline.com/listentome/
Eckythump June 2021 remaster: iZotope RX8 Advanced -> iZotope Ozone 9 -> Audacity 3.0.2 (split tracks and export to FLAC Level 8) -> Traders Little Helper 2.8.4 (Fix SBE's, ffp and md5 files) -> foobar2000 1.6.6 (files tagged). First shared to Dime on 1 June 2021.
Main set:
01. Feeling Gravitys Pull
02. Harborcoat
03. Fall On Me
04. Maps and Legends
05. Can't Get There From Here
06. Michael talks
07. Sitting Still
08. Hyena
09. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
10. Swan Swan H
11. Shaking Through
12. Driver 8
13. Riders In The Sky (Stan Jones cover)
14. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
15. Michael's Kensey story
16. Old Man Kensey
17. Gardening At Night
18. 9-9 - Hey Diddle Diddle - Frogmore - Windout
Encore 1:
19. Femme Fatale (The Velvet Underground cover)
20. Second Guessing
21. We Walk - The Counting Song
22. Pretty Persuasion
23. Toys In The Attic (Aerosmith cover)
Encore 2:
24. Born To Run (snippet, Bruce Springsteen cover)
25. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
26. Tired Of Singing Trouble
27. Life And How To Live It
Michael Stipe - Vocals, harmonica
Peter Buck - Guitar
Mike Mills - Bass Guitar, vocals
Bill Berry - Drums, vocals
Show notes: The third to last show of a very long year of touring Fables of the Reconstruction, and you couldn't blame the band if they were phoning it in by this point, but they put road fatigue aside and put on a terrific show. Highlights include a terrific guitar only version of So. Central Rain with harmonies supplied by Mike and Bill, a very lengthy intro to a powerful Auctioneer (complete with Michael using the often cited Caroline, and the line 'let's start a new country up', which would soon find its way onto the next album), a terrific 9-9 and Windout, and Michael hilariously butchering the lyrics to Springsteen's 'Born To Run'. It's a great show from a brilliant year of touring.
Recording notes: This is an extremely rare recording, so rare the R.E.M. Timeline doesn't even have a complete setlist (there's a partial list on there that was sourced from a review). It was sitting in the collection of 'justatouch', a member of the R.E.M. board 'Listen To Me' (details below for joining), who kindly digitised and shared his recording to that group, and provided his blessing for it to be shared on Dime. Taper details and equipment are unknown. While not the best recording of 1985, it's still a solid recording that you'll enjoy listening to. I cleaned it up a little in iZotope RX and Ozone. Enjoy this super rarity!
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-eckythump, 1 June 2021
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Notes:
-Before Fall On Me MS "In Canada theu have buildings with black and white stripes going down them in a vertical pattern. This is not by choice of the archetect, it's due to the rain".
-Before Sitting Still MS "There are these people in the world, you know they have bodies, they have eyes, they have mouths, they sit at tables and eat just like all the rest of us. But it turns out they're like these giant toilet paper tubes. They're channels. And other things come into them and they go out and these people can't help it sometimes. There's this man who had a barber street...He had a barber shop on High Street up here. His name was Elijah Pierce. He died last yearbut he left behind all the things that came out of this channel. You can go down the street here on Broad and go to the Musuem of Art and go don in the basement and you can see all these things that he left behind. And this will give you some idea of what it's like to be a giant toilet paper tube in a world full of people like us. This song is for them". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Pierce
-Before Auctioneer Caroline story: Caroline took the train north and fell asleep for 20 years ala Rip Van Winkle. Pretty standard from there. Kensey in a coffin story after. Durng the story MS responds to a heckler "This is my story you can keep your mouth shut for a while".
Grade: B
-lacking in low end but a very nice recording.