7 November 1986
The Felt Forum,
Madison Square Garden Center,
New York, NY
support: The Feelies
The Feelies set included: She Said She Said
*I have two versions of this show, I'll call them the orange version and the silver version. On both versions, the tapers comment about something happening on stage before Oddfellows
(silver version)
Disc One 45:46
01. These Days
02. Sitting Still
03. MS backs up crowd
04. Hyena
05. Talk About The Passion
06. Driver 8
07. Cuyahoga
08. Feeling Gravitys Pull
09. The Flowers Of Guatemala
10. White Tornado
11. Tired Of Singing Trouble
12. I Believe
13. MS
14. Swan Swan H
Disc Two 50:43
01. Superman (skip)
02. Can't Get There From Here (skip)
03. Spooky
04. Pretty Persuasion (skip)
05. Stretch My Hand (a capella) - Auctioneer (Another Engine)
06. Just A Touch
encore 1:
07. Fall On Me
08. Begin The Begin skips at beginning
09. Pills
encore 2:
10. Oddfellows Local 151 skips
11. Lightnin' Hopkins
12. Funtime
encore 3:
13. The One I Love
14. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) - Red Rain
Grade: C
-Sound could be an A but too many skips
(orange version)
Disc One 46:23
01. These Days (skip, dropout)
02. Sitting Still
03. Hyena / Talk About The Passion
04. Driver 8
05. Cuyahoga
06. Feeling Gravitys Pull
07. The Flowers Of Guatemala
08. White Tornado
09. Tired Of Singing Trouble - I Believe
10. Swan Swan H
Disc Two 45:02
01. Superman
02. Can't Get There From Here
03. Spooky
04. Pretty Persuasion / Stretch My Hand (a capella) - Auctioneer (Another Engine)
05. Just A Touch
encore 1:
06. Fall On Me
07. Begin The Begin
08. Pills
encore 2:
09. Oddfellows Local 151 / Lightnin' Hopkins / Funtime
encore 3:
10. The One I Love
missing: So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) - Red Rain
Notes:
-After Sitting Still MS "Welcome to The Felt Forum. See with your own eyes the anguish of Africa, live on stage. Last night we had a problem with people pushing forward and we had to stop the show early". He instructs the crowd to take 4 steps back, then "Let me expain something: this is backwards to me, this is backwards to you"
-Before The Flowers Of Guatemala MS "In America we have a policy of genocide" drawing a reaction from the taper. (silver version)
-Taper likes to guess which song is next, very excited for White Tornado (orange version)
-Before Swan Swan H. MS "New York Cty is known for one thing in particular, outside of everything else, and that is the trees that grow along the beautiful boulevards that run parallel to (?) island. This is rhetorical, please do not applaud. The trees that grow in New York City...the trees that grow in New York City, are Ginko trees. The reason that they grow here is because nothing else will. Ginko trees are the ones that are yellow right now and they have leaves that look like that. You see them up and down the beautiful boulevards. The reason that the Ginko can grow here where any other tree can't is that the Ginko's been around since the dinosaurs, which you could call the pleistocene era. It's the oldest tree known to man. That's us. They have fossils of the Ginko tree, they don't have fossils of other trees. So the Ginko, like the shark, has been able to live all these years because (?) The ginko tree was brought to America in the 1850s by a Chinese diplomat, who presented it to a Kentucky Senator as a gift. He brought seven trees along, three of which were female, four of which were male, and they bred, as trees will do. So, anyone that knows very much about geography knows that Kentucky is right about in the middle of the country if you're going from the north to the south. That's also where the Mason-Dixon Line is, which is an imaginary line that drawn during the great war of the last century, which was called the Civil War".
-Before Superman MS "The Mills", MM "Ths is for Sydney, the lovely daughter of the man who wrote this great song".
-Before Can't Get There From Here MS "Sandy and Liz and Bert and Jefferson, were very glad that you're here".
-Someone other than MS on 1st half lead vocals of Spooky. PB breaks off a a nice little solo during the track as well.
-The Texas radio thing, displaced from the beginning of Auctioneer, shows up in Just A Touch.
-Before Pills "This one goes out to Bob, who fell off the stage, broke his leg, had to have a metal one put in".
-MS ends The One I Love with a screamed "Leave...me...be!", and introduces So Central "This one is for last night".
-First Red Rain tag I have a recording of. It first appeared 10/22 and 23 but are omitted from my recordings
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R.E.M.
Felt Forum
New York, NY
November 7, 1986
Stonecutter Archives #9
AUD > Sony 909 mics > Sony D6 > cassette (master) > Tascam 424 Mk II > Sony PCM-M10 (Line In, 24/48) > WAV > SoundStudio > FLAC (16/44)
Recorded by Rich B., transferred and digitally mastered by neil d
01 These Days
02 Sitting Still
03 Hyena
04 Talk About the Passion
05 Driver 8
06 Cuyahoga
07 Feeling Gravity's Pull
08 Flowers of Guatemala
09 White Tornado
10 Tired of Singing Trouble
11 I Believe
12 Swan Swan H
13 Superman
14 Can't Get There From Here
15 Spooky (Classics IV)
16 Pretty Persuasion
17 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
18 Just A Touch
19 Fall On Me
20 Begin the Begin
21 Pills (Bo Diddley)
22 Oddfellows Local 151
23 Lightnin' Hopkins (alternate lyrics)
24 Funtime (Iggy Pop)
25 The One I Love
26 So. Central Rain
Bonus track: She Said, She Said (Feelies opener with Peter Buck on guitar)
Rich B., aka Stonecutter, recorded hundreds of shows in New York in the '80s and '90s, and traded for hundreds more. Until recently, many of these have been stacked up in trays and trays of DATs and cassettes in his basement, never shared beyond a relative handful of tape trades back in the day. Through his generosity, a few of us are helping to digitize and share these hidden gems. No one can say how many of these there will be, as we haven't hit bottom yet.
As part of their Lifes Rich Pageant tour, R.E.M. played two nights at the Felt Forum (underneath Madison Square Garden), both of which Rich recorded. This is the second night — a couple of other sources of this exist (albeit not on Dime in recent history), at least one of them only partial, but this is the first digital transfer from Rich’s master cassette, with tons of then-new songs, songs that wouldn’t show up on record until Document the following year, and weirdo covers.
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Grade: A