14 November 1987 - Bren Events Center, Irvine, CA
Sources: Unless indicated (*/**) all tracks are from a tape sent to me
by D White, marked "Source F:D, Gen.:1, rec'd from D McCalmont"
*/** Previously unplayed mint condition "Documentary" vinyl boot, from Finest Lunchbox set.
Digital conversion by T Abbott.
Both sources loaded into Audition 1.5 for eq and speed/pitch correction.
Discs 1 & 2: Composite - Complete show
Disc 1
set:
01. Finest Worksong*
02. These Days
03. Welcome To The Occupation
04. Disturbance At The Heron House
05. Exhuming McCarthy
06. Orange Crush
07. Feeling Gravitys Pull
08. King Of Birds
09. I Believe
10. Maps And Legends
11. Driver 8
12. Superman*
13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)**
14. Oddfellows Local 151*
15. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
16. Begin The Begin
17. Encore Break
Disc 2
encore 1:
01. Strange - Bay City Rollers Show Theme
02. Pretty Persuasion
03. See No Evil
encore 2:
04. The Flowers Of Guatemala
05. Cuyahoga
06. Fall On Me*
encore 3:
07. Harpers**
08. The One I Love
09. Crazy
10. Pop Song 89
11. Just A Touch
12. After Hours
*Beginning of Finest Worksong, most of Superman, first half of Oddfellows and last few seconds of Fall on Me from "Documentary" boot.
** All of these tracks from "Documentary"
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Timeline notes: 'Simple Gifts' is an adapted version from the 1848 Shaker movement song/hymn; "Tis a joy to be simple, tis a joy to be free etc...". 'Rollers Show' is not the theme from the Bay City Rollers tv show, it's simply the song 'Rollers Show' by Nick Lowe which poked fun at BCR fans, this then segues into a snatch of 'Saturday Night' which is a Bay City Rollers song. This show can be found on the vinyl bootleg "Documentary", minus 'Heron House', 'Pretty Persuasion', 'See No Evil' and 'The Flowers Of Guatemala'. A recording of the whole show that merges the Documentary boot with an audience recording is available.
Notes:
-Disc One 68:35
-MS before Exhuming McCarthy "Fortunately, things are teetering a little bit but we are still living in a free society, which dictate in a free society that you are allowed to throw things at people in public if you wish to do so. I'd like to ask everyone not to throw anything at people tonight, and even the camera, could you move to the side like you're supposed to be? It really bothers me a lot".
-MS sings the last lines of King Of Birds in falsetto
-Before Maps & Legends MS
Grade: A
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R.E.M.
Bren Events Center, UC Irvine campus
Irvine, CA
November 14, 1987
JEMS Master
Sony ECM 939 mic > Sony Walkman D6C recorder
master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A transfer (October 2007) > Gentle JEMS Remaster via TC Finalizer > Peak 5.2 > FLAC
Disc One
01 Finest Worksong
02 These Days
03 Welcome To The Occupation
04 Disturbance At The Heron House
05 Exhuming McCarthy
06 Orange Crush
07 Feeling Gravitys Pull
08 King Of Birds
09 Simple Gifts > I Believe
10 Maps And Legends
11 Driver 8
12 Superman
13 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
14 Oddfellows Local 151
15 It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
16 Begin The Begin
Disc Two
17 Strange > Rollers Show > Saturday Night
18 Pretty Persuasion
19 See No Evil
20 The Flowers Of Guatemala
21 Cuyahoga
22 Fall On Me
23 Harpers
24 The One I Love
25 Crazy
26 Pop Song 89
27 Just A Touch
28 After Hours
Night three of perhaps the most audacious stretch of consecutive shows in my concert-going career. Two nights earlier it was U2 at BC Place in Vancouver. The night before was R.E.M. in Oakland. The night after it was U2 again at the Oakland Coliseum outdoors.
A quick check of my ticket (see attached) and the seating chart confirms my memory that JEMS recorded this from the very last row, straight back from the stage but inline with the PA at this relatively small gym/fieldhouse. I'm sure I traded it a time or two back in the day as I was a fairly active R.E.M. trader, but I had always remembered it as a mediocre recording. What it lacks in closeness it makes up for in clarity as it sounded better than expected when I put it up on the Nakamichi CR-7A today.
This is an appealing show with a long encore that suggests the band was having fun. Michael is in particularly entertaining form.
Happy to make this our first contribution to the Work Tour 20th Anniversary effort.
Butterking for JEMS
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Notes: Same notes apply to both versions
Grade: B