Artist: R.E.M.
Date: 1989-10-11
Location: Seattle, WA
Venue: Seattle Center Coliseum
Source: Audience
Lineage: DAT(M) & ANA(1)>DAT(1) (last 4.5 minutes)>WAV [48kHz/16bit]>WAV [44.1kHz/16bit]>Flac
Transfer: Tascam DA-20mkII>PreSonus FireStudio Project>Adobe Audition 3.0
Taping Gear: Nakamichi CM-700>Panasonic SV-250
Taped By: JEMS (last 4:30 by MS)
Transferred By: Mike Ziegler
Band Members:
Michael Stipe - vocals, harmonica, megaphone
Peter Buck - guitars
Mike Mills - bass, vocals
Bill Berry - drums, percussion
Setlist:
01. Stand (cuts in; level adjust at the start)
02. The One I Love
03. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
04. These Days
05. Turn You Inside Out
06. Belong
07. Exhuming McCarthy
08. Welcome To The Occupation
09. Orange Crush
10. Feeling Gravitys Pull
11. World Leader Pretend
12. Fall On Me
13. Pretty Persuasion
14. We Walk > Falling In Love Again
15. Word Up
16. Get Up
17. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
18. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
19. Pop Song 89
20. Future 40s (String of Pearls)
21. I Believe
22. You Are The Everything
23. Harpers
24. Begin The Begin
25. King Of Birds
26. Life And How To Live It
27. Low
28. Finest Worksong
29. Perfect Circle
30. Dark Globe
31. Eleventh Untitled Song
32. After Hours
33. Ghost Rider
34. After Hours
Length: 126:05
Notes:
1989: The Year R.E.M. Broke. For some eight years, R.E.M. had enjoyed
a natural progression as their popularity and fanbase increased
steadily, but with the release of Green and particularly the single
"The One I Love," R.E.M. climbed up to that amazing place just one
step short of the rock stratosphere, and the last step on the ladder
where there are still two directions to move.
As such there was still some innocence left in '89, even as they were
largely an arena band in major markets. They showed a film about how
the audience should behave. They played obscure covers. And there was
only one extra musician (Peter Holsapple) and he didn't play on every
song.
The band had skipped the NW on the first leg of the tour, so JEMS
trekked to CA and AZ to capture those shows. But save for the Miracle
in Tempe, these late-tour performances were more appealing than the
spring run and Seattle was the best of the bunch we saw in the fall.
1989 was also The Year JEMS Went DAT and this is the first R.E.M. show
we recorded digitally. With great seats on the floor, great mics and
the new DAT deck, this is one of our best R.E.M. arena recordings ever
(samples provided). We did run out of tape at the end, so the last 4-5
minutes come from our friend MS's recording, done with Nak mics but
as an analog master. The result is a fine snapshot of the band in this
wonderful but fleeting era. The performances are uniformly excellent
and Stipe slips into a lot of other people's material quite
effortlessly along the way.
The JEMS master of this show has circulated previously in a DAT > CD-R
generation (thanks GH; those were the days) but this marks the first
time the direct DAT sources have been torrented.
BK for JEMS
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Grade: A
-One of the better aud recordings from the tour.
Notes:
PB screws up intro to Fall On Me
Eleventh Untitled Song is just the chorus sung a couple times
A rather loose performance, unusual for the last part of this tour