R.E.M.
The Gorge Amphitheatre
George, WA
May 21, 1995
JEMS Master

Recording Gear: Sonic Studios DSM-6P > Denon DTR-80P DAT

TRANSFER: Master DAT > Tascam DA-20 MKII > PreSonus FireStudio Project > Adobe Audition 3.0 > FLAC frontend 1.7.1 > iZotope MBIT+ resample to 16/44.1 .wav > iZotope RX and Ozone 6 mastering > Audacity > TLH > FLAC

LENGTH: 112:14

TRANSFERRED BY: Mike Ziegler

01 I Took Your Name
02 What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
03 Crush With Eyeliner
04 Circus Envy
05 Welcome To The Occupation
06 Turn You Inside-Out
07 Try Not To Breathe
08 So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
09 Strange Currencies
10 I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
11 Revolution
12 Tongue
13 Man On The Moon
14 Country Feedback
15 Bang And Blame
16 Losing My Religion
17 Departure
18 Finest Working
19 Get Up
20 Star 69
21 Let Me In
22 Everybody Hurts
23 Pop Song 89
24 Fall On Me
25 Drift Away > It’s The End Of The World As We Know It


Undoubtedly one of the major factors that surrounds the JEMS archive is the surprise factor and this is confirmed with the great variety of artists that conforms the archive. You will never know what you can find.

And this time, we move away from the 70's and 80's classics to bring you a brand new transfer done by none other than Mike Ziegler.

JEMS caught a lot of shows on R.E.M.’s 1995 tour, including their first-ever appearance in the great outdoors of the Gorge, which is a beautiful place to see a concert and a horrible place to get to and get home from.

We had seen Portland two nights before and Vancouver the night before we drove east for this one with a lot of friends in tow. Needless to say we were a bit worn out for our third show in three nights.

Its a noisy crowd as you might expect from an outdoor venue, but the recording is very clear and close (samples provided) and the band plays a strong, solid if ultimately unspectacular set. I do give them credit for playing as-yet-unreleased material that would later wind up on New Adventures In Hi-Fi. On this night we got “Departure” along with the Monster outtake “Revolution.”

Thanks to Mike Ziegler for doing the transfer and to frogster for the help provided with the track split and the upload.

BK for JEMS

 

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Notes:
-Plays slow
-MS admits he forgot to brush his teeth after Crush With Eyeliner
-MS rambles for a bit after Bang And Blame about stars and some smoke rising that he spots.  Probaby covering for insturment changes
-Slide back in Finest Worksong

Grade: A