​REM
August 11th, 1999
Irvine Meadows-Irvine,CA
"The Ultimate Irvine"

Source: Schoeps MK4s > Rmod box > D100 DAT
Conversion: Fostex D5 > DIO2448 > Soundforge 7.0a > shntool 2.0.3

Disc 1:
01. Intro                00:40.18        
02. Lotus                04:25.00       
03. What's The Frequency Kenneth?    04:11.10       
04. So Fast, So Numb            04:38.51      
05. Suspicion                07:13.13       
06. Stand                03:30.34       
07. How The West Was Won        04:46.67       
08. Low Desert                03:49.53       
09. Daysleeper                04:00.69       
10. The Apologist            04:55.59      
11. The One I Love            04:01.65       
12. Sweetness Follows            06:18.12       
13. The Great Beyond            04:54.21       

Total:                    57:26.22      

Disc 2:
01. Losing My Religion            05:34.58       
02. Find The River            04:17.07       
03. At My Most Beautiful        04:13.53       
04. Pop Song 89                03:33.62       
05. Walk Unafraid            05:19.72       
06. Man On The Moon            06:01.12       
07. Hope                02:49.52       
08. Why Not Smile            02:14.24      
09. Crush With Eyeliner            05:19.14       
10. Tongue                07:00.47       
11. So. Central Rain            03:50.17       
12. End Of The World            06:38.35       

Total:                    56:53.03

Notes: This show is not new in trading circles. However this is the first pure DAT source
conversion of this recording and should replace whatever else you have.   

Compiled by alex@kabella.org on 8/17/04.  

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Notes:
-Nefore Stand MS notes they haven't been stateside for very long.  He goes on to say that they only played the upcoming song in Slovenia.  "Does anyone here know where Slovenia is? [crowd cheers]  You're lying through your teeth".  He adds that the band grew sick of the upcoming song but are playing it by special request this night, and that "Nobody else on these shores, nobody east of here is going to hear this song on this tour".
-After HTWWW&WIGU MS "Wow, we're doing all our California songs on after the other.  That was a definate kind of desert community song don't you think?  This song was written in the Mojave Desert".
-After Daysleeper MS "Ok, that was an international song but now we're coming back to California".  He adds a brief 12 step into a monster story.
-There is a weird swirly effect for a few seconds in the middle of TOIL.
-MS points out some constellations and claims to see a falling star before Great Beyond.
-Before MOTM MS sings a little snippet "Said the little cat to the big grey dog..."
-Someone misses the ending of CWE causing it to go on and end in a weird way.
-MS accuses Scott of wearing his sweater during band intros
-This show is a little shorter, I think mostly due to MS not going off on a tangent so often.

Grade: A
-Fantastic recording