R.E.M.
August 13, 1999
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
Source: Schoeps MK5(card) > Rmod > SBM-1 > Sony DAT
Lineage: DAT-M > CDR1 > FLAC
Transfer: HHB Standalone CD Burner > CDR1 > AIF > FLAC
01 Intro
02 Lotus
03 The Wake-Up Bomb
04 Pop Song '89
05 Suspicion
06 Pilgrimmage
07 Daysleeper
08 Sad Professor
09 The One I Love
10 The Apologist
11 So Fast So Numb
12 Sweetness Follows
13 The Great Beyond
14 Losing My Religion
15 Find the River
16 -banter-
17 At My Most Beautiful
18 Star 69
19 Walk Unafraid
20 Man on the Moon
21 Hope
22 Why Not Smile
23 What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
24 Tongue
25 Cuyahoga
26 It's the End of the World as We Know It
Notes: Excellent recording, I have done nothing except tag and FLAC. Thanks to a friend for taping and sending over. From the information I have received, this seems to be an uncirculated source.
.txt file compiled on Sep 17, 2020 by BLG
Notes:
-Before Piligrimage, MS notes that they spent a lot of time in the area making their last record "and if you promise not to go on the internet or the newspapers we'll probably spend a lot of time here making out next record. This is a song from year number three".
-Before Daysleeper, MS offers his vision of a giant bull & bear walking the globe & marking their territory.
-MS states this is the 1st performance of Sad Professor. It had been performed at a couple live tapings in March so partially true.
-MS has a conversation with himself before Great Beyond that culminates with him in a mocking voice saying "We'll fucking play what we want to play man". He credits PB for supplying him that line and claims to be pychically connecting with the audience (Grateful Dead reference?)
-Before Find The River, MS talks about the origin of the song "One of the other cities that was our (?) home for a while was on the other side of this country called Miami. I mean the country isn't called Miami, the city is. The Country is called the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. Anyway when we were there for a while, we were kind of entrenched there for about two months making a record and me and Mike, we had these convertable budget rental cars and late at night at like three in the morning we would drive up and down the quiet streets of Miami Beach, just north of South Beach and we would put this cassette into the car stereo system and we would sing at the top of our lungs and we were actually in tune. And that's how this song got written".
-Before AMMB MS "Take your shirt off first. Let's see what you got big boy. Oh! Very nice!" MM and MS then discuss Ringo Starr briefly.
-After Walk Unafraid MS "We're trying to get some sad professor somewhere to write a thesis about me and my mic stand and how it is representative of the destructive elements of my personality. Kind of academin I know but...what? It's a what? I think I found my sad professor! It's a core analogy? A poor analogy...have you got a better one? No it just represents elements of my personality, as it represents elements of yours. Think about it. It's a little bit of a stretch but you know what? I'm a pop star, I can do that. It's expected. All right, now that we're on even keel with one another, what's your name? Your name is fucked up? [someone in crowd yells 'talk about the passion'] I'm talking about the passion buddy, where are you at? All right we're going to do another song here and we did this the other night and I was like 'look at the stars they're beautiful' because it was outside. They're not here but they were there. I can't really see them. Anyway I was talking about Andy Kaufmann and I looked up and I asked everybody...we were having one of those moments you know and I was like 'just turn to the person next to you and give them a big hug'. I fugured I better work the Kaufmann elements as long as I can because the movie is coming out soon and everyone is going to realize how much I've been ripping him off over the last 18 years. I had everybody turn around and look at the sky and we're talking about how beautiful the planets and the stars are and there's a shooting star. Fwoosh! Went down just like that. It was beautiful. Who gives a shit, right?" He goes on to introduce Willie Williams, the lighting director & Bay Area native. Then "He [Williams] told me that he has a very well read academic friend who...what's your name again? Mike? That's a great name. He has a well read academic friend who told him according to the Aztec Calendar, today is the day. Are you the guy? Are you the smart guy? That's a girl! There are smart girls in this country? Wow! That's mind blowing. Anyway, according to this guy, according to the Aztec calendar today is the end of the world. Friday? The Mayan Calendar! Mayan, Toltec". He debates this momentarily then "According to somebody's calendar somewhere today is the end of the world. Who gives a shit right? Ok, people in the back are saying this guy's on drugs, let's get on with the music".
-MOTM has the weird swirly effect near the
-Before Hope MS "This is usually the part where I talk way too long and connect with the audience but I've been dubbed...my middle name is now root crusher according to Peter and Mike and the other guys in the band. But that's ok I'm going to make it up right now. I wrote this song driving--I didn't write the song, I wrote the words driving from Salt Lake City to here. What freeway is between here and Salt Lake City? [crowd replies 80] Oh I took the other one. Of course I took that freeway. That's a numbing detail. It's Friday the 13th, which was my Grandfather's birthday back in 1908 so it's always been a lucky day in my family". After the song he admits to hitting his heard on his acoustic guitar and busting his lip earlier in the set "but I hid that really well".
-Have a udg of a different source thats not qute as good but not terrible. It is Identifiable by people around the taper chatting aout snacks in the early part of D2 (Star 69, Walk Unafraid, MOTM)
Grade: A