27 August 1999
Alltel Pavilion At Walnut Creek,
Raleigh, NC
support: Wilco
Disc One 59:59
01. Airportan
02. Lotus
03. The Wake-Up Bomb
04. Fall On Me
05. Suspicion
06. Electrolite
07. Everybody Hurts
08. Daysleeper
09. Camera
10. The Apologist
11. Sweetness Follows
12. The Great Beyond
Disc To 64:49
01. The One I Love
02. E-Bow The Letter
03. At My Most Beautiful
04. Star 69
05. Losing My Religion
06. Man On The Moon
07. Walk Unafraid (cut after)
encore:
08. Hope (Stipe solo)
09. Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
10. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
11. Tongue
13. Stipe story telling
14. Find The River
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Timeline notes: 'Camera' is played for the first time since 1985. Before 'Camera', Stipe said: "Last night Peter & I & some friends went to eat in Carrboro, it was directly across the street from the first place that we ever played outside of Georgia, in July 17th of 1980, I think, The Station. So as we were getting carefully and slowly drunk on our delicious wine, we were rolling this around our head and decided tonight we wanted to play a song that we haven't played in 15 years. And these are the words, according to the internet, they're actually really wrong. But I don't know, they look really cool I think. Peter said and he's got a better memory of these things than I do, I'm not guaranteeing its going to sound like anything, this is not CATS, and this is not Mariah Carey here. Apparently the last time that we performed this song Peter said was in Winston-Salem. So that's pretty cool, that's where Mitch Easter lives. We hope you like it", & it was an amazing version as well. After the song, Michael said "Well, that was kinda fun huh?, do you think we should offer that to Atlanta?, (cheering) OK, I take your advice" - Chris Hartstonge
Notes:
-Standard intro to The Apologist but MS adds "He probably lives on the west coast. In fact he does. I just decided that".
-Before a standard into to Great Beyond, MS "This guy asked me 'What's the show going to be like when you get here?' He was talking about a city and I was like 'How the fuck would I know until I get there?'".
-After Tongue MS promotes The Triangle Land Conservancy. He is then offered a plastic ring from someone in the crowd. "Thank you. I'll cherish it for all my days. Yesterday I was walking around trying to find some food. Instead I wound up in a revolutionary book store. I don't know how, but it was kind of cool. Anyway it's really great that there's a revolutionary book store in The Triangle don't you think? It's on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill if you're not sure where." MS goes on to detail how there was some kind of poster made in error associating R.E.M. with the grocery store Winn Dixie. To appease the band, Winn Dixie was going to donate a "substantial" amount of money to charities of the band's choosing. He begins introductions, then "What is it my grandmother used to say, 'All the cares'. I care but you don't care, right? My grandmother, when they lived in Savannah--are we running out of time? [MM] We're getting there. [MS] When my grandparents lived in Savannah, Georgia and I would go down and visit them and the water always smelled like rotten eggs and I hated that, but I loved them a lot. My grandmother, we would go to get a quart of milk and you know whatever, sliced bread or something. And we'd go by all these [fan interrupts] I'm trying to talk here do you mind keeping it to yourself? Your moment will come. In the bathroom. We're talking about my grandmother here ok? Have some respect. My grandmother, we would go to get a quart of milk and bread or sliced bread and we'd drive past all these supermarkets. And my grandfather was a terrible, terrible driver. He didn't know what a brake was. It was horrifying. but my grandmother would always go to Piggly Wiggly. My mother, finally one day she had had enough, and this is my father's mother we're talking about and mother said 'grandma Stipe, why do we always have to go to Piggly Wiggly? A quart of milk and a loaf of sliced read, we can find that anywhere. It's in the 7-11, it's at the Winn Dixie, it's at the Buy-Low, anywhere'. And she said 'Because Piggly Wiggly is a Southern Institution'. And I'd like to say, I love my grandmother, bless her heart. She gave me these cheekbones and that's a great thing and she gave me a lot more than that. And I admire that until the day she died she would go to the Piggly Wiggly to get her quart of milk and her sliced bread. And that's the kind of attitude we've tried to suffuse into --suffuse, is that a word?--into our career(?) [MM] The Piggly Wiggly attitude. Anything but Winn Dixie at this point. [If I'm not mistaken MS has introduced his grandmother as the inspiration to Find The River before, so cool to get this story beore that song] After the song MS asks if he came across as cold during his story to which someone replies it was cute "Thank you, I like cute, I'm, a Pokemon!"
Grade: B