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Artist: R.E.M.
Date: July 10th 2003
Location: Torwar Arena, Warsaw
Taper: yanouche
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Source Info: >home made Binaural Mics
>home made Battery Box (with bass roll off)
>Sony MZ-N505 Minidisc (SP mode)
>analog input (PC)
>Cool Edit Pro
>WAV 44.1kHz 16-bit
>CD Wave Editor 1.73 (cutting)
>wave
>Shorten® v3.5.1
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additional info: first four tracks have poor quality
with some annoying noises and even breaks
in sound because of people jumping around
and pushing me. i moved then to the other place
and the rest of recording has great quality.
thanks to Jakub for help.
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running time: h:2 m:13 s:15
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Setlist: 01 finest worksong
02 begin the begin
03 stand
04 drive
05 animal
06 daysleeper
07 the great beyond
08 bad day
09 the one i love
10 i'll take the rain
11 lotus
12 loosing my religion
13 electrolite
14 find the river
15 i believe
16 she just wants to be
17 walk unafraid
18 man on the moon
19 (encore break)
20 everybody hurts
21 get up
22 imitation of life
23 permanent vacation
24 so. central rain
25 crazy
26 radio free europe
27 it's the end of the world
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Timeline notes: First performance of 'Crazy' since 5 November 1989, and the tour debut of 'Stand', 'I'll Take The Rain', 'Lotus' and 'Radio Free Europe
Notes:
-MS notes this is the band's first performance in Poland before Stand. After the song MS requests "A nice polish beer".
-MS before Bad Day "It's the known(?) with the week that we expected, southern women, it's the poison that in measures springs eliminatin,g vision it's the wolf that not a switch root(?) to eat to save itself, it's the octopus that crawled back from the see. That's instinct." He goes on to introduce the song as about living in the U.S. in 2003.
-Before TOIL MS "Me and some friends of mine went out disco dancing last night at a place called Utopia and it was a great, fun time. So this song goes out to everybody who got up on the bar took off their shirt last night and DANC-ED".
-Before I'll Take The Rain, MS notes it is the first performance on the tour and that it was a popular request via the website. He goes on to do the 'if it was your request, raise your hand" thing. After the song MS "How do you say that? It's a damn fine brew my (?) [MM] It sure is. [MS} Boy, I had enough of it last night, that's for sure. How about yourself? Nosgronay (I'm sure spelled differently)."
-There is a brief improv session after LMR involving a banjo
-MS before Electrolite "We're going to do another request from the city of Warsaw. How many people in this room here remember the 20th Century? Well, what a lot of shit was going on backthe huh? Wow, that was almost three years ago can you believe it? Time just flies huh? Ok so we're going to do a song about that and moving forward which I think is what every single person in this room is doing at this moment and that's really what it's all about". After the song MS requests another Fine Polish Beer. He adds "No I don't like cider. It's a [noise] the next morning. It's not good. No I like Scotch. I hate Tequilla. Ask Mike Mills about tequilla and Michael Stipe. It's not a pretty story. [MM] It's not pretty bit I will jin you in having one of these delicious beers. They are quite fabulous. I tell ya, we can't do anything right in America. [MS] Nostroya. You ready Mike Mills? You there?"
-Before I Believe MS "This has got to be a request. It's not? You just wanted to do it? [PB] It's just so hard and so complicated & hard to play that I felt we had to do it tonight. [MS] Ok. Well it's easy for me."
-After Everybody Hurts, MS thanks those who traveled from far away to be there mentioning Slovakia and Latvia and notes that the band is not playing with a curfew this night so"We're going to play a bunch more songs because we want to".
-Before Crazy MS "We haven't done this song in a really long time".
-Before RFE MS "This is the biggest request we've done".
Grade: C