R.E.M.
04 October 2003
Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
Sony ECM-DS70P mic > Sony DAT D100
Set:
disc one:
01.Finest Worksong
02.What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03.Driver 8
04.Drive
05.Animal
06.Fall On Me
07.Daysleeper
08.Bad Day
09.The One I Love
10.World Leader Pretend
11.(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
12.The Great Beyond
13.Country Feedback
disc two:
01.Losing My Religion
02.Find The River
03.She Just Wants To Be
04.Walk Unafraid
05.Man On The Moon
encore:
06.Life And How To Live It / NYC / Nightswimming / Final Straw / Imitation Of Life / Gardening At Night / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
notes: NYC is again Michael solo on acoustic guitar
Notes:
d1t04 entire track messed up due to taping error
d2t01 problem 2:23-2:36
d2t04 skip 0:49
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REM
Madison Square Garden
NY, NY
October 4, 2003
Taper: gloco (gdloco@yahoo.com)
Location: Section 10, ~100 feet back
Source: Sharp DR-7 line in(minidisc recorder)>Sound professionals SP-SPSB-7 battery box with bass rolloff@195Hz with preamp>
Sound professionals SP-CMC-4 stereo cardioid mics (unidirectional) held about 5' up aimed directly at stage.
Conversion: Sony MXD-D5C deck RCA out>audigy 2 line in>cd wave>Adobe Audition (amplified +5db)
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Setlist:
Disc One:
1. Finest Worksong
2. What's the frequency Kenneth
3. Driver 8
4. Drive
5. Animal
6. Fall On Me
7. Daysleeper
8. Bad Day
9. The One I Love
10. World Leader Pretend
11. Rockville
12. Great Beyond
13. Country Feedback
14. Losing My Religion
15. Find The River
16. She Just Wants To Be
17. Walk Unafraid
18. Man On The Moon
ENCORE:
19. Life And How To Live It
20. NYC (Stipe Acoustic)
21. Nightswimming
22. Final Straw
23. Imitation Of Life
24. Gardening At Night
25. End of The World
NOTES:
A few seconds are lost on Drive (approx 2:11 there's a quick drop out into the song) due to me bumping the recorder (paused).
Some mic noise during the first cd thanks to a constant security presence until the encore.
CD2/T1 begins abruptly due to a MD switch, otherwise a stellar recording.
Compiled on 2003.10.04 by gloco.
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Notes:
-Mitch version starts out really nice but dops off at one point, then drops off again. Still the better of the two.
-Drive is sent out to Al Franken "Who has provided all of us on stage with a very good book to read this summer".
-Fall On Me is notes as a request "From Laurie from our awesome record company".
-Before Dysleeper MS "This song was written in New York City, my second home".
-Before Bad Day MS "It's nice to be here and not in the ausience". He the tells of having to wake up the previous day at 5 AM to "Play the song for people who have never been to Madison Square Garden and probably never will. It was fun though".
-MS sends Rockville out to June Carter Cash "It was some years ago at a movie premier that I had the great pleasure to meet someone who I had a great deal of respect for as a songwriter, as an American songwriter. And when I met her I looked like a freak. I was wearing a skirt and I had makeup on and she didn't know me from Moses but the first thing she did, she walked up to me and said 'give me a hug around the neck'.
-MS sings a verse of Patti Smith's We Three before Country Feedback. PB's solo 1:55.
-After NYC MS "That was just short of precious, I aoplogize. Mike Mills actually knows how to play his insturment. Let's see how he does".
-After Nightswimming MS "Peter Buck and I first came to New York City when I was 19 years old. I had on a pair of green pinty shoes that I got at the thrift store for a dollar. I had some skin tight wide row banana colored corduroy pants and I wore very very dark eye shadow. And we slept on the street in a van and we couldn't understand why nobody in mid town would let us use their toilet." He shifts to the intro of Final Straw "This is a song we wrote for New York. We wrote it after the election and before the blackout".
-Gardening At Night is sent out to Sparklehorse on their last night with the tour. Ms also notes the song is difficult to sing with no room to breathe.
Grades:
-Mitch: B Would be an A without the flaws. D1 59:22, D2 63:52
-Gloco: D D1 68:29, D2 50:08