R.E.M.
Borgata Events Center
Atlantic City, NJ
30 October, 2004
Taped by Rob Radel
Source: DPA 4060 > Battery Box (bass roll-off @ 120 Hz) > Sony PCM-M1 (44.1 kHz) [3rd row, right side]
Transfer: Sony PCM-R300 > Coax > M-Audio Audiophile 2496 > Adobe Audition > Flac Frontend
***Please do not sell recording or encode to MP3***
Disc 1:
01. Around the Sun
02. Finest Worksong
03. Begin the Begin
04. So Fast, So Numb
05. Animal
06. Boy in the Well
07. Get Up
08. High Speed Train
09. Maps and Legends
10. The Outsiders
11. Electrolite
12. Bad Day
13. I Wanted to Be Wrong
14. The One I Love
15. Final Straw
16. Losing My Religion
Disc 2:
17. Walk Unafraid
18. Life and How to Live It
19. Happy Birthday (for Ken Stringfellow)
20. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
21. Drive
22. Leaving New York
23. I've Been High
24. Permanent Vacation
25. I'm Gonna DJ
26. Man on the Moon
Notes: Fantastic show all around. The sound quality is quite good, but there is
a bit of audience chatter in this recording...most of the people around us were
more interested in their own conversations than actually listening to the band,
so please keep this in mind.
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Timeline notes:
-Happy Birthday was sung for Ken Stringfellow in English and French
Notes:
-Relatively rare Get Up. After the song MS polls the crowd as to who livis here and who traveled to get here, further questioning who traveled by train leading into HST.
-Maps And Legends a request from someone MS met at the casino before the show.
-The Outsiders is dedicated to MS's "dear brother, departed". After the song he notes it's R.E.M.'s first time playing Atlantic City, and a casino. "I have to say the wine is pretty good, the acoustics are not bad, l like the lights".
-Standard intro to IWTBW.
-Angela McCluskey's band joind the R.E.M on stage for Happy Birthday
-Before LNY MS warns that part of the live R.E.M. experience is missed notes, and if you are up front being inadvertantle spit on, and that he occasionally talks too much between songs. He adds that he is wearing the white suit for the first time since the VFC Tour. He adds a story his mother told him of being stationed in Atlantic City in 1957 but not having enough money for the rides so they watched other people play miniature golf and ride roller coasters.
-After I've Been High MS "I had a little bit of a boxer/brief thing earlier this evening. White pants are a bitch" before his political banter.
Grade: C
-A little bit dull & thumpy. Definately chatty. Still a very good recording but there have been so many excellent ones to this point of the tour that this one is only going to grade out as average.