R.E.M.
May 31, 2008
Greek Theatre
Berkeley CA
Source: Schoeps CCM4's > Aerco > Sony PCM-M1
Lineage: DAT-M > edit > CDR > FLAC
Transfer: HHB Standalone CD Burner > CDR1 > AIF > FLAC
01 Intro
02 Horse To Water
03 Little America
04 What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
05 Ignoreland
06 Accelerate
07 Man-Sized Wreath
08 Imitation of Life
09 West of the Fields
10 Hollow Man
11 Wolves, Lower
12 Walk Unafraid
13 Houston
14 Electrolite
15 The One I Love
16 Final Straw
17 Find the River
18 Let Me in
19 Losing My Religion
20 Living Well Is the Best Revenge
21 Bad Day
22 Orange Crush
23 I'm Gonna DJ
Encore
24 Supernatural Superserious
25 Mr. Richards
26 Driver 8
27 Life and How To Live It
28 Man on the Moon
Notes: Thanks to a friend for taping and sending over, I have done nothing except tag and FLAC. Let Me In, Losing My Religion and Living Well Is the Best Revenge are patched from a different (unknown) source due to a taping malfunction.
.txt file compiled on September 20, 2020
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Notes:
-Have a 2nd source of this show, Flas Friday Sony MZ-R70-church audio mics-battery box with bass roll off. Graded C, distant and boomy
-Setlist highlights: Little America (7), West Of The Fields (1 promo, 9 tour), Wolves, Lower (4), Find The River (10), Life And How To Live It (5)
-After Ignoreland MS "That song was from the year 1638, it's on our 75th album".
-MS starts talking over the intro to Man-Sized Wreath for which he apologizes. He goes on to say that he has been told the meat packing district of Manhattan is the most liberal area in the U.S. but he thinks that it compares to Berkeley "I always fell a little relaxed when I'm here, like I can breathe. Which in and of itslef is a little bit of a bubble and we all know that. But it's ok, the dream lives on in me and you and all of us."
-IOL is given its standard intro
-West of the Fields is introduced as being from 1064. After the song MS "There was this whole thing where we did this live rehearsal for the last record in Dublin. So we pulled some of the lyrics off of the internet. Some of the lyrics had never been written down and the ones that were written down and sent to the publishing company I wrote as many terrible...no not awesome, terrible. Anyway, to stick to the point here, which I'm not great at generally speaking. I'm trying to focus. The bridge of this song had the lyric 'the animals'--now that song was written in 1981. There's not an actual lyric. It was written in New Orleans about Elysian Fields, which is one of the streets that borders the French Quarter. We wound up making two records there at Danny Lanois' studio. But anyway, the bridge of the song, the middle 8 as it was written on the internet and what I was presented on a piece of paper in Dublin was...was...it's like Oprah, isnt it? 'The animals are strange, try to put it in' Now, I wrote some pretty bad lyrics when I was 21 years old, and I still did drugs when I was 21 years old. Not much longer after that to tell the truth. But I never wrote 'The animals are strange, try to put it in' just to set the record strraight. Anyway, I've yet to make it through the middle weight of that song without cracking myself up. [MM] What did you write? [MS] But if I can't make myself laugh then who am I? [MM] I was just wondering what you actually did say. If you didn't say 'The animals are strange', what did you say? [MS] I haven't got a fucking idea Mike. What were you doing on 1981 by the way? [MM] This and that. [MS] I have photographic evidence."
-Bfore Electrolite, MS notes it is their California song :but it's southern California, which draw boos from the crowd.
-Before Final Straw, MS notes they released it on the website from the studio in Vancouver shortly after the invasion of Iraq.
-Before Find The River, MS "we rehearsed this song one time before this moment".
-I'm Gonna DJ has a lot of new stuff going on un the background, some whoo-whos and MM chanting I'm Gonna DJ to close the song out.
-MS states this is the North American debut of Mr. Richards.
-After intros MS notes Calfornia's recent passage of same-sex marriage legislation, and that he doesn't want to live in California.
Grade: A
-The patched songs are a noticeable drop.