June 22nd 1985, Milton Keynes Bowl, England.
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Poll: At which tour/period did most Murmursians see R.E.M. live for the 1st time?
Started by Mottje t.H., Jul 09 2010 11:18 AM
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 09:58 AM
"Give me dragonfly wings or plastic that sings your name..."
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 11:42 AM
Larry's Hideaway Toronto - 1983 (or 1982, I don't recall) - It's the concert on the Murmurs re-issue.
Met them first at Records on Wheels on Yonge Street in '84 for a Reckoning autograph session. Loved Stipe's hair.
Met them first at Records on Wheels on Yonge Street in '84 for a Reckoning autograph session. Loved Stipe's hair.
Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams,
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 06:48 AM
A/S/L?
and what is your hair like?
and what is your hair like?
Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams,
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 06:20 PM
lizish said:
Larry's Hideaway Toronto - 1983 (or 1982, I don't recall) - It's the concert on the Murmurs re-issue.
Met them first at Records on Wheels on Yonge Street in '84 for a Reckoning autograph session. Loved Stipe's hair.
Met them first at Records on Wheels on Yonge Street in '84 for a Reckoning autograph session. Loved Stipe's hair.
My dad was at both of those. Small world.
FYI - The Larry's Hideaway gig was in 83. Too bad the actual club doesn't exist anymore. I think the building actually got torn down...
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 01:41 AM
1995 Milton keynes bowl Radiohead were there to !! I was 19 it was so hot all day & they played everybody hurts & Letmein as the sun set a wonderful gig !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 01:49 AM
Jan 26, 1995 Melbourne.
I wanted to see them in '89 in Adelaide, but I was broke - I was also socially awkward/incompetent and the idea of going to a gig terrified me, but I think I could have overcome the latter, but yeah...I was dirt poor and wasn't really expecting that we'd have to wait so long for another gig and that we'd only get two tours in the next 20 years. oh well.
I wanted to see them in '89 in Adelaide, but I was broke - I was also socially awkward/incompetent and the idea of going to a gig terrified me, but I think I could have overcome the latter, but yeah...I was dirt poor and wasn't really expecting that we'd have to wait so long for another gig and that we'd only get two tours in the next 20 years. oh well.
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 04:43 AM
musicbrain_5 said:
My dad was at both of those. Small world.
FYI - The Larry's Hideaway gig was in 83. Too bad the actual club doesn't exist anymore. I think the building actually got torn down...
FYI - The Larry's Hideaway gig was in 83. Too bad the actual club doesn't exist anymore. I think the building actually got torn down...
This does not make me feel old in any way. No not at all. Musicbrain - was your father also at the Canada's Wonderland and Masonic Temple shows in 84 and 85?
Think the Hideaway spot is still a vacant lot, although I'm having trouble remembering where exactly the place was even after going there a couple dozen times. I blame age and alcohol.
There is some stuff from that era still around - notably - Brian Taylor, the person who booked REM that night is the owner of Rotate This on Queen and Blue Fog records, the best label in Canada.
Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams,
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 06:14 AM
lizish said:
This does not make me feel old in any way. No not at all. Musicbrain - was your father also at the Canada's Wonderland and Masonic Temple shows in 84 and 85?
Think the Hideaway spot is still a vacant lot, although I'm having trouble remembering where exactly the place was even after going there a couple dozen times. I blame age and alcohol.
There is some stuff from that era still around - notably - Brian Taylor, the person who booked REM that night is the owner of Rotate This on Queen and Blue Fog records, the best label in Canada.
Think the Hideaway spot is still a vacant lot, although I'm having trouble remembering where exactly the place was even after going there a couple dozen times. I blame age and alcohol.
There is some stuff from that era still around - notably - Brian Taylor, the person who booked REM that night is the owner of Rotate This on Queen and Blue Fog records, the best label in Canada.
Not sure if he was at those shows as he was living in Ottawa for most of 85. He may have gone to some gigs there or in Montreal though.
Larry's Hideaway (according to Google) was at 121 Carlton Street, just one block away from Maple Leaf Gardens and around the corner from the Phoenix Concert Theatre, near Sherbourne Street. I know that the nightclub stopped operating in the mid 80's and it became a really seedy place (even worse than it was when it was a club, I think) where all the drug junkies hung out! The building is gone now and the lot is part of Allen Gardens, which has taken over that address (I think).
Rotate This is a record store, right? I've seen it but have never actually been inside. Next time I'm down in that area I'll have to check it out.
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 06:18 AM
lizish said:
A/S/L?
and what is your hair like?
and what is your hair like?
Bronze/Not too rough/In a gaddadavida... oh, and my hair likes the gentle caress of a woman's hand.
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Posted 15 July 2010 - 11:26 AM
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Not sure if he was at those shows as he was living in Ottawa for most of 85. He may have gone to some gigs there or in Montreal though.
Rotate This is a record store, right? I've seen it but have never actually been inside. Next time I'm down in that area I'll have to check it out.
Rotate This is a record store, right? I've seen it but have never actually been inside. Next time I'm down in that area I'll have to check it out.
I was at the Barrymore show in Ottawa in 85. It was a drunken mess. Got to 'hunker down' with Stipe on a hotel disco floor.
yeah Brian is the guy with the beard at the back of the store listening to vinyl. He needs to get an order of Canada for all that he's done for the arts in the country (seriously)
Kelly = Hawt.
Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams,
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
and the silence knows what your silence means,
and your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them)
are linked, like days, together.
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Posted 21 July 2010 - 07:03 AM
My first show was 17th July 1999 at the Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, UK. I waited 10 years to see them after becoming a fan from the first time I saw them on Top of the Pops performing Orange Crush in 1989. I'm not sure why I never made it to any of the 1995 shows but it was weird period in my life.
The band were on fire and Michael was his usual charming self, throwing a snippet of Suspicious minds into the middle of ITEOTWAWKI in a psudo Elvis Presley style.
Support was from Teenage fanclub, another of my favourite bands which made it one of the best gigs I've been too.
The band were on fire and Michael was his usual charming self, throwing a snippet of Suspicious minds into the middle of ITEOTWAWKI in a psudo Elvis Presley style.
Support was from Teenage fanclub, another of my favourite bands which made it one of the best gigs I've been too.
Michael Stipe on Fables of the Reconstruction;
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Posted 22 July 2010 - 06:57 PM
August 15, 1983 - opened for The Police.
First headlining show December 1985.
First headlining show December 1985.
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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:07 AM
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That was my first time too :) I was there with my oldest son. Pouring rain, thunder and lightning - what a night !
Hee, my dad wanted to leave when the first lightning flashed. :p I was not amenable to that suggestion.:p
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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:45 AM
August 9th, 1995, in Tel Aviv, with Radiohead as the opening act.
Here's the ticket for it :):
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It was brilliant.
Here's the ticket for it :):
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It was brilliant.
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Posted 24 July 2010 - 06:00 PM
My first time seeing the guys was a three night stand in Philadelphia on October 12, 13 and 14 1995. Three of the first greatest nights I ever had.:)
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Posted 24 July 2010 - 06:40 PM
Me too.
Sorry, St. Paul, 1999.
Sorry, St. Paul, 1999.
I'd like it here if I could leave and see it from a long way away
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Posted 25 October 2010 - 06:26 AM
Monster tour, Chapel Hill, NC show toward the end of the tour. The 2 times I've seen them since, Up tour and AtS they seemed a lot fresher and energetic.
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Scootre, on 25 October 2010 - 06:26 AM, said:
Monster tour, Chapel Hill, NC show toward the end of the tour. The 2 times I've seen them since, Up tour and AtS they seemed a lot fresher and energetic.
Though it wasn't my first R.E.M. concert, I was also at that show. I agree, they were still great live but somehow didn't seem to be firing on all cylinders. At least not like I'd seen them on previous tours for Green, Document and Life's Rich Pageant. In retrospect, I'm thinking maybe Bill Berry's heart just wasn't in it after his aneurysm.
My very first R.E.M. show was at Cameron Indoor Stadium on the campus of Duke University on November 15th, 1986 during the Pagentry tour. Let's Active opened. Since it was Mitch Easter's birthday, all of R.E.M. came out at the end of Let's Active's set to sit in on a cover of Hush (made famous by Deep Purple). At the end of R.E.M.'s set, Stipe stage dived into the crowd not once but twice. Security had just pulled him out of the crowd the first time when he turned tail and ran, diving right back into the audience. Screams coming from the crowd were at a fever pitch. That remains not just my favorite R.E.M. concert but one of my very favorite concerts ever.
The setlist courtesy of the invaluable R.E.M. Timeline website.
These Days
Harborcoat
Hyena
Time After Time (Annelise)
Maps And Legends
The One I Love
Feeling Gravitys Pull
The Flowers Of Guatemala
White Tornado
Driver 8
Tired Of Singing Trouble
I Believe
Swan Swan H
Seven Chinese Brothers
Superman
Can't Get There From Here
Pretty Persuasion
Auctioneer (Another Engine)
Little America
1st ENCORE
Fall On Me
Cuyahoga
Begin The Begin
2nd ENCORE
Finest Worksong
King Of Birds
Oddfellows Local 151
Born To Run
We Walk
Toys In The Attic
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
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Los Angeles, The Hollywood Bowl, 2008. Modest Mouse and the National opened.
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