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[jwolpert]

It's probably gonna be a few years, but I hope that the box set of outtakes, unreleased songs and demos will see the light of day

I'd also love a live package. I specifically desire a live show from the UP tour and The Around the Sun tour - especially with a live version of Around the Sun, which is gorgeous. Maybe they will release some stuff via Rhino like Dylan's Bootleg series

By the way, if anyone has a good quality live show from the UP tour, please message me. I cannot burn so I would need actual CD and would be most appreciative

While I m extremely saddened that my favorite band is no more, I look forward to the eventual Box set (he says hopefully)....

[Driver Nate]

I would love to see them do something like Dylan's Bootleg series as well. From what I understand, they professionally recorded nearly every concert they ever played so there should be an ample amount of material to draw from in the vault.

[fanofrem]

Driver Nate, on 14 January 2012 - 10:04 AM, said:

I would love to see them do something like Dylan's Bootleg series as well. From what I understand, they professionally recorded nearly every concert they ever played so there should be an ample amount of material to draw from in the vault.

or they can do like pearl jam, release every show they have recorded. i hope they will release a big live box set, with unreleased live songs, not songs like country feedback, man on the moon etc. we don't need more live version of those songs.

[Driver Nate]

Only thing with some of those live shows is the amount of covers they used to do. To my knowledge none of the band members have ever spoken out about it but according to some, the reason some of the cuts were left off of the Murmur and Reckoning reissues might have been because of licensing issues. I'd really hate to see that happen if ever there is a live concert series from the R.E.M. vault as I would love to hear some of those covers.

[petruchio]

I saw shows with tons of covers and it would be a shame to release shows like that without them. Those shows went from good to fantastic becuase of the covers. I would be considerably less interested in any shows from the Reconstruction era that did not involve cover songs. I can still clearly remember audience members in Toronto 1985 looking at each other with this weird looks of "where the hell is this show going?" as they paraded out a blend of covers that people today find hard to believe R.E.M. could ever have played.

A bootleg series would be amazing though, they have been among the best releases of Dylan's career; why not R.E.M.'s?

[Driver Nate]

One of the most on the mark comments from the Replacements documentary I saw Thursday night was when someone referred to them as "the world's greatest cover band" in reference to the infamous fan made tape, When the Shit Hits the Fans which was comprised almost entirely of covers. Just imagine someone wanting to release a record like that today. Even when Zeppelin put out How the West Was Won several years ago it was all chopped up because so many of the covers had to be removed.

The Replacements When the Shit Hits the Fans

• "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (LLoyd Price)
  
• "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus" (Robyn Hitchcock)
  
• "Lovelines" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
  
• "I'll Be There" (Berry Gordy, Jr./Bob West/Hal Davis/Willie Hutch)
  
• "Sixteen Blue" (Westerberg)
  
• "Can't Hardly Wait" (Westerberg)
  
• "I Will Dare" (Westerberg)
  
• "Hear You Been to College" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
  
• "Saturday Night Special" (Ed King/Ronnie Van Zant)
  
• "Iron Man" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward)
  
• "Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones)
  
• "Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)
  
• "Can't Get Enough" (Mick Ralphs)
  
• "Jailbreak" (Phil Lynott)
  
• "Breakdown" (Tom Petty)
  
• "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" (Alvin Pleasant Carter)
  
• "Merry Go Round" (Nikki Sixx)
  
• "Left in the Dark" (Ken Draznik)
  
• "Takin' Care of Business" (Randy Bachman)
  
• "I Will Follow" (Hewson/Evans/Clayton/Mullen)
  
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Jagger/Richards)
  
• "Radio Free Europe" (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
  
• "The New World" (Cervenka/Nommensen Duchac)
  
• "Let It Be" (Lennon–McCartney)

[fanofrem]

Driver Nate, on 14 January 2012 - 10:49 AM, said:

Only thing with some of those live shows is the amount of covers they used to do. To my knowledge none of the band members have ever spoken out about it but according to some, the reason some of the cuts were left off of the Murmur and Reckoning reissues might have been because of licensing issues. I'd really hate to see that happen if ever there is a live concert series from the R.E.M. vault as I would love to hear some of those covers.

but they have released wichita lineman live from houston 1995 on bittersweet me single and love is all around live from rockline los angeles 1991 on radio song single

[patjoller]

and funtime on strange currencies

[Driver Nate]

I'm sure there are exceptions and as I said, to my knowledge none of the band members have stated publicly why the shows included on the Murmur and Reckoning reissues were edited. They may have entirely different reasons for that.

[Sweden]

Driver Nate, on 15 January 2012 - 08:03 AM, said:

I'm sure there are exceptions and as I said, to my knowledge none of the band members have stated publicly why the shows included on the Murmur and Reckoning reissues were edited. They may have entirely different reasons for that.

The reason was that the tracks on the releases came from the radio stations' archives of the actual broadcasts, not from any masters of the entire shows. For some reason most of the covers were left off the original broadcasts (there was still one cover per release, if you remember), and accordingly they simply had no full recordings to use. I remember a longtime trader mentioning that they had been approached by someone involved in the reissues, looking for more complete recordings.

[Driver Nate]

Thanks for clarifying.