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I know it’s credited solely to Mills, but Buck is all over it. Sounds like an R.E.M. demo!
I have not mastered the quote function…
I love the lyric lines… “It’s better to flash than boring instead” & “four on the floor was the sound of sedition…” I like some disco music of that era, and some annoyed me. Disco Inferno anyone? 
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I know nothing about baseball but love that the songs are all based on real baseball stories.
Can anyone help me out with the subject matter of 64 and 64? There’s a line that goes, “shot dead by Elliott Gould”. It’s making me look at Jack Geller in a whole new light…
Journeyman would fit in well on an REM record (particularly with the Mills harmonies). More of a story of a person than a baseball song per se.
This is what I’ve come up with, Elliott Gould played a character called Marlowe in the 1973 movie The Long Goodbye - “Kuhn said I was a bad guy, well, I was in the Long Goodbye
Ended up in a Mexican pool, shot dead by Elliot Gould”
I haven’t seen the movie, apparentely in the plot, Marlowe shoots Terry. Terry is character played by Jim Bouton who I believe was a renowned baseball player turned actor. Elliott Gould also likes sports.
I think the song is related to Jim Bouton.
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That’s fantastic! And plausible! Great work!
Jim Bouton wrote the first big tell-all about baseball, which made him a persona non grata. There are some slang terms in the song if I recall that we’re very controversial at the time.
Would love them to come to the UK, but don’t think it’s likely!
Uk tour would be cool. Ordered the vinyl of this hopefully arriving Monday. Sounds like REM from another dimension to me. Love it.
Looking forward to their tour kickoff in Birmingham. And wondering if Bill might be at the Athens show. And whether I should take more time off from work, drive to Athens, and catch that one, too.
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Been listening to the new album, very fun indeed.
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My copy came yesterday and it is great. Very reminiscent of mid period REM in places, in particular some bits of Out Of Time. Love it.
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Link from R.E.M. HQ - Mike’s interview with Wisconsin Public Radio on the eve of The Baseball Project’s upcoming tour.
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Great photos!
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Saw them last night in DC and had a lot of fun. Great show. Check them out if you can!
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I never associated not liking disco with racism or homophobia either. I actually thought disco music hijacked a lot of the ‘70s R&B music that I loved. The disco “scene” in my HS was mainly the richer or show-off kids who would go to the all-ages clubs. My friends and I were more into the rock & roll and just hanging out with each other and talking about the music we were listening to.
I moved to Chicago in the mid-80s. I heard of the Disco Demolition when it happened in ‘79, but when I moved to Chicago, everyone would still be talking about it around the anniversary. Steve & Garry were still on the air back then, and we listened to them every day at work. I still listen to Garry Meier’s podcast and sent him a link to the video.
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