| Identifier | 8389933 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | FLAC |
| Note | From master cassette |
| J-Card Comment | R.E.M. Maxwell’s, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA January 30, 1982 Audience Cassette Master >>> WAV SoundForge >>> Flac >>> Dime 1. Ages Of You 2. Catapult 3. Shaking Through 4. Gardening At Night 5. 9-9 6. Wind Out 7. Laughing 8. Romance 9. Sitting Still 10. Pretty Persuasion 11. Do You Remember? 12. 1,000,000 13. Wolves, Lower 14. Radio Free Europe Encore with Richard Barone 15. King Of The Road 16. There She Goes Again 17. Hunting 18. Stumble Berry, Buck, Mills & Stipe Sometimes a bit of pressure is the right medicine and the pesky folks who urged me to post this tape got the job done. I’ve reduced the recording to mono; the other microphone went into antennae mode on this night and I didn’t think any of you would want me to preserve the radio broadcast for “historic purposes.” I didn’t think this tape was going to be good enough to share, but I’ve enjoyed the digital transfer a couple times now. This was R.E.M.’s first show at Maxwell’s, but apparently they’d played in NYC the previous summer at The Ritz and the Mudd Club. There was quite a buzz about them in the rock underground by early-‘82. R.E.M. are a great bunch of guys, they were already friends with Hoboken’s Bongos and they accepted an immediate welcome as honorary Maxwell’s citizens. They played at Jim Fouratt’s Danceteria a few nights after this show and I think he was also trying to orchestrate a record deal with RCA… they recorded some demos the following week produced by Kurt Munkacsi. Jim pressed me to make a copy of this tape and I delivered it the next day. The stereo version sounded really crappy and I’m not sure what he wanted it for … maybe to familiarize the demo producer with their repertoire. The three R.E.M. shows I taped at Maxwell’s are all currently posted here on Dime and it’s interesting to listen to their evolution over fifteen months from 01/82 > 11/82 > 04/83. They tighten-up considerably and the audience reaction dials-up several levels. The only songs familiar to the crowd this night were Radio Free Europe and Sitting Still from the Hib-Tone single, which was in heavy rotation on the jukebox up front as well as the wheels of steel in the back room. R.E.M. was great, but the reaction to a lot of the songs was politely enthusiastic, the kind of applause many bands received. I’m sure there were people in the room that night who don’t remember seeing R.E.M. back 1982 today. The group’s stock rose considerably with the release of Chronic Town and you can hear the enthusiasm that greets those songs on the other two recordings. The artwork in this set is a flyer that I put together for the show… something I did when I was excited about an upcoming gig. I’d tape them up around Maxwell’s and maybe pop over to the local barber shop and liquor store to put one in their windows. I did it during my lunch hour... a 25-minute Xerox improvisation that I’ve always liked. I hope you enjoy the recording. Share freely and be polite about it… R.E.M. are a well-mannered bunch. * * * * * REM1982-01-30-track01.flac:5f22c7548e8b7e077e52a86d84bcef38 REM1982-01-30-track02.flac:ebcf798e9dee33d032b5047dc5a8ec62 REM1982-01-30-track03.flac:f8910bf6c4d472930337384ab2620dcb REM1982-01-30-track04.flac:78ddc578f4e62b71255aaa725ed1edbe REM1982-01-30-track05.flac:ba02092af8f62fd8f302432a2e6b88a5 REM1982-01-30-track06.flac:99c5aabe6eed21f33107a9195f6373cb REM1982-01-30-track07.flac:56d5ac23add82e2e0b74100b5fae1808 REM1982-01-30-track08.flac:b1dfd7657d58da012043eff54a2c6823 REM1982-01-30-track09.flac:341f327da7ed4f71c1668c871f4fb262 REM1982-01-30-track10.flac:7aa5797023000577de041b5e41d31832 REM1982-01-30-track11.flac:6133b670c973236d49e03a8e661d071b REM1982-01-30-track12.flac:c92b1c300a7f4f445b6d85a593e9efa4 REM1982-01-30-track13.flac:e81c2218fd52bb2a8f33ff20e9f3ef20 REM1982-01-30-track14.flac:195e1ab6464e49a61058bd4e41ed31d0 REM1982-01-30-track15.flac:2614bf40723777b473e5b1ac7ea6ce2b REM1982-01-30-track16.flac:3807adf0a01843233b144c8ebbd7d1b9 REM1982-01-30-track17.flac:3de9c905b36b529ca7b1241ff015fd32 REM1982-01-30-track18.flac:819bd859a1a5c2738f7ee5e54cda836e |
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| R.E.M. 1982-01-30 Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ | |
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| Set 1 | Ages Of You Catapult Shaking Through Gardening At Night 9-9 Wind Out Laughing Romance Sitting Still Pretty Persuasion Do You Remember? 1,000,000 Wolves, Lower Radio Free Europe King Of The Road There She Goes Again Hunting Stumble |
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