| Identifier | 9690230 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | FLAC |
| Media Count | 1 |
| Note | R.E.M.
November 26, 1981 First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, MN 01 Romance 02 Sitting Still 03 Mystery To Me 04 Carnival of Sorts 05 Ages of You 06 There She Goes Again 07 Pretty Persuasion 08 Stumble 09 Gardening At Night 10 9-9 11 Windout 12 That Beat 13 Wolves, Lower 14 White Tornado 15 Radio Free Europe 16 Skank notes from The Timeline: Set 1 is incomplete, probably missing the first six songs, as it seemed to be standard to play 10 songs per set. ***************************** From http://www.remtimeline.com: 26 November 1981 - First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, MN set 1: Romance / Sitting Still / Mystery To Me / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) set 2: Ages Of You / There She Goes Again / Pretty Persuasion / Stumble / Permanent Vacation / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / That Beat / Wolves, Lower encore: White Tornado / Radio Free Europe / Skank notes: Set 1 is incomplete, probably missing the first six songs, as it seemed to be standard to play 10 songs per set. From an interview by David Fricke with Peter Buck on 15 November 1990 taken from The Rolling Stone Files book (pg. 114): "Minneapolis was very good to us from the beginning. We played to twenty people on Thanksgiving 1981, and every one of them came up to us afterwards and invited us to their house for a party". From the tape I've heard I think he's accurate in his crowd count. Despite Peter's fond memories, there still seems to be a lot of heckling occurring through the show. During 'Mystery To Me' Michael adds 'Go home yourself!' and also 'Trying to look so cool/I Bet you think the Clash are really boss'. Before 'Permanent Vacation' he adds 'We ain't faggots, we're Georgians'. During '9-9', half the audience seems to invade the stage, and some person can be heard howling into the microphone. When the song is over, Michael can be heard to say 'who the fuck are you?'. After 'Windout' he then says 'if anyone else wants to dance on stage you have to ask first'. As if Skank wasn't an unusual song already, on this occasion Stipe's lyric consisted of the phrase 'The opposite of plethora is dearth' for the most of the song, but not before someone in the audience managed to scream into the microphone 'come to Ann Arbor, Michigan!'. In an interview a year later, Michael and Peter claimed that they accidentally hurtled themselves towards the drums, resulting in the drums, Bill, Michael and Peter all falling 10 feet off the stage onto 3 unsuspecting people, who being hardcore, loved it. Michael then claimed they stole Peter's shoes and made him sign them. Whether this is true, or something made up during a dull interview you can decide. Unless it happened before the show started being recorded, it isn't audible to my ears! Here's an intetresting article about the venue, and R.E.M.'s shows there: "Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the ’80s" http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9832-everybody-is-a-star-how-the-rock-club-first-avenue-made-minneapolis-the-center-of-music-in-the-80s/ |
| Source Info | SBD (please see notes) |
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Performance
| R.E.M. 1981-11-26 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN | |
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| Set 1 | Romance, Sitting Still, Mystery to Me, Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars), Ages of You, There She Goes Again, Pretty Persuasion, Stumble, Permanent Vacation, Gardening At Night, 9-9, Windout, That Beat, Wolves Lower, White Tornado, Radio Free Europe, Skank |
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