Disc One
01 Finest Worksong
02 These Days
03 Welcome To The Occupation
04 Disturbance At The Heron House
05 Exhuming McCarthy
06 Orange Crush
07 Feeling Gravitys Pull
08 King Of Birds
09 Simple Gifts > I Believe
10 Maps And Legends
11 Driver 8
12 Superman
13 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
14 Oddfellows Local 151
15 It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
16 Begin The Begin
Disc Two
17 Strange > Rollers Show > Saturday Night
18 Pretty Persuasion
19 See No Evil
20 The Flowers Of Guatemala
21 Cuyahoga
22 Fall On Me
23 Harpers
24 The One I Love
25 Crazy
26 Pop Song 89
27 Just A Touch
28 After Hours
Night three of perhaps the most audacious stretch of consecutive shows in my concert-going career. Two nights earlier it was U2 at BC Place in Vancouver. The night before was R.E.M. in Oakland. The night after it was U2 again at the Oakland Coliseum outdoors.
A quick check of my ticket (see attached) and the seating chart confirms my memory that JEMS recorded this from the very last row, straight back from the stage but inline with the PA at this relatively small gym/fieldhouse. I'm sure I traded it a time or two back in the day as I was a fairly active R.E.M. trader, but I had always remembered it as a mediocre recording. What it lacks in closeness it makes up for in clarity as it sounded better than expected when I put it up on the Nakamichi CR-7A today.
This is an appealing show with a long encore that suggests the band was having fun. Michael is in particularly entertaining form.
Happy to make this our first contribution to the Work Tour 20th Anniversary effort.
Butterking for JEMS