[CHOUT]

The merlyn's 82 madison show is quite awesome too - didn't see it on your list. Also have the Smokin' in the boys room and We're having a heavenly time boot lps. Also a cover compilation that's awesome. Oh, and the Green Tour show where they play Green and Murmur in sequence. I'm sure I have a few things you may want is my point. I'll try and find my bootlist tonight.

[atari 2600]

I have We're having a Heavenly time & I think We're having a wonderful time...Merlyn's sounds like the ticket!
I have Smokin' in the Boy's Room by its other title, Rising. It's a really good show at Larry's Hideaway.

It's crazy how we keep having different titled boots of the same shows here.

Originally Posted by CHOUT

haha, I haven't read his page in a while. I disagree with much of his reviews, but they're pretty amusing.

Best case: The guy doesn' t know jack about early R.E.M. and mainly knows them through their mediocre Warner Bros. catalog.

Worst Case: He's a total fraud as a music reviewer for not undeniably recognizing that the show simply sizzles.

[atari 2600]

1/22/82 Greensboro, NC File Under Kudzu at a Friday's restaurant & bar, no less, is another really good early one that finds them playing mostly Chronic Town and Murmur material.

I've begun ripping that disc and will have a link for you by sometime tomorrow.

[CHOUT]

yeah, I got that one. listened to it recently. i used to have a tape trading page and got a bunch of primo rem boots from this dude in canada. There's a great meshing of Stumble and Skank on the Merlyns show.

[CHOUT]

Oh you may appreciate this:

We played a show on tuesday and the man who did our sound has been doing sound a First Avenue/7th street entry since the early 80's.

He told me he was at the first show REM played there and wanted his Radio Free Europe single signed. He went up to Peter Buck to ask for his autograph on it who in turn recognized him from his band and asked for his autograph before he had a chance to ask for Peters. I thought that was pretty cool.

[atari 2600]

People say he's very sociable and affable. Cool story.

Did you ever see the Pete Buck comics that Jack Logan did?

Jack Logan became a singer/songwriter after that and has a good stripped-down 2-cd album called "Bulk" among other releases. He's a great guy.

[CHOUT]

Yeah, I've seen pics of the comics, but never read them. I used to have Bulk. I have a really good Jack Logan 7" that was released on a label here a long time ago.

[CHOUT]

REM have a lot of ties to the Police I've noticed. Bill and Mike were in a punk band before REM with Stewart Copeland's brother Ian when he lived in Macon. I hoped a boot would surface of them when they opened for The Police in Atlanta in 80.

[atari 2600]

Jack Logan shared his drugs with a complete stranger...me. I was with someone that went to high school with him at the time though. After that, he was always really cool when I'd go to his shows.

You know, this is no bullshit, but the in the review that Prindle writes he mentions a TDK cassette, & I swear to you that the So Much Younger Then I had was on a TDK cassette. Side 2 also had some stuff from an '81 show at Georgia Tech. I copied the cassette from someone's records. In an homage to the "Mine" & "Yours" sides, I titled the sides "ASide" & "BeSide," and the side labels were printed with an electronic typewriter ai used to have. This tape was stolen from me by a guy that moved to Washington, D.C. Do you know if Prindle is by any chance in D.C.? If he is, he has my old cassette.

What's worse is that the jerk doesn't even appreciate the music.

[atari 2600]

Oh, more stories here. I hung out with Mitch Mills, Mike's younger brother, who is immensely talented as well, (he later played in Atlanta band Three Doors Down, not to be confused with Three Walls Down) one weekend in Statesboro when he was visiting this total madman I used to know named Tom G (last name removed). A few months after that, Tom and he and my girlfriend and I went boating together down in the Georgia Marshes in Glynn County near Brunswick. That weekend was the first time I ever saw cocaine in the flesh, although neither I or my girlfriend did any of it.

Years later, I was doing it in the Ga. Bar after hours with Mike, Michael and the bar owner.

[CHOUT]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Jack Logan shared his drugs with a complete stranger...me. I was with someone that went to high school with him at the time though. After that, he was always really cool when I'd go to his shows.

You know, this is no bullshit, but the in the review that Prindle writes he mentions a TDK cassette, a I swear to you that the So Much Younger Then I had was on a TDK cassette. Side 2 also had some stuff from an '81 show at Georgia Tech. I copied the cassette from someone's records. In an homage to the "Mine" & "Yours" sides, I titled the sides "ASide" & "BeSide," and this tape was stolen from me by a guy that moved to Washington, D.C. Do you know if Prindle is by any chance in D.C.? If he is, he has my old cassette.

He's on the east coast Im pretty sure. It's possible!

[CHOUT]

Alsex's girlfriend went to college in athens, and told me there were some unflattering things written about Mike Mills in the ladie's room at the 40 Watt!

[atari 2600]

I knew this girl that went home with him. Her name is Robin. She was married to a friend of mine (at that time) named Jeff Stoner, but everyone called him Stoner like it was his first name.

Anyhow, while their marriage was on the rocks, she went home with Mike after the bars one night after being plied with coke. So, she gets to his place, plops on the couch in front of the table with the rails, and Mike excuses himself to "slip into something more comfortable" (like he's a starlet or something hehe). She's sitting there and patiently waiting for him to return, wanting to do some of the stuff, but being polite and counting the moments until he comes back. Mike comes back wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. She says she thanked him, left right then and there and walked to a payphone to call a cab home.

haha

[CHOUT]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

I knew this girl that went home with him. Her name is Robin. She was married to a friend of mine (at that time) named Jeff Stoner, but everyone called him Stoner like it was his first name.

Anyhow, while their marriage was on the rocks, she went home with Mike after the bars one night after being plied with coke. So, she gets to his place, plops on the couch in front of the table with the rails, and Mike excuses himself to "slip into something more comfortable" (like he's a starlet or something hehe). She's sitting there and patiently waiting for him to return, wanting to do some of the stuff, but being polite and counting the moments until he comes back. Mike comes back wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. She says she thanked him, left right then and there and walked to a payphone to call a cab home.

haha

Are you trying to ruin my love of REM? haha. that's pretty funny.

[atari 2600]

Those "unflattering things" on the wall at the 40 watt she read were, I'm guessing, about his size. Thing is, he probably had little hanging because he's a huge cokehead and the rumor grew from there most likely.

shrinkage

[CHOUT]

no, it had to do something with his groin area though. never knew he was a cokehead.

[atari 2600]

They all are or at least were. Like I mentioned, I've witnessed it myself with Michael & Mike. I've never seen Bill or Peter do it, but it's a known thing. I once went to a party in a house where they used to hang out and they told me stories. Mills has a hair weave. The rumor is that Stipe is now into strange bloodletting and paganism actually after falling into a weird crowd out in L.A.

I'm sure he's still out at The Globe bar nearly every night when he's in town like he used to, and he still has the house in Athens and spends a good bit of the year there, as far as I know, although I haven't been in Athens since 2000 and I didn't ask Andrew Reiger about that when I saw him last time. I really should send him an e-mail because it's been too long.

That link only has about an hour left.

[krastian]

Gotta love the picture they used for the covers....my friend picked up the DVD and he said it was great as well. I'm not in a hurry to pick up the cd because I have most of that action on there like you guys as well. I have that 1980 40 Watt Club boot too.....great shit. I only have like 7 of their boots, but am always on the prow for more. I registered on murmurs.com a few months ago, but have never posted there.....the madness here is more than enough for me. REM is easily in my top 5 favorite bands ever......their music gets me right in the gut.

Ha ha.....Mike rules.

[krastian]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

The rumor is that Stipe is now into strange bloodletting and paganism actually after falling into a weird crowd out in L.A.

Oh Christ.

[atari 2600]

Well, he's always been heavy into alchemy. It's in a lot of their lyrics.

I registered there too a long while ago, but only posted a few times.
Like I mentioned before, there's now a torrent tracker over there, where shows that don't make it to dime (right away at least) are seeded.