R.E.M. - Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Pelham, AL, 9-5-1986
This concert first became available through Rob, who runs the dB's Repercussion music blog, at:
It's an excellent blog, I recommend you check it out. I've included Rob's original notes to the recording. That explains how it was recorded and got into his hands. The bottom line is this is a soundboard.
The only snag is that six songs are missing. Those include the first four songs: "These Days," "Begin the Begin," "1,000,000," and "The One I Love." Also missing are "Just a Touch" and "Femme Fatale" from the middle of the concert. (Specifically, they came after "Little America.")
This was the very first concert of the band's 1986 tour, which supported their recently released album "Lifes Rich Pageant," which had been released two months earlier. As a result, many of the songs were performed in public for the first time: "These Days," "Begin the Begin," "The One I Love," "Cuyahoga," "The Flowers of Guatemala," "I Believe," "Superman," "Strange," and "Lightnin' Hopkins." (Too bad that the first three of those aren't included here.) It's interesting that two of those songs, "The One I Love" and "Lightnin' Hopkins," wouldn't be released until the band's next album, "Document," in 1987.
Rob has this to say about this recording: "It is the finest-sounding 1986 live recording [from the band] now in circulation, and the first concert-length soundboard recording to emerge so far."
This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.
01 Cuyahoga
02 talk
03 Fall on Me
04 Shaking Through
05 The Flowers of Guatemala
06 Driver 8
07 talk
08 I Believe
09 talk
10 Swan Swan H
11 talk
12 Can't Get There from Here
13 7 Chinese Bros
14 talk
15 Superman
16 talk
17 Pretty Persuasion
18 Little America
19 Feeling Gravitys Pull
20 Strange
21 So. Central Rain [I'm Sorry]
22 Auctioneer [Another Engine]
23 Lightnin' Hopkins
24 Old Man Kensey
25 Life and How to Live It
26 talk
27 Time Was
28 Second Guessing
(all tracks R.E.M.)
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