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They've Got Pretty Persuasion

June 14, 2008 10:31 AM

It's a lazy way to write a post, but I'm just going to point out some of the highlights of last night's R.E.M. show in Mansfield, MA, which is one of the most fun shows I've seen them play.

The highlight, easily, was seeing Johnny Marr play three songs with them during the encore. As he has been doing elsewhere, he came on to play "Fall on Me" and "Man on the Moon," but the crowd convinced the band that they needed to play one more song, so they went with "Pretty Persuasion" (one of the two songs, along with "Harborcoat" that I really wanted to hear last night). Michael Stipe started it off with "Johnny Marr, this is your life!" It was amusing to watch Peter Buck pointing out each chord change to Johnny through the song.
It's hat time - Mike Mills singing "Rockville." He did that last time they were in Mansfield, too.
Peter was using his Rickenbacker guitars much more than he has in recent years. He was even using them on songs for which he hasn't ever used them before, such as "What's the Frequency, Kenneth." He used at least three or four different ones, including some solid-body 620s that I've never seen on stage before.
The first two lines of "Cuyahoga" - "Let's put our heads together, start a new country up" - dedicated to Obama.
Hearing "Ignoreland," now a staple of this tour after having never been performed since it was recorded in 1992.
Mike having to give drummer Bill Rieflin cues when to end "Maps and Legends" - they said that they haven't played it in a while.
I don't think the guitars on "Fall on Me" have ever sounded better than when Johnny Marr is adding his arpeggios against Peter's. It's one of my favorite songs that was made even better.
Six songs that I've never heard them play before - "Circus Envy," "Maps and Legends," "Pretty Persuasion," "West of the Fields," "Hollow Man," and "Ignoreland."

Check out coverage of the show on the band's tour page.

My pictures of the show on Flickr.

Some of my videos on YouTube.

And it's time to do it all over again tonight at Jones Beach. I hope that those pictures turn out even better, now that I've figured out this camera.

Update: Bradley's Almanac has MP3s of the show posted. Go get 'em.

#remtweet

Jerad posted this in Live | Comments (15)

Comments

What a show.

And you hit pretty much all the points I was going to mention... I should just cut and paste your post to save myself a bunch of time. ;-)

(time that would be far better spent editing the fantastic recording)

I've got some pics here...

http://flickr.com/photos/bsearles/sets/72157605610179669/

Posted by: Brad at June 14, 2008 11:17 AM

Feel free to steal whatever you want if it means that you'll get the recording out more quickly. It's always great to come home to find that a Brad Recording exists of the concert you just saw!

Posted by: Jerad at June 14, 2008 11:28 AM

Amazing show, easily one of the best I've ever seen. I have a couple videos that I'll upload over the next couple days & tag for the tour page (Stipe's robot dance in "Kenneth," a big chunk of "I'm Gonna DJ")

I loved your write up too, I'm not sure I can fully articulate how gleeful I feel after that.

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