Hey Steve D -

I was at that Summerfest show! I drove from LaCrosse
and Dream Syndicate were the openers. Great memory...I
had forgotten all of that or maybe I forgave them b/c
they played "Carnival of Sorts (BoxCars)" for the
encore.

Did you see the Merlyn's show or the Stock Pavillion
show in Madison? I missed both, but I have a boot of
the Merlyn's show and I heard about the Stock
Pavillion show so much in college that I felt like I
was there - I think every house party I went to had a
cassette of that show.

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Hey Stewart, 
 Sounds like you caught them live a bit before I did.
My question is 
what was Stipe like live. Like probably others on this
list I was very 
into REM early on but I did start with Murmer.  I was
in Madison, WI 
from 83 to 85.  I first saw REM at an outdoor show in
Milwaukee...I 
think it's called Summerfest. Anyway, I was very
excited to see them 
and it was great fun. But the hair to nearly his waist
Stipe had his 
back to the audience most of the time, with hand to
one ear to make 
sure he had JUST the right vocals and even layed on
the stage at one 
point. OK, even through my biased excitement I thought
this was a bit 
much. So, I believe less then a year later they played
in Madison. The 
long hair was gone and so to was the sullen, "artist"
persona. He was 
jumping around like a mad man and really playing up
the showmanship. It 
was a lot to get my head around at the time. 
So just wondering, which version did you get? 

Steve D

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