ninetynights: nights 30 &31

In nights 30 & 31 we enter the studio again.
in the first clip you can hear the band talking about "houston", which seems to be a song the guys decided to give a lot of attention (production wise). check out what mr. Eric Zimmermann had to say about the song (+ partial lyrics) here:
http://remring.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=352&Itemid=36
night 31 offers a peek at mr. mike mills playing electric guitar for "Horse to water": you can hear the whole mix on the remhq front page

ninetynights: night 29

Michael stipe is listening to what seems to be a studio version of the song "Accelerate".
now, about today's clip there's one good thing and one bad:
-the good one: the song sounds absolutely faithful to the olympia live version; the only difference you note is that Peter is playing some more notes in the guitar outro
-the bad one: the song is not yet properly released

side note: we've had a hint of (almost) all the new songs, with some exceptions, via ninetynights and remhq

north american tour

tour dates for north america announced:
http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=662
european dates plus additional american dates to follow.

side note: on the main page of remhq, you can hear a snippet of the backing track for "Horse to water", with unconventional lyrics sung by mr. Mike Mills. a very fast track, with 3 guitars in the mix. and none of them is an acoustic one

ninetynights: night 28

this is the Olympia night 4 version of "Accelerate". the song is one of the best (maybe the best) of those played in Dublin in 2007. now it's only a matter of production. btw you have to be a really incompetent producer to ruin the song. which is not Jacknife Lee's case

ninetynights: night 27

Mr. Peter Buck talks about music in general, downloads and physical releases, r.e.m.'s new material. he's quite cool with those glasses on

opening acts

the next r.e.m. tour will see opening acts by "The National" and "Modest Mouse", according to this article:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s2143945.htm
if it turns out to be true (which at this stage I think is very likely) this is such a good news

ninetynights: night 26

this is a little snippet of what Michael had to say in night 4 of the Dublin rehearsals.
as a fan, I probably listened to those words around a million times, just after track 2 (sdtbotmd) of the cd I burned with all the new song played live in Dublin. the thing is, looking at Michael's face while saying those words to the crowd makes you wondering how long does it take to listen to Accelerate. too much, no doubt