REM from the old days

[sunvalleylaw]

Back when my younger brother (who was still in high school) gave me some REM (Reckoning album), REM was reviewed as being "string oriented music" I guess because so much at the time had gone to synths, etc. Here is a nice live example of one of my favorites:

 

[Big_Rob]

A buddy of mine had his stock car on the back of one of their albums. I forget what the albums name was though.

 

[Ro3b]

I feel really privileged that I was in school in Athens, Ga. and coming into my own as a musician at the time when REM were first making it big. Athens was an incredible place in those days; everybody I knew was either an musician or a visual artist and there was music everywhere.

Another truly great band that Athens produced was Pylon. Here they are at their last show on December 1, 1983. I'm somewhere out there in the audience.