Agree completely -- Berry never did anything too fancy, but he did exactly what was needed at just the right moment, with the perfect blend of power & finesse.
I saw them around this time...it may have been in 82. NO ONE knew who they were except college radio. I was hooked on the first inhale...they played in a total dive/pisssant club..no one was really even listening excepet for about 20 of us. I'm 45 now, and consider myself blessed to see REM, the last show of Kansas, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the Mills Brothers before they started to die off. This album made the hair on the back of my neck stand up---it was SO original and still is.
the Capitol in Passaic sure had all the big boys come through back in the day.. good to remember back.... saw the dead there and they loved that place..
So god told Michael Stipe if he continued to wear his hair like this then he would do something 'bout it. . . . I saw them on this the Reckoning tour @ the Hollywood Palladium. Stipe did entire show on a bar stool cuz a shark bit his leg. No second guitar player just the for of them. Mike Mills wore a James Dean t-shirt and they premiered Driver 8 that night. That show should have been recorded and released.
R.E.M. is just great period. I really liked the accelerate tour because they played alot of older stuff. IRS years were flat out awesome but you've got to give credit to their more recent work too.
I agree those were the great years. I like the IRS stuff the best and the newer stuff is alright. I think back then it was more about the music and not so much money and fame.
This was when they mattered like a shot in the dark, before all the dumb idolatory that has ruined them since Document. Pure Athens noise and nonsense and a texture they've never recaptured.
With all the tunes they wrote from 1988-2005, they'll never be able to play shows like this. It would be a good crowd pleaser (giggidy), though - All I.R.S. music.
Oh man, I'd pay a month's salary to see songs from their first 4 albums--3, preferably. But, alas, not enough agree with us. I saw them last year, and everyone around me was yelling for "Man on the Moon" throughout the concert (including during "Pretty Persuasion"!!).
anybody who saw soem live shows in teh early and mid 80's could attest to how powerful, moody and exhillarating they were. You'd leave the show buzzing (and not because of hebs). Every show was different and had a different vibe.
My favorite live REM performance. No doubt about it.
It's sad to listen to their 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance of this song and compare it to this one. It's just so clear that this band no longer has anything to say and is going through the motions.
Hard to explain it's bullshit without recalling memories of their new powerful tour-been to show in Prague.
Well, R'n'R Hall of Fame 'Gardening' was more accurate and more serious, surely according to THE rank of the show. Yet, much slower, no questions as they play with Bill who departed 10 years before. whew.
"We ankled up the garbage sound/but they were busy in the rows "
I could barely understand the lyrics of this song when I heard it the first times. English is not my first language. But in any case it actually reminded me soundly of gardening at night, when I had to get through all these wet bushes, at night.
Holy crap this is another really good version of Gardening at Night. One of their best songs ever. I wonder if many of their older songs were re-released as new today if they would become monster hits. I bet they would.
Capital Theatre, Passaic NJ - remember it well, I think the had played the Beacon in NYC a few nights before as well. Check out my rock art video - peace!
Thank you so much for putting up this show- REM at their youthful best - but compare with Gardening at Night from the 2007 Hall of Fame performance, and Michael's smile about 2 minutes in when he sees someone in the audience - same song but a generation apart - both wonderful in their own way.
I was at this show. As i recall the Killkenny cats (or some other Athens band) were playing Maxwell's in Hoboken that same night, where we all went after this show was over. WOW, where in the wide world did you find this/
You don't happen to have the audio 20th century boys Vols. I & II do you? Recorded live at Stitchcraft and nothing but drunken covers of "I got you babe" & "Sweet Jane" it was a hell of a night, what I can recall, that is.
Stipe and Buck wrote this song after they dragged an old mattress onto the lawn outside the church they lived in. The change they had fell out of their pockets and that very short moment made it into this song. See the CD liner notes from "And I feel Fine."
Buck in an interview also said there was an older man in his neighborhood who used to mess around in his (back yard)garden late at night and taht was the inspiration, but who knows for sure. Said it was a metaphor for the uselessness of everything.
Agree completely -- Berry never did anything too fancy, but he did exactly what was needed at just the right moment, with the perfect blend of power & finesse.
jwjimmystixx 3 months ago
this was my very 1st R.E.M. show. I can't believe i watching this!! Thank you for sharing!!
photoleon100 3 months ago
Thanks for posting this show...REM at the start...first few albums playing in front of 100s versus 1000s.
What is the source of this? I have seen a lot of great vids from
passiac...late 70s early 80s... Van Morrison, REM, Many others too...
Were concerts filmed by the venue?
Curious.
gtrrobster 5 months ago
Simply Classic!
ih8ku4u2 7 months ago
Best R.E.M. song ever.
bigtrukdon 11 months ago
mike mills is such a badass.
mattaki 1 year ago
Hey Chout..... I Remember YOU being one of the first to put up these great Rem gems from Passaic.....Just wanted to say thanks....again
Pianoman
pianoman9494 1 year ago
I saw them around this time...it may have been in 82. NO ONE knew who they were except college radio. I was hooked on the first inhale...they played in a total dive/pisssant club..no one was really even listening excepet for about 20 of us. I'm 45 now, and consider myself blessed to see REM, the last show of Kansas, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the Mills Brothers before they started to die off. This album made the hair on the back of my neck stand up---it was SO original and still is.
debbiechickie5 1 year ago 2
fucking amazing i give a lot to go back then i past and saw them showing off;)
mithrilmgg 1 year ago
love this song
devildude220 1 year ago
the Capitol in Passaic sure had all the big boys come through back in the day.. good to remember back.... saw the dead there and they loved that place..
onetimer219 2 years ago
they said it couln't be arranged..
onetimer219 2 years ago
Happy Birthday Mikey!!
warholboy 2 years ago
So god told Michael Stipe if he continued to wear his hair like this then he would do something 'bout it. . . . I saw them on this the Reckoning tour @ the Hollywood Palladium. Stipe did entire show on a bar stool cuz a shark bit his leg. No second guitar player just the for of them. Mike Mills wore a James Dean t-shirt and they premiered Driver 8 that night. That show should have been recorded and released.
angelangel3000 2 years ago
A Shark bit his leg!?
tarstarkascarthoris 2 years ago
Mike Mills is one of the most "under recognized" great bass player's in rock I think. I love his playing. Very solid always!
geridg 2 years ago 5
when this show was played, I was shaking the cobwebs from my 7-year-old eyes. great performance though. :)
everythingafter 2 years ago
a great USA band esp. with bill
TheNance999 2 years ago
I had this tape in the deck of my car for about six months, then replaced it with murmur. and then with out of time. and on, and on, and on....
mac4389 2 years ago 3
thats what i do every month i cahnge the rem cd =) its document the now
xXRBRT4Xx 2 years ago
wow....exxxxxciting!
craigperloff 2 years ago
I LOVE THIS EP, and the first 3 albums. I liked the rest, but I looooooved this stuff!!
allanosterm 2 years ago
I had tickets to see them on this tour in Chicago, but my parents made me deliver pizzas instead. FUCK!!!!!!!!
allanosterm 2 years ago
i guess, remnicolas. but nothing is better than the irs years!accelerate was great!
punzelove 2 years ago
R.E.M. is just great period. I really liked the accelerate tour because they played alot of older stuff. IRS years were flat out awesome but you've got to give credit to their more recent work too.
remnicolas 2 years ago 2
I agree those were the great years. I like the IRS stuff the best and the newer stuff is alright. I think back then it was more about the music and not so much money and fame.
IrishEyedBlue 3 years ago
This was when they mattered like a shot in the dark, before all the dumb idolatory that has ruined them since Document. Pure Athens noise and nonsense and a texture they've never recaptured.
molloyx 3 years ago
With all the tunes they wrote from 1988-2005, they'll never be able to play shows like this. It would be a good crowd pleaser (giggidy), though - All I.R.S. music.
ChristianAce793 3 years ago
Oh man, I'd pay a month's salary to see songs from their first 4 albums--3, preferably. But, alas, not enough agree with us. I saw them last year, and everyone around me was yelling for "Man on the Moon" throughout the concert (including during "Pretty Persuasion"!!).
ord1711 3 years ago
Did we "Poetic Texture" or "Anal Taxiderdermy" together?
AUS10TEX 3 years ago
I here your passion, man, and I agree, They probably won't recapture that era again, but Monster and Automatic are pretty great, imo.
everythingafter 3 years ago
saw them 10/1984 on this tour. one of my favorite tours after all these years. they were so far ahead of everyone else.
crimsonwhite1 3 years ago
anybody who saw soem live shows in teh early and mid 80's could attest to how powerful, moody and exhillarating they were. You'd leave the show buzzing (and not because of hebs). Every show was different and had a different vibe.
JLDB1987 3 years ago
Bill added a lot
JLDB1987 3 years ago
This is the best shit ever.
translinguistic 3 years ago 4
My favorite live REM performance. No doubt about it.
It's sad to listen to their 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance of this song and compare it to this one. It's just so clear that this band no longer has anything to say and is going through the motions.
I wish I felt differently.
altroval 3 years ago
Surely you jest !
glidodgers 3 years ago
All wrong on Induction, my friend.
Hard to explain it's bullshit without recalling memories of their new powerful tour-been to show in Prague.
Well, R'n'R Hall of Fame 'Gardening' was more accurate and more serious, surely according to THE rank of the show. Yet, much slower, no questions as they play with Bill who departed 10 years before. whew.
qba5775 3 years ago
"We ankled up the garbage sound/but they were busy in the rows "
I could barely understand the lyrics of this song when I heard it the first times. English is not my first language. But in any case it actually reminded me soundly of gardening at night, when I had to get through all these wet bushes, at night.
gaarias8 3 years ago
gotta love the meandering and sometimes strained quality of his vocals
thanks REMchout
citehman 4 years ago 2
Holy crap this is another really good version of Gardening at Night. One of their best songs ever. I wonder if many of their older songs were re-released as new today if they would become monster hits. I bet they would.
Orkomagic 4 years ago 4
DAMN Wasn't Bill Berry the finest power?? REM's Heartbeat lost, just replaced by that looser Rieflin now. Miss you, Unibrows!!!
Thank you, Chout.
qba5775 4 years ago 11
Bill Berry was the best...just isn't the same without him. Still love them dearly, but they are without a guy you just can't replace. Very sad.
omddeb 3 years ago
@qba5775: a very very under-rated drummer. And one of my favourites.
MusicalElitist1 1 month ago
Capital Theatre, Passaic NJ - remember it well, I think the had played the Beacon in NYC a few nights before as well. Check out my rock art video - peace!
hiwaymanx 4 years ago
Thank you so much for putting up this show- REM at their youthful best - but compare with Gardening at Night from the 2007 Hall of Fame performance, and Michael's smile about 2 minutes in when he sees someone in the audience - same song but a generation apart - both wonderful in their own way.
Stipegroupie 4 years ago 3
I love Peter's jingle-jangle guitarwork.
robin14669 4 years ago 4
Is that the same Guitar Buck played in their version of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007?
Awesome, REM rules!!
darcyUSA21 4 years ago
Thanks for sharing this video, I found it through a search for gardening!
grenthum 4 years ago 4
proof the internet is an amazingly random power sometimes!
REMchout 4 years ago 3
Magic! Simply magic!
searing75 4 years ago
4 guys that did not know shit about music and they saved it from whithsnake.
AUS10TEX 4 years ago 14
Ist das geil? IS THAT AWESOME? WOoooohoooo! These gyus rock damn!
Milchverkaeufer 4 years ago 3
they look so young and full of beans! thanks!
ripelivejam 4 years ago
I have goosebumps. no kidding. they are so cool.
pinkpilljill 4 years ago
Bill Berry forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
opaquiosq 4 years ago
Amen :D
stipe5225 4 years ago
Michael Stipe is Jim Morrison after attending one too many Lilith Fairs, but what the hell... HE RULES!!! A power trio in every sense of the word.
hjorgan67 4 years ago
Um, power quartet that is... watching one too many Rush videos!
hjorgan67 4 years ago
oh my gosh, I've been looking for this show forever. THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
SpaceCadetCira 4 years ago
As close to perfect as a song can ever be. Beautiful; fragile; innocent; powerful,and a simple expression of raw energy!!!
hotelboybyproxy 4 years ago
I was at this show. As i recall the Killkenny cats (or some other Athens band) were playing Maxwell's in Hoboken that same night, where we all went after this show was over. WOW, where in the wide world did you find this/
You don't happen to have the audio 20th century boys Vols. I & II do you? Recorded live at Stitchcraft and nothing but drunken covers of "I got you babe" & "Sweet Jane" it was a hell of a night, what I can recall, that is.
Thanks again, muchly!!!
lumbee100 4 years ago
I think I have 20th Century Boys on a cassette somewhere...I know I have that Stitchcraft show.
REMchout 4 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this chestnut!
lumbee100 4 years ago
This was when REM were the best band in the world - only The Smiths could even compare.
chrismoff17 4 years ago
This is the REM I love!!! RAW!!
lock4347 4 years ago
Awesome. Simply fookin' AWESOME.
Where does this show exist? I'd kill for a copy.
snidelywhiplash 4 years ago
whoever the totally god like person that put all this on here has a place in nirvana if my opinion has any say in the matter
ddoublled 4 years ago
Gee, why thanks! I'm blushing...glad you likey!
REMchout 4 years ago
Stipe and Buck wrote this song after they dragged an old mattress onto the lawn outside the church they lived in. The change they had fell out of their pockets and that very short moment made it into this song. See the CD liner notes from "And I feel Fine."
Ruda59 4 years ago
Buck in an interview also said there was an older man in his neighborhood who used to mess around in his (back yard)garden late at night and taht was the inspiration, but who knows for sure. Said it was a metaphor for the uselessness of everything.
FMRbenzo 4 years ago
thank you!!!!
alauri 4 years ago