By Alec Foege
06.29.95
Rolling Stone
“Hey there, you up on the lawn,” shouts R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe into the darkness from the mammoth stage. What sounds like a thunderclap returns almost instantaneously from the hilltop. The characteristically cool Stipe appears disoriented and briefly steps back from his microphone. Halfway through R.E.M.’s third sold-out show at the Shoreline Amphitheater [...]
By Ray Rogers
06.27.95
Out Magazine
Michael Stipe takes a short break from R.E.M.’s exhausting tour and the need to meed everybody’s agendas. Ray Rogers meeds the regular joe trying to balance the *Monster* persona
“You wanna see my scar?” Michael Stipe asks tugging his jeans down to bare it all for me
His underwearless abdomen reveals a shorn patch [...]
By Gary Graff
06.25.95
Orlando Sentinel
Someone at the backstage press conference asks the members of R.E.M. how they feel about the recent modern rock boom, the surge in attention for bands that couldn’t get radio play five years ago and how R.E.M. has helped bring about the change.
Basically, ”How does it feel to be considered such an [...]
By John Sakamoto
06.14.95
Toronto Sun
Trooping into the Molson Amphitheatre last night, even the most ardent R.E.M. fan must have been wondering what to expect from the band’s first Toronto show in six long years.
What with seats priced at a distinctly non-alternative $55, reports of Michael Stipe’s reliance on lyric sheets, and, of course, the ordeal endured [...]