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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Lynne Thompson 06.08.95 Scene Magazine Thanks to Donna Salsbury for this article. Published accounts made it sound like a reason for R.E.M. fans to celebrate. Drummer Bill Berry, fully recuperated from the brain aneurysm and subsequent surgery that halted the band’s world tour last March, was behind his drum kit once again on May [...]