R.E.M.
Bren Events Center, UC Irvine
Irvine, CA
November 14, 1987
Soundboard Master + JEMS Master Audience Patches

JEMS Transfer: Soundboard Master Cassette > Nakamichi RX-505 azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 3.1 capture > iZotope RX10 Advanced and Ozone 9 > FLAC

JEMS Audience Source: Sony ECM 939 mic > Sony Walkman D6C recorder > Master Cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A transfer > Gentle JEMS Remaster via TC Finalizer > Peak 5.2 > FLAC > iZotope RX > .wav

01 Finest Worksong
02 These Days
03 Welcome To The Occupation
04 Disturbance At The Heron House
05 Exhuming McCarthy
06 Orange Crush
07 Feeling Gravitys Pull
08 King Of Birds
09 Simple Gifts > I Believe
10 Maps And Legends
11 Driver 8
12 Superman
13 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
14 Oddfellows Local 151
15 It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
16 Begin The Begin
17 Strange > Rollers Show > Saturday Night
18 Pretty Persuasion
19 See No Evil
20 The Flowers Of Guatemala (aud)
21 Cuyahoga (aud)
22 Fall On Me (aud)
23 Dark Globe (aud to sdbd)
24 Harpers (sdbd)
25 The One I Love (sdbd)
26 Crazy (sdbd > aud)
27 Pop Song 89 (aud)
28 Just A Touch (aud)
29 After Hours (aud)

One of the best moments in our hobby comes when you find a soundboard recording of a show you attended, especially one from the distant past. As I wrote long ago in the notes for the JEMS audience tape of this show, R.E.M. Irvine was night three in the most audacious stretch of consecutive gigs in my concert-going career. Two nights earlier, I took in U2 at BC Place in Vancouver. The night before, I was at the R.E.M. show in Oakland. The night after, it was U2 again, outdoors at the Oakland Coliseum.
R.E.M. was out on the Work Tour supporting their fifth album, Document, and for reasons unknown the routing skipped the Northwest entirely. JEMS pal Alison and I flew to Oakland, then drove to Irvine for this show, which I recorded from the very last row of the room, straight back from the stage.

Fast-forward 39 years, and I�m presented with the opportunity to obtain the soundboard cassette master for the Irvine date. As a single 90-minute tape, I knew it would be missing parts of the show, and it was � omitting a chunk of the encore, which we�ve filled in with the JEMS audience recording.

Like many soundboard sources, the bass and other low-end fidelity were lacking, and we went to more extreme measures than usual to restore them. There are times when it sounds right, others when it sounds a little off, but once you tune into this recording�s particular sonic signature, you�ll enjoy it. Samples provided. The audience portions are noted above and have been tweaked to complement the board tape.

Thanks to all the folks who helped JEMS obtain this rare recording, to Professor Goody for guiding us on pitch, and to mjk5510 for correcting my comping errors.

BK for JEMS