r.e.m. & m.m. @ r.r.

Left work early tuesday to head to red rocks with steph for the sold out r.e.m. & modest mouse show. We got there pretty early and had a little tailgate going when lauren, renn, and a couple of their friends joined us. The forecast had been predicting rain, but luckily we were in the clear all night.



The opener, The National, was decent enough, but entirely forgettable. Modest Mouse ran through a solid, albeit too short, set focusing mostly on material from the last two albums but threw in a few oldies for good measure, notably 'trucker's atlas' since it names drops good 'ol c-rado and all.

set:
Satin In A Coffin
The View
Dashboard
Fire It Up
Trucker's Atlas
Wild Packs Of Family Dogs
Paper Thin Walls
Education
Black Cadillacs
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Spitting Venom

R.E.M. hit the stage running and never let up the whole show. Playing songs off almost every album, Michael et al treated us to just under two hours of fine showmanship. Perhaps notable is their new touring drummer, Bill Rieflin, who is best known for his work as the drummer for Ministry alongside Martin Atkins back in their heyday. I was stoked because of the generous portion of material served up from Life's Rich Pageant as well as a couple of other of my perennial faves such as 'Welcome to the Occupation' & 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'. They also played most of the new disc with the unfortunate exception of 'Mr Richards'. The stage was comprised of LED lighting backdrops, and when the large panels featured below didn't look like a mutated Black Flag logo, they displayed assorted relevant images interspersed with live shots of the band and crowd. Sign the papers, stamp the ribbon:



set:
Living Well is the Best Revenge
What’s the Frequency Kenneth?
Welcome To the Occupation
Ignoreland
Man-Sized Wreath
World Leader Pretend
Accelerate
Cuyahoga
The Hollow Man
Walk Unafraid
Houston
Electrolite
The One I Love
Feeling Gravity’s Pull
Departure
The Final Straw
I’ve Been High
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
I’m Gonna DJ
Encore:
Supernatural Superserious
These Days
Losing My Religion
Fall On Me
Man on the Moon