Mar 13, 2017
The jangle, the murmur, the pulse and the passion. Between 1980 and 2011 a kinetic, iconoclastic quartet from the Deep South reshaped American rock and roll. They were REM. Melodic but visceral. Ever-shifting but consistently excellent. Their bass player and harmony vocalist Mike Mills is my guest. The occasion for this special edition of The String is the 25th anniversary of the album that elevated REM from an extremely popular and respected alternative rock band to global superstars. 1991's Out Of Time. Mills and I spoke before a live audience at Nashville's City Winery. The event was arranged by speaker series Who Knew. And toward the end of the show, I found some time machine tape that will let us here the other member of REM, including lead singer Michael Stipe, talking about music making in 1989.