Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy are currently on the road performing R.E.M.'s 1985 album Fables Of The Reconstruction in its entirety, about a year after they wrapped up a tour covering the band's Murmur. On that first tour, during Shannon and Narducy's show in R.E.M.'s Athens, Georgia hometown, they somehow got all four members of R.E.M. onstage with them, resulting in their first reunion in 17 years. Shannon and Narducy played in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night, and R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and their touring guitarist Scott McCaughey once again hopped on stage with them.
Not only have Shannon and Narducy been performing Fables front to back, they've been doing a bunch of other R.E.M. songs as well as a few covers of other artists. As BrooklynVegan points out, Buck came onstage near the latter half of the two-hour-long set to do "Crazy" by fellow Athens band Pylon; McCaughey came on stage a few songs later. They did a bunch of songs from 1984's Reckoning. Then for the final song, opening act Dave Hill also joined to do a cover of Aerosmith's "Toys In The Attic."
See some clips of the night below.
SETLIST:
"Feeling Gravity’s Pull"
"Maps And Legends"
"Driver 8"
"Life And How To Live It"
"Old Man Kensey"
"Can’t Get There From Here"
"Green Grow the Rushes"
"Kohoutek"
"Auctioneer (Another Engine)"
"Good Advices"
"Wendell Gee"
"Romance"
"Strange"
"Daysleeper"
"1,000,000"
"World Leader Pretend"
"Bandwagon"
"Find The River"
"Little America"
"Let Me In"
"Crazy" (With Peter Buck)
"Letter Never Sent" (With Peter Buck)
"Harborcoat" (With Peter Buck)
"Time After Time (AnnElise)" (With Peter Buck)
"Pretty Persuasion" (With Peter Buck)
"Sitting Still" (With Peter Buck)
"Second Guessing" (With Peter Buck)
"Cuyahoga" (With Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey)
"(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville" (With Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey)
ENCORE:
"So. Central Rain" (With Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey)
"7 Chinese Bros." (With Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey)
"Toys In The Attic" (With Dave Hill)
