{"id":3360,"date":"2007-06-24T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2007-06-24T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T00:42:01","slug":"rem-dead-letter-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/rem-dead-letter-office\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M. &#8212; Dead Letter Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/remdeadletteroffice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-877\" title=\"R.E.M. -- Dead Letter Office\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/remdeadletteroffice.jpg\" alt=\"R.E.M. -- Dead Letter Office\" width=\"500\" height=\"775\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> R.E.M.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Dead Letter Office<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1987<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> ?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> ?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have another ticket stub that doesn&#8217;t really belong with the record of the day. It&#8217;s from R.E.M.&#8217;s tour to support the 1984 album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2006\/02\/21\/rem-reckoning\/\">Reckoning<\/a><\/em> and I should&#8217;ve mentioned it when I posted that one. For some reason I did mention the show, with opening act Dream Syndicate, on the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2006\/01\/20\/rem-murmur\/\">Murmur<\/a><\/em> post. I see the  ticket is stamped &#8220;COMP&#8221; so maybe I won tickets on the radio or something.<\/p>\n<p>The thing I remember most is talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dream_Syndicate\" target=\"_blank\">Dream Syndicate<\/a> guitarist Karl Precoda between bands. I thought they put on a great, and surprisingly hard-rockin&#8217; show, and I made sure to tell him that. He seemed like a pretty cool guy, but he decided to leave the band soon after this tour. At least I know it wasn&#8217;t my fault. Another memorable bit was that during R.E.M.&#8217;s set the power went out. This was a relatively small place, better-suited to conventions. I remember some minimal amount of light, and that the band carried on in some sort of acoustic mode for a while. I was glad to see they were cool like that, and not some whiny prima donnas.<\/p>\n<p>To the record&#8230; <em>Dead Letter Office<\/em> is a compilation of rarities, outtakes, b-sides and covers. Despite the odds it&#8217;s a pretty listenable collection. Peter Buck also wrote some great notes about each song on the liner. Good ol&#8217; Wikipedia has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_Letter_Office_%28album%29\">more info<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: R.E.M. Title: Dead Letter Office Year: 1987 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: ? Acquired: ? Keeper: Yes I have another ticket stub that doesn&#8217;t really belong with the record of the day. It&#8217;s from R.E.M.&#8217;s tour to support the 1984 album Reckoning and I should&#8217;ve mentioned it when I posted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,481,453],"tags":[511,547,46,920,1033],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-r","category-record-collection","tag-511","tag-alternative","tag-music","tag-r-e-m","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}