Man, I gotta tell ya, it took me a lot of work to track this one down.
I think I read about this in Rolling Stone, oh, about 20 years ago (wow, I feel old). R.E.M. had taken to covering \"Midnight Blue,\" by Foreigner's Lou Gramm, in concert. While it seems like an odd choice, Michael Stipe pointed out, quite correctly, that it was a terrific song.
I looked for it for years, and finally, through the magic of the Internet, I found it through an R.E.M. web ring.
This performance is from a November 5, 1987, performance at the Circle Pavilion at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Yeah, it doesn't sound all that great, but I'm happy to have it at all.
It also interpolates bits of \"Heartbreak Beat\" by the Psychedelic Furs and \"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For\" by U2. I bet it was a blast live.
