REM - GA Hall of Fame

rkbsound · Post by **rkbsound** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:34 am

I'm not a bass player, but I think Mike Mills broke as much significant ground as Peter Buck. Actually, Bill Berry also became "much-copied". Buck and Stipe get most of the REM attention, but Mills and Berry were just as significant (I know no one is saying that they weren't). How many other bands get that type of significant input from everyone? I can name one, for sure!

expomick · Post by **expomick** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:09 pm

Okay, you guys cost me money. I gotta stop reading this forum.

In addition to purchasing the Byrds box set yesterday, I also picked up the R.E.M. DVD and the two-disc set, because, hey, I don't have those couple of songs on the "bonus" disc.

Good stuff, though. Love the DVD.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:03 pm

""""""" Put down the Credit Card and step away from the keyboard.... """""""

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:06 pm

All Rick related purchases are exempt from normal parameters of reasoning , so therefore : "buy what you can, when you can".
It seems to work with my wife (don't know why).

REM isn't the same without the 4001 growl.
"Murmur" is one of the best albums EVER!
Classic pop defined, distilled, whatever. Just great music.

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:27 pm

Is all of Reckoning done with the 4001?

levykev · Post by **levykev** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:14 am

yup...
Mills got into Guild Pilot basses for the third album, "Fable of the Reconstruction"... then an Ibanez for "Life's Rich Pageant", then Fender Precisions from "Document" onward...

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:06 pm

Did Mills use the 4001 on the tour for the Reckoning album, or was that the point he switched to the Guild? I know he had more than one 4001, both jetglo with the 1/2 neck pickup gap (one had a toaster in the neck, IIRC.)

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:38 pm

Thats me with a GA Hall of Famerrrrrr....

alexrocks · Post by **alexrocks** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:25 pm

The mills guild is ug-ly

rkbsound · Post by **rkbsound** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:27 pm

http://idisk.mac.com/jenningsaske/Public/rbally/rockp/19_Theme_From_Two_Steps_Onward.mp3

For those of you who have not heard the song "Theme from Two Steps Onward", which has a studio cut on the new IRS compilation. I remember having a bootleg of this in college and I'm pretty sure I saw them do it live, maybe in NYC on the Fables tour?