14.11.1987
USA, Irvine, Bren Events Center
Work Tour Irvine
exc. Aud.

Disc 1: [1:08:33]
01. Finest Worksong [4:15]
02. These Days [3:47]
03. Welcome To The Occupation [2:45]
04. Disturbance At The Heron House [4:01]
05. Exhuming McCarthy [3:16]
06. Orange Crush [3:40]
07. Feeling Gravitys Pull [5:35]
08. King Of Birds [4:38]
09. Simple Gifts / I Believe [4:49]
10. Maps And Legends [3:21]
11. Driver 8 [4:05]
12. Superman [2:49]
13. Auctioneer (Another Engine) [3:16]
14. Oddfellows Local 151 [10:34]
15. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) [4:03]
16. Begin The Begin [3:32]

Disc 2: [41:55]
01. Strange / Rollers Show / Saturday Night [4:29]
02. Pretty Persuasion [4:10]
03. See No Evil [3:15]
04. The Flowers Of Guatemala [5:22]
05. Cuyahoga [4:12]
06. Fall On Me [2:59]
07. Harpers [2:49]
08. The One I Love [3:14]
09. Crazy [3:47]
10. Pop Song 89 [3:11]
11. Just A Touch [2:39]
12. After Hours [1:44]

JEMS Master

Source: Sony ECM 939 mic > Sony Walkman D6C recorder
Lineage:
master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A transfer (October 2007) > Gentle JEMS Remaster via TC Finalizer > Peak 5.2 > FLAC

Notes:
Night three of perhaps the most audacious stretch of consecutive shows in my concert-going career. Two nights earlier it was U2 at BC Place in Vancouver. The night before was R.E.M. in Oakland. The night after it was U2 again at the Oakland Coliseum outdoors.

A quick check of my ticket (see attached) and the seating chart confirms my memory that JEMS recorded this from the very last row, straight back from the stage but inline with the PA at this relatively small gym/fieldhouse. I'm sure I traded it a time or two back in the day as I was a fairly active R.E.M. trader, but I had always remembered it as a mediocre recording. What it lacks in closeness it makes up for in clarity as it sounded better than expected when I put it up on the Nakamichi CR-7A today. 

This is an appealing show with a long encore that suggests the band was having fun. Michael is in particularly entertaining form.

Happy to make this our first contribution to the Work Tour 20th Anniversary effort. Butterking for JEMS