{"id":799165,"date":"2019-09-05T09:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880041"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:09:43","slug":"flashback-r-e-m-play-whats-the-frequency-kenneth-on-cursed-1995-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-r-e-m-play-whats-the-frequency-kenneth-on-cursed-1995-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: R.E.M. Play \u2018What\u2019s the Frequency, Kenneth?\u2019 on Cursed 1995 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rem-flashback.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>R.E.M. rolled out plans this week for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/r-e-m-monster-reissue-879803\/\">deluxe reissue of their 1995 hit album <em>Monster<\/em>.<\/a> The four-CD, one\u2013Blu-ray set will feature a remastered version of the album, unheard demos, a new remix of the disc, a complete concert from the Chicago stop of the <em>Monster<\/em> tour, the tour documentary <em>Road Movie,<\/em> and six music videos. It will be released on November 1st.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monster<\/em> was R.E.M\u2019s heaviest album to date, coming right after the relatively mellow discs <em>Out of Time<\/em> and <em>Automatic for the People<\/em>. Those were the two biggest albums of their career, but the band didn\u2019t tour behind either of them. And so when they went out to tour behind <em>Monster,<\/em> they\u2019d been off the road for six years and the demand to see them was extraordinary. It led to them booking 137 dates all over the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two months into the tour, drummer Bill Berry suffered a brain aneurysm during a show in Lausanne, Switzerland. He could have easily died, but Switzerland has excellent hospitals and Berry was released in under two weeks and back on the road with the band in two and a half months. But that July, bassist Mike Mills had surgery to remove an intestinal tumor that wound up being benign. And before the tour wrapped up, Michael Stipe had surgery to deal with a hernia that he blamed on pushing himself too hard onstage every night while he sang. (Somehow, guitarist Peter Buck escaped the curse of the <em>Monster<\/em> tour without undergoing any sort of surgery.)<\/p>\n<p>The tour wrapped up with a three-night stand at Atlanta\u2019s the Omni in November 1995. Cameras were presented to capture the performances for the film <em>Road Show.<\/em> Here\u2019s video of \u201cWhat\u2019s the Frequency, Kenneth?\u201d and \u201cCrush With Eyeliner\u201d from those gigs. What nobody realized at the time was that these were the last complete shows that R.E.M. would ever play with Bill Berry. When the tour wrapped, the drummer realized he wanted to live a quiet life and left the band to become a farmer. After the nightmare of the <em>Monster<\/em> tour, it\u2019s hard to blame him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rem-whats-frequency-kenneth-live-1995-880041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.E.M. rolled out plans this week for a deluxe reissue of their 1995 hit album Monster. The four-CD, one\u2013Blu-ray set will feature a remastered version of the album, unheard demos, a new remix of the disc, a complete concert from the Chicago stop of the Monster tour, the tour documentary Road Movie, and six music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 00:53:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}