This is another entry in my ongoing “songs that visited me and decided they wanted to stay” series. I hope you like these enough to become a paid subscriber, because I really need you… Nightswimming - R.E.M. Nightswimming deserves a quiet night The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago
A banjo player turned me onto REM, of all people, and they remained in my underground until I walked out of the theater playing the Andy Kaufman movie (who was a favorite in my childhood underground before that)…the band would be completely warshed away after a gig where I had to play ‘the mandolin part’ of Losing My Religion for someone who had too much…the rest is adulthood, as they say.
A banjo player turned me onto REM, of all people, and they remained in my underground until I walked out of the theater playing the Andy Kaufman movie (who was a favorite in my childhood underground before that)…the band would be completely warshed away after a gig where I had to play ‘the mandolin part’ of Losing My Religion for someone who had too much…the rest is adulthood, as they say.
if you play the mandolin, you have to play Losing My Religion and Copperhead Road or the local bros won't let you out of the joint....
Indeed