Thursday, Mar 16, 1989
R.E.M.
Also on the bill: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
- Date
- Thursday, Mar 16, 1989
- Show time
- 7:30 PM
- Venue
- San Diego Sports Arena
- City
- San Diego, CA
- Seating
- Arena
- Face value
- $18.50
- Promoter
- Bill Silva Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Green tour. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.
What they played
- Pop Song 89
- Exhuming McCarthy
- Welcome to the Occupation
- Turn You Inside-Out
- The One I Love
- Orange Crush with 'Be All That You Can Be' intro
- Sitting Still
- Feeling Gravitys Pull
- Cuyahoga
- Begin the Begin
- World Leader Pretend with 'We Live as We Dream, Alone' intro
- I Believe with 'Tired of Singing Trouble' intro
- Pretty Persuasion
- These Days
- Get Up
- Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Encore
- Stand
- Driver 8
- Fall on Me
- You Are the Everything
- Finest Worksong
- King of Birds with 'Letter Never Sent' tease; with Morris Windsor on conga drums
- Dark Globe Syd Barrett cover partial
- Swan Swan H
- See No Evil Television cover
- Harpers Hugo Largo cover
- Crazy Pylon cover
- Perfect Circle
- After Hours The Velvet Underground cover
30 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians played
- More Than This Roxy Music cover
- Charlotte Anne Julian Cope cover
- All Tomorrow's Parties The Velvet Underground cover
4 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
Green was the great crossing: R.E.M.'s first major-label album after a decade as America's definitive college-rock band, and the Green World Tour was their first arena run — the experiment in whether the mumbling Athens art band could fill hockey barns. It could. 'Stand' and 'Orange Crush' were on actual pop radio, Michael Stipe was becoming a generation's frontman, and Out of Time and global enormity were two years off. Robyn Hitchcock, their fellow-traveler, shared the bill. Eighteen fifty to watch the underground graduate.
From the time
- Green
“The 1988 major-label debut that carried R.E.M. from college radio into arenas — toured on the yearlong Green World Tour.”