June 20, 2008

Stipe in Times

Way back in college - we're talking the 1930's here - someone would always sit at Talayna's and talk about the time that Michael Stipe painted a fingernail on one of the restaurant's many life-size statues. I can't recall that someone, but they always went on about how Stipe grew in Collinsville (Edwardsville? see how the memory goes?) but ate at Talayna's, when he came over into the city for shows.

Why this memory hit me just now? Well, there's a story in the New York Times about R.E.M. and their current setlist, which is dipping deep into the group's history. Good idea.

Enough nostalgia for the afternoon.

Anyway, the article is herre.

Posted by Thomas Crone at 07:15 PM | Music & Recordings
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