Re: Re: Altitude Review by Michael Stipe...

[Philip Rush <philip_rush@ye...fsnet.co.uk>]

I may be unique (I doubt it) but I think the Blue Aeroplanes' support  
of REM did more for me to move me in the direction of REM than any  
endorsement by REM of the Blue Aeroplanes might do in the opposite  
direction.
So, it's nice to see Mr Stipe speaking on the same lines.  I quite  
like 10,000 Maniacs, too, and wasn't there something brief between  
Stipe and Natalie Merchant?  He certainly mixes with the stars, that  
one.
I like the way Altitude loops round with the bleeps and dollops  
thing.  I also find it much better loud.  Perhaps too much better, if  
you take my meaning.
Perhaps it lacks a structural integrity.  I think we can all  
recognise the sessions and the years when these tracks were  
recorded.  I remember (vaguely) a gig in a different venue in Bristol  
- big pub, beer, picnic style tables, warehouse sort of place in the  
docks (could be anywhere) - where the Aeros included the Larder  
sisters and a rather overdressed Angelo.  They did a whole set really  
of new stuff, just a few old faves, which I have never really been  
able to identify since.  But I now think some of Altitude was aired  
on that occasion.
On the other hand, well, an album should be just that, an album.

I am already looking forward to the live tracks from towards the end  
of the tour, and the next album.  Still think the Aeros must be  
unique in the rock world for not actually existing.  Even the  
'contemporary' photo on the Altitude booklet is inaccurate (isn't it?).
Philip





On 28 Apr 2006, at 22:50, Mike Melville wrote:

>  I thought this quote from Stipe on Swagger was interesting  
> ( www.remhq.com )
> "I had always wanted to do a dylanesque, or lou reed type vocal on  
> a song[hear it in ‘end of the world...’ or ‘belong’]but never felt  
> that I could pull it off in an r.e.m. song; having toured with blue  
> aeroplanes through part of May of 1989, I think it gave me the  
> unconscious courage to go for it in what has become one of my  
> favorite r.e.m. songs of all time, ‘e-bow the letter’."
> Funnily enough I'd never thought of E-Bow as being in any way BA  
> influenced (sort of) but I did always think 'Departure' from the  
> same record was heavily indebted to the Aeroplanes.
> Took him a while in any case - from the '89 tour to a record  
> released in '96!
> Mike M
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