> Thanks to the person who posted this on the Dylan newsgroup.
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> March 30, 2008
> Music
> R.E.M. Tries Picking Up the Pace
> By ALAN LIGHT
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> ATHENS, Ga.
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> ON the ground floor of a nondescript building, a few blocks from the
> University of Georgia campus here, sits a little room stuffed with
> instruments and decorated with Christmas lights, lava lamps, old
> concert posters and tacked-up 45s. R.E.M. started rehearsing in this
> space in 1985, and it looks as if nothing has changed.
> ...