Peter buck was such an economical guitarist. Less is more. Legend 💚

LOVE the song! It's a BLAST to play. Thanks for the lesson!!

There's a vid on here of their TV debut on The Letterman show and they're killin it! Mike is jumping around like Pete Townsend up there.

Thank you SO much for doing these tutorials! I’ve recently fallen in love with all these early R.E.M. albums. They’re fantastic! Your lessons are very clear and I’m able to pick these songs up very quickly. Sweet Rickenbacker :)

This was enormously helpful. I'm glad Pete uses deconstructed barre chords cause I suck at some barre chords and always have. Find them difficult to play since I first took lessons formally years ago. Really this song chord-wise isn't that complex, but it's the picking and technique, and switching positions for those simplified chord shapes that Pete is so fond of. I could swear also there's 12-string acoustic guitar laid over the studio version but I'm not 100 per cent sure.

nice tutorial, this is pretty much spot on.

Thanks so much for all of your videos and giving me plenty of ‘new songs to play’ material!

Mike Mills wrote that beautiful riff

great tutorial,thank you

Well done!

Excellent tutorial and style.

You give great instructions.

Great job, thanks

Thanks for this!

Another easy one. I'm glad you are taking time on these. I bought a Marshall dsl 40c(Sweetwater.com with Creamback Speaker) which has a pretty good clean. Getting good tones with the Crunch on especially some of the chimey appegiations. Lots of fun. Thanks Fast Ocular great job. --Pat

You make it look so easy...

thanks much!

An interesting side note like you said certain songs like driver 8 gardening at night welcome to the occupation fall on me Etc Peters chords pretty much Define the harmony and Mike's Bass does beautiful counter Melody- but on Radio free Europe the B section the really cool guitar section was written backwards I believe meaning Mike Mills had the bass part for that the complex Baseline that goes all over the place and Peter wrote his guitar part around that- bi lberry had the cords for the verse- Peter then completed the song with the cords for the chorus and the chords for the bridge which Mike again added a lot to on that particular song it's a very bass melodic song

Try what’s the frequency Kenneth?

Or departure

In prechorus isn't it open E to Esus4 instead of A?

hilarious

Peter Buck did not come up with this progression. The bass player Mike Mills did.