{"id":30597,"date":"2024-10-11T21:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-performs-at-harris-walz-rally-in-r-e-m-s-hometown-of-athens-georgia\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T21:02:50","slug":"michael-stipe-performs-at-harris-walz-rally-in-r-e-m-s-hometown-of-athens-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-performs-at-harris-walz-rally-in-r-e-m-s-hometown-of-athens-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Stipe performs at Harris\/Walz rally in R.E.M.\u2019s hometown of Athens, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-11\/Getty_MichaelStipe_101124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>R.E.M.<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Michael Stipe<\/strong> appeared at another rally for <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> and <strong>Tim Walz<\/strong>, this time joining<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>second gentleman <strong>Doug Emhoff<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday in Athens, Georgia, the birthplace of R.E.M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stipe performed four songs with\u00a0musicians\u00a0<strong>Andy LeMaster<\/strong> and <strong>David Barbe<\/strong>, including the R.E.M. tunes \u201cWendell Gee,\u201d which Stipe said was written in Athens and only performed four times, and \u201cDriver 8.\u201d They also performed\u00a0\u201cYour Capricious Soul,&#8221; from Stipe&#8217;s upcoming solo album, which he said had never been played live before, and \u201cNo Time For Love Like Now,\u201d a tune he recorded with <strong>Big Red Machine<\/strong>\u00a0aka\u00a0<strong>The National<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Aaron Dessner<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Bon Iver<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Justin Vernonof<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stipe also told the crowd a story of being in a restaurant in Manhattan for a friend\u2019s birthday dinner about six years ago when he noticed a couple sharing a burger and some wine, noting they looked totally in love. Later that woman came over, tapped him on the shoulder and said, \u201cMy husband loves music, he\u2019s a big fan. My name is Kamala Harris. This is Doug Emhoff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI just want to say here tonight that these people are real, genuine, crazy in love people,\u201d he said, noting it was a joy to see them in that moment and \u201cnow to see and celebrate that type of dedication and that type of love on a national and global stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is the second Harris\/Walz rally that Stipe has performed at. He previously performed with <strong>Jason Isbell<\/strong> at a rally in Pittsburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival R.E.M.\u2019s Michael Stipe appeared at another rally for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, this time joining\u00a0second gentleman Doug Emhoff\u00a0Thursday in Athens, Georgia, the birthplace of R.E.M. Stipe performed four songs with\u00a0musicians\u00a0Andy LeMaster and David Barbe, including the R.E.M. tunes \u201cWendell Gee,\u201d which Stipe said<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-performs-at-harris-walz-rally-in-r-e-m-s-hometown-of-athens-georgia\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}