Posted
8/29/2007 05:33:00 PM
by Douglas
Every wonder what the source material was for R.E.M's
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville was? Yeah, me neither, really, but
this was kinda interesting:
And I was just beginning a romance with Mike Mills, the bass player in the weeks-old R.E.M. A few weeks before the end of spring quarter he said to me—we were at Tyrone's, the local rock club, standing between the Rolling Stones pinball machine and the Space Invaders game, playing neither—"I finally meet a girl I like and she's got to go back to Rockville."
Weird/boring story. You know there's an equally compelling story behind every rock song.