“After one pleasant drink I considered that ’31 years…heavens!’. And then I thought that it will take awhile to realize they’re gone. They’ve sort of always been there at this point. You can’t fault them for taking this step. They qualified for the gold watch a while back.”
R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter, on the band’s breakup.
Mister Easter was nice enough to endure a few of my questions about his early-eighties studio time with “The Boys”, as he called them. The rest of our interview—and his always-entertaining answers—will be in next week’s Relish.
