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heraldtribune.com: Southwest Florida's Information Leader: "ORLANDO -- One would think it would be hard to shake a road-hardened veteran like Bruce Springsteen. But R.E.M. managed to do it Tuesday night in St. Paul, Minn., during the Vote for Change Tour stop.

'We were walking on stage, and I was going through the chords of a song, and Bruce goes, 'I hope you're not going to play that one next,'' guitarist Peter Buck said in a telephone interview.

'Mike (Mills, bassist) says, 'What are the chords? It's, E, G, D?' And Bruce says, 'You're going to go out and play that now, without rehearsing it? And we go, 'Yeah.''

To be fair, there was a bit of peer pressure: Neil Young.

'The guys said, 'OK, we can fake it if Neil wants to play it with us,' Buck said, chuckling."