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[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L_XFMCgeI7c[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

In May of 2001 R.E.M. played a free concert in the rain<\/a> at Yonge and Dundas. That’s Yonge and Dundas streets, not Yonge and Dundas Square, as it was still behind hoarding, being built. The AMC\/Jack Astors\/Future Shop\/Toronto Life Square\/What-cha-ma-call-it was still the languishing “Penequity” project and an empty lot (one Torontonians got to know for many years — which was just fine, it helped us prepare for the long relationship we may have with the empty lot at Yonge and Bloor). It’s quite stunning to see how much this part of Toronto has changed in the last decade.<\/p>\n

This concert was just down the street and around the corner from where R.E.M. played their first Toronto show in 1983<\/a> at Larry’s Hideaway, the long-gone punk-n-roll bar on Carlton street — now part of Allen Gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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