What the amiable Mills had was remarkable versatility and skill. He was the band’s bassist and played with a distinctly melodic style. He was also R.E.M.’s accomplished pianist — go back and listen to “Nightswimming” — and keyboard player; its background and occasional lead vocalist — that’s him on “Near Wild Heaven,” “Texarkana” and “Superman” — and a damn good songwriter, guitarist and percussion player whenever the need arose.They left off the best one, his amazing backups throughout the band's career.
The article's actually about his lifetime of being a sports fan, and obviously a huge Atlanta Braves fan. Here he is with The Baseball Project (who got the Xmastime treatment all the way back in 2008, albeit with Pete Buck instead of Mike Mills in the lineup) singing a song he wrote to get Dale Murphy into the Hall of Fame, and I give him bonus points for sticking it to Sosa & McGwire.
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