“It was awesome to look behind me and see Bill on drums,” bass player Mills said afterwards. “By the time they got to the first chorus it was packed shoulder-to-shoulder,” owner Ed ...

It was back in Macon that Bill Berry first encountered Mike ... reluctantly decided to bury the hatchet (as Berry had already set up his drum kit and thus couldn’t bail out of the rehearsal).

For the second time in a year, R.E.M. reunited with original drummer Bill Berry on stage in the ... which features R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck. Berry eschewed drums to play bass on a version ...

R.E.M. announced Thursday evening that drummer Bill Berry is leaving the group after 10 albums and 17 years. The band says his departure was amicable and that it plans to remain together.