Dave FM program director Scott Jameson got the Atlanta rock radio station’s exclusive interview with R.E.M.’s Mike Mills the old-fashioned way.

He called up and asked.

Noting the looming 25th anniversary of the Athens band’s iconic album, “Reckoning,” Jameson rang R.E.M. HQ up the Atlanta Highway. Before he knew it, he was on his way to the band’s old offices and current rehearsal studio on College Avenue in Athens for a 90-minute interview with the bassist to discuss the band’s second full-length album.

The interview, along with Mills song-by-song remembrances of the “Reckoning” recording sessions, will air all day Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Of the experience, Jameson tells Buzz: “It’s a bit of VH1 meets NPR. It’s extremely insightful for the Dave audience and it gives our listeners a very personal, one-on-one experience between the artist and their work. Twenty five years ago, a lot of our current Dave audience was blaring ‘Reckoning’ in their college dorm rooms. It’s an album that remains relevant.”

Jameson let Buzz eavesdrop on one particularly hilarious excerpt from Mills’ interview where he describes the band’s penchant for playing absolutely anywhere back then.

Of one particularly memorable gig in Lincoln, Nebraska, Mills recalls: “It was a place called The Drum Stick. We thought, ‘What a great name for a rock club.’ It turned out to be a chicken restaurant. At soundcheck, there was grandma trying to enjoy her chicken leg with her fingers in her ears! We were figuring out that it was a strange world!”

Do you have a special remembrance of R.E.M’s “Reckoning” 25 years later? Did you see the band back in the day? Share your thoughts below.