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Sort of A Protest Song While We Were Hunting Rabbits

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I think it seems like an excellent idea. $25/yr for a year's access to Matt's content is very interesting.

1 The Rat Who Would Be King 2 Pledge of Allegiance 3 Truffle Pigs 4 Sort Of A Protest Song 5 Entresol 6 House of Smoke and Mirrors 7 Omissions of the Omen (at one point my favorite MG song) 8 Running For Home 9 Weapon

Although "Closer to God" isn't actually the name of the song (hate to be a stickler, but...), I'll play along: God In The Numbers - Richard Ashcroft

It was a shame that Starsailor didn't break in the US the way everyone hoped they would...

It seems like a lot of MG stuff doesn't seem to be selling for a while, and then all of a sudden it becomes really rare... Loser anthems was like that, as was the Australian Hello Time Bomb, and there are many others.

It's rough, but I haven't been able to find anything on Limewire or anywhere like that... good luck though.

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Any other recommendations for great eateries in Calgary? I'm new to the town and very interested.

I'm not too much of a reader, but I was wondering whether or not you had any sample pages available, or perhaps a sample chapter.

Where can I find it? If the downloads on this site are listed alphabetically, it didn't seem to be on here.

My take on it was that Matt wrote all of these songs during sort of a trance-like state of his life, where he was so heavily involved in certain experiences and certain thoughts, and now he looks back on them and feels so removed from it. Not literally a coma or anything, but just sort of being in this one state. I agree with that idea of "the music of that generation". That's probably got to do with the fact that we look to music at one point in our life as a really formative kind of thing, and later on (as I know happened for me) we begin to progess on into other endeavours. I wish I could still be as receptive to music as I once was. Although I know that I will be again, because whenever your life is just "thrown off" a lot, you tend to look to art and other things to help clarify things once again. or at least i do.

I think that so much of "ripped off" art is just numerous people seizing ideas that are "floating around" in the collective unconscious. I don't know how much I believe the idea of a floating collective unconscious, but there is definitely some inherent human process that causes people to come up with similar ideas at similar times. There was some scientific evidence circulating years back about how, if people unable to contact each other are given a puzzle to solve, after the first person has solved it, many of the others will solve it soon thereafter. It was like that with the telephone, and many things involved in genetics, and it's a lot like that with art, especially popular music. Do you remember that time in the late 1990's when they released like four movies about a giant flood or earth-shattering natural disaster, and about that many movies about space travel simultaneously? And now they're releasing a lot of well-financed documentaries and having a lot of politically charged music. It's all about things that people are interested in rising to popularity. That's why I'd say a lot of music sounds alike. Unless it's composed by Richard Ashcroft (formerly of the Verve). But he's great at musical arrangements and construction, so he's got an excuse anyways.

I was looking at the MG/MGB Song Elimination Tournament, and I was struck by the name "All Together". I don't think I've ever heard this song (can't remember it off of any of the pre-MGB stuff, nor the b-sides that I can remember. What is this song? Is there any story behind it (live shows only, matt was gonna put it on an album but hated the way it turned out, written for some particular reason)? I'm all ears.

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I have a justification (hopefully not the "justification" you were speaking of) that may perhaps shed light onto this issue. Art, in many ways, is about furthering the human experience, making it more meaningful and worthwhile. While some people seem completely satisfied just taking in art, I've also had a great interest in producing art myself, and I'm always looking for ways to do it better. Matt's art has perhaps inspired me more than that of anyone else, and I have always been interested in his methodology, in the way he takes his experiences and portrays them in a unique way. Truth is, I'm not a huge fan of "Matt Good" the publicity figure. I disagree with some of his political views and I rarely read his blog. As you can see, I just started posting on this website and that was mostly to hear the demos and other rarities. I am going to the show in Calgary and all I plan to do is shake his hand, look him in the eye and thank him for all he's done for me. No uninvited visits to the tour bus (the idea never crossed my mind until you brought it up... hmm...creepy ;) ), no stalking him so that I can have a video made out of his scary experience with me, nothing of that. It's just a different reason for being interested in his art. You go to six shows from one tour and, ahem, play all his songs on guitar blindfolded (I'd like to see the Giant solo done like that... and yes, i was the one who tabbed that out), and I like to know more about the person behind it. Different strokes, different folks. that's all

Geoff started doing something related to BMX bikes. He also used to go on the old Running For Home message boards, his username was "chaos" something... He also had an email address that you could regularly contact him with, but I can't say I have it handy.

Matt's definitely had Monkey and Bunny/Rabbit obsessions in the past.

From what I've heard he's a very accessible guy, and several people have gotten to know him personally from talking to him after several shows.

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Yeah, maybe I did, sir. Would you care to enlighten me...? ;) I guess it may sound freakish that I seem to care so much about somewhat trivial details, but for years I've modeled a fair amount of my decisions around being able to reach a position somewhat similar to that of Matt's. As a young high-schooler, I found that his music really struck a chord for me (no pun intended) and really helped me clarify a lot of the things I was going through. In a way, I just wanted to be able to do the same for young people, and I've been interested in his history because I want to understand how someone like that develops. Where they stand up against tradition, where they really set themselves apart, where they go along with things and which difficult events help solidify their views and actions. Matt has a great number of devoted fans and I feel like I resonate so much with him, that I look to information about his past as a possible foil or mirror to my own life's journey. Not because of some freakish stalker type of thing, but moreso because of what understanding I can extract from it. But enough of that rant. As for the wikipedia article, thanks for the link, but that doesn't explain too much of his pre-MGB history. Things are well documented about most "superstars'" post-celebrity life, but the idea of how someone developed into something like that is what truly fascinates me. ALSO: In the article, they mention that "Haven't Slept in Years" became a significant hit on radio and Muchmusic. If I'm not mistaken, Matt recorded a video for Haven't Slept in Years, but destroyed it out of dissatisfaction. I think that prevented it from garnering any major radio airplay, but I wasn't really around at the time so I'm not positive aout that. Does anybody know the answer?

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I'd say TBS is an okay band from their recordings, but a good live band. I saw them live back in San Diego and they put on a very good show, the lead singer has tremendous stage presence and does an incredible job of getting the fans involved.

I've always been interested in how Matt developed into the artist we all now know and respect so much. Over the years, I've gathered a lot of tidbits here and there about certain parts of his pre-MGB life, but I was wondering if anyone's generated any sort of a timeline or been able to verify any information. Here are some of the pieces of the puzzle I've stored to memory. (I used to have a ton of articles saved on my computer but that all got lost during the last crash). Can anyone verify any of this info? I'll try to include sources if I can remember them. Some of the information might not be at the listed sources anymore. Very Early Life (Birth through High School): His dad's profession had something to do with industry. He took violin lessons at age 10 (Rollingstone.com trivia) High school life as described in "The Night Opus" Uplands Elementary School in Coquitlam, Centennial(?) High School in Coquitlam In high school he sold a painting for $2000 (Rollingstone.com trivia) (I once saw an auction for a picture - a still life of some pots - allegedly painted by matt on Ebay) Post-High School: Moved in with Jenny ("The Night Opus") Enrolled in art school Dropped out of Art school("I just decided it was crap and I was never going back" -- old HMV bio/ Alternative story: He and Jenny needed cash/ Alternative story: His family fell on hard financial times and couldn't support him) Moved back home and began writing songs (as well as painting and writing fiction) At 19 he started playing guitar and joined The Rodchester Kings, who released one tape "and in closing" in 1991. -- There are two reasons I can remember for his quitting the band: The guitarist in the Rodchester Kings didn't want him learning how to play the guitar and potentially replacing him (some fansite); he had an anxiety attack that lasted for several days that made him quit the band. Released 4 demos between 1991 and 1995, as well as co-writing a song with a woman by the name of Danielle French. Formed the Matthew Good Band (he later commented he would have liked to call it "Gandalf") with Dave Genn and his friend from high school, Ian Browne. And the rest is history... Does anyone else have a more complete or coherent story? Perhaps you could fill in some holes?