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I'll get a re-done Carmelina up within a couple of days. I'm also going to record a couple of other acoustic versions, plus Can't Get Shot In The Back just because I love it, even though I think someone else might be doing it.

I could upload them to my personal server and then could PROBABLY manage an online flash playlist like the one Matt has on his site right now, although I've had trouble getting the code figured out. If anyone can point out how to get the code down it'd be hot. I don't think I'd be able to host the Tribute playlist on my own url, though, since it's used for personal band stuff.

Hahaha Matthew Good must have secret powers and is preventing us from touching his sacred catalogue. I'm going to re-record Carmelina, perhaps tonight, and put together some other tune. Maybe a brooding organ version of some up-tempo rocker.

Seeing as I'm in NY I initially got the "You mean Dave Matthews Band?" responses from friends but eventually got it through their thick heads that I was talking about someone else. Now if people haven't heard of him and I say he's my favorite musician they give me a "WHO?" and I say, "Exactly, he's this Canadian guy." I've successfully turned no fewer than 6 people into huge fans, though, and have gotten dozens to at least listen.

See this is really weird and I know I'm sounding like a total Matt Good n00b here but I need to get this straight in my head once and for all or I'll go on thinking the wrong thing until the day I die... So Jenni's song isn't about Matt's wife. I can buy that as a coincidence. Didn't he just split with a woman he'd been with for several years either prior to or during the recording of Audio of Being? And, if so, where's the "Jen, I'll bring them to their knees" part come in during Truffle Pigs? I'll assume that if he met his wife in 2000 that the song could have been written after meeting and being involved with her OR it could also be a coincidence and that he's just picked the name "Jen" as his name for every chick like Springsteen uses "Mary" in every other song even though his wife's Patti but Matt's wife is, actually, Jen. All this time I thought that he had been with his current wife, they'd split, he'd flipped out and written Audio of Being and "Truffle Pigs" and its ilk was about proving his worth to she who left but then they gotten back together. I think the time machine theory is the best explanation.

Yeah it is.

Thanks. Carmelina needs to be cleaned up and I'm going to get on that. Get some of your original stuff up online somewhere and good luck with your first gig. Tear it up.

Or upload them to www.yousendit.com and post the link here.

So My Out Of Style Is Coming Back was making me want to wretch it sounded so filthy, so here's a very sparse sounding acoustic version of Carmelina: http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=22K8PT1...H01QEC827BGAIGJ

The people are begging you, man. You'll be like a national hero.

I don't know who any of the people he was talking about are but it still amused me.

I'm getting a disgusting buzzing at the bridge of my guitar. I'll have a rough copy of MOOSICB up tonight, though. Don't you love annoying anagrams?

I was actually thinking that both of those would've worked nicely this tour. Still, I'll take Fated and Life Beyond The Minimum Safe Distance.

Nice tone there and I'm secure enough in my sexuality to say you have a pretty sounding voice.

What other videos did you get from the show? If you managed to get Avalanche and can YouSendIt or something I'll give you a dollar.

I think I've got a decent enough acoustic version of My Out Of Style Is Coming Back down on my guitar that sounds different enough from the original. I'll record it tomorrow and have it up. I'd do it tonight but I've got a mid-term in the morning and I've procrastinated on studying for it enough.

I was worried about his illness, too, since it was a long drive and I was a little disappointed that AOPC wasn't played but Life Beyond The Minimum Safe Distance and that awesome acoustic version of Indestructible totally made it up for me.

This isn't in order by any means but I'm pretty sure this was the set-list in Buffalo: Avalanche Tripoli Prime Time Deliverance Fated Can't Get Shot In The Back If You Don't Run Strange Days In A World Called Catastrophe Symbolistic White Walls Load Me Up Apparitions Hopeless Indestructible So Long Mrs. Smith Sort Of A Protest Song ENCORE Hurt Life Beyond The Minimum Safe Distance The Fine Art Of Falling Apart Alert Status Red It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man He definitely opened with Avalanche and Tripoli and definitely closed with Since I Was Your Man, and I'm pretty sure the encore's right, it's just allllllll those songs in between I'm not too sure of, though they were kind of in that order sort of maybe. On further reflection I think "She's In It For The Money" was probably played, too, before SOAPS. Haha I just realized that's the best song anagram ever.

I think you're totally off-base, but whatever works, man.

Is the Hub compatible with a Mac? I'll assume yes and just download the stuff I need.

That's why you balance out the pretentious videos with ones like Rico. Anything but a pretentious video for a song as pretentious as Weapon wouldn't feel right to me, just like an overly serious video would make no sense for Rico.

The trouble is that Matthew Good has this vocal ability that just gets butchered when you try to imitate it yourself. At least for me, anyway.

I'd say the majority of his videos up until his solo work were of the "not taking it too seriously" variety and the ones that were meant to be serious with a message were absolutely fantastic (Apparitions). Given the tone of the song and the artist he's become I think he's got all the room to put out a pretentious video like Weapon he likes. And, of course, "In Too Deep" is probably a little more accessible to the listening public than "Weapon."

I totally call "My Out Of Style Is Coming Back" acoustic with nothing but three-string minor 7 chords.

First time I've seen it. Not video of the year material, but any version that showcases Rich's sexy ass more gets a thumbs up from me.