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She was a fixture at every Matt Good concert I'd ever attended in Vancouver. She had one of those larger than life personalities that you couldn't help, but notice her there. Often Matt would single her out in the crowd and sometimes have a brief chat. She was obviously a huge life long fan. Recently she had moved to Victoria and it was strange on the Beautiful Midnight Revisted tour to attend those shows and not notice her at the show. Obviously she was a member of this forum as well and it's tragic to think she is gone so young. Pretty cool for Matt to offer a tribute for her.

Sorry guys patience will have to be of the essence here. What ive found is a large collection of video material throughout Matt's career. a portion of it is stuff none of us here have ever seen before. The material is being collected from a few sources and being sent to me. As I do not have any of it yet it is naturally impossible to give a time frame. All I can do is wait until I receive it all then I can do my part aling with another member here to get it out to you. What I have right now are samples sent to me to verify the material in the collection. This includes the entire video of Sharks. i have not been given permission to share yet so im not going to jeopardize getting several hours worth of footage by jumping the gun on a couple minutes worth of samples. Hang tight the material is coming but an ETA is out of my control at the moment

Here's a crack at the lyrics for Sharks of Downtown. I will say this is probably 80% right, there are some things that are hard to make out and somethings that I probably think I nailed but will turn out I was totally off base on, but this should be pretty close. I dream of Dolphins all the time Casual palm trees don't do well in my backyard I drink cocktails with rum Sit in the sun, casually undone The fish never move on my shower curtains The Sharks of downtown Wear dolphin skin suits and they hold on to girls who didn't listen when their mothers told them not to see guys like me Going nowhere Going nowhere I dream of dolphins all the time ? Nuclear submarines They will dream about you and I Not like this guy Not today, Not today The Sharks of Downtown Wear blackened turtle necks and hold on to words I was gonna use to tell you about guys like me Going nowhere Going nowhere See you lying in the shower nothing happens I'm glad to pay our debt to the realm of human beings and tomorrow I'll try the game and keep searching for the dolphin the same as all, all these seas I'm nervous when I'm next to you I am nervous when I'm not Cause after everything is said and done you're just looking to get caught and the engine ? It's all the same It's all the same thing Yippie Kai ai eh Yippie Kai ai eh Yippie Kai ai eh Yippie Kai ai eh I think about it all the time That's the rule When you are what you eat But not what they preach I won't dream about you and I Not like this guy Not today, No not today, No not today, no The Sharks of Downtown Wear dolphin skin suits and they Own all the earth Or at least the one that was made in seven days Guys like me are going nowhere Going nowhere Yippie Kai ai eh Yippie Kai ai eh Yippie Kai ai eh Yippie Kai ai eh

I am working on something for all of you at the moment that will include the complete video of Sharks Of Downtown among others. stay posted.

I think this is one of the reasons online retailers have not entirely eclipsed brick and mortar stores. On release day my local independant store and Sunrise records both had several copies in stock, yet most people who went the online route are waiting in many cases a week later to receive theirs. This makes no sense, especially in the case of ordering from musicvaultz. I mean music vaults made sure shipments got to all the records stores a couple days before release day, but people who preordered weeks ago are left waiting. If anything people preordering these items should get them a day or two before release day like the record stores do. A major reason why I almost never preorder records online is because in reality I can walk down to my local record store, get them for the same price (sometimes even cheaper) pay no shipping costs, and have them in my hand ready to play instantly.

When I first heard a couple years back that Matt wanted to release his entire catalog on vinyl the album I immediately thought would most benefit from this was Audio of Being. I know some here disagree, but to me there is so much ambient atmosphere to that album, so much depth and layers that could be brought out in a remaster for vinyl. I havent had a chance to listen to that album yet, but after hearing how amazing Beautiful Midnight sounded on the format I seriously cannot wait to hear Audio. Loser Anthems and Lo-Fi I have listened to and man oh man, those three acoustic songs at the end of Loser Anthem sound so crisp and beautiful. Just listen to Matt's breathing at the start of Flight Recorder From Viking 7, or the low whispered vocals, it's like Matt is sitting in the room whispering those words into my ear, makes the hair on my neck stand up. I really love that release. I was worried those two EP's wouldn't see a release on vinyl, I'm so glad they were, some truly fantastic often overlooked parts of Matt's catalog.

Loser anthems is a full size disc and it spins at 33 1/3 which is standard. Audio is the one that is 45 RPM, which doesnt mean it is a smaller record, it just simply plays at a faster speed.

Thanks for the info, thats interesting about the different playing speeds, I wonder why they would do that? I really like the cover artwork and think they made some very interesting choices. I love that the panda is featured on the inner sleeve of Loser Anthems, I always thought that promo artwork with it was kind of cool because it completes the reference to Pink Floyds Animals although with a standard humourous MGB twist. Can't wait to give these a spin once I pick them up. Kind of interesting the deal with Avalanche. The black vinyl version is only different from the original in that it has a musicvaultz logo? I know it was a production issue, but its funny that Avalanche now has three different releases on vinyl, and Audio of Being which could have had three versions with the different colours instead just has one.

Talk about excellent news, I was thinking these were definitely getting delayed. So surprised Matt didnt even tweet about it.

Yes thats correct white light becomes the only MG studio album not to have a vinyl release. Massey hall also has not seen a release

Hmm it's an interesting question. Matt's tours over the last decade have usually focused on a headlining tour shortly after an album release and then a secondary festival style tour later in the year or the next year. The last time the headlining tour in support of a record was this distant from the records release has to be the Hospital Music full band tour, but that was proceeded by a headlining acoustic tour. Given that Something Like a Storm was largely recorded in late January 2017, by the time of the fall tour this year it would be at least 18 months since that album was recorded, which means perhaps Matt will be moving on from it a bit already and we may even get a preview of something new along the way depending if he has done any writing prior to it. Even if we don't we may not see as many songs from Something Like A Storm in the setlist as was common on previous album tours. Matt's also expressed in the past that he would like to look at the prospect of having headlining shows that feature slightly less of a current album than in the past, instead of 7-8 new songs a night, maybe we'll get 4-5. You left Decades off your set, which is interesting. Usually Matt makes a point of having the lead single from the current album a staple of the setlist. I remember once on the Vancouver tour he hadn't played Last Parade and then started the encore off with it making a comment that he almost committed a faux pas by playing a show without playing the latest single. But again with this tour being a ways from the release of this album perhaps he won't feel as tied to Decades especially since it has done two laps of the country now. I'm also not sure Matt could do Rat anymore. That song is an absolute strain to sing, the muscles in your throat literally ache afterwards, and with his issues with post nasal drip and the like, I don't know if that one is something that can be done, I can't image trying to open a show with it at this point anyways that'd be damn difficult, as much as I'd love to hear it, I just don't see it. I think it's safe to say we'll probably see about half of SLAS played on any given night. The band now knows most of those songs so no reason the majority of that album wouldn't be played and rotated night to night. I think your standards: Load Me Up, Weapon, Apparitions, Born Losers will be played at most if not all shows. Things like Hello Time Bomb, Strange Days, Alert Status Red and Advertising On Police Cars and X-Rated will probably be rotated in and out with some regularity. I expect the odd deep cut off Beautiful Midnight because this band is well versed on them. Beyond that I figure probably 2-3 new old songs will make appearances. Apparently on the BM Revisted tour they were working on Avalanche which I'd love to see reappear back in the set after nearly a decade of absence. With the next three albums on vinyl coming out, featuring a couple things from Lofi/Loser Anthems, Avalanche or Audio of Being might be a good way to push some extra album sales at the shows, or get those albums added to people's Christmas wishlists. For the last five years or so those albums have been pretty sparsely represented in the set, inevitable with such a long recording history, but albums like Underdogs, Audio, Avalance and White Light were some of the biggest sellers of Matt's career and are often represented by just one song per tour (in some cases two) but usually it's the same songs from tour to tour. In the last decade at full band shows Underdogs has been represented by Everything is Automatic (not usually a regular in the set) and Apparitions Audio of Being by Carmelina (not usually a regular in the set) and Advertising on Police Cars, Avalanche by While We Were Hunting Rabbits and Weapon, White Light by Alert Status Red (not usually a regular in the set) and It's Been a While Since I was Your Man (not usually a regular in the set) and Blue Skies Over Badlands. Hospital Music has gotten a little more love over the last ten years with deeper cuts appearing occasionally as encores, but Vancouver-Chaotic Neutral songs all but disappeared after the touring cycles for those albums were finished. So yeah based on all of that I don't expect a lot of change to the format we've been seeing for quite some time now. From a business stand point it is working well for matt he has a stable fanbase that really enjoy his shows, myself included. Of course as a diehard fan I'd love to see more setlist variation, but over the last few years it's become clear it just isn't something totally plausible. I've often wondered why Matt doesn't take a "An Evening with Matthew Good" approach to a tour once. Have no opener and do a Neil Young style show where you start it off solo acoustic for like 5-6 songs, and then do the full band thing for 15 tracks. The show could be 2:15-2:30 so not a ridiculous length of time extra and would allow for matt to inject a greater variety because the acoustic set wouldn't have to be limited to just the hits because they would surely be coming in the electric set. It gets around the issue of having to pay all this extra money for rehearsal time with the band to learn a large variety of new songs because Matt could conceivably just learn a dozen or so acoustic songs at home and rotate them in and out throughout the tour. Also, its not like the crowd would diminish because of no opener, because everyone is there for Matt anyways. To me that style of show would address the setlist and financial concerns Matt has put forward in the past, without involving anything truly ridiculous. The only limitation would be if he didn't feel he could physically perform for that long. But he seems to regularly do shows pushing two hours without difficulty, and that extra length would be acoustic songs so you're not totally rocking out either. I think a scenario like that is the only realistic way we'll see vast changes to the current setlist structure.

Definitely a strange case here. Amazon is usually correct with these type of things and for a large variety of recent releases by bands Amazon has been the one to tip off not only the release date of the product, but sometimes what product is being released at all. They often have it up before the band announces it. However, I've never seen an amazon listing so close to the release date where nothing concrete has come from the band at all. I can't see Matt just letting these get released unannounced, but amazon is still listing a date of April 6th, perhaps we'll get an announcement following the weekend. I'm sure hoping I cannot wait for these three releases.

I thought it was the 2007 Acoustic Massey Hall show they attended.recorded. The one that's only been partial released as bonus tracks. Perhaps I'm mistaken.

Fantastic news. As someone with an original Avalanche I really appreciate that Matt went out of his way to ensure this version was different, it seems like different cover art and different colour vinyl makes both unique. Very much looking forward to these three records, absolutely first day purchases for me.

I'm guessing you got those from Chad's site. I agree really cool to see the old sets. As for Middle Class Gangster and Inescapable Us, they were definitely performed once. Before Geoff Lloyd died he posted saying that everything from Underdogs was played live at least once because they did a promo thing for the album where they played 3 songs each at four different record stores in one city (must have played four songs at one Im assuming) but he claimed they played the whole album.

Nice Chad, I'm just looking for Carmelina to finish my MGB singles.

The last tour I was shocked at how much more prevalent the Rico requests were at the three Alberta shows I attended compared to the BC shows I'm used to seeing. Plenty of songs get yelled, but at the Red Deer show Rico was probably shouted three times as much as any other song. While I have heard the odd Rico request at BC shows it is far down the list of the commonly yelled songs. It made me wonder if radio stations in each province had focused heavily on different MG singles, maybe Rico didn't get as much air time in BC where something like Sybolistic White Walls did.

I have tried pretty hard throughout the years to get information or access to this stuff. I kid you not I've gone through the credits of MG broadcasts on MUCH and searched names and messaged anyone I could find asking if they had any info on who to contact in regards to those archives. I didnt want some auto response thing. Someone is employed out there as a caretaker of those archives, I'd love to know who. But everyone I contacted either long ago stopped working for MUCH or werent going to tell me anything. Its not Area 51! It's a music and video library. I just don't get it. I've had tremendous success in other areas of interest in gaining access to massive archives of material including collections owned by the NHL and Hockey Hall of fame. And yet MUCH's archive is like Alcatraz. It's beyond frustrating because most of that stuff is of such a niche interest that it so easily could be considered invaluable and disposed of in a landfill. I know there isn't that many people left that would truly appreciate it, but for the few that are it would mean an immeasurable amount. I'd be willing to book a months holidays from work, fly to Toronto on my own dime, and do the work making digital copies free of charge as long as I could find somewhere to stay while I was there haha. I really want this stuff that badly.

Im with you, I can digitize in the same manner which is the easiest way to make a digital copy of the material. I suspect most of this is sourced on VHS and Beta tapes, which means the quality would be limited to about 240P digitizing it wouldn't increase that. I doubt much of this footage exists on film, which is what is needed for the serious HD upgrades and that sort of thing. You can bake tapes and do all sorts of other things to enhance them, but lets be honest about it, none of these bands are The Beatles, and for Bell the juice wouldnt be worth the squeeze to really go all out trying to restore the footage. But like Girl, I'd gladly volunteer time to do this to restore and digitize this footage before it degrades away or is disposed of. I'd love just to see a list of what they have for Matt, Much was pretty much just following him around for a couple years there. If you watch the MMM Bio, you see little snippets of 10-30 seconds of footage all from MG's career. You can bet much more intensive and complete footage from those concerts existed than those few clips used in the the doc, and there is footage from pretty much all eras of MGB and some early MG solo footage. For people like us, it'd be a real treasure trove.

yeah I've seen a few of those Born Losers go in that range. Its so tough because I dont really want to pay $75-$100 for MG singles, especially when it seems if I'm patient I can usually get them for $25, but some you just almost never see, and I always wonder if I'll ever see it again. Anyways congrats Chad, nice to see it going to someone who clearly appreciates and will take good care of it!

That would be a good idea if they dont think they can do anything with it financially. But I always find these universities when they get these archives are always slightly cagey about them. It usually takes a great deal of time for them to make it accessible and when they do, it always seems like they aren't very transparent about what they have. An example, the Denver Public Library obtained the entire archives of the former Rocky Mountain News archive. This was the main paper for the american west from frontier days until the early 2000's. I went to view the photo archives, expecting an entire room of photo prints and photo negatives, I was handed a box the size of a small briefcase and told this was all that there was from over 150 years where several staff photographers would have taken photos every day of the week. Obviously there must have been much much more, but they were claiming for some unknown reason that was all they had. Those are the kinds of things that frustrate me and always worry me about these kind of donations, is the public is rarely made fully aware of what was contained in the donation which creates situations where stuff deemed unusable can be disposed of, or stuff of some financial value can be pilfered by employees.

I've never really understood the cloak and dagger approach they take with this. They've determined Canadians want reality TV on their music stations instead of music. But why just sit on that massive archive doing nothing? Do they think there is some big cash in down the road? Alot of those bands are already long forgotten and interest in them has long slowed to a trickle of fans. Even someone like Matt Good who was selling 200,000+ copies of his records in this country probably has a dedicated fan base of 5000 or less who might consider paying for these archival releases. And before anyone says something like 40,000 people come to his shows each tour, ask yourself, how many of those people would buy an archival release of MG or MGB product. A good chunk of those fans still actually think they are seeing MGB 17 years after they broke up! Look at Elvis Presley, if you were to define what a pop culture icon is Elvis has to be at the top of the heap. Is there anyone living in North America who has never heard of Elvis? But even so, his popularity is rapidly declining. Memorabilia prices are dropping and young kids for the most part are totally uninterested in buying his films or records. As his aging fan base starts to reach the age where their health becomes more important than their record collections, the King is suddenly losing some of that shine on his crown. Most of the bands featured in Much's archive have already seen their popularity seriously wane or completely vanish. I just don't see that archive being some big massive paycheck for Bell. Meanwhile they are paying costs to store it all year after year with basically zero revenue coming in on it, because who is even licensing this stuff? When was the last time you saw a contemporary doc on any canadian group not named the Tragically Hip? The only approach that makes any sense would be a subscription based service with access to the entire archive, but that is a huge undertaking to digitize and host all that media on a server and run a subscription based model, that quite frankly I can't see more than a few thousand people paying for. If it were me, I'd crowd fund it. I'd set up a simple webpage, with a master list sorted by each band of what exists in the archive and then a projected cost for what each item would cost to individually be digitized and setup for either a physical release or a digital download. Then run fund raising campaigns. Obviously the material that won't be profitable won't be released and the material that is will be. That's the only way I can see to maximize profits while seriously minimizing losses and the material the fans most desire can get out there to the remaining fans that want it and Bell can see some financial turn around on the archives. Unfortunately that means alot of material wouldn't be able to be funded due to lack of interest, but such is the business world, at least it'd be better than the current system where all of it is essentially lost to the public and Bell sees diminished returns on it every year as they continue to pay storage fees on an investment that is decreasing in popularity and financial worth.

I'm surprised it hasn't happened already again. I mean I know he has done a few one offs but its been over a decade since a full acoustic tour. Given that Matt speaks so highly of the experience, and how he explains the costs of touring with a band and the lack of rehearsal time to have more varied setlists I really am stunned its been so long. I just missed seeing the 2007 acoustic tour, but fortunately for me I got to see shows in the States and a couple solo acoustic in Vancouver in 2012 and 2014. But those 2006/07 tours really were special with long shows and amazing setlists and I'd definitely like a chance to see something like that again. The thing I'm looking most forward to at the moment though is the idea Matt's kicked around for a couple years of doing like a multi night stand where he plays through a cross section of his entire career with a ticket price exceeding $100. That I think would be truly fantastic.

True, but have you ever seen a 62 minute record spread over three vinyls? I think even extreme audiophiles would consider that a little unnecessary. That's ten minutes a side. Basically half of the industry standard. At 16 minutes or so per side I really think that should have no compression issues due to the format. I think it would really hurt sales of it if it were put on 3 vinyls. The doubles were selling for $40, so a 3 record Audio selling for $60ish? I just can't see that getting too many purchases outside of the few diehards who hang around here.

Ya spacing issues makes for a real different listen