So, I have a really cool story about the first time I got to meet Matt so I thought I would share it if no one minds! :angry:
So, I was a real silly girl and started a facebook group in a silly not serious ploy to meet Matt Good. (If you're checking the group most of the members have left because the group worked!) Anyway, it was really more of a fan thing to post videos pics etc and I never thought anything to come of it. My whole goal was to get him to sign my guitar (8)
Like many of you, when Matt first joined facebook I jumped on the opprotunity to add him right away. I never expected he'd pay attention to the group let alone my profile. A few days before the show my fiance and I broke up and I changed my facebook relationship status and wrote a little note thanking all the people who had come to my aid. Within an hour of all that happening I see a note from Matthew Good in my inbox on facebook. At first I thought it was from one of the groups I was in regarding Matt, but when I opened it I could NOT believe what I saw.
Matt told me he was very sorry to hear about my break up and that it sucked but that when he came to Halifax he would really like to see me and sign my guitar. Now, all of this washappening very fast and I was still in shock about the breakup and out of shock I e-mail him back almost angry because I was scared someone was playing a mean joke on me. But he responded a second time just as kind as the first and assured me he was good on his word. (8) I felt bad for questioning him, but the guy had 4000+ friends on facebook so I found the whole thing really hard to believe!
The concert came and I dragged my acoustic to the show and stood in the rain. A few people I went to high school with walked by and made fun of me but I ignored em :angry: I didn't tell my friends why I had the guitar either. So I actually stashed it under the stage at the venue (The Marquee!) and after the show I drug it out and stood in line with others to meet Matt. All my friends were surprised, and of course the people who made fun of me 'kept making fun of me. That is, until Matt reached out his arms for a hug when I got to the front and said "There She is!" oh yeah. (8) he gave me a big hug and helped me get my guitar open and chatted with me and my friends while he signed it. Then he posed for some photos ;) I got off the bus grinning from ear to ear and walked past the people who had made fun of me swinging my guitar! hehe.
It was really awesome to have Matt be so nice to me in that kind of situation. I mean, when anyone goes through a break up it's hard and we all sort of hope/expect symapthy/empathy but none of us even dream of getting it from our fav celeb/musician :angry:
So Im gonna pay it forward! haha.. somehow.
Anyway, here's a few pics!
Matt signs my guitar
Me and Matt
A shot from the show
