andydanger85

Hey dude, checked out your photos on Instagram. They look great ... might I make a suggestion, though? You may have just placed them this way for the photo, but some wisdom I gained from my parents with regards to storing vinyl is that they should not be stored stacked/flat. Over time, this can warp the soft vinyl and make it unplayable. My grandma had a whole bunch of vintage vinyl that she had stored flat and when my dad and mom were cleaning out her place when she died, they found that all/most of them had warped. They look great stacked, and I know storing them standing up limits their display potential, but you'll be rewarded through years of playability and general awesomeness :)

I emailed them and yes, they confirmed this date. The response was indeed a little vague, though. I have a sinking sensation there might be a delay. Remaining optimistic, however.

Due to the fact that I initially hedged about getting both Lo Fi and AoB on the same pay period, my AoB has arrived (from Musicvaultz), but my Lo-Fi (which I later went back and got because FOMO/fuck it) has not. I bought it from the official MG store. Any got any of their official MG store purchased stuff yet? I haven't received a shipping notice or anything ...

It's definitely his set-up. I have an expensive/good record player, but my speakers even are kinda shitty - and it sounded fantastic. Right after I listened to the vinyl, I went for a walk and listened to the MP3/CD quality right after by way of comparison. The vinyl is lush, multilayered, and allows the ambience elements to really shine through. It's one of the best transfers so far of Matt's catalogue. Miles ahead of anything since LOES, and compared with the other re-issues, I'd say so far that it's up there with BM as the best so far.

I just got my copy of AoB. It sounds fantastic. I've got a short clip of Man of Action up on my Instagram if anyone is interested .... https://www.instagram.com/p/BhbvDBSndJRL1ojhKSo1qhLAzaRLggJj6T1Z8s0/?taken-by=andydanger85

I am both excited by Ocean's feedback and in complete agreement that I was/have been most excited to hear AoB on vinyl ... it has an intangible ambience that I don't feel many other albums can touch. I can still remember listening to the CD on repeat in my room when I was in high school on repeat and trying to parse the intimate, Easter egg- like little idiosyncrasies that make this album special ... I quite enjoy the ones mentioned, but the one that has always affected me the most is the slow strumming in the outro to SOAP and the final "Oooooooooh" near the top of Matt's singing register. This is clearly me ascribing more meaning than was intended, but in knowing that this was the last song to appear on the last ever "Band" release, I have thought it very fitting that it ends with Matt just singing solo on an acoustic guitar. Even if he/they didn't know it at the time, it's the most beautiful foreshadowing ...

This is a slight change that I am not sure if anyone has noticed yet, but based on Ocean's photos and the images on Chad's website/owning the original Avalanche pressing myself, the design on the vinyl itself is different. On the 2003 pressing, the first vinyl had tracklisting on side A with a blue background and the blue avalanche logo on side B, and the second vinyl had the tracklisting on side C with red background and the red avalanche design on side D. The new ones just have the blue avalanche design on side A and B and the red on side C and D. Of little consequence, I know, haha but still (one of several) a handy indicator as to the different editions. Correct me if I'm wrong (anyone), but that typically has to do with the size of the physical piece of vinyl doesn't it? My record player has a minimalist design, for instance, where I have to switch the timing belt to an alternate spool depending on the speed/size of the record. BM Revisited is a great example of this ... Is the physical vinyl more the 45 size for Loser ... or is it still standard size?

Ya, really sleek design. I like it!

Holy shit. Efficient AF. I bought one from Musicvaultz and the other from the MG store (mostly because I hedged the first time and shouldn't have dammit)

He had pneumonia. He was rushed to the hospital, missed the Prince George show and then played the last two shows standing still with an oxygen tank on call. He's prone to the pneumonia because of his sarcoidosis (and I would imagine that the smoking doesn't help, either).

I mean, I love coloured vinyl, but I was only about to justify Lofi/Loser and AoB. I own Avalanche from 2003 and Matt signed it when I met him, so it's pretty much my prized possession. I may rock a white one if someone is willing to buy it for me ....

He did allude to this big tour allowing him to go on a typical solo tour later this year, explicitly. I think it may have been before he deleted his account here, but I might be wrong. That said, those plans may have changed given his sickness and it being seemingly harder this time around away from family. I tend to agree with you guys in that it will probably be the standard setlist with a few goodies thrown in. Probably bits and pieces from the BM tour, maybe a Cold Water or a Harridan, but mostly SLAS and hits.

Thanks Daniel. I try to make an effort to understand what people are saying because it leads to a more productive discussion. It is very important, and it is becoming a lost art. I tend to agree that emotional vitriol makes things worse, though I will say that the shift towards the left is something that has been occurring for a lot longer than people think. This is due in large part to the fact that so many right-wing "intellectuals" have doubled down on morally indefensible positions, and this has increased in its' frequency and severity in the "post-fact" era. While there is an insistence upon identity politics among some circles on the left, I feel like it's less an insidious, watershed moment and more of an over-correction as the political pendulum swings. Much of the discussion on the right wing involves "culture war" type stuff, which is rooted in identity politics; white nationalism (also known by its' other name - racism), nativism, and a maddening sort of Christian oppression complex. Look no further than the comments on any boilerplate holiday greeting from Prime Minister Trudeau, and you see a chorus of reflexively angry Christians trying to mischaracterize his insistence upon gender equality and an attitude of acceptance towards refugees and immigrants as "hating white men" or Christians in general (nevermind the fact that he is baptized Catholic). An inordinate focus upon identity politics is certainly unhealthy, but at the same time, I think you'd have a lot less emotional, vitriolic left wingers if we stopped allowing bankrupt racial or sociological pseudo-philosophies to be characterized as the logical counterpoint to reasonable left-of centre argumentation. The false equivalence of ideological political discourse these days is as responsible for discord and deadlock as identity politics has been. In the spirit of intellectual fairness, we've allowed crackpots space to air their grievances openly by engaging with them seriously. This, even when they continue to promote bad-faith arguments about shooting-survivors-as-Nazis, the "deep state", school-shootings-as-false flag operations, suggesting that women who get abortions who should be hanged/lynched. Not one of these things is even remotely true or reasonable, or even worth debating. Ten years ago, we'd mock these folks as tinfoil-hat wearing extremists; they're mainstream now. They have TV shows on major news outlets and columns in respected periodicals. As for Peterson specifically, he has subsequently been censured by the University for reasons in line with the arguments I made previously in this thread: http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/after-misconduct-complaint-jordan-peterson-agrees-to-plan-for-clinical-improvement As I said before, I do not necessarily think he is a bigot; just a terrible communicator. In the months since this discussion, too, I have amended my original views to include the fact that he should probably never say the words "cultural marxism" out loud again, lest he stumble through a meandering rant about how there should be warnings on course catalogs so that students can decide whether or not to take courses that might take certain viewpoints before they sign up. You know, and then failing to see the irony in being a champion of "free speech", but also being the guy talking about completely rejecting the particular school of thought he does not like. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/10/u-of-t-profs-proposed-website-would-target-professors-teaching-womens-and-ethnic-studies.html Finally, with regards to the Lindsay Shepherd affair at Wilfrid Laurier. The whole thing was undoubtedly politically correct nonsense, however, I will note that Shepherd has greatly damaged her credibility subsequently by recording a Youtube video where she tries to defend "white nationalism" as distinct from white supremacy. She accuses "the Left" of trying to obfuscate the nuance between the two terms. Ironically, in trying to defend herself, her own hollow pseudo-intellectualism is laid bare: trying to defend the nuance between someone who believes that white people shouldn't mix with other races and someone who believes that the white "race" is superior IS actually really "scary" (her words, not mine). NEITHER concepts are worth serious intellectual consideration, because they're both based on vile, pseudoscientific beliefs about purity, conceptions of race and 19th century biological racism. EDIT: Forgot the link to the above Shepherd vid...

First and foremost, the experience seems like it was amazing. When you rock out at the end during the 'subway' part, that must've felt amazing. Constructive feedback; the bits that I could hear during the verses were a little noodly - not that this is a bad thing per se, just sort of reminiscent of the lead playing on Neil Young/Crazy Horse records (not tonally, but style wise). The bit at the end added a nice dynamic that I felt was worthwhile, and all in all you weren't off-time or off-base at all. Sounded good.

These are all great ideas, but I did want to mention that the green shirt with the MG on rondelle is very reminiscent of the RCAF shirts from the WLRRR tour. Sort of a subtle allusion, but I did notice that.

Seems to me also that the original animosity was between Matt and Mike Turner, who hasn't been in the band now for 15 years. I agree with the Sylvan Lake thing, apparently hatchet was buried there.

I really want that Audio of Being. Bad. Haha. I own the black one on CD, so it would be insane to get a white one or a grey one after so many years. I wonder if "A Pleasurable Headache" will be included? Edit: The absurd irony of committing to high-fidelity, an EP called "Lo-Fi B Sides ...", as well as Loser Anthems - which is also recorded at demo-level quality, is not lost on me. I'm not complaining or anything, because there's some great songs contained therein, but it is a little funny.

Legit. It was Bedlam.

Verrryyyyyyyyyyyy interesting

Yeah, I gave up and didn't bother with drinking that day. That didn't stop a litany of other folks from almost constantly and drunkenly barge past. It was so difficult to get to the washrooms that this one really drunk girl asked if me and my friend would mind it if she peed on the ground beside us.

I went to an outdoor concert last year with this set up - City and Colour and Blue Rodeo etc. It was terrible. I can understand your reservations.

This is fantastic! Good to see both bands in on all the fun as well. Jason and "Donny" on percussion, Steve, Stu and Matt on dueling guitars, Duncan on Bass and Raine on vocals. Perfect. Edit: And Blake is so epic I forgot to mention him on drums because his presence speaks for itself haha!

I don't play guitar as much as I used to, but I have a similar problem. Sounds like you're having a muscle cramp ... you're probably going to have to try some strength exercises in that hand. You can use one of those tension clamp thingies... http://www.bebodysmart.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=G682910&eq=&Tp=

Seems like the mix is 60-40 in favour of OLP. Matt's songs tend to skew longer than OLP's, but the one's being played - save Weapon and Giant - are all in the 3-4 minute range. Still pumped though. When Matt still posted here, he alluded to this sort of mix though. Hits and a few new tunes. SLAS being toured properly later this year.

I've just added a couple shows to my upcoming list ... May 7th, This Will Destroy You (playing s/t album) and June 20th, Radiohead!