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Enjoyed that as well. This reddit post has a slight more context, if you didn't catch it a few years back. Dead on New Years - new song? : r/Mattgood

Just caught this, very cool, thank you for sharing.

Was wondering the same on who's in the band lineup. Also, I assume even if the same band, will need an additional guitar player to cover Matt's stuff right? Envisioning a 5 member lineup with Matt up front.

Sounds great, thanks for taking the time to do it!

March 2020 in Toronto was his last full band show I think. I hear you, not a lot to discuss musically right now so it's tough. Really wish Matt would dig out something in the archives. This would be the perfect time while he regroups to release some older live stuff, even if just a digital release. Throw in some old MG shirts re-released, might reinvigorate some fans and also give him something to promote in the meantime.

Agree with everyone. 2003/2004 is my personal favorite MG live era for all the reasons mentioned. Always thought Rich being on bass provided that familiarity of MGB and a bridge for those jumping over to solo MG. It sucks there is not any live footage available from those 2 years, outside of a few short clips.

I'll be that nerd that switches it back to the music a bit. I think a lot of negativities would dissipate or be drowned out if there was some excitement on the show or studio front. Because we are all fans, that's why we come here or go to the shows. But I have heard the word 'uninspired" used for recent shows, or how he can't remember how to play a lot of his catalog so doesn't play it, or that setlists are stale. Could you imagine if he announced for 2023 a 20th anniversary tour of Avalanche, maybe a reissue of the album with it, or playing the album in full. Or played rarities from Underdogs for that 25th anniversary or did a reimaged Underdogs like he did for BM? Or if you want to move away from nostalgia, a new album, maybe something upbeat and full band/electric that can release some of the anger over the past few years. Might even cause him to adjust his banter with more to talk about on the music end of things. I'm sure there's a lot more going on that I don't know, but from a fan perspective with no inner working knowledge, just thought I would throw that POV out there. No matter where you stand on the outside of music stuff, there really isn't much else to focus on so that negativity seems to rise to the top of conversation.

Being that it will be about 4 months between the coming shows and the last show, would be cool if during his downtime over the summer he dusted up and worked on a few uncommon or even something never played live before songs from the past to debut.

What an awesome find. Would be appreciated if you can get it transferred and it would be so cool if it does sound different. A new way to hear something we have all listened to one way for so long if so!

Listened to both parts, IMO it's very much worth a listen if you haven't already. Great interview. Hope the host can get an episode with Dave Genn.

Awesome, will check both parts out. Looks good and should be a nice compliment to Daniel's interview in 2020. Thanks for the heads up!

Very cool, thanks for going through them and posting. Looking forward to it. Might be some gems in there.

Awesome collection of jerseys. That low profile AOB white tee is cool too.

There is nothing out there that compares to this show. With no official live video from the MGB days, it can't be overstated how awesome this is and how much work Daniel, Travis and Adam put into getting this out. Great stuff.

Been a few months and made time the past few days to again listen to your album Mixed Emotions John. It's still really enjoyable every time. Voices, Essential Truth and Enchanted are probably my favorites if I'm forced to pick between tracks. But hard not to include Lovers Canyon, I really like that outro. Great musicianship but more importantly to me are all the great songs. Did you have any time between that recording schedule to get a band together and get these songs played live?

Whoa! I lived off the version on YouTube that was mentioned, it was the only one I knew of. All distorted and fuzzy but I still enjoyed it. This is an amazing upgrade and find. Thanks to everyone involved in any way. Quite the teamwork from the initial finding and discussion of the tape all the way to it being transferred and hosted. Really appreciate all involved for this! Bonus commercials to get me in that 1999 frame of mind too lol.

Same to you John and thanks for sharing your experiences. It was a nice departure for a bit from everything going on in the world to sit back and listen/read your comments on that era of the band.

Congrats Anton on keeping this going for 16 years. And for keeping this group of MG fans communicating. Lots of info here that I would never find elsewhere.

I thought Cornell's version was great too. The guitar and drum variation made it refreshing. Wasn't just a note for note cover with Cornell singing. Probably why I like it even more.

I found this article from I think 2005, based on the In A Coma comments. What intrigued me is the title of the article and the comments from Matt about not knowing what the next album will sound like. It seemed like the editor said he was halfway through it? Of course Hospital Music came a few years later and I know Matt had a ton of personal things happen that led to that album. But I do wonder if the album would have turned out different if finished sooner? Was this material he mentioned here in 2005 the same? Anyway thought it was a good read some of you might enjoy to see Matt's mindset back then.

I think they view this as they still had to handle the initial transaction and then now the refund. That $11 is not part of the VIP experience you are paying for. Definitely not a MG thing either way. I get the frustration though, imagine if you pick up 4-5 tickets and this happens, it adds up.

I tried Debut and I think there was more research I could have done in there to resolve, thanks for the suggestion, but I ended up going from VHS to DVD to PC rip due to the length of each segment on the tapes and still running into the syncing issue. Its more of a pain to add the DVD step but I'm at least getting the results now I wanted as far as syncing. Had to stop though because I was getting tracking issues. If I watched the master tape a second time, some of the tracking wasn't messing up, so would have to record all over. WTF. Taking a break to build back up my tolerance. I regret not jumping on this stuff years ago before the tapes started deteriorating....

Thanks guys. I'm gonna try Debut and Video Pad on a small section of the tape first. They are of course unfortunately all 4 to 6 hour tapes so I'll see how easy it is on a section of it. It goes in and out of sync, which I just don't understand. Not even when it switches to something else that was taped, seems like from the same session it was recorded it turns up out of sync. I have a decently new PC with 12GB RAM so was hoping it wasn't the PC, but maybe that is too much for it. The VHS to DVD to PC rip is a good idea if I can't get the above to work. That is manageable too. Thanks.

Decided to stop ignoring the box of VHS tapes I have and get to transferring some of my home and sport stuff to digital. I am using Elgato and you just let the tape run in the VHS player and play on your desktop and forget about it until its done. It's nice but I seem to be getting audio out of sync by a couple seconds. Went through their FAQ and asked around and not much help. Anyone else do any VHS transferring and have success with Elgato or a different program that isn't too complicated?

Just finished the entire interview. Really great. Besides the fact that getting any new information at all from the MGB era is rare, to get it straight from a band member was pretty much all you can ask for. Like everyone else is saying, great work Daniel. Lots of great questions and when you had an opinion, it was known, and when you were quoting something, a clip or picture popped up. It was really a great piece. Putting aside the logistics of getting a band member to discuss and setting up the time to do it, just the editing and uploading of the video looked to be a lot work. Really enjoyed the couple hours of listening it provided. Thanks again.