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In fairness, you won't need a passport this go-around if you're driving - just a driver's license and a birth certificate. While the State Department article says Summer 2008, Congress forced Homeland Security to delay that requirement until June of 2009 at the earliest. I didn't have a passport when I went up for the October shows. (I flew to Buffalo and rented a car.) I had no issues at all with just the license and birth certificate. (It was actually easier than I expected from the warnings I'd gotten beforehand, but I may have just been lucky.) Having said that, I may go ahead and get a passport for these shows. Any time in the next month and you wouldn't need to expedite it (the tour starts in 13 weeks). If money is an issue and you don't think you'll need a passport for anything other than driving to Canada over the next few years, there's also a new "Passport Card" that only covers land travel. Probably better to just go ahead and get a real passport, but there's the cheaper option.

I like the fact that some of the shows are being billed as Matthew Good Band: Kitchener Hamilton I'm trying to decide if that's an accident or if it's being done on purpose (maybe to distinguish that the shows are full-band). I'd suggest it was a Ticketmaster goof, but the Kitchener show isn't Ticketmaster.

Massey (and Roy Thomson) have a "member's club" (Friends First) that includes first access to tickets. I think tickets went on sale Wednesday for them. Anybody get close? I was a little surprised that hitting it at 10:00am put me in row M on the floor.

Hopefully there won't be any presales this time.

I watched Eddie Vedder drink Bile Beer. I seem to remember missing the lower half of Lifto's set.

It isn't true. There's no way that someone could have re-recorded the song in the amount of time it was online. Plus, Matt would have to have known that it had been re-recorded to remove it for that reason. He's just offering teases of new material - that's it. (The original content of that blog post said that it would only be available for a few hours.) That's why I said "since at least 'Fought to Fight It'". Yes, he's probably known about it for longer - I used that example because I knew that Anton had contacted him about posting FTFI in the NF store. My point was that he's still posting songs, despite obviously knowing that they could be captured and/or shared. ("Comfortable Criminals" was never on a compilation - it's never been officially released on CD. The available recording is from the RealAudio file that was posted on the ''Avalanche'' bonus site.)

I get the reasoning, but publicly announcing it is a total dick move, especially using the words "I'll keep em to myself." If you don't want to share them, don't respond to PMs - people will figure it out. If you have a problem with the demos being out there, delete them off of your computer. Because, technically, you shouldn't have them, either.

No, and there shouldn't be. They shouldn't be offered in any outwardly public manner, per Matt's wishes.

That's either: 1) fucking retarded. 2) a lame joke. 3) both. You can't "steal" a streaming Flash file and, in such a way, remove it off of a website. Matt took it down, which is why he added the note "Too late. So sorry." If Matt were concerned about folks capturing the songs, he wouldn't offer them. (Matt has certainly been aware that capturing was possible since at least "Fought to Fight It" - I believe Anton asked him if he could post it in the NF Store, and Matt asked him not to.) Unfortunately, that's the only real way to guarantee that demos and whatnot stay private. For better or worse, anything streamable is capturable. (And I know for a fact that Gomo's not the only one capturing them.)

Finger Eleven, not even close. Every time I hear one of their songs (and/or Seether's "Fake It"), I want to drive down to the local alt-rock station and throttle the dj. I cannot fathom, for the life of me, how either of those bands are successful. Having said that, Finger Eleven will win the Juno. (The Atlanta Thrashers use "Paralyzer" for some of their player intros and whatnot during games - minus the vocals. And, to be honest, without the vocals, that song is almost tolerable. I say, "almost".) Matt should either go for the open bar or stay home. However, since Dave Genn already went the "go for the open bar" route, I think I would rule that option out.

The festival only sells all-event passes. They don't offer day passes. Most cases, if you don't have a pass, you have to line up at the venue. For a high percentage of SXSW shows, you wait outside until all of the passholders fill in. Once they've decided there's enough room, they let non-passholders in. Usually a cover, but sometimes, you might luck out and get in free. For those things to happen, it helps to be catching an unknown band at a bigger venue. It's hard to gauge how this show will be received - but I would gamble it will be difficult to get in without a pass. Momo's has a capacity of 300. Matt might pull that on his own. I would sooner fly to another town to catch Matt than risk that mess.

Hopefully, it won't be a pain in the ass to get into (as SXSW shows usually are).

Gotcha. Into my archive it goes. Seriously, though - hearing it in a semi-decently mastered state - I'm almost surprised he doesn't just record an album using this method and release it himself. If he found slightly punchier drum samples, I doubt anyone would really be able to tell that it was wasn't recorded in a studio. (A guy I know swears by Bob Clearmountain's drum samples, though I think the CDs are out of print.)

I'm pretty sure it's "Fall to Fight It". (The file is named "ftfi-demo".) I've got a remastered version just about ready (still feel weird doing this for streams - don't want to piss Matt off to the point that he stops posting songs).

How about a completely random topic right in the middle of a nonsensical one? The transition between "Metal Airplanes" and "99% of Us Is Failure" on Hospital Music is awkward and abrupt, particularly compared with the rest of the album. It sounds like a song was cut from the album after the final edit was complete. /just a theory //probably doesn't deserve its own topic

Not a Ticketmaster venue. http://www.groovetickets.com/ordersystem/T...=The+Hotel+Cafe

http://www.gracenote.com/search/album_deta...tui_id=25042081 The real answer to this entire thread is that link right there. That's how BM is listed in Gracenote's database, which nearly all of the major multimedia programs (iTunes, etc) use to pull their CD tracklistings. Gracenote's information was almost entirely entered by regular users (while Gracenote was still CDDB), so there are a lot of errors throughout. With two separate versions of the same album out there, no doubt somebody tried to compromise the two entries, or somebody just got flat out confused. (That whole entry is screwed up - the album came out in 1999, and Atlantic's version - aka the US release - didn't come out until 2001.)

Israel is a long way from NYC or Philly. (And something tells me she's probably already thought about it.)

Not that it matters, but I do this on the songs I write, too. Usually helps me work out harmonies and whatnot (and whether or not a bassline will blend properly). I'm sure you could transcribe my ramblings into lyrics, but it wouldn't be anything that I intended to write. (From the anecdotal comments of others, I suspect it's pretty common amongst songwriters.)

Page one of this thread. Also in the NF Store.

I'm still not sure how I feel about posting mp3s of stuff that Matt's posted as streaming-only, but here goes. A remastered mp3: [hide_me]http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3DKAN39S[/hide_me] ...though, admittedly, there's not much you can do with a 22kbps file.

I like the fact that Ticketmaster thinks San Francisco is in another country. http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/730038

Moved to Tractor Tavern: http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=xxx&...008&sortorder=0

If it's pulling the US tracklist, it should have "Everything Is Automatic" and "Apparitions", plus a marginally different order. I believe both iTunes and Creative (Zen) get their info from the Gracenote database (which was built by random users, not by professionals).

It's using the American tracklisting of BM. There should be a couple more "incorrect" songs in there.