The Matthew Good Appreciation Thread

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 10/22/2005, 1:58 pm

Axtech wrote:OMG I sent some photos to Matt, and he put two of them up on his site!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/themblog/

That's awesome, kickass!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/22/2005, 3:44 pm

Robbbbbbooooo, I can't get into your photo album... can you post the pictures of you with peoples?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/22/2005, 4:03 pm

Why can't you see the photo album? That's weird.

Krista, Emory and I with Pat and Rich:
(my eyes are closed, but so are Pat's, so it's okay

)

Me with Christian:

Me looking like a goon with Matt:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/22/2005, 4:14 pm

Had to take the one with Matt yourself, eh? :lol:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/22/2005, 4:37 pm

No, my friend took it. But I had to kind of lean back ('cause Matt was sitting on the steps of his bus)

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/22/2005, 8:40 pm

hehehe... I'm trying to study, but I keep thinking about last night, both the concert and meeting Matt and the boys, and I find myself losing focus and sitting here with a goofy grin on my face.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/22/2005, 9:39 pm

aww yay rob :duncan:

damn i wanna hear suburbia live

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/22/2005, 10:51 pm

I just listened to some of the studio versions of the tracks from last night. I love them so much now (more than before).

But the thing that really hit me was how energetic the band was. Matt in particular. Every line was sung with the emotive vigor that I imagine he would have intended when he wrote the songs. The studio versions seem so flat now. I still love them, of course, but it's like a different experience listening to them now.

For example, Alert Status Red. It's a pretty cool song, but the album version pales in comparison. I mean, I kind of expected Matt to sound like he does on the albums. But he has such a frantic energy live. Now, when I listen to album versions, I still hear that live energy. \m/

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/22/2005, 11:13 pm

Heheheheh aww, post first concert love.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 10/23/2005, 7:53 am

Awww Robbo I didn't realise you were a concert virgin. What a good way to lose it though

I'm really glad you had such a great time

And Alana, I hope you got to go to the show.

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 10/23/2005, 6:52 pm

Axtech wrote:Nope. By the time I got into them, and old enough to go out of town to see a band (without my parents, obviously), Mike had left, Steve had joined, the band had made Gravity, and I no longer had the motivation to make the effort to see them.

I'm working on indexing my pictures in an online photo album. (only a small portion ... like

this is the first concert you have ever been to, how young are you?

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/23/2005, 6:54 pm

he's older than me :GASP:

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 10/23/2005, 6:55 pm

i dont know how old any of you are so im not being helped

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/23/2005, 7:04 pm

19

I know, it's pathetic. But I was never really into music until my early teens, and even then I never liked a band long enough to want to go see them. Then OLP came and Mike left.

If the bands I've liked over the years would have come to Kingston, I probably would have seen a lot of shows. MG was actually the first artist I liked enough that I was planning on going out of town to see him (except for OLP, but again, after Gravity, I didn't really want to see them enough to make the effort). But then he put up a date for Kingston, so I was all set.

Besides, by the time I was in my late teens, I didn't want my first concert to be some crappy band that I was only kind of into. My first concert had to be something really good. My mind works on strange logic like that.

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 10/23/2005, 7:29 pm

Rob's probably the only kid around that treats his concert virginity like most treat their actual virginity. :lol:

That being said, mgb took mine too. Unfortunatly I had just turned 12 and wasn't exactly as into them as I am now....

namkablam · Post by **namkablam** » 10/23/2005, 7:34 pm

go Rob, good stuff!!

oh yeah, quit closing your eyes.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/23/2005, 7:38 pm

I'll try to stop blinking from now on. :nod:

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 10/23/2005, 7:55 pm

thirdhour wrote:Rob's probably the only kid around that treats his concert virginity like most treat their actual virginity.

i'm like that too! olp was my first concert. and i'm not willing to spend money on a concert...or even go to a concert at all, unless it's a band i really love.

my friend got me beautiful midnight for my birthday
hooray

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/23/2005, 8:14 pm

yay!

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 10/23/2005, 11:52 pm

my first show would have been Summersault in 2000
the bands playing were

OLP
Foo Fighters
Smashing Pumpkins
Treble Charger
A Perfect Circle
Sum41
Eve6
Finger11

after that i've seen

Treble Charger two more times

Finger11 again

Seether two times

OLP two more times

Collective Soul twice

George Thorogood

Ozzy Osbourne

Foo Fighters again

Velvet Revolver

Guess Who

Rush (i dont even like them)

AC/DC

Tea Party

Sam Roberts twice

Greenday

Grady

Thornley

Rolling Stones

U2

Audioslave

and i thinks about all of it