Matthew Good
Background information
Birth name	Matthew Frederick Robert Good
Born	June 29, 1971
Origin	Burnaby, British Columbia Canada
Genre(s)	Rock Acoustic
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Label(s)	Universal Music Canada A&M Records
Associated acts	Matthew Good Band
Website	www.matthewgood.org

Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002. Other band members included drummer Ian Browne, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Genn, and original bassist Geoff Lloyd, later replaced by Rich Priske. In the years since the Matthew Good Band's disbanding, Good has pursued a solo career and established himself as a political activist and blogger. Image File history File links MatthewGood. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (49°16′N 122°58′W), is a city immediately east of Vancouver. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 36 6 Area... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Acoustic music can refer to music that solely or primarily uses acoustic instruments, such as the acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, cello, and voice. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... The classical guitar typically has nylon strings. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment (see Music Corporation of America), is the largest major label in the record industry. ... A&M Records is a record label formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (49°16′N 122°58′W), is a city immediately east of Vancouver. ... Rock is a form of popular music from the mid 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] (also simply called alternative) were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels that didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863 Several American Indian-style drums for sale at the National Museum of the American Indian. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... Dave Genn David Robert Madison Genn is a life-long resident of Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... Rich Rock Priske (born August 29th, 1967) is a Canadian musician born in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Matthew Good Band

Good's early career in music involved a variety of folk demos and a stint as the lead singer of a folk band, the Rodchester Kings. The Matthew Good Band was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995. That year, they released their debut album, Last of the Ghetto Astronauts. Although initially popular only in the Vancouver area, the album began to catch on across Canada in 1996, with the singles "Alabama Motel Room", "Symbolistic White Walls", and "Haven't Slept in Years" becoming significant hits on radio and MuchMusic. Last of the Ghetto Astronauts, made on a budget of roughly five thousand Canadian dollars, eventually set the mark as the highest selling independent label release by a Canadian artist. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album from the 1960s. ... Last of the Ghetto Astronauts was the debut album of the Matthew Good Band. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... MuchMusic (often called Much) is a 24-hour national Canadian cable music and variety television channel based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which debuted on August 31, 1984 as one of the first Canadian cable specialty channels on the air. ...

The band's 1997 album Underdogs spawned the hit singles "Everything is Automatic" and "Apparitions", the latter of which remains the band's most successful single. Good's political outspokenness and brash confidence were unusual in the Canadian rock scene of the 1990s, and he was soon recognized as much for his seemingly difficult disposition as for his musical talent. As a nod to his reputation, Good sold t-shirts that read "I Hear Matt Good Is a Real Asshole" at MGB shows. He also maintained a subversive image, sometimes posing for publicity photos in a gorilla mask. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Underdogs was an album released by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band in 1997, as a followup to the 1995 album Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts. ... Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the publics perception of a subject. ... Type Species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 distribution of Gorilla Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ...

Beautiful Midnight followed in 1999 and became hugely successful via singles including "Hello Time Bomb", "Strange Days", and "Load Me Up". The album skyrocketed the band's celebrity status and earned them two Juno awards in 2000, for Best Group and Best Rock Album. (Good himself boycotts the Juno Awards, and guitarist Dave Genn has been quoted as saying that he only attends for the open bar.) Beautiful Midnight was an album released by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band in 1999, as a followup to the 1997 album Underdogs. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands; they could be considered the transnational counterpart to the United States Grammy Awards. ...

After touring Beautiful Midnight for nearly two years, the band set to work on The Audio of Being. The album's creation came amidst a difficult emotional period for Good, where he struggled to deal with the band's success. He was also diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes lesions to form in the lungs, prompting him to quit smoking altogether. Following throat surgery to remove a nodule from a vocal cord, Good holed up for three weeks in a hotel in Whistler to work on songs. Good later wrote that he spent much of the time "trying to keep down food supplement bars, trying to forget the growing tension within the band, the high expectations of needing to produce 'hit songs' (whatever they are these days), throwing up, and trying to find some semblance of direction in my personal life." The Audio Of Being was an album released by a Canadian rock group called Matthew Good Band in 2001. ...

The band entered the studio in 2000 to record the material. The sessions saw a great deal of inner-band turmoil, with Dave Genn quitting the band before the album was complete. He returned a few days later, however, only to quit permanently not long after the album's release that October. Following Genn's departure, Good dissolved the band in 2002. This article is about the year 2000. ... Dave Genn David Robert Madison Genn is a life-long resident of Vancouver, British Columbia. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Solo career

Good released his solo debut, Avalanche, in 2003. The album featured major stylistic differences from those recorded with the previous band, and featured the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on several tracks, including the first two singles, "Weapon" and "In a World Called Catastrophe". Good recorded the album with long-time MGB producer Warne Livesey, who earned a Juno nomination for the effort. Avalanche was Matthew Goods first solo album. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Warne Livesey is a record producer from the United Kingdom. ...

Good and co-director Ante Kovac were also nominated for a Juno Award for Best Video of the Year for "Weapon". Ante Kovac received the award alone on stage. Good later revealed in his blog that he had actually fired Kovac half way through the making of the video. In later commentary, Good related that Kovac's first edit of the video was far too standard, with gratutitous and generic fades. After firing Kovac, Good flew to Toronto and worked with video editor J.D. Shaw to re-craft the footage. While working on the edit, Good began to experiment with overlaying text and adding still frames and stock photos to help deliver the message. Good noted that he felt that the video was his favourite from his catalogue. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Good's second solo album, the politically-charged White Light Rock & Roll Review, was released June 15, 2004. Video singles included "Alert Status Red" and "It's Been a While Since I Was Your Man". For the album, Good elected to take a decidedly stripped-down approach. Rather than record each instrument separately, Good and his band (including Priske and drummer Patrick Steward) recorded the songs as a unit, with Good adding vocals and additional guitar parts later. Good later noted that he loved the freedom of being able to write a song, enter the studio, and have a recording completed almost immediately, rather than having to deal with the sometimes arduous process of recording layers and layers of music for a single song. White Light Rock & Roll Review was released on June 8, 2004, as Matthew Goods second album as a solo artist. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Good encountered controversy with the video for "Alert Status Red". Initially, the video was intended to be a concept piece, directed by Good. However, upon entering the editing stage, he realized he hadn't shot enough footage to make his concept work. He opted to turn all of the footage over to Kyle Davison, who directed the video for "In a World Called Catastrophe", to see if anything could be made out of it. Davison came up with his own concept, edited it together, and sent the finished product to Good. Good approved of the video, and made it available for download on his website. Good, however, was unaware that Davison had utilized several short clips of surveillance footage of the Columbine High School shootings in the piece. Upon hearing about the clips from individuals who felt the use was insensitive, Good pulled the video from his website. After watching it again, he decided to enlist the opinions of others, including MuchMusic, to see if they had any objections. Most felt it was reasonable, granted that the use wasn't exploitative and helped to support the message of the video, a message that they believed was decidedly relevant. Good agreed. He then returned the video to his website and expressed his support for the work of his co-director. Staff and students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting. ...

In March of 2005, Good brought in Ryan Dahle and Meegee Bradfield of Limblifter to join his band (replacing Christian Thor Valdson and Rich Priske). Good noted that he was concerned his previous line-up had run its course creatively, and that, as a solo artist, he was graced with the freedom to change direction by involving different musicians. He hoped that Ryan and Meegee might be able to lend a new perspective to familiar material. In April, the lineup entered the studio and recorded two tracks for the Matthew Good best-of, "Big City Life" and "Oh Be Joyful". However, when Good undertook a brief tour of Ontario in July of 2005, he was rejoined by Priske and Valdson. Limblifter is a Canadian alternative rock group. ...

A compilation of Good's work with the Matthew Good Band and on his own was released in September 2005, titled In a Coma: Matthew Good 1995-2005. The first single from the album, "Oh Be Joyful", was released at the end of July. In a Coma is the title of the forthcoming Matthew Good best of album, featuring both his solo work and work from the Matthew Good Band. ...

Good took particular care in the production of the expanded deluxe edition of In a Coma, which included an additional CD and a DVD. In April of 2005, Good entered the studio and recorded nine songs from his catalog, reworked and performed acoustically. As a nod to fans who were unable to find them, the CD also included the out-of-print EPs Lo-Fi B-Sides and Loser Anthems. The DVD featured the complete library of Good's music videos, including a new video for "While We Were Hunting Rabbits" from Avalanche developed by animation students at Sheridan College. Released in 1997, Lo-Fi B-Sides was the second EP produced by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band. ... Loser Anthems, B-Sides and Rarities (normally referred to simply as Loser Anthems) was a 2001 release of the (now defunct) Matthew Good Band. ... Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a diploma and degree granting Canadian polytechnic institute with campuses in Oakville, Ontario and Brampton, Ontario, both western suburbs of Toronto. ...

Writings

Beyond his music career, Good has also been a writer and blogger. From late 1997 through the end of 2000, Good published a series of monthly manifestos on the band's website. These were later compiled and released in his debut book at last, there is nothing left to say, published in 2001 by Insomniac Press (ISBN 1-894663-08-X). 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Throughout his life, Good has found a passion for politics and history. In recent years, he has made his political views far more public, and has used his website to express his opinions about the Canadian government, the effects of the United States' foreign policy, and world crises like the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Good has also been heavily involved with Amnesty International, bringing Amnesty representatives on the road with him during his 2004 tour and offering a limited-edition jersey on his website with proceeds going to Amnesty. Combatants factions of the SLA Justice & Equality Mvmnt Janjaweed Government of Sudan Minnawi-faction of the SLA Commanders SLA: ? JEM: ? Janjaweed: ? Sudan: Omar al-Bashir SLA: Minni Minnawi Casualties 300,000 civilians killed The Darfur conflict is an ongoing armed conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between... Darfur (Arabic دار فور, meaning home of the Fur) is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad. ... Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an non-governmental membership organization with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally recognized human rights. ...

Recent events

Since the release of In a Coma, Good has been demoing songs, and expects to release a new album sometime in 2007. While promoting In a Coma, Good noted that he might use the release of the compilation to mark the end of the first era of his career, where he could then move on to write "weirder" music. In December of 2005, Good previewed a demo called "Black Helicopter", which he recorded at home using GarageBand on an Apple Power Mac G5. This article is about the software application. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Power Mac G5 The Power Mac G5 is Apple Computers name for models of the Power Mac which contain the PowerPC G5 CPU. The professional-grade computer is the most powerful in Apples lineup and is touted by Apple as one of the fastest personal computers ever built...

In March of 2006, Good embarked on a solo acoustic tour of Canada, which featured smaller crowds and more intimate settings. Good spent several weeks leading up to the tour reworking many of his older songs to fit a solo acoustic format, including rarities such as "Fated" and "Life Beyond the Minimum Safe Distance". He was joined on tour by opening act Melissa McClelland, with whom he played Johnny Cash's cover version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" at the end of his solo performances. Melissa McClelland (born ca. ... Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock n roll singer and songwriter. ... NIN redirects here. ...

Discography

Matthew Good early demos

• 1993 - Left of Normal
• 1993 - Broken
• 1994 - Euphony

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Matthew Good Band

• 1994 - 15 Hours on a September Thursday (demo)
• 1995 - Last of the Ghetto Astronauts
• 1996 - Raygun
• 1997 - Underdogs
• 1998 - Lo-Fi B-Sides
• 1999 - Beautiful Midnight
• 2001 - Loser Anthems
• 2001 - The Audio of Being

1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 15 Hours On A September Thursday is a demo album by Canadian rock musician Matthew Good. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Last of the Ghetto Astronauts was the debut album of the Matthew Good Band. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Raygun was a five-song EP released by the Matthew Good Band in 1997 as a followup to their enormously popular indie release, Last of the Ghetto Astronauts. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Underdogs was an album released by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band in 1997, as a followup to the 1995 album Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Released in 1997, Lo-Fi B-Sides was the second EP produced by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Beautiful Midnight was an album released by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band in 1999, as a followup to the 1997 album Underdogs. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Loser Anthems, B-Sides and Rarities (normally referred to simply as Loser Anthems) was a 2001 release of the (now defunct) Matthew Good Band. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Audio Of Being was an album released by a Canadian rock group called Matthew Good Band in 2001. ...

Matthew Good as solo artist

• 2003 - Avalanche
• 2004 - White Light Rock & Roll Review
• 2005 - In a Coma

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Samples as Matthew Good Band

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Samples as Matthew Good

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See also

• List of musical artists from Canada

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External links

• Official website / MBLOG
• Near Fantastica, fansite