Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up

so why do all these teens want to kill matt?

This gives you the background Info....

straight(.)com/article/maturin g-matthew-goods-a-nice-guy-aft er-all

The rest of the band wanted to sell out and wanted Radio-friendly songs and shallow songs, the band was after money and fame, but Matt himself wanted real and meaningful songs, he wanted honesty and integrity, he didn't want to sell out and didn't care about popularity or fame, he knew the band and their greed was keeping him back and then Dave Genn left once he found out that he could join another band who was doing more publicity tours & getting money, so Matt dissolved the band and went solo.

@halcyon083 He just wanted to write beautiful and deep music - and he went on to do so!

Genn joined 54-40 like 3 and a half years later, he didn't leave Good for them

" Dave Genn (the traitor) quit the band before the 2001 MGB album (Audio of Being) was completed. He returned a few days later, however, only to quit permanently not long after the album's release in October 2001. Following Genn's departure, Good dissolved the band in 2002. "

en(.)wikipedia(.)org/wiki/Matt hew_ Good_ Band#The_ Audio_ of_ Being(.)2FBreak-Up

Yes, and Genn joined 54-40 in 2005, so your assertion that he left for 54-40 makes no sense. The idea that Genn left for fame is ludicrous - what reason did he have to believe he'd get it?

Where's your evidence for believing the rest of the band were desperate for a more commercialised sound? It flies in the face of the widely believed reason that Good simply was always more of a solo-ist, and by the time of AOB, the other bandmates had got sick of having their contributions restricted/ignored.

dfbhcf: I know what you mean. I just ordered the new MGB album. I live in Pennsylvania, walked into a Best Buy, and they didn't even have a name slot for his stuff, wasn't even mentioned. Nobody knows who he is unless I show it to them. I had to order the new album online, have it shipped from a Canadian vendor by amazon straight to my house. It costed me a fortune but that is the only way you can get his stuff down here other then downloading it.

rush being canadian is why they are in the r&r hall of fame, it's a shame

I couldn't agree more. Americans tend to only support THEIR music, because they are mindlessly patriotic to a fault.

Matthew Good doesn't need them. He has a rabid cult fan base here, and if you've heard his last album 'Vancouver' you can tell he is still making the best alternative rock music in the world.