Matthew Cox

I'd go to concerts all the time.

So one night we're all partying at a nightclub called Bar One.

And he's like, hey, come out to the car with me.

I want to show you something.

So I go out to the vehicle and he brings out this, you know, the old school CD case.

It had like 30 CDs in it.

And he starts handing them to me.

And it's like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, U2.

And I'm just like, and you know, like I had all their albums.

Like what the fuck are these?

And he explains to me there were live recordings, but there were digital copies of original master recordings.

And so the government ended up seizing a whole bunch of these.

This was the one for 1992 Lollapalooza.

So this is like bands that back in the early to mid 1990s, we had all the Guns N' Roses, we had all of Jane's Addictions, we had all of these bands that were enormous commercial success,

Where we're getting digital copies of the original master recordings of their live concerts.

That's ultimately how he was able to, hey, I'm hooking you up with these, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

And it's like, all right.

So I started doing business with him in the ecstasy context.

He became the connection for these compact discs.

So now what we wanted to do was take these and create a separate band.