Remembering Mac

[LavagesOfTime]

Why don't we gather memories, tributes and so in a thread? Here's my kick off.

I found this video on youtube during an "evening with Threshold videos", the guy really does a great job - despite his arrangement is a little too, err, symphonic metal oriented (the chorus, in particular). I quite like it but it's a bit of step out of Threshold style.




Here's some pics you probably have never seen - unless you are long time regulars on this forum.

Before the dvd show in Zoetermeer

Soundcheck at the dvd show [this one's from Trevor Raggat]

last but not least, me and him, Z7, Zoetermeer, 2002 tour

No stories in particular come to my mind now (perhaps it's because I've always had a hard time in understanding Mac's - and Jon's! - accent), I just remember a happy, nice guy, always smiling and chatty.

So I end this post with a fantastic quote from Nick (we were backstage after the 2002 show in Pratteln), that pretty much sums up the guy:

Me: "What kind of videogames do you have on the bus ?"
Nick: "We have no videogames this time, and no tv: we just have Mac!"

 

[Purplefreak]

Here is a nice tribute posted by the Swamp Freaks
http://youtu.be/4O9fbRC4y3Q

Tony

 

[Threshold]

For those who didn't see it already, we uploaded a video of one of Mac's last performances with Threshold as a tribute to him.
http://youtu.be/DndUsf_PmkI

 

[ironhead]

I like the Swamp Freaks tribute

 

[karl groom]

The Swamp Freaks video was too sad for me, although well put together. I prefer to remember the many happy memories with Mac. Amusing moments like him fixing the tour bus before a show in the documentary.

Nick's quote isn't quite right Rob. Shortly after that Mac offered to buy a TV from the venue and dragged an old set onto the bus to play his video games. I think it was one of the first colour televisions ever by the look of the wood panels on the side!

 

[LavagesOfTime]

Nick's quote isn't quite right Rob. Shortly after that Mac offered to buy a TV from the venue and dragged an old set onto the bus to play his video games. I think it was one of the first colour televisions ever by the look of the wood panels on the side!

ahahaha, well, I think that the quote basically gives you the perfect picture of who Mac was :Spin: