Matt Hartman played second guitar on the five songs Dead to Fall cut at Cloud City Studios in Detroit in 2001. Twenty-four hours in a warehouse with Mike Hasty behind the board, a fan with no cage spinning somewhere in the room, the band sleeping on the floor between tracking days. No label, no manager, no booking agent. Hartman co-wrote two of those songs, “Like A Bullet” and “The Cost Of A Good Impression.” He quit the band in April 2002. By the time any of the tracks got re-recorded for Victory two years later, he was in Cincinnati, disconnected from the scene, listening to a promo copy a friend at the label had sent him...