^^^ I don't follow. He's not to be admired? I don't mean as a moral person in the grand sense, but I'm a fan, and a fairly conscientious one, and he strikes me as a fan in the same vein. I do lists. I'm a completist. I like the varied sets. I like getting full shows with my live albums. I like commentaries. I like to know the behind the scenes. All things that Mike does, in addition to laying down sick drum parts.
I forget what it was now - might have been Flying Colors - and one of the live sets, they did an impromptu rendition of Space Truckin' by Deep Purple. And there was some talk about it being "exclusive to the vinyl" or some shit. Well, I found it, buried in the blu-ray of the show. I don't know that that was Mike specifically, but it's the kind of thing he would do, and it's the kind of thing if not done would bug me. I appreciate that attention to detail and that recognition that not everything is a marketing scheme or ploy.