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Newsday.com:Buffalo boys come home
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Buffalo boys come home
Newsday.com
BY RAFER GUZMĂN
August 02, 2006 Los Angeles is nothing but illusions.... I had to kind of adapt to the environment in Buffalo again. And I was real happy to do that. I felt reconnected to the plot of what my band's all about.
How many rock stars would leave their adopted hometown of sunny Los Angeles to work on an album in Buffalo - in December?
At least three: singer Johnny Rzeznik, bassist Robby Takac and drummer Mike Malinin of the Goo Goo Dolls, a band whose roots are in that upstate city famous for its bone-chilling winters.
Rzeznik explains why he recorded the group's latest album, 'Let Love In,' by citing the unofficial motto of Buffalo: 'The City of No Illusions.' By contrast, he says, 'Los Angeles is nothing but illusions.... I had to kind of adapt to the environment in Buffalo again. And I was real happy to do that. I felt reconnected to the plot of what my band's all about.'
'Let Love In' (Warner Bros.) is a comeback of sorts from a group that hasn't been in the spotlight in a major way since racking up mainstream rock hits such as 'Name,' 'Iris' and 'Slide' in the mid-to-late 1990s. Though the Goo Goo Dolls released a live CD/DVD package in 2004, their last album, 'Gutterflower,' came out four years ago. Now they're back with an uptempo new single, 'Stay With You,' that Rzeznik hopes will make a few converts.
'We catch a lot of -- from critics,' Rzeznik says, speaking by phone from a hotel room in Harrisburg, Pa., last Friday. 'I like writing songs. You may not like them, but I'm writing them.'
During a half-hour conversation, Rzeznik comes across as down-to-earth and self-deprecating, but also something of a loner who likes to walk his own path. He says he moved to L.A. to escape the memories of a broken marriage but didn't make many friends. He did a stint as a producer on 'a cheesy pop record' (Ryan Cabrera's 2004 debut on Atlantic) and now regrets it.
'I can't believe I did it,' Rzeznik says, groaning. 'There's writers who refuse to even mention my name anymore because I worked with him. I'm like, 'Great.''
In December 2004, Rzeznik packed up a U-Haul with his recording equipment and drove with a friend across country to Buffalo. He and his band mates set up shop in a Masonic hall - 'about 100 years old, totally full of ghosts, freezing cold' - that also had great acoustics. There they wrote songs and recorded some of the basic tracks for the new disc, which was eventually produced by Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, the Corrs).
Rzeznik says he wasn't treated like a hometown hero in Buffalo, and he liked that. In fact, the Goo Goo Dolls will likely record their next album there.
'Like I said, there's no illusions in Buffalo,' Rzeznik says. 'People are just like, 'Hey, what's up,' and that's about it. I mean, they're over us already.'
WHERE & WHEN The Goo Goo Dolls play with Counting Crows at 7 tonight and tomorrow at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh. Tickets are $29.50-$49.50. Call 631-888-9000 or go to ticketmaster.com.
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« Reply #1 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:08pm » |
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Quote:He did a stint as a producer on 'a cheesy pop record' (Ryan Cabrera's 2004 debut on Atlantic) and now regrets it.
'I can't believe I did it,' Rzeznik says, groaning. 'There's writers who refuse to even mention my name anymore because I worked with him. I'm like, 'Great.'' |
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Poor Ryan. I'm quite surprised to see John say that. That's pretty rude. It's one thing to think it but to say it out loud in an interview.
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:54pm » |
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I think it's really really shitty. Ryan idolizes him and John praised him back when the album came out. Take It All Away sold well and was well received by critics. And why does he care if 'some writer' won't mention his name? Whatever happened to "you've gotta believe that what other people think doesn't matter"?
You know how John always said that the popstar boybanders were always so nice and the rockstars were assholes? Congrats, John, you're a real rockstar now.
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Re: Newsday.com:Buffalo boys come home
« Reply #3 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:44pm » |
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It's funny how he so quickly goes from saying that his band gets shit from critics to doing exactly that to Ryan; and in poor form -- the critics are doing their job, while he's just saying it for the hell of it.
Hey John, maybe said writers won't speak your name anymore because YOUR work has become mediocre, not because you did a nice thing for a young artist that idolized you. 
Then again, if he's wanting to work with writers who are that close-minded; I don't want to hear whatever they'd come up with anyway.
(...and I don't even LIKE Ryan Cabrera!)
*edited because I always use about 50 times more parentheses than is necessary.
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Re: Newsday.com:Buffalo boys come home
« Reply #4 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:48pm » |
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 1:08pm, Shannon wrote:
Poor Ryan. I'm quite surprised to see John say that. That's pretty rude. It's one thing to think it but to say it out loud in an interview. |
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thats so rude i cant believe he said that
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:27pm » |
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I don't know where John's head has been. He's been awfully negative lately. 
I NEVER thought I'd read something where a member of the Goos says something that negative about another artist. That's not their style.
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« Reply #6 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 4:53pm » |
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 3:48pm, tkc1989 wrote:
thats so rude i cant believe he said that |
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I'm very surprised as well..
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Re: Newsday.com:Buffalo boys come home
« Reply #7 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 6:26pm » |
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Go here: http://www.ryancabrera.com/
Click Media and select Ryan Cabrera EPK (5th video).
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« Reply #8 on: Aug 2nd, 2006, 6:39pm » |
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I remember that video clip. They looked like they had so much fun working together. I really hope Ryan never sees this article.
I never bought Ryan's album that John helped produce but I always liked what I heard. I think Ryan is ALOT more respectable of a pop artist than alot of the crap that's out there. Screw any of the writers that won't work with John because of it. And, shame on John for being proud one minute and then saying he's not because of others' opinions. There's a HUGE part of me that hopes John was misquoted or taken out of context but I just don't think so 
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on Aug 2nd, 2006, 6:26pm, the red o wrote:
this is the first time i've seen this! they looked like they had alot of fun together 
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