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Goo Goo Dolls frontman wants fans to embrace the new material
By Kevin Coffey
Feed the hungry, meet the band
Summer’s almost here.
You can tell because the grass grove in Council Bluffs, known as the Stir Concert Cove, will be glowing with lights, music and cheering fans on a regular basis.
Kicking off the action are the megapopular pop-rock balladeers in the Goo Goo Dolls.
Since “Long Way Down,” “Iris” and “Slide,” the Goos Johnny Rzeznik, Robby Takac and Mike Malinin have been lighting up pop radio with song after song.
Before heading to Stir, lead singer and guitarist Rzeznik called The World-Herald to talk about the band’s upcoming album and success and to beat up on his bandmates.
Q. When are we going to see a new album?
A. The new album’s coming out in July. It took so long because we took a little time off from each other. We did the worst thing that any band can possibly do: We built our own recording studio. That was a clear waste of about eight months of time. And then we sat around in the recording studio messing around with the buttons and knobs and then we looked over our shoulders and had been (messing) around for a year and a half.
It took six months to write the songs, and then we went in the studio and did the album finished it up in five or six months.
Then we sat down and listened to it. Then we re-cut a bunch of stuff, wrote a couple new songs and played around with a couple different producers.
Q. Is there a theme to the new album?
A. Just about people sort of coping with their own humanity and keep feeling their own humanity during a really difficult period in the world. We’re in a really bad economy and two wars that look like they’re never gonna end, and the sort of alienation that I seem to feel a lot of people going through.
Q. Will we hear some of those new songs at the concert?
A. Definitely. We’re doing four or five of the new songs. It’s always interesting to do before it’s released. People hear it on the radio or go get the album. They’re not quite sure how to react.
Q. Do you ever get sick of playing “Iris” or “Long Way Down”?
A. (Pauses) I think if somebody’s coming to see you play and they spend 35 or 40 bucks or whatever, they want to hear those songs.
I really want people to embrace the new material, but those songs are little pieces of people’s lives. Everybody’s got a story about those songs. They want to come out and enjoy them and see them live.
Q. How do you think the Goo Goo Dolls have been able to remain successful as a band?
A. I think we’ve learned to respect each other’s boundaries. We know when to ignore each other and avoid each other. We know when to stick together. It’s definitely a marriage.
On this tour, so far and it’s only been about a month and a half Robby and I haven’t had a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
Q. Does that happen often?
A. It happened every once in awhile. Ultimately, you laugh about it. We’ve rolled around on the ground smacking each other. You get up and you spit some blood and then you go onstage and play the show.
Q. Is there a question you get in interviews that you wish you were never asked again?
A. “How’d you guys get the name of the band?” I really wish I would have had five more minutes with that one. That was one big mistake. How can you take (“Goo Goo Dolls”) seriously?
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http://www.omaha.com/article/20100520/ENTERTAINMENT04/705209930
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« Reply #1 on: May 20th, 2010, 4:46pm » |
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Quote:Q. How do you think the Goo Goo Dolls have been able to remain successful as a band?
A. I think we’ve learned to respect each other’s boundaries. We know when to ignore each other and avoid each other. We know when to stick together. It’s definitely a marriage.
On this tour, so far and it’s only been about a month and a half Robby and I haven’t had a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
Q. Does that happen often?
A. It happened every once in awhile. Ultimately, you laugh about it. We’ve rolled around on the ground smacking each other. You get up and you spit some blood and then you go onstage and play the show. |
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I want to see the show where they're spitting blood. Does that make me a bad person?
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Re: GGDs front man wants fans to embrace ... /arti
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on May 20th, 2010, 4:46pm, the stamped o wrote:| I want to see the show where they're spitting blood. Does that make me a bad person? |
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I hope not, because I think i want to see that too! 
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« Reply #3 on: May 21st, 2010, 10:00am » |
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Well now we now if we're ever at a show and one of them has scratch marks or bruises they had one of their cleansing brawls....lol
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Re: GGDs front man wants fans to embrace ... /arti
« Reply #4 on: May 21st, 2010, 11:32pm » |
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on May 20th, 2010, 4:46pm, the stamped o wrote:
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How 1999 of you.
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« Reply #5 on: May 22nd, 2010, 7:20am » |
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on May 20th, 2010, 4:46pm, the stamped o wrote:
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my seats would need to be close enough for me to see it!
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« Reply #6 on: May 24th, 2010, 3:37pm » |
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on May 22nd, 2010, 7:20am, partygoober wrote:| my seats would need to be close enough for me to see it! |
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This is true! lol. 
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« Reply #7 on: May 24th, 2010, 3:55pm » |
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on May 21st, 2010, 11:32pm, DWG wrote:
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Re: GGDs front man wants fans to embrace ... /arti
« Reply #8 on: May 24th, 2010, 8:53pm » |
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Yeah, that show would be definatly interesting. I'm a little shocked that stuff like that happens.. but I'm over it. Haha 
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« Reply #9 on: May 25th, 2010, 3:31pm » |
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I am not shocked. When you are friends, live together a large portion of your life in a tiny area, are co-workers and business partners for 24 years, you are bound to try to kill each other a couple times.
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