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(Message started by: Shannon on Jul 9^th, 2006, 10:11am)

Title: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'" -
Post by Shannon on Jul 9^th, 2006, 10:11am

Goo Goo Dolls still feel the 'Love'
After 20 years together, band was having second thoughts, but no more
By ERIK ERNST
Special to the Journal Sentinel
Posted: July 8, 2006
Sometimes it takes some time apart to become stronger as a group.

After touring in support of their 2002 album, "Gutterflower," the Goo Goo Dolls' founding members, vocalist and guitarist Johnny Rzeznik and bassist Robby Takac, thought their 20-year run as bandmates had come to an end. Living in Los Angeles, along with drummer Mike Malinin, the trio headed their separate ways.

"I think that John and I both felt for the first time ever that we were reaching around, trying different things in our lives," Takac said recently from a stop on the tour with Counting Crows that brings both bands to the Marcus Amphitheater tonight (the Goos will close the show). "So we had a chance to work on some things ourselves. He worked on some records for some other bands, and I did, too.

"Soon we realized that after doing this together for so long, we developed some talents that as a group tend to come naturally. We realized that we had a rapport among us and in that rapport was power.

"And we realized that our day jobs (as the Goo Goo Dolls) didn't suck as bad as we had thought," he said, laughing.

As they decided to have another go at it, the band left behind their adopted L.A. homes and headed back to Buffalo, N.Y., where Rzeznik and Takac grew up and formed the early thrashing punk band that would become the Goo Goo Dolls in the late 1980s.

After working with Rob Cavallo on their other recent outings, the band decided to use a new producer for this album. Takac said Glen Ballard, a Grammy-winner who has worked with Alanis Morissette, the Dave Matthews Band and others, brought a laid-back attitude to the sessions.

The resulting album, "Let Love In," is rife with melodic tunes filled with lyrical expressions of love and examinations on the process of going home.

The Goo Goo Dolls on "Let Love In" are a much different band than their early days when Takac was more likely to be listening to heavy metal than the adult contemporary charts that the Goo Goo Dolls' records are climbing these days. And that's just fine with him.

According to Takac, the future for the Goos, a group that was on its way toward splitting up, is looking strong.

Summerfest
Goo Goo Dolls

If You Go
Who: Goo Goo Dolls and Counting Crows with Augustana
When: 7:30 Sunday
Where: Marcus Amphitheater
How much: Bleacher seats, $34.75 excluding service charges, available at the box office and through Ticketmaster; includes Summerfest admission. Free lawn seating available first-come, first-serve at noon in the Marcus Amphitheater forecourt; separate Summerfest admission required.

Related Coverage
Special section: Summerfest
Slideshow: Musician photos
Reader forum: Write your own review

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=459284

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by TruexBlue on Jul 9^th, 2006, 11:52am

...don't forget the photo...

http://onmilwaukee.com/images/articles/crowsdolls_story1.jpg

8)

Stay True & Rock On!
Triest

:jammin:

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by TruexBlue on Jul 9^th, 2006, 11:55am

...did you catch the wakt comment? ... im taking a leap ..and..guessing it wasn't you shannon goo...

FUMKE

What was Bootie & The Hofish too busy?

Stay True & Rock On!
Triest

:jammin:

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by Shannon on Jul 9^th, 2006, 11:58am

on 07/09/06 at 11:55:20, TruexBlue wrote:

...did you catch the wakt comment? ... im taking a leap ..and..guessing it wasn't you shannon goo

FUMKE

What was Bootie & The Hofish too busy?

Stay True & Rock On!
Triest

:jammin:

It must not be me because I'm totally lost and have no idea what you're talking about ... lol �;D

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by TruexBlue on Jul 9^th, 2006, 11:59am

check it out...

http://onmilwaukee.com/talkback/talkback-as-8944-81365.html?uri=/seasonal/summerfest/articles/crowsdolls.html?8944

Stay True & Rock On!
Triest

:jammin:

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by Shannon on Jul 9^th, 2006, 12:02pm

I gotcha now. No that definitely was not me...lol What a smart a** that person is. I would normally find that funny but because it's a slam against the Goos it's not funny.

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by TruexBlue on Jul 9^th, 2006, 12:21pm

...its our job to share goo news...if it to be...good.. or .. not so good...

....but the GREAT thing about it , is we being pro goo appreciaters... can post a million great comments to subtract the one bad one ...

so come on guys, show em what we got!!!!! 8)

Stay True & Rock On!
Triest

:jammin:

Title: Re: "Goo Goo Dolls Still feel the 'Love'"
Post by [Joelage] on Jul 9^th, 2006, 3:05pm

I love;

"Soon we realized that after doing this together for so long, we developed some talents that as a group tend to come naturally. We realized that we had a rapport among us and in that rapport was power.

"And we realized that our day jobs (as the Goo Goo Dolls) didn't suck as bad as we had thought," he said, laughing.

fantastic! lol :)