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(Message started by: Rockin_Munchkin on Feb 8^th, 2008, 7:00pm)

Title: Then And Now
Post by Rockin_Munchkin on Feb 8^th, 2008, 7:00pm

http://www.mtv.com/news/images/a/album_cover_children/goo.jpg

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by partygoober on Feb 10^th, 2008, 10:13pm

he needs to shave that beard. it's to sloppy looking. i like his baby face.

catch that pun?

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by DWG on Feb 10^th, 2008, 10:50pm

Got it.
How ya doin'?

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by Shannon on Feb 11^th, 2008, 12:41pm

on 02/08/08 at 20:48:18, Gage Naylor wrote:

wow he doesn't look that different. i thought ppl usually changed a lot from when they were babies

HA! His hair is almost exactly the same.

Great find Rockin_Munchkin!

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by lionhill on Feb 11^th, 2008, 12:47pm

.. He was cuter as a baby.

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by laurengoo on Feb 11^th, 2008, 2:56pm

Is he single...?

I'm just curious. Tis all. ;D

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by Rockin_Munchkin on Feb 15^th, 2008, 6:21pm

Glad I could share. Like you said, he's barely even changed! Wonder if he likes the Goo Goo Dolls? lol

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by Pon on Feb 15^th, 2008, 9:45pm

this is just wrong..lol. Should just leave it in the past. Who the dizzy girl by the way??

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by Nicole on Feb 15^th, 2008, 10:18pm

Carl Gellert
Famous For: Being the boy on the cover of the Goo Goo Dolls' 1995 LP, A Boy Named Goo

The picture of a 2-year-old Carl Gellert � with dirt smeared across the lower half of his face � that serves as the cover imagery for the Goo Goo Dolls' breakthrough release wasn't actually commissioned by the band's label, Warner Bros., for the disc. It was a photo his father, Vance, a professional photographer, had taken of him for a book he later published called "Carlvision."

"At the time the album came out, I was just going into seventh grade, so I was 12 or something like that," Gellert remembered. "I don't really know how it happened. I think somehow my dad knew the band's publicist, and the Goo Goo Dolls discovered the book, and they really liked the one picture so they went with it."

Carl's dad was paid $6,000 for use of the image that helped earn Gellert, now 24, the nickname "Goo" � one that's stuck with him throughout his entire adult life.

"I was actually going into a new school that year, and pretty much instantly earned the name 'Goo' before I even started school," he said. "At first, it was kind of lame, and I didn't like people calling me Goo. But by the end of that year, I had pretty much embraced it, and my friends still call me Goo."

Like Ferrara, Gellert's not what you could call a Goo Goo Dolls fan ("I didn't dislike the album, I just wasn't a fan at all"). But his residence hall director in college was maybe a little obsessed.

"He had the poster up in his room, and had me autograph things," Gellert said. "He'd pester me almost every day about it. When he found out they were coming to town to play, he'd ask if I could get him free tickets, or get him backstage and meet the band. But in my apartment, there's no Goo Goo Dolls paraphernalia. The album is hanging up in my parents' houses, and I had it hanging up for a while. But I can't stand having it up any more. I have seen that picture way too much."

Like Elden, Gellert � who lives in Minneapolis and will be entering grad school soon to work on his doctorate in art history with a focus on archeological research � was initially, well, "mortified" when he learned his naughty bits (which are barely visible in the picture) were plastered across posters, T-shirts and billboards. "I thought it was cool after I got over my initial embarrassment," he said.

He also looks for the record when he goes into music stores, and has been asked more than a handful of times to sign copies of the disc. And he's often introduced to people by his friends as the kid who was on the Goo Goo Dolls' album cover, which sometimes leads to confusion.

"Most people, when they see me again, mistake me for the Nirvana kid," he said. "I'm always like, 'Nope, that was someone else.' Other people think I'm in the band � I'm just the baby on the CD. I'm not even the same guy anymore. It does make me feel like I have some small niche of fame. But at the same time, it wasn't anything I did for myself, so I'm not terribly proud of it. It is pretty cool, and I like that people think it's so cool and want my autograph."

I can't remember where the exact link is, but it is from the same thing as the picture. http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1567095&pid=2561378

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by The Cerulean O on Feb 20^th, 2008, 7:42pm

Hahahahaha, I've seen that before.....Good times...goooooooooooood times.....:P

Title: Re: Then And Now
Post by Rockin_Munchkin on Mar 3^rd, 2008, 6:34pm

Thanks for posting that article! I didn't know that