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(Message started by: Pondering My Fate on Aug 11^th, 2009, 10:58pm)

Title: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by Pondering My Fate on Aug 11^th, 2009, 10:58pm

Improv Ice
The Goo Goo Dolls will join Olympic, World & National Champion Skaters for a night of impromptu performance at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, October 6, 2009.

Hosted by Olympic Champions Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi, "Improv-Ice" will require each skater to perform to one contemporary piece of music chosen in advance by Lea Ann Miller, Artistic director of Disson Skating, and one of the Goo Goo Dolls greatest hits, performed live by the band.

To close the show, there will be a group number with the Goo Goo Dolls featuring music from there new album. The skaters will not get to hear any of the music before performing.

The live audience and viewers will have the opportunity to vote for the skater they feel performed the most creative routine. Results will be announced on the television special.

Tickets go on sale August 14 at 10:00 AM and are available to purchase at ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster retail outlets and charge-by-phone: 800-745-3000 (tickets will be available at the Honda Center Box Office beginning Monday, August 17). All dates, acts and ticket prices subject to change without notice. A service charge is added to each ticket price.

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I.... uhhh.... what?

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"featuring music from there [sic] new album

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improvisational group ice skating?

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by DWG on Aug 12^th, 2009, 12:50pm

o_O

Muahahahaaaaa....make them skate without knowing the music beforehand. Evil. Pure evil.

Hey, be thankful it isn't that awful June Taylor-style (yeah, I know it's before your time) underwater choreographed "dancing" with their feet sticking up, turning in circles...

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by nmf016 on Aug 12^th, 2009, 2:28pm

Look, if we don't talk about it, maybe it won't happen.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by JohnnysValentine on Aug 13^th, 2009, 1:18pm

Cool! I wish I could go.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by Shannon on Aug 15^th, 2009, 11:51am

I guess any gig is a good gig? Exposure is exposure? I just don't know what to make of this. I've been processing this since I read about it.....

BTW ... Thanks for posting this Pondering. I've been very lax in my duties here this summer. I find it so hard to get things done when my kids are home. So I appreciate all of you jumping in and posting things when I don't.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by DWG on Aug 15^th, 2009, 9:12pm

It's a "treasure trove" of information...

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090811&content_id=6367066&vkey=ice_pressrelease

:P

"The Music: In anticipation of the follow-up release to their 2006 album Let Love In, set to drop in early 2010, four-time Grammy-nominated artists the Goo Goo Dolls will perform eight of their greatest hits live with the skaters and perform three numbers from their new album. The band has become one of the most globally respected and influential forces in popular music history, selling more than 10 million albums since 1987. They have been topping charts for decades, having an unprecedented string of 14 consecutive number one and top 10 multi-format hit singles including "Name," "Slide," Black Balloon," Broadway," "Here Is Gone," "Big Machine," "Sympathy," "Stay With You," "Before It's Too Late," "Jim's Theme" (Treasure Planet)," and "Better Days," which, due to its uplifting lyrical spirit, was adopted by CNN as an anthem for the news channel's Hurricane Katrina recovery coverage. "Iris," from the City Of Angels soundtrack, spent nearly 12 straight months on the Billboard charts and held the number one position for 18 consecutive weeks. By that point, sales of the soundtrack exceeded a phenomenal 10 million copies worldwide.

The title track of their 2006 album Let Love In marked the band's 20th anniversary and gave the band a record number of top 10 hits in Adult Top 40 history, beating artists including Matchbox Twenty and Sheryl Crow. Be one of the first to hear brand new tracks from the Goo Goo Dolls as they perform live at Improv-Ice. "

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by DWG on Aug 15^th, 2009, 9:23pm

ooohh...Ninja ice skater:

http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/skater.jpg

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by lionhill on Aug 17^th, 2009, 7:34am

What.

Okay, that's.. um, different. Yay new songs in October?

I'm Still Here is John's song, right? I always get unsure when I read that the guys recorded it.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by Shannon on Aug 17^th, 2009, 11:06am

Yes. John wrote I'm Still Here for the movie Treasure Planet. I really love that song and don't think it ever got the credit it deserves.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by lionhill on Aug 17^th, 2009, 5:26pm

on 08/17/09 at 11:06:39, Shannon wrote:

Yes. John wrote I'm Still Here for the movie Treasure Planet. I really love that song and don't think it ever got the credit it deserves.

It's just like how it was for me with Hey, Jealousy when I was a new fan. I could hear it wasn't John nor Robby, but it said Goo Goo Dolls, so..

Totally agreed. I owe everything to that song, that was the song that got me into the Goo Goo Dolls in the first place.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by DWG on Aug 17^th, 2009, 7:52pm

on 08/17/09 at 17:26:00, lionhill wrote:

It's just like how it was for me with Hey, Jealousy when I was a new fan. I could hear it wasn't John nor Robby, but it said Goo Goo Dolls, so..

"Hey Jealousy" is by Gin Blossoms.

Good song though.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by lionhill on Aug 18^th, 2009, 9:27am

on 08/17/09 at 19:52:08, DWG wrote:

"Hey Jealousy" is by Gin Blossoms.

Good song though.

Oh, I know. Why does everybody think it's them, anyway?

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls on Ice
Post by DWG on Aug 18^th, 2009, 9:15pm

I don't know. People seem to put bands into categories, like 90's alt bands, 80's hair bands, etcetera. There may be similarities between bands in each category, but every band put its own spin on the music, so I don't know why there was always the confusion.