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(Message started by: Shannon on Sep 23^rd, 2010, 5:51pm)

Title: Toledo Free Press interview with John
Post by Shannon on Sep 23^rd, 2010, 5:51pm

Goo Goo Dolls to bring �Something� to Toledo
Written by Vicki L. Kroll | | [email protected]

John Rzeznik. He sings. He writes hit songs. He plays memorable guitar riffs. He cooks.

�I�m very good with Italian food; I make unbelievable sauce,� the front man of the Goo Goo Dolls said.

�Do I have a secret? Yeah, I dated an Italian girl,� he said and laughed.

Does he have other hidden talents?

�I can juggle,� he offered.

�That�s funny. We were doing a show the other day, and I was like, so the album�s coming out, so please go out and buy it because I really have no other marketable skills. If I have to go out and get a job, I�m going to be in big trouble,� Rzeznik said.

Not that he has to fret. The band has sold more than 10 million records thanks to a steady stream of hits � �Name,� �Iris,� �Slide,� �Black Balloon,� �Here Is Gone,� �Let Love In,� �Better Days.�

�I�m from Buffalo; you still worry about it,� he said.

That uncertainty is featured on the Goo Goo Dolls� ninth studio disc, �Something For the Rest of Us.�

�I wanted to sort of deal with the emotional kind of fallout of what�s going on in the world right now and how this kind of separation and anxiety is sort of affecting all of us,� Rzeznik said during a call from the back steps of his Los Angeles home.

�Home� is the new single.

�I was just thinking that you�re trying so hard to go out in the world and make your pile of money and you�re feeling incredibly unsatisfied because what truly matters is what�s going on in your interior life � having a home and family and friends,� Rzeznik said. �I think a lot of people are starting to realize that, that there�s sort of a paradigm shift going on in America, I think. We�ve been put in a position where we�re forced to be less materialistic, and we�re sort of re-evaluating what�s important in our lives.�

He said the ballad �Notbroken� was inspired by a woman he talked to during a meet-and-greet event.

�She was just telling me about how her husband had gone away to Iraq and was injured and he was in the hospital and he didn�t want to come home because he was afraid that she wouldn�t love him the way that she did when he felt whole,� Rzeznik said. �I just walked away from that five-minute conversation and was like, �wow, you know, that was really heavy.� So I took it upon myself to try to write a love letter to him from her, trying to say that everything is all right, it�s time to start our lives over again, I�m here for you.�

The Goo Goo Dolls � Rzeznik, singer and bass player Robby Takac and drummer Mike Malinin � have been around for almost a quarter of a century.

�Please don�t remind me � our silver anniversary, oh my God,� Rzeznik said and laughed.

And that�s with a band name Rzeznik isn�t crazy about.

�Robby won�t talk about it because he�s just like: Everybody remembers that name, it�s a great name. And I�m like, yeah, I know, but we could have done something cooler,� Rzeznik said. �Every once in a while I�ll come up with another name, and it�ll be like, oh yeah, but I forget them as fast as I come up with them.�

The Goo Goo Dolls will play a 7:30 p.m. show Oct. 6 at the Stranahan Theater. Tickets are $45 and $35. The Spill Canvas will open.

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/09/23/goo-goo-dolls-to-bring-�something�-to-toledo/