Before the Goo Goo Dolls ever could be a good band, they had to be a bad band, said singer John Rzeznik. Rzeznik says when members formed the band, none of them played very well. Rzeznik never took lessons and he said he was improvising as he went along. He called it an “evolutionary process.” But despite musical hits, Rzeznik said, “some people still think we’re a bad band.”
John Ondrasik and his band Five For Fighting will be touring with the Goo Goo Dolls beginning June 7 in Atlantic City. The Goo Goo Dolls dates come on the heels of Five For Fighting’s headline tour which culminated May 1 with a sold-out show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. John Ondrasik has been winning kudos from critics for his live performances. Dan Aquilante, writing in the New York Post (March 14, 2002) praised Five For Fighting’s “… low-fi, high-energy show at Irving Plaza… this guy has a songbook full of tunes, many of which are as… Read more »
Starting next month, the Goo Goo Dolls will take their gig out of the gutter. Fresh off of their top five debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart, on which the band’s latest effort, Gutterflower, entered at #4 with over 100,000 copies sold, the Goo Goo Dolls will go on a 30-date tour in support of the LP. Information about opening acts is still forthcoming. The album, fueled by the first single, “Here Is Gone,” finds Johnny Rzeznik and company ridding themselves of the power ballads they have come to be known for – see 1998’s Dizzy Up the Girl… Read more »
For the second week in a row, Ashanti, the new princess of R&B, will lord over the Billboard 200 albums chart. Her self-titled debut sold nearly 250,000 copies, according to SoundScan figures released Wednesday (April 17), enough to keep Celine Dion’s A New Day Has Come at #2 on sales of more than 225,000 copies. Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 9, featuring songs by Pink, Ludacris and ‘NSYNC, moves up one spot to #3 after selling over 140,000 units. Entering at #4 are the Goo Goo Dolls, whose Gutterflower sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week.… Read more »
Goo Goo Dolls have begun confirming dates for a North American tour in support of their latest Warner Bros. album, “Gutterflower,” released this week. The first six dates begin May 23 in Houston and will be preceded by a May 3 show at the Astoria in London. The group is in the midst of an extensive slate of promotional appearances for “Gutterflower,” including a taping tonight (April 12) for VH1’s “Storytellers” and a stop at “Last Call With Carson Daly.” Tomorrow, the Goos will make a previously announced appearance at Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. The group is… Read more »
The Goo Goo Dolls release their latest effort, Gutterflower, on Tuesday (April 9). The Goo Goo Dolls’ 1998 album, Dizzy Up The Girl, reached sales of more than 3 million copies. Singer-songwriter Johnny Rzeznik revealed these sales figures were in the back of his mind with Gutterflower. “I think the biggest obstacle was getting that thought out of your head like, ‘Wow, we had this record and it was really popular, and what if we don’t do it again?’ And then, finally, the answer, as simple as it is, came. ‘If you don’t do it again, you don’t do it… Read more »
The new Goo Goo Dolls album Gutterflower is due in stores April 9, but that’s not the only project the band’s singer-guitarist Johnny Rzeznik has been involved in. Rzeznik worked outside the framework of the band to score tracks for a forthcoming animated feature for Disney. Rzeznik revealed he worked on two solo songs for the project. “It’s a movie called Treasure Planet, which is basically the story of Treasure Island in space. It’s really an awesome movie, such a cool movie, man. I was like freaking out when I saw this movie. Because I was like, ‘Oh, Disney thing.… Read more »
The Goo Goo Dolls are in the studio putting the finishing touches on Gutterflower, their seventh album. It’s set for release in the first half of 2002. The collection is being produced by Rob Cavallo, who worked on the band’s last effort Dizzy Up The Girl. Asked if the band feels pressure trying to follow-up the success of Dizzy Up The Girl and 1995’s A Boy Named Goo, bassist Robby Takac said, “I think certain pressures are put on ourselves, but that’s a matter of working it all out and working through all that and putting all that aside and… Read more »
The Goo Goo Dolls are in a Los Angeles studio putting finishing touches on their seventh album, Gutterflower. Band members John Rzeznik, Robby Takac and Mike Malinin have recorded twelve songs for the disc which is due out in 2002. Gutterflower is being produced by Rob Cavallo (Dizzy Up The Girl). Beginning December 2nd and concluding December 17th, John Rzeznik’s 1967 Pontiac GTO will be put up for bids on VH1 and eBay in connection with VH1-1’s My Music Awards (Dec. 2 at 9:00 pm ET/PT). The classic car is white with black interior and is being auctioned off with… Read more »
The Goo Goo Dolls will begin recording new songs for their seventh album this week in a Los Angeles studio. Tentatively titled Gutterflowers, it is the group’s first studio album in over three years. Rob Cavallo (Dizzy Up the Girl) will handle production duties for the Warner Bros. recording, which has an estimated Fall, 2001 release date. Songwriter’s John Rzeznik (guitar,vocals) and Robby Takac (bass, vocals), and bandmate Mike Malinin (drums) have been rehearsing the new material over the past few months and are looking forward to life in the studio. “It’s been three years since we’ve recorded any new… Read more »
