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« on: Aug 20th, 2006, 11:07pm » |
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Home cooking sweet for Goo Goo Dolls
Band returned to native Buffalo to write latest batch of songs
BY TIM SHELLBERG
Times Correspondent
This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, August 18, 2006 1:07 AM CDT
Leaving Los Angeles for their native Buffalo, N.Y., proved to be more than just a homecoming for The Goo Goo Dolls when they penned songs for their most recent release, "Let Love In."
"It was good being away from the music business," said co-founder and bassist Robby Takac. "It was good being away from people whose job it is to care about your life for 16, 18, 20 weeks and then they're on to the next project. If we were looking for opinions, we were looking for those that were based on our lives as opposed to just 16 weeks of our lives."
Co-headlining with fellow modern popsters Counting Crows today at Tinley Park's First Midwest Bank Amphitheater, The Goo Goo Dolls' rise to the top of the charts in the late '90s was nearly a decade in the making.
Formed by Takac and singer-guitarist Johnny Rzeznik in the mid-'80s and rounded out by drummer Mike Malinin, the band was a scruffy post punk outfit on their first few platters. Their rise to pop prominence began in 1993 with "We Are The Normal," a single from "Superstar Car Wash" co-penned by former Replacement and longtime band influence Paul Westerberg.
The dam burst for the band two years later when "Name," from "Superstar Car Wash," flirted with the top spot on Billboard's singles chart. They would cross that threshold in 1998 with "Iris," which was first released on the "City of Angels" soundtrack before finding its way to the multiplatinum "Dizzy Up the Girl."
"Girl" also spawned hits between 1998 and 1999 such as "Slide," "Broadway" and "Black Balloon." But despite their degrees of successes prior to and following "Dizzy," Takac said any chart hits or misses have been done on the band's own terms.
"We didn't take the mainstream route to get there, and we don't necessarily kowtow to what the mainstream is yalping for at that particular moment," he said. "We just sort of stick to what we do and feel good about it and move forward."
After penning the songs that would make up "Love" in a Masonic lodge in Buffalo, the Goo Goo Dolls return to Los Angeles, their base of operations for several years, to record the album. They parted ways with their longtime producer, Rob Cavallo, for the new songs, and enlisted songwriting collaborator and producer extraordinaire Glen Ballard.
Ballard's impressive CV includes manning the boards and co-writing Alanis Morrisette's 1995 breakthrough "Jagged Little Pill" and, as Takac put it, working with "everyone from Wilson Phillips to P.O.D."
"We loved working with Rob, and he's such an amazing talent, but after 10 years of working together, we were sort of familiar with the (recording) process (with Cavallo)," Takac said."I think we were looking for a little of that excitement this time around."
Ballard, Takac said, added a tweak here and a touch there to the songs he and Rzeznik brought to the table. The two Goos also collaborated on a pair of songs together, their first such efforts since "Superstar" more than a dozen years ago.
"I don't know if we were testing the water or if it was time for some new stimuli; we never talked about it," Takac said of collaborating with his longtime band mate. "After 20-some years of making music together, there's just some things that happens with people, and we just got back into that situation."
Released in April and their first collection of new material since 2002's "Gutterflower," "Love" entered Billboard's all-genre-encompassing Billboard 200 album charts in the number nine spot. Their most recent single, "Better Days," peaked at number 17 in the trade magazine's adult contemporary singles chart.
The Goo Goo Dolls tour mates, Counting Crows, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song for "Accidentally in Love" from "Shrek 2" in 2004. Their last proper album, "Hard Candy," came out in 2003.
Their joint tour wraps up in Dallas Sept. 9. After that, the Goo Goo Dolls will spend a hearty chunk of the early fall in Europe and return for a North American tour on their own in November.
onStage
Counting Crows, The Goo Goo Dolls
When: 7 p.m. today
Where: First Midwest Bank Amphitheater, 19100 S. Ridgeland Ave., Tinley Park
Cost: $25 to $67.50
FYI: ( 708 ) 614-1616 or www.livenation.com
http://nwitimes.com/articles/2006/08/20/entertainment/entertainment/0fb8 a097822cee2d862571cb005a90e0.txt
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