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Two decades for Dolls
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Two decades for Dolls
The Goo Goo Dolls are on tour with fellow '90s stalwarts Counting Crows
Date published: 8/24/2006
By EMILY GILMORE
The Goo Goo Dolls burst onto the scene in 1995 when "Name" landed on alt-rock radio. The group's fifth album, "A Boy Named Goo," subsequently sold more than 2 million copies. "Dizzy Up the Girl," released in 1998, went triple-platinum, and 2002's "Gutterflower" achieved platinum status.
In contrast, the group's latest effort, "Let Love In," has just gone gold (selling more than 500,000 copies but fewer than 1 million) since its release in April.
But album sales are down across the board, and a band can't necessarily measure its success anymore by the number of units moved.
The Goo Goo Dolls will perform at Nissan Pavilion on Saturday with Counting Crows.
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"Only four people sold more than 3 million records last year on this planet," Goo Goo Dolls bass player Robby Takac said in a phone interview from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where the band stopped on its tour with fellow '90s giants Counting Crows.
When the Dolls were selling that many CDs, he added, 35 acts sold more than 5 million albums in a year.
"The question is, how do you get to your peak in a market that won't allow you to do that anymore?" he said.
Still, the album's three singles, "Stay With You," "Better Days," and a cover of Supertramp's "Give a Little Bit," have all spent time on the Billboard charts; "Better Days" was featured heavily in CNN's Hurricane Katrina coverage; and, Takac said, the Dolls recently sold out a European tour for the first time.
Fans also are turning up by the thousands for the Dolls/Crows tour, which began in June and includes a stop at Bristow's Nissan Pavilion on Saturday.
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Takac, guitarist and vocalist Johnny Rzeznik and drummer Mike Malinin are using their cachet to help feed the hungry in each community they play by joining with U.S.A. Harvest to encourage concertgoers to donate canned food at each tour stop. Takac estimated the Dolls have raised more than half a million meals in the six or seven years they've partnered with U.S.A. Harvest.
But the band has been making music much longer than they've been feeding the hungry.
The good thing about being a "career band" like The Goo Goo Dolls or Counting Crows, Takac said, is that they don't have to prove themselves repeatedly.
The audience is guaranteed to hear songs they know at a show like this, "but at the same time, my band plays 80 percent of our new record in our live set," Takac said.
"Let Love In" represented a sort of new beginning for The Goo Goo Dolls, who made a conscious decision to continue as a band after some time apart.
"I think we were starting to realize there was something special here," Takac said. "I guess we lost--I don't want to say 'perspective,' but [the band] wasn't in the forefront of our minds the entire time."
They saw that "there's a lot more ground we can cover here," Takac said, and that they have resources a lot of others won't ever have--it's not easy for a band to be around this long and still know how to make it work.
Rather than write the new album in Los Angeles, The Goo Goo Dolls headed east and found inspiration in their hometown of Buffalo, N.Y.
And after 10 years of working with Rob Cavallo, the Dolls enlisted veteran producer Glen Ballard, who breathed new life into the band's music.
"This time in particular, we tried to keep the pro-cess a little bit fresh and different and experimental than it had been in the past," Takac said.
Few realize that it's been 20 years since Rzeznik and Takac began playing their Replacements-style garage-rock with original drummer George Tutuska. The Goo Goo Dolls' style of music has changed as they've grown, and they've learned how to maintain a successful career without getting stuck in a rut.
"I think part of the recipe for us staying around as a band for this long is sort of demanding some semblance of relevance to what we're doing," Takac said.
He's happy that after working so hard for so long he can still make a living playing rock music, which he jokingly referred to as a "good day job."
"I think about, you know, like, Mick Jagger getting up every morning and looking in the mirror and saying, 'Holy [expletive], I'm Mick Jagger,'" he said.
" Even in my own little portion of whatever it is I do here, there's still moments when I go, 'Holy cow, how did this happen to me? How did I get so lucky for this to happen to me?'"
WHAT: The Goo Goo Dolls will perform with Counting Crows
WHERE: Nissan Pavilion, Bristow
WHEN: Saturday, doors open at 5:30 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m.
COST: $67.50, $49.50, $39.50, $25.50
PHONE: 703/754-6400
WEB: googoodolls.com, nissanpavilion.com
TICKETS: 800/551-SEAT or ticketmaster.com
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/082006/08242006/215951
Stay True & Rock On!
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Re: Two decades for Dolls
« Reply #1 on: Aug 24th, 2006, 10:04am » |
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Quote:"Only four people sold more than 3 million records last year on this planet," Goo Goo Dolls bass player Robby Takac said in a phone interview from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where the band stopped on its tour with fellow '90s giants Counting Crows.
When the Dolls were selling that many CDs, he added, 35 acts sold more than 5 million albums in a year. |
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I think that's a really good point. And, one that WB should keep in mind when they say a record is a 'failure'. In this digital era does anyone really have a successful record anymore?
Thanks for posting Triest.
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Re: Two decades for Dolls
« Reply #2 on: Aug 24th, 2006, 11:21am » |
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Anytime Shannon, you know that my rocker chick! 
....Some punk arse stole my push-bike either last night or this morning , when I went out for my usual ride this morning it was gone. It was an expensive one, for professional riders.....
AHHHHHHHH , its back to the bike shop forking out a couple grand...could always be worse though, im glad it was something I can replace....
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« Reply #3 on: Aug 24th, 2006, 1:01pm » |
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This is my Americanism coming out but is a push-bike a scooter or a bicycle? I'm sure I sound like an idiot but I'm not quite sure. Either way I'm sorry to hear that Triest.
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« Reply #4 on: Aug 24th, 2006, 1:05pm » |
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bicycle, I had a pro-bike for trails and racing...
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 24th, 2006, 10:29pm » |
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on Aug 24th, 2006, 2:26pm, the blue o wrote:Gutterflower went Platinum? I thought it only got to Gold. Does WB still consider it a failure if it went platinum?
DUTG was triple platinum...what was ABNG?
And LLI is now gold, but they can still get to Platinum and such, right? |
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I don't remember hearing that GF ever reached Platinum and I don't think LLI has actually turned Gold, so this whole article confuses me.
And an album can turn Gold or Platinum whenever. There's no time limit.
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Re: Two decades for Dolls
« Reply #6 on: Aug 24th, 2006, 10:35pm » |
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on Aug 24th, 2006, 11:21am, TruexBlue wrote:....Some punk arse stole my push-bike either last night or this morning , when I went out for my usual ride this morning it was gone. It was an expensive one, for professional riders.....
AHHHHHHHH , its back to the bike shop forking out a couple grand...could always be worse though, im glad it was something I can replace....
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Awww... I'm sorry to hear your bike got stolen. Try calling local pawn shops and have them on the look out for someone coming in to sell a bike.
Your story made me feel better about my day though. I woke up this morning and discovered my eye glasses had broken in half. But it'll only cost me a couple hundred dollars and a few days looking stupid with poorly welded glasses...
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