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Goo Goo Dolls still keep sold-out crowd singing
BY ALEXANDER CHOMAN
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC CRITIC
02/04/2007
The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts was rockin’ out, screamin’ out and sold out Saturday night as Buffalo’s favorite sons, the Goo Goo Dolls, scripted out a 90-minute set that got the 2007 concert season at the venue off to a rousing start.
The concert began the second leg of the band’s tour that will extend through late April. The tour is in support of their most recent album, “Let Love In” from 2006. Saturday’s concert also featured opening act, Augustana.
Ever since they became staples of the airwaves thanks to “Iris” (from the “City of Angels” soundtrack), the Dolls have sold records prolifically.
There were very few songs Saturday evening that the audience did not sing along with … very few.
Guitarist and good-looking frontman Johnny Rzeznick had an uncanny ability to recognize very early on that embracing a power pop ballad and delivering it in the right context would bring about far greater wealth and recognition than a week at CBGB’s ever could.
And so was born “A Boy Named Goo” and “Dizzy Up The Girl,” two blockbuster albums that received plenty of attention at the Kirby Center concert.
The Dolls started strongly from the first few songs, with “Dizzy” and “Slide” bringing the Kirby Center audience to its feet. The crowd stayed on its feet right through an extended version of “Iris” and their new encore/anthem, Supertramp’s “Give a Little Bit.” Funny what a GAP commercial can do, eh?
The Goo Goo Dolls are masterful at the three minute-plus radio ballads, and they were in no short supply Saturday evening.
Although the Dolls had been off for more than a month, they were in Wilkes-Barre since Thursday and seemed to return to full stride by the time the concert started.
“You may have seen us around town,” bassist Robbie Takac said just before launching in to one of his rare vocal efforts called “January Friend” from 1998.
Many of the Doll’s songs that emulated their early days heroes, the Replacements, were sung by Mr. Takac.
In addition to Mr. Rzeznick and Mr. Takac, percussionist Mike Malinin rounds out the trio. In concert, the band plays with an additional guitarist and keyboard player that give the songs more of their original studio feel than just a threesome might.
Amid the continuing carousel of roadies changing their guitars, the band did share a representative career-sampling playlist including “Big Machine,” “Burnin’ Up,” “Black Balloon,” “Naked” and “Feel The Silence,” a superb song from “Let Love In.”
©The Times-Tribune 2007
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