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Goo Goo Dolls Can Still Rock at ODU Concert
« on: Feb 12th, 2007, 7:01am » |
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Goo Goo Dolls Can Still Rock at ODU Concert
Feb. 12, 2007 | By Gretchen Hannes, DSJ Staff Reporter
A Goo Goo Dolls Concert earlier this year. Photo by Gretchen Hannes.The Goo Goo Dolls have been around a while. They released their first album in 1986, before many of us were even born. And even though they came out with the new album Let Love In last February, the Goo Goo Dolls will probably best be remembered for the hits they released in the mid-1990s--songs that already seem retro but still take you back to a simpler time. A time when listening to “Slide” in the car (that your mom was driving) seemed unbelievably cool.
Their performance at Old Dominion University this past Wednesday night took the audience back to that time, and it still felt pretty cool.
The band made a dramatic entrance amidst flashing spotlights and black balloons and opened with the first song on Dizzy Up The Girl, “Dizzy.” They played a mixed set with songs from old and new albums, but their newer songs like “Let Love In” and “Better Days,” while catchy, lack the authenticity and “oomph” of their older stuff.
The crowd favorites were definitely the older hits: “Slide” (it never gets old), “Black Balloon” and “Broadway.” They even brought back a favorite from 1995, “Name,” a softer tune that really captured the audience as lead singer Johnny Rzeznik promised, “I won’t tell no one your name.”
The highlight of the evening had to be “Iris,” the oh-so-sappy rock ballad that got everyone screaming the chorus so loud that Rzeznik didn’t even bother singing along. They closed with a lesser-known song from Let Love In, putting a slight damper on the energetic mood.
A lot of the energy of the concert came from the screaming girls at Rzeznik’s feet, who at 42, is still a pretty hot rock star. The girls wore homemade t-shirts, held up signs and threw anything and everything at him: leis (which he tied around the microphone stand explaining, “I’m gonna pull a Steven Tyler), necklaces, scarves and even a black bra at one point. Throughout the concert Rzeznik kept up a relaxed and funny dialogue with the audience, probably making everyone wish they could be as cool as him. Or at least have his cool last name.
At the beginning of the show Rzeznik admitted that he was fighting pneumonia, which did affect the performance somewhat. He didn’t go all out on a few of the songs, and seemed to speak rather than sing on some of the lyrics. The bassist also sang a couple unfamiliar songs, and the whole time it was clear the audience was wondering when Rzeznik would return. Overall, for having pneumonia, Rzeznik did a good job maintaining the energy of the concert, even if it did lag in a few spots.
The Goo Goo Dolls may have released their best stuff ten years ago, but it’s still good stuff. It was also refreshing to see a good old-fashioned rock concert, where no one wears Chucks or skinny jeans, the “f” bomb isn’t dropped every fifth word and the singer isn’t whiney. The band knows what the audience wants to hear, and they deliver. In rock-star fashion.
http://www.dogstreetjournal.com/story/3606
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 12th, 2007, 11:58am » |
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"The Goo Goo Dolls have been around a while. They released their first album in 1986, before many of us were even born. And even though they came out with the new album Let Love In last February, the Goo Goo Dolls will probably best be remembered for the hits they released in the mid-1990s--songs that already seem retro but still take you back to a simpler time. A time when listening to “Slide” in the car (that your mom was driving) seemed unbelievably cool."
Yes...before I was born...  Back to a "simpler time"...when cows grazed in pastures and didn't live in factory farms while being pumped with antibiotics and growth hormones. Yes, those were the good ol' days. Oh, sorry. Got a little carried away with all that nostalgia. *sniff*
(And if my mom was driving, we sure as heck weren't being treated to "Slide" on the CD player, uh, cassette player, uh 8-track, uh... radio!
I agree on some of the other stuff that was said though.
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& John said they smelled good 
