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(Message started by: Shannon on Jan 31^st, 2007, 7:11am)

Title: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by Shannon on Jan 31^st, 2007, 7:11am

Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby

By Alan Sculley Weekender Correspondent

The latest Goo Goo Dolls CD, �Let Love In,� may prove the old adage that you can�t go home again, at least to recapture some sort of musical sound that had gone by the wayside. In making the new CD, the trio of guitarist/singer Johnny Rzeznik (a Los Angeles resident for years), bassist Robbie Takac and drummer Mike Malinin, returned to the group�s home town of Buffalo seeking fresh inspiration for the album.

Some long-time fans might have hoped it would be the perfect setting for the Goo Goo Dolls to rediscover the punkish edge that defined the group�s early albums like �Jed� and �Hold Me Up.� But �Let Love In� doesn�t sound like an early Goo Goo Dolls album. Instead, like the more recent records �Gutterflower� and �Dizzy Up The Girl,� the new CD emphasizes pop craftsmanship over power. Even rockers like �Stay With You� feature huge chorus melodies more than volume, and overall �Let Love In� favors melodic mid-tempo tracks and ballads like �Here Without You,� �Feel The Silence� and the title song.

Still, Takac, in a recent phone interview, said the return to Buffalo rubbed off in less visible, but perhaps more important ways on �Let Love In.� �I think maybe people thought we were going to make �Jed� again, you know,� Takac said. �It wasn�t like that at all. What we were trying to regain again was that feeling of a reason why we�re making these records to begin with.�

For a time before work began on the new CD, Rzeznik, Takac and Malanin weren�t sure if remaining a band was in the cards.

�We came as close to breaking up as we have in a decade about a year ago,� Takac said. One issue was frustration in the band over the expectations of the band�s record company, Warner Bros. Records. After moving more than five million units (and reeling off four hit singles) with the 1998 CD, �Dizzy Up The Girl,� �Gutterflower� � to Warner Bros. disappointment -- sold a more modest 800,000 copies. There were also internal band issues that had to be addressed.

�Sometimes I don�t relate to those guys and they don�t relate to me and we don�t relate to each other,� he said. �You know, we spent so much time on the road we were a little sick of each other and we were a little bit disappointed that our last album didn�t do as well commercially as the one before.� So as a first step toward a new CD, Rzeznik, Takac and Malinin convened at Rzeznik�s Los Angeles studio for what turned out to be much more than a jam/songwriting session.

�We had started trying to write songs and do all of that kind of stuff,� Rzeznik said. �But we mostly wound up sitting around and talking and really trying to understand each other again. I had expressed to those guys how I was feeling. I just feel numb.�

As the band members spent more time together, it became clear that they still wanted to be a band. To further their partnership, the band members decided to go to Buffalo to work on the CD - and make some big changes in the record making process itself. After working with producer Rob Cavallo for more than a decade, the band switched to Glen Ballard, whose songwriting and production skills have been put to use with great success by the likes of Alanis Morissette and Dave Matthews.

�I just think we had outgrown our relationship with Rob,� Rzeznik said. �It was sort of like I already knew what we were going to do when we got into the studio if we went in with him again. I wanted to do something different. I wanted to experience someone else�s process.�

Ballard got involved, not just as a producer, but as a songwriter on three tunes - a move that was unusual for a band that had always been careful about outside involvement in its records. But Ballard earned the band�s trust.

�I think that having the confidence in him as songwriter and him as a record-maker and him as an orchestrater of personalities in the studio, knowing he has been through that process so many times made it a little bit easier for us to let go of our process and let him into our process a little bit, which he did,� Takac said. �He became a full-on part of this thing for six months.�

Both Rzeznik and Takac voiced their extreme satisfaction with �Let Love In,� with Takac calling it the best CD the Goo Goo Dolls had made during a career that began in Buffalo in 1986. That satisfaction will be apparent as the group tours this spring. Takac said the live set will feature much of the new material.

�We went into this record really feeling like we should be able to work it and play the whole thing from start to finish,� he said. �In the set itself, what we�re doing is pretty much playing the new record plus nearly everything (else) people want to hear.�

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Who: Goo Goo Dolls

Where: F.M. Kirby Center, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre

When: Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $31, $38

Info: 826.1100

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/entertainment/16585989.htm

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by Pondering My Fate on Jan 31^st, 2007, 1:37pm

I saw the thread title and thought they meant THIS Kirby:
http://kirby.classicgaming.gamespy.com/poster5.jpg

...obviously my expectations were not met. Weak!

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Jan 31^st, 2007, 1:56pm

I don't like this article and all of its recycled bits. And I don't like "Malanin". So Kirby spam it is:

http://www.anikaos.com/kirby.gif

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 2:13pm

You kids and your Nintendo.

Looks like Kirby would make a fine o-shaped avatar.
Muahaha.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by Pondering My Fate on Jan 31^st, 2007, 3:13pm

on 01/31/07 at 14:13:21, DWG wrote:

You kids and your Nintendo.

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/972/ffeeeoi9.jpg ?

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 3:39pm

That boy is "looney tunes"! :eyeroll: OMG!OMG!!!

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by Nicole on Jan 31^st, 2007, 6:48pm

Thanks for the article Shannon!
I was reading the part about the new album versus the older material, and I happened to turn on the radio, guess what was playing? LLI. :P

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:14pm

on 01/31/07 at 15:13:55, Pondering My Fate wrote:

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/972/ffeeeoi9.jpg ?

Is this by any chance PonderingMyFate and sibling?

And I had the Kirby pinball game for the original Gameboy. I was awesome at it. I always sucked at Nintendo though.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:33pm

on 01/31/07 at 21:14:43, the redo wrote:

Is this by any chance PonderingMyFate and sibling?

Hellz no. What kind of idjit would put their kids' picture on the internet, with them wearin' their jammies & stuff?

You haven't seen the Nintendo Christmas kid video? I'm sure you can find it on youtube somewhere. It's famous. This kid gets a damn Nintendo for Christmas and he pretty-near self-destructs!

It's must-see TV.

Sadly, he recently decided to sell his much-loved Nintendo on e-Bay. Fickle fella.

*looks for youtube video*

Heck, that was way too easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:38pm

Awww... obviously some idjit put up a picture of their kids wearing pajamas. �:D �Gotta go find the video now...

Edit: Ha ha. Nice video. I would totally claim that was my kid... How much you wanna bet the sister didn't get to touch the Nintendo?

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:39pm

slowpoke...

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:41pm

Paint-challenged.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:42pm

:redtongue:

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:44pm

LET LOVE IN, DAMMIT!!!

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:45pm

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:49pm

It was actually 5 yeses

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Jan 31^st, 2007, 9:51pm

What were we talking about?
Oh yeah, the Goo Goo Dolls are gonna rock Kirby.

Thanks Shannon for posting the article. We go astray, but eventually get back on topic.

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by Pondering My Fate on Feb 1^st, 2007, 2:53pm

And then I bring it back off topic. (Otherwise I'd go on angry rant/snark mode about the regurgitated "people thought we were going to write 'Jed' again" quote. This is far more enjoyable. You're welcome.)

Is this kid related to the Nintendo boy?? He has to be. HAS TO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0uEQZDHiaM

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by the redo on Feb 1^st, 2007, 10:20pm

on 02/01/07 at 14:53:39, Pondering My Fate wrote:

Yup... recycled. That's why I supported Kirby spam.

And the jerk in me wants to say "who could possibly care about something so useless that they break out in tears and shake with joy?" And then there's that little part of me that says "I want to love something usless so much i twitch and cry with joy".

Title: Re: Goo Goo Dolls set to rock Kirby / article
Post by DWG on Feb 1^st, 2007, 11:34pm

Now, see, if the first kid had been more savvy, he would have had his gig copyrighted so he could sue the sobbing kid for ripping him off.