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The Goo Goo Dolls enjoy new album, fresh outlook
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The Goo Goo Dolls enjoy new album, fresh outlook
Giving back
Humberto J. Vergara / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 02/09/2007 12:00:00 AM MST
The Goo Goo Dolls (El Paso Times file photo)From time to time, returning home helps you grow up and rediscover yourself. Sometimes, going back to your roots allows you to come up with a completely new and fresh idea.
For alternative rockers The Goo Goo Dolls -- who have been together since 1986 -- that idea comes in the form of a new record.
"There are times when you go back home and you just can't help but surprise yourself in what you see and find again," bassist-vocalist Robby Takac said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "That's what we discovered when we began writing songs for 'Let Love In,' which is now our eighth album."
The Goo Goo Dolls have enjoyed success over the years and are excited to give something back to their fans. July 4, 2004, the band returned to Buffalo, N.Y., to play a free gig for more than 60,000. The current tour features a food drive.
Best known for songs "Name," "Iris" and "Slide," and a cover of Supertramp's "Give a Little Bit," the band will perform about three-fourths of the "Let Love In" album, plus old favorites, at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Plaza Theatre.
In 1998, the song "Iris" was released on the "City of Angels" movie soundtrack and the Dolls were propelled to stardom. The song stayed on the Billboard charts at No. 1 for 18 weeks and was nominated for three Grammys that year.
"We are really excited about this new tour, and we think that it will be worth it," said Westside El Pasoan Joel Gamboa, who plans to attend the concert with his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. "I've seen The Goo Goo Dolls evolve from a band that copied The Replacements to a band that now has found its unique sound."
Guitarist and vocalist John Rzeznik, drummer Mike Malinin and Takac make up The Goo Goo Dolls.
Buffalo, N.Y. -- where the band was formed -- is where they returned to work on their new album.
"We spent about six months in Buffalo and we rented this 100-year-old Masonic temple and set up a recording studio in there and listened to our music in there," Takac said. He said the temple was an ideal place to write songs because it had a foreboding, creepy vibe that gave it an interesting atmosphere.
The band also reopened an old recording studio in Buffalo. They plan to go back there to record their next album.
"There's something about Buffalo besides it being home ... the city has a purity of process that you can't find anywhere else," Takac said.
Takac said he and Rzeznik wrote the songs together.
"We went in with a much more cohesive idea of what we wanted the record to sound like," Takac said. "I think we learned a lot from this record. We felt like we were freed a bit from the process, the pattern that we had developed that had impeded the growth of our band."
Takac said that even though The Goo Goo Dolls were often labeled as an alternative, punk rock band, they just play rock music, pure and simple.
"Let Love In" was the name the band chose for their latest album because "we are leaving a time of cynicism."
"There's an awful lot of questions being raised in the world we live in, and without cooperation from musicians like us, some of those questions are not likely to be answered, or at least addressed," Takac said.
"We knew that we wanted this record to be more of an optimistic statement, a statement on the current world situation."
Takac encourages all concert attendees to bring canned goods to the show. U.S.A. Harvest will be collecting them for contributions to needy people in the community.
"Any way that we can help improve the quality of life of the human race is important to us," Takac said.
Humberto J. Vergara may be reached at [email protected]; 546-6354.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/entertainment/ci_5185652
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