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(Message started by: Shannon on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:44pm)

Title: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by Shannon on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:44pm

Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls

By Marty Rosen
Special to The Courier-Journal

Just before the Goo Goo Dolls took the stage Friday night for a sold-out concert at the Louisville Palace, my neighbor, Sarah, a college student who had driven from Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, was quite concerned about whether she�d get to hear a good show. It seems at the pre-show meet-and-greet, lead vocalist Johnny Rzeznik had looked pretty bad. �He looked sick. Really ill,� she said with wide-eyed alarm.

It turned out she need not have worried. If anything, being under the weather might have added a husky edge to Rzeznik�s melancholy charm. It didn�t stop him from roaming energetically around the stage, reaching into the audience to greet his fans, or singing a dozen-and-a-half songs during a 100-minute show that reviewed 20 years of music and saw most of the ground-floor audience on its feet throughout.

As a songwriter, Rzeznik is mostly concerned with mournful examinations of identity, pretense and trust. In songs like �Different Light� and �Iris� he sang of wanting to be seen as the man he might become, rather than judged for his past; of not wanting the world to see him in his broken, tangible form.

Where Rzeznik sang of earnest, soulful quests, bass player Robby Takac was a bracing dose of ironic relief, singing songs such as �January Friend� like a playful, seditious punk not quite ready to fall under his bandmate�s spell.

Earnest or cynical, the five-piece outfit was in excellent musical form, supporting the singers with nimble rhythms, broadly spaced textures and crisply executed forms. �Iris,� for instance, opened with Rzeznik playing brittle, high-register guitar arpeggios, bolstered by silvery keyboard ripples that sounded like celestial ring tones. Eventually, all that millennial richness was squelched by machine-like bursts of rhythm that built to a massive crescendo and an explosive stop.

Speaking of massive, explosive sounds, Seymour, Ind.-based quartet The Elms opened the night with 40 minutes of elemental guitar rock that may have been the loudest 40 minutes of music anyone has heard since the 1970s. Nimble ain�t in it for these fellows. Instead, they mixed boyish charm, brute force and blues-rock riffs to build walls of sound big enough to cause (or cure) climate change.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070210/SCENE04/70210020/

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by the redo on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:52pm

on 02/10/07 at 23:44:57, Shannon wrote:

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Earnest or cynical, the five-piece outfit was in excellent musical form, supporting the singers with nimble rhythms, broadly spaced textures and crisply executed forms. �Iris,� for instance, opened with Rzeznik playing brittle, high-register guitar arpeggios, bolstered by silvery keyboard ripples that sounded like celestial ring tones. Eventually, all that millennial richness was squelched by machine-like bursts of rhythm that built to a massive crescendo and an explosive stop.

Mr. Journalist is trying too hard.

Sorry. Had to say it. Aside from that and the fact that 1/2 the article was discussing Mr. Rzeznik's cold, this writer is alright with me. :D

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by DWG on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:54pm

lol...Marty's been hittin' the thesaurus!

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by Pondering My Fate on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:56pm

"celestial ring tones"?

:P

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by DWG on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:58pm

I was not aware that walls of sound could effect climate change.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by the redo on Feb 10^th, 2007, 11:59pm

Apparently Mr. Journalist had an assignment to cram as many adverbs and adjectives into the article as possible.

Still. Think happy thoughts. At least they were positive adverds and adjectives.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by the redo on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:00am

I didn't know something could sound silvery.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by DWG on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:04am

"Different Light".

A blast from the past...

I believe Robby sang that one.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by the redo on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:11am

and not John's...

I totally skipped that paragraph. Weird.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by DWG on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:23am

No way of tellin' who wrote that song...

(By the way, if you skipped that paragraph, you missed some good vocab words.)

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by Pondering My Fate on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:32am

Is it sad that pretty much none of the words in that article struck me as vocab words? :P I've got high standards though. If I have to literally stop reading the sentence and go to dictionary.com because I don't know what the word means, then we're talking. ::)

I also lol @ the "Different Light" mention. That's reaching a little far....

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by DWG on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:35am

on 02/11/07 at 00:32:28, Pondering My Fate wrote:

Is it sad that pretty much none of the words in that article struck me as vocab words?

Well, there was nothing quite as intriguing as "quintessential", but when you put all those words together like that, it's pretty impressive nonetheless.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by Pondering My Fate on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:39am

I do have to admit that I liked the word "squelched." It just sounds kinda nasty. :P

And looking back at the article, I don't know what the hell "arpeggios" means. Score one, Mr. Journalist, score one.

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by DWG on Feb 11^th, 2007, 12:42am

on 02/11/07 at 00:39:22, Pondering My Fate wrote:

And looking back at the article, I don't know what the hell "arpeggios" means.

That's what I get for signing you up for flute lessons. Pfft.

(arpeggio: A broken chord in which the individual notes are sounded one after the other instead of simultaneously.)

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by the purple o on Feb 11^th, 2007, 6:30am

Thanks for the article Shannon!

Title: Re: Sickness doesn�t stop Goo Goo Dolls / review
Post by the white o on Feb 11^th, 2007, 6:14pm

I'm so glad he was actually up to doing the concert.

He doesn't let his fans down like that! He's very strong.

;D Makes me happy.