From Eric.M.Behrns@students.Miami.EDUThu Mar 7 20:34:05 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:29:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "Eric M. Behrns"
To: Bryan John Penberthy
Subject: ARticle on the Goos
This is from the "Columbia Free Weekly Free Times", February 21-27
It was a prelude to the show hte Goos/Bush played in SC's capital city 3/25
Sorry I couldn't get this sooner, but I've been too busy to copy it.
There is an inadequate reference saying that their latest release is
their first on Warner Brothers.
By
Josh Brooks
Last year towards the end of June, I stumbled into Rockafellas' one night
to see a band called the Goo Goo Dolls. To this day I've yet to see a
band with the live intensity they expelled that night. Any
preconceptions I had of them being good were wrong-they were great.
Somewhere between melodic bliss and guitar licks that made me wonder,
something else caught my eye. A couple of self-proclaimed punkers were
holding up dollar bills as if to say the Goo's had been bought. After a
joke was made with the two at the butt, the Goo's ripped into the next
song, but hte imprint on singer/guitarist Johnny Rzenik's shirt said it
all. It read "THIS IS NOT FOR YOU."
That was the first time I'd even heard the Goo Goo Dolls. I
thought about the show the next day, but I didn't hink twice about
borrowing a friend's tape. It was their debut on Warner Brothers titled
"A Boy Named Goo". I popped it in and went for a drive. I honestly
thought it was the beer that left me dumbfounded when I left the club
that night, but after a listen, I knew it was because the Goo's had
rocked that hard. Granted, there is studio magic that can't be carried
over to a live set, but what they lacked for in extra tracks, they made
up for ten-fold in energy.
The latest release kicks off with a rocking number called "Long
Way Down." From there on the whole album rocks. yeah, this is the album
with teh song "name" on it, but don't expect anything else that sweet on
this album. Rzenik said in an interview, "A guy fixes a toilet and the
whole world thinks he's a plumber." The album closer on a comical note
with a song called "Slave Girl." I'm going to take a guess on this one,
but it's either about an overbearing girlfriend, or a bartender at an
athletic club, or maybe both.
My opinion of the Goo Goo Dolls, aside from the fact they'd be
mroe suited headlining than any British Johnny-come-lately, is that they
are going to surprise a lot of Bush fans, and keep the rest of our toes
tapping. For a glimpse of this "new" band that's been around for ten
years, they'll be opening for Bush at the Carolina Coliseum on Sunday,
February 25. Interscope's No Doubt will kick things off.