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Failure Is Not An Option May 2000:
Nylon May 2000;
Teen People;
New York Times 2000;
Rockline Apr. 2000;
WTXM Apr. 2000;
Loveline Apr. 2000;
Modern Rock Live April 2000;
Total Guitar Magazine;
Guitar World Feb. 2000 60 Minutes:
Launch May, 16 2000:
Rockline April, 24 2000;
DC Cook Off;
US Weekly;
John Radio;
MIX 104.1 New Orleans;
Kiss 106 Seattle;
Howard Stearns;
KREB Mar. 2000;
WILD 95.5 May 2000;
There's no stoping the GGD's;
Youngstown Vindicator 9/5/00;
Merge 93.3 in Dallas, Tx.;
Star 98.7 7/20/00;
WEDG Interview 12-2-99;
New Album The Goo Goo Dolls recently wrapped up 17 months of touring in support of their latest album, Dizzy Up the Girl — which might explain why frontman John Rzeznik started talking to inanimate objects. Don't call the shrink just yet, though; the object in question was Elmo, who joined the Goo Goo Dolls for an episode of Sesame Street that debuts on Jan. 31 with repeats scheduled for Feb. 1 and March 13.
"He was a dancing fool," Rzeznik, 34, says of Elmo, who joins the group for a modified version of its hit "Slide," re-titled "Pride." "They rewrote the song to show how Elmo was proud of himself for learning his ABCs and stuff. We arrived at the studio, and I immediately started talking to him. It was weird; you just get so sucked into them, like they're alive. It was totally real. I bought into it right away. "But he gets top billing, of course."
The Goos other major TV commitment in the near future is the Grammy Awards, where its hit "Black Balloon" is nominated in the Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal category.
Meanwhile, Rzeznik says he's started work on songs for the next Goo Goo Dolls album, which will again be produced by Rob Cavallo. Though he says the songs are in their "infancy stages, sketches," Rzeznik says he's already noticing one direction they're going in. "I'm working on this thing with horns, man," he says. "The trick is not to make it sound like ska horns; that's fine for a ska band, but I want dirty horns, rock and roll horns. I want 'Bitch' horns, like the Rolling Stones, those bad-ass, dirty, low saxophones. I love that stuff."
Rzeznik also says that he's not seeing any signs of the writer's block that crippled him and even sent him into therapy prior to the making of Dizzy up the Girl, which both pleases and concerns him. "It actually makes me nervous," he says. "I'm like, 'Why am I not completely terrified to do this?' It's making me nervous that I'm not nervous — that's like double neurotic behavior or something. I'm just gonna write what I write and hope for the best." — Gary Graff