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Bob: ...still on the road, I might add.
John: Should be "Rockin' Bob" Coberne.
Bob: There we go, I like that better man, Rockin' Bob here.
Robby: Rockin' Bob Coberne!
Bob: Goo Goo Dolls still on the road, and this time headlining, uhh, Sugar Ray, Fastball are the opening acts there. And once again, Rockline would like to welcome, from the Goo Goo Dolls, vocalist and guitarist, John Rzeznik...John, welcome back to the show.
John: How you doin, man?
Bob: I'm doing fine. How's Columbus tonight?
John: Good.
Bob: It's good?
John: Columbus?
Bob: Columbus.
John: Listen, Columbus kicks ASS!
Bob: Well you got Buckeye Central there man, how can ya go wrong with that?
John: I know, y'know, just a few days ago, we were in Anarbor, Michigan, and that was nice too, but y'know, Columbus, Ohio, y'know, it's like, it's a different thing, y'know.
Bob: Well, you're in big-ten country now. Let's welcome the bassist and vocalist for the band, Robby Takac. Robby, how are ya tonight?
Robby: I'm very good, Bob.
Bob: Nice to have ya here. And the drummer...
Robby: I'm doin' really good.
Bob: Mike Malinin, welcome back to Rockline
Mike: Hello.
Bob: Nice to have all 3 of you here. Y'know, I saw you guys play the 1st live show for Dizzy Up The Girl, and that was way back in 1998, uhh...
John: Oh my god.
Bob: almost a year ago now, has it been almost a year that you guys have been on the road?
Robby: Yea, this tour started in August.
Mike: A lot of months, yea.
John: The year, the year is coming up in like, the next 2 weeks, i think it'll be 1 year we've been out on tour.
Bob: I think I saw you at the Galaxy Theater in October of '98, so yea, it's comin' up
John: Yea.
Bob: Yea, that sounds about right.
John: Santa Ana, California, that was the first date.
Mike: It was. It was the first date of the tour.
Bob: First day of the tour. Uhh, seems like you've been the road for ages. I mean, does 10 months wear ya down after awhile? Have ya been on nonstop all this time?
John: My feet hurt.
Bob: (laughs)
John: We did Modern Rock Live the other night, and like, Max is, Max goes, "How ya feelin' Johnny?" And I'm like, "I'm tired, and my feet hurt."
Robby: It's like "These dogs are barkin', baby"
John: I know man. These dogs are howlin' baby!
Bob: It's complimentary Dr. Scholls for everybody in the Goo Goo Dolls tonight.
John: No, I had to go, I...
Mike: It doesn't work. He did the real thing.
John: No, I had to go get orthotics, my feet were killin' me, man.
Robby: They're like steel Dr. Scholls, man.
John: They are.
Robby: Like, they are.
John: Well, y'know, what's up in L.A., man?
Bob: What's up in L.A.? Well, y'know, we're looking forward to having you guys bein' on tonight, y'know, i mean this is a big show for us.
John: This is cool.
Bob: Yea.
John: This is cool. Y'know, well we've been like, on the Rockline for a long time man. You guys have been having us on a while.
Robby: This is like, the legendary rock'n'roll radio talk show.
All: It is.
John: No, this is bigger than the King Biscuit Flower Hour.
Robby: Yea it is. For real, it is.
John: Do you know that?
Bob: I know the King Biscuit Flower Hour, yea.
Robby: Well of course you know it!
John: The King Biscuit Flower Hour...now, for all our younger listeners, Bob, do you want to explain what the King Biscuit Flower Hour was?
Bob: Well, it was a concert series, and it came out of the state of Arkansas named after a flower product there, King Biscuit Flower and they had concerts.
John: That's right.
Bob: And they had good ones too, they had great bands that would play.
John: That's right. Everybody played the King Biscuit Flower Hour.
Bob: If you were anybody, you played it, and if you're anybody, you do Rockline.
Robby: Absolutely! That was my point.
John: What a segueway into tonight's show!
Bob: It's the first, it's the foremost, and it's the funnest.
Robby: Yes, it is.
Bob: What else is there? As long as we're using alliteration tonight, I just used 3 F's there, let's use 2 B's here, and we'll start with our first selection, it's Black Balloon. Goo Goo Dolls, on Rockline.
Robby: Amazing, Ama-
**plays Black Balloon**
Bob: Black Balloon, the name of that song, from the album, Dizzy Up The Girl. The Goo Goo Dolls joining us tonight (gives Rockline phone #) (commercial)
Bob: Rockline, we're here with Goo Goo Dolls tonight--with John, Robby, and Mike from the band. Our first caller is Karen. She's located in Providence, Rhode Island. Hi, Karen.
Robby: Oh I love Providence!
John: Providence, have you ever been up to Cranston?
Karen: Well, actually, I'm in Fonderstown. Umm, first of all, I want to congratulate you guys on 6 incredible, fantastic albums. And I thank you also for your determination to succeed, because without that, we would be missing so much good music today.
John: Awww, thank you. Hold on, I have to re-adjust my headphones, they don't fit anymore.
(all laugh)
Karen: I have 2 questions. First of all, Robby, I understand that you used to be the exclusive lead vocalist in the band, and the only vocalist on the first album, and Johnny, I would like to know how it became that you started to do lead vocals. And my other question is, what was it like working with Paul Westerberg on We Are The Normal, and what was the inspiration behind the lyrics of the song?
Robby: Yes, I sang the very first record, but that's because I hadn't convinced my shy partner here to get in front of a microphone and sing yet. And little by little, we learned how to do things, and he writes some nice songs, doesn't he?
John: (with lots of "y'know"s) It's an evolution, you go through your life, and every day you change a little bit, and that's just the nature of being alive. You just change a little bit every day.
Robby: And for real, our whole thing with this from the beginning is, we just wanted to be able to make the best music we could, and we're trying to do that still, to this day. And it's a group effort, and I think we're making the best music we ever have, and that's the best thing.
Bob: Now, Robby, John has stepped into the spotlight as vocalist. Any regrets as you look back now on the first album, Goo Goo Dolls?
Robby: Oh, well yea, of course, that's like, a snapshot of you from 1986 man, I'm sure there's some embarrassing ones.
John: Bob, you know that there's a snapshot of you from some party where your eyes are all red, and your tongue is sticking out, and your lids are like, closed.
Robby: And perhaps, you have a sequin glove on, or maybe a red leather coat with lots of zippers on it.
Bob: That was just the flash of the camera that made my eyes red like that (all laugh)
John: Ol' red-eye, drunk...
Robby: Our band has been putting out records since there was no need for our band to put out records
John: Our band was putting out records when they still MADE records.
Robby: So for us, it's just like we're making our records, all of us are really happy to be where we are.
John: I was talking to a good friend of mine, Artie Kwitchoff, who was our first manager in 1986, '85. And he said "Do you realize what you guys have been through?" And I was like, "No, what have we been through?" And he's like "Well, ya been through the '80s college rock thing, ya been through grunge, the female artist, ska" oh god, there were all these trends...swing, and now ROCK...y'know, like Kid Rock, and Korn and all that.
Bob: Right back to rock again.
John: And it's like we just sorta hang on, do our own thing
Mike: Sneak through
John: Yea, we kinda fly through under the radar of the whole bizarre mess. And it's like, it's rock'n'roll music. That's the most important thing. But I want to answer the next part of the question: What was it like to work with Paul Westerberg? Listen, Paul Westerberg, and I'm going to say this, and I mean this, from the bottom of my heart, he taught a generation how to rock. And he was the well that me, and a lot of other people, whether they admit it or not, go to to draw their water from. And he's a beautiful human being, and he's a brilliant...he's a brilliant, brilliant songwriter. And it hurts me so much that he hasn't become the hugest rock star in the world, because he deserves it more than anybody else.
Bob: Well right now, he's more respected by musicians than the general public. Every musician I talk to loves this guy. Paul Westerberg, he's right at the top of the list for almost everybody I talk to. Let's take another caller or we'll lose Randy in the shuffle here. Randy is in Winnepeg, Manitoba, hi Randy.
Randy: Hey
All 3 Goos: Right on!
Randy: Yea
All 3 Goos: Right on!
John: What happened to the Jets?
Randy: We sold them to Phoenix
Bob: They're the coyotes now.
John: God!
Mike: Man!
Robby: Phoenix?!
John: There's something wrong with playing hockey where there's no winter!
Robby: You don't play hockey in 111degrees!
John: No way right on.
Robby: You don't do that.
John: That is so not right on.
Randy: No, no
Bob: What's your question, Randy?
John: What's up Randy?
Randy: I was just wondering, who's your favorite band you've played with so far?
John: Uhhhh...
Robby: Square away, I will answer this, John. How about this, the Rolling Stones?!?! Maybe?!?
(Robby and John at the same time) John: guitar noises Robby: C'mon yea!
John: I met Kieth Richards, you know what he said to me? I said "Hey Kieth, how ya doing?" he said "Oh yea, right on yea. (all laugh)
John: I said "Hey Kieth, thanks for having us on the tour." He said "Oh yea, right on man." That's all he said. (all laugh)
John: I asked him like, 9 questions.
Mike: And then he went and ate his Shephards Pie.
John: And then he ate Shephards Pie. The Rolling Stones, I gotta tell ya, treated us better than any band we ever opened for. They were so good to us. I could not believe it when I saw that band play and saw them take that stage, and it was just like they were the greatest rock band ever, and they still are. They are still the greatest rock band ever.
Bob: And they have such a great history of helping up and coming bands as opening acts, and also as helping a lot of the black artists over the years.
They helped break Prince in the 1980s.
Robby: Yea, they told us a story about Prince. Actually the first time we met Kieth, they brought us back into the tent. Their private tent that they make in the back.
John: And Kieth said,
(both John and Robby) "Oh yea man, right on"
(all laugh)
John: And let Robby translate what that means.
Robby: What that meant was, "Well, y'know, ya'll are doing a pretty good job, Prince opened for us and got hit with cabbages and things" and that was sort of their gauge of whether or not you've done well or not.
John: You know what's really funny, someone asked me "What did Kieth smell like?" I was like "What did Kieth smell like?"
Robby: He smelled like rock.
John: And I said, yea I was like, yea Kieth Richards smells like a combination of leather, hair spray, sex, booze, and cigarettes.
Robby: All that is rock.
John: And you roll that all together, and it's rock'n'roll. Leather, cigarettes, booze, hair spray, and sex.
Bob: Rolled into one.
(both Robby and John): All roooolllled into one!
John: He was the best.
Bob: We're gonna play a song right now, from A Boy Named Goo, this is Long Way Down, Goo Goo Dolls, on Rockline.
**plays Long Way Down**
Bob: There we go, the Goo Goo Dolls for ya on Rockline, Long Way Down is the name of that song. We were swapping some jokes off the air (all laugh) Can you tell that joke on the air, or is that one we need to save?
John and Robby: No, no!
John: No, I cann't tell that one on the air.
Mike: I think he should, but there could be some reprocussions
John: There could be some negative...
Robby: Any...any self-respecting horny teen in the entire United States of America would tell this joke. C'mon.
Mike: C'mon, tell the joke John, just go for it.
John: I didn't make the joke.
Mike: Just tell the joke.
Robby: It's lampooning.
John: Ok we're lampooning. You know why they call it a joke?
Robby: Cos it's funny.
John: Cos it's a joke. Ok first of all, this is just my opinion, it's not MY opinion, it's SOMEONE ELSE'S opinion.
Mike: You heard it from someone else.
John: I'm just repeating someone else's opinion.
Robby: Just let...
John: I'm gonna tell the joke.
Bob: You're protected by the laws of satire.
John: That's right, that's the 29th ammendment. Satirical material may not be litigated in any court of law. Ok, ok here we go. The joke goes like this, so I quote from this other person, (seductive voice) My girlfriend and I were hangin' round the apartment the other night and we were making out and we were gettin' into it, we were just about to make love and she says "Make love to me like Ricky Martin would." and i said, (end seductive voice) Ok, where's your brother?
(all laugh for awhile, some clapping)
John: Thank you, good night America.
Mike: Absolutely brilliant.
Bob: Don't quit your night job.
John: Once again, I remind you, this is only an opinion and it does not reflect the views of Q FM 96 WLVQ in Columbus Ohio, or it's affiliates.
Robby: Or Rockline, or Bob
John: Or Rockline, or Bob Coberne, or Dominique Griffin, thank you, goodnight.
Bob: Thank you very much. Let's go to Houston, Texas, with Hanley waiting, and she's patiently waiting.
Robby: Hi Hanley.
Hanley: Hi guys. Hi Robby, John, Mike. You guys are so awesome.
Mike: How are ya?
John: How are ya, darlin'?
Hanley: I'm fine. Well, I have a really goofy question, it's just that people seem to ask the same questions over and over; so I thought you'd get pretty sick of it. Here's somethin' different.
Bob: We're ready for anything fresh.
Mike: We're ready.
Hanley: What's your biggest phobia?
(John and Bob): Biggest phobia?
John: Omigod.
Robby: Ending up alone.
John: That's mine too.
Robby: Mine too.
John: Dying alone with no one that loves me or cares about me.
Mike: That's really sad.
Robby: Well, no one wants that to happen, and that is my biggest phobia.
John: My biggest phobia too. What's your biggest phobia, Kenley
Bob: Hanley.
John (and Hanley): Hanley.
John: Don
Mike: See they don't even want to know mine.
John: C'mon, what's your biggest phobia, Hanley?
Hanley: Umm, how about being buried alive, like Edgar Allen Poe?
John: Have you been watching that Blair Witch Project? (amidst laughter) I told you kids about that. That stuff's gonna rot your brain!...for cryin' out loud.
Hanley: It wasn't scary.
Robby: It wasn't?
Mike: It kinda creeped me out, I liked it.
John: I'm too scared to see that kind of business.
Hanley: It was really real, that's what was freaky.
John: It's not real, it's a movie.
Hanley: No, I know it's not real.
Robby: It's a phony documentary
Bob: A phony documentary.
John: It's a schlocumentary.
Mike: Good movie though, I liked it.
John: But dying alone is a big one. How old are you Hanley?
Hanley: I'm 15.
John: 15, well when you're 33, you'll worry about dying alone. Then you'll really be scared. Thank you, next caller.
Bob: A little something to look forward to there. We have Jennifer in Middletown, New York here, Jennifer you're on with the Goo Goo Dolls.
Robby: Perhaps you should go back to the Ricky Martin joke, that was much more up. Wasn't it?
Mike: Next question, let's go. Middletown.
John: Middletown, New York, you're on the air.
Jennifer: Hi guys.
(all 3 guys greet Jennifer saying different things all at the same time)
Jennifer: Ok, I want to know, do you still hang out after shows to sign autographs and talk to the fans, or has everything just gotten too crazy?
John: Umm, sometimes we do, sometimes we don't have time to because unfortunately, we have to drive like 10-12 hours to get to the next place that we have to play, and I always feel bad when we don't have the chance to, like last night, we didn't have a chance to. And we played at the Iowa State Fair, Dan Quale tried to get tickets after the straw poles, and we told him to get lost.
Bob: You're nobody here man, you're nobody
John: I was like "You, you came in 8th in Iowa, bro! You ain't gettin' tickets to MY show."
Robby: And that's Iowa with an "h".
John: And that's Iowa with an "h"
(amidst laughter) Robby: Biotch
John: You put that Iowa with an "h" with the potato with the "e" and then we'll talk about things later.
Bob: George Bush, Jr. had front row seats, I would imagine then, huh?
Mike: Horrible! Horrible! No! No!
John: No, you know why, because he's a (whispering) repuuuublican. Yes, I'm a hopeless liberal, I can't help it. I just want the democrats out of my wallet and the republicans out of my bedroom. (all laugh) I can't take this anymore!
Bob: Neither can I...I'm getting dizzy in here.
**plays Dizzy**
Bob: Dizzy by the Goo Goo Dolls, they're our guest tonight on Rockline, I'm
Bob Coberne. We've got the band with us, we've got Mike and Robby and John and we'll continue in a moment (gives out Rockline #, takes commercial break)
Bob: Rockline with the Goo Goo Dolls, they're in Columbus, Ohio, I'm in Hollywood. I have no control over these gentlemen, I want you to know that.
Mike: Hopefully, if I could make a statement here, that last joke did NOT go out on the air
Bob: No, that last joke did not go out on the air.
Mike: Thank God!
Bob: This week's Encore question is brought to you by (rattle off a few names) and Ask Jeeves.
(John, Robby, Mike simultaneously) JEEVES!!!
Robby: Jeeves can do anything!, just ask!
Bob: Ask Jeeves, at ask.com, that is the coolest website out there right now.
John: You want to know what I asked Jeeves the other day...
Robby (screaming) WE LOVE JEEVES!!!
John: I swear to God, this is what I asked Jeeves the other day on the computer, I said "Dear Jeeves, What is Dean Warren's dad doing right now?" Now, Dean Warren is the guitar tech for our band, and it said, and I swear to God, this is what Jeeves answered, "I know the answer to that question, and I have several other questions that you can answer with this too." And then they told me exactly what Dean's dad was doing. He was eating meatloaf with his wife in Vancouver.
Mike: It was unbelievable.
John: It was unbelievable, psychic almost.
Mike: Jeeves knew it.
John: Jeeves knew.
Mike: Jeeves is amazing, knows all.
Bob: Plus, he can drive you home in a limo, can't beat that.
John: Right on. Alright, what does Rob Zombie want to know? Why we suck so bad?
Bob: No! He's a fan of your's. Rob Zombie was in the studio and he left a question for you guys. Now you guys, you're trepadacious about the question, "What's Rob Zombie gonna ask the Goo Goo Dolls here?"
Mike: I love Rob Zombie, he's amazing.
John: Because Rob Zombie's cool.
Robby: And we're not.
John: And because I like Rob and White Zombie.
Mike: You don't understand, we have to sit here every day and listen to Johnny going, "Man we suck, we're so uncool, everyone cool's gonna hate us."
John: But, it was really weird, I was up in a recording studio doing some work that Rob Zombie was doing his last record in, and a bunch of his paintings were hanging around there. And I really want one of his paintings because they're really amazing. You really gotta see Rob Zombie's paintings. They're amazing.
Bob: He's a great painter, he's a collector, he's a ex-artist, he's a cool guy, and all he wanted to know from you guys because he knows where you guys are from...
John: Why we're such homos.
Bob: How do you think the Bills are gonna do this season? Isn't it anticlimatic after all of that.
Mike: That was really his question?
John: That's his question?
Bob: That's his question, How do you think the Bills are gonna do this season?
John: Here's what's gonna happen: when the guy snaps Flutie the ball, they gotta put him up on a milk crate so he can reach one of the receivers. That's the key. I have got the key to the strategy for the Bills this fall.
Robby (after laughing hysterically for a minute): A MILK CRATE!
John: They gotta go, "HIKE, CRATE, THROW IT...FLUTIE!" No, the Bills are gonna do great, man. You know why?
(others each say something along the lines of why? simultaneously)
John: Because the frozen tundra of Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York cannot be beaten by anyone in the NFC. Ya Red! Ya bastards!
Bob: Is there a 15-yard penalty for roughing the crate?
Mike: Unfortunately, the Bills are in the AFC
John: Don't touch the crate, baby. Ya'll said Flutie couldn't make it 'cos he was too short. And you saw what happened last year. It was a miricle, it was a miricle in Orchard Park, it was a miricle on Route 5 baby.
Robby: That was many years ago, wasn't it?
Bob: It's not always size you guys. Flutie's a great quarterback.
John: What?
Bob: It's not always size you guys. Flutie's a great quarterback.
John: Flutie is a great quarterback.
Bob: He's a great quarterback, and the CFL of Boston College, he's a great quarterback..... Let's go to Topeka, Kansas. People want to talk to you guys. Tracy is on the line. Hi, Tracy.
Tracy: Hi.
Mike: Hey, Tracy.
Tracy: Hello.
Robby: Hi, Tracy.
Tracy: Hi.
John: What are ya doin'?
Tracy: I'm at my office right now, so not much.
John: Oh, so this is on your boss' dime.
Tracy: Yea. Well, no, I'm not working.
Mike (same time as Tracy before): It's an 800 call, it's free.
Robby: Oh, you're not working, you're just at work.
Tracy: I'm working on my Johnny Rzeznik...
John: Well what are you doing hanging around the office?
Robby: Yea, what are you working on there?
Tracy: I'm working on my Johnny Rzeznik homepage.
(all laugh)
Tracy: You're so beautiful.
John: Omigod.
Mike: Don't people have anything better to do?
Tracy: No.
Bob: Tracy what are you supposed to be doing?
Tracy: Well right now, nothing. I'm off.
Robby: She's got time off.
Bob: Oh, alright.
John: Hey, shut up, let the woman talk. She's obviously a genius!
Bob: Oh, yea right. She's a genius if she bills the boss for overtime. Bill the boss for double time for all these extra hours, and do the webpage.
Then she's a genius.
John: Now you talk to me.
Bob: You have John's full attention now.
John: I love and respect you. Hold on, I have to re-adjust my headset.
Tracy: Really, you should come by. It's come.to/johnnyrzeznik and you should visit it. Everyone loves it. But I had a question. My question is How much input do you all and the group have in the making of your videos, and how much would you say the videos reflect your personal interpretation of the meaning of the songs?
John: Wow. That is a really great question. We have complete say over what we do in the videos but; however, we ask video directors for their personal take and their interpretation of the song.
Bob: So it's a little give, a little take and Tracy, good luck......
John: The thing is, we say yes, I like this idea, and that's why we did our last 4 videos with Nancy Bardowil, because she really, she listens to the songs, and she and I had a really great connection mentally with what I was thinking about, and she did a really great job. She's very personalized and she wants everyone to be happy and she's a really really brilliant filmmaker.
Bob: There you go Tracy, there's the answer to your question. Tracy, what's that website again?
Tracy: Http://come.to/johnnyrzeznik
Robby: For a second there, I thought she said colon.
John: OK let's stop this right now!
Bob: We're headed to Little Rock to talk to Rebecca. Hi Rebecca.
John: Little Rock.
Rebecca: Hi.
John: I been to Little Rock.
Mike: Hi, Rebecca, how are ya?
Rebecca: Fine.
(all at once asking her question, each in different words)
Rebecca: What's your favorite group of all time?
Bob: It's an around-the-room question.
John: The Spinners.
Robby: The Rolling Stones.
Mike: The Clash, and there ya go.
John (imitating the Spinners): Could it be I'm fallin' in love bay-be, could it be I'm--
Bob: But can ya dance like 'em, that's the question?
John: psst, yes.
Bob: Yea, right.
John: Ask Mike. Mike, what did I do to you in Italy?
Mike: He gave me a private table dance. It was very erotic.
John: And you know what the cheap bastard did?
Mike: I told him to get off the table and I went to sleep.
John: He didn't even give me a tip.
Mike: No tips.
John: I didn't even get $1 in my G-string.
Mike: Do you know what it's like when you're trying to eat your nice roast beef sandwich and there's this guy going "Hey Mike, check me out." and just dancin' on your table?
John: In his black cycling shorts.
Mike: He'd had a couple glasses of the night's Italian wine by that point of course.
Bob: Naturally, yea. That sounds really erotic alright.
John(something that sounded like): I was hiiigh on...a'more
Robby: Nice, nice, nice.
Bob: Ok, who wants to tell us about this Rockline special version of Slide that you guys have given us? Where did this come from, and just set it up for us.
John: Ok, check this out. We recorded this version of Slide, and what they wanted us to do with it was to pretend that we were actually doing it live, but we decided not to.
Mike: We couldn't cheapen the audience by giving them a false experience.
John: I don't want to insult the intelligence of our listeners
Robby: Although radio is primarily theater of the mind
John: Yes, but. So we recorded this one version, they put it on the cd, and we're bringing it to you here tonight. And this is an acoustic version of Slide and it kicks ass, it's really good. And even Rob Zombie will listen to this.
**plays special Rockline version of Slide**
Bob: We're back live on Rockline, and Mike Malinin is here from the Goo Goo Dolls.
Mike: Oh here they come. They're coming in, I thought it was just me.
Bob: The other guys are being schlaggers right now, leave the room when the song's on.
John: You don't want Malinin on the air without supervision.
Bob: Especially when I think the question is for you, John.
Malinin: Can you believe what i have to take?...the abuse.
Bob: Unbelievable what you have to take.
John: (sighs) Oh your life just sucks. Malinin's life sucks.
Bob: Feelin' really bad for you now.
John: Call 1-800-CRY-ME-A-RIVER.
Bob: Toll free.
Mike: That's an awful lot of numbers for 7.
Bob: The band is in Columbus, Ohio. The next caller is in the Dayton area; her name is Tammy. Hi Tammy.
John: Hi, Dayton.
Tammy: Actually, I'm from Cincinatti!
Bob: Oh, ok...
Mike: Cincinatti!
John: ROCK ON, CINCINATTI!
Tammy: I just saw you guys.....
Mike: I was at a Reds game there; it was nice.
John: Bogurts, right on!
Tammy: I saw you guys there a few weeks ago, you guys kicked ASS so well.
John: Thank you, we had so much fun there.
Tammy: I'm drivin' up to go to Columbus...I'm sorry?
Bob: They had a good time there.
Tammy: It was awesome! I'm drivin' up to Columbus tomorrow to see you guys again.
Robby: Yes!
John: Cool, at Coleras, excellent.
Tammy: So if you see that crazy redhead off reading a book to herself, that's me.
John: What?
Robby: You're sitting by yourself, reading a book?
Tammy: Yea, I'm a lonely kind of person.
Robby: During the show?
Tammy: I did that the last concert, and the roadies laughed at me.
John: Well, you know, they're really just a bunch of trained babboons.
Mike: That's ok, we laugh at them.
Robby: But you may be soliciting that response, sitting reading a book during a rock concert.
Tammy: Oh, no.
Robby: Don't you think?
Tammy: I didn't think about that.
Robby: It's like going to the movies and......
John: Time out! Time out! What book were you reading?
Tammy: Dante's Inferno.
John: Dante's Inferno?!?
Bob: Oh gee, a little light reading there, y'know.
John: Just a little something to read during the boring parts of the show.
Robby: You could have said Surfing Nurses, and I'd have said Yea, ok, I understand.
John (laughing): Surfing Nurses. What's the question from Cincinatti?
Tammy: Well, I want to know, your lyrics are laced with so many venement words, are you that passionate on a daily basis, or is that just your soul speaking to the music?
John: What are you talking about? Like, give me an example. Like, venemous words?
Tammy: Oh God....
John: Are we being venemous or vehement?
Tammy: Vehenement. You know, you're so passionate. I feel your words.
John: Hmmm, well, Mike has experienced my passion in the form of a table dance.
Mike: Yes, here we go back to the Italian table dance.
Bob: Oh, man. Oh, man.
John: No, I'm just kiddin' around. I don't know. I just write what I think about. I'm writin' what I'm thinkin' about, I'm writin' what I'm feelin', and if you think that's passionate, I take that as a compliment. Thank you very much.
Mike: Not as passionate as the Italian table dance.
Bob: Apparently not. She was pretty vehement with her feelings.
Mike: You should have been there. It was scary.
John: Dominique would have tipped me.
Bob: Tammy, thank you. Next week on Rockline, Filter and Powerman 5000 are gonna be on next week (trails off on how to contact Rockline) We have an
E-mail question we'd like to hit you guys with right now.
Mike: We're ready.
Bob: I don't see any particular...Well, it doesn't matter who asked this. In the.....
John: I hate the internet.
Bob: In the cover book.....
Robby: No you don't hate the internet.
Bob: Let me finish this. In the cover book for......
Robby: He loves the internet.
John: No, I hate the internet.
Robby: He loves the internet.
Bob: QUESTION, LISTEN!!! And that concludes tonight's episode of Rockline with the Goo Goo Dolls. In the cover book for Dizzy Up The Girl, at the end of the thank you's were the letters: ELSTTJCDLM. What does that mean?
John: What does that mean?
Bob: Yea.
John: Uhhh....
Bob: ELSTTJCDLM
John: Wait, let's go through it. EL...Go through them 3 at a time.
Bob (and Mike): ELS
John: ELS--Extra Loving Special Thanks
Bob: TJC
John: To Jesus Christ
Bob: DLM
John: Oh here it is: Extra Loving Special Thanks To Jesus Christ, and uhh, I don't know what the other 3 were.
Mike: I don't think I ever saw that before.
Bob: You never even saw it before? It's on your album.
Mike: No, I've never even looked at the record.
John (after much stuttering trying to get the others to quit laughing): Yea, but I do know that it is Extra Loving Special Thanks To Jesus Christ.
Bob: And that answers that E-mail question.
John: I think I threw the other letters in there just to
Mike: Confuse everybody.
John: Throw people off.
Robby: Including yourself, apparently.
John: Yea, obviously.
Bob: Back in a moment with the Goo Goo Dolls (Gives out Rockline phone #, etc.)
Bob: (gives out Rockline # again), the number Donny called. He's in Oklahoma City. You're on Rockline, Donny.
Donny: Hey, what's goin' on?
John: Donny, what the hell ya doin' in Oklahoma City? You're supposed to be in Columbus working the lights.
Mike: OKC
Donny: My bad. I'm just tryin' to keep it alive up here, man. It's all good.
Robby: Alright, baby.
John: What's up, what's your question, baby?
Donny: Well first, I'd just like to say that I really love bein' able to talk to you guys, it's really awesome and stuff, and you all kick some major butt.
Robby: Thank you.
Donny: But the question I wanted to ask you What do you all think of all those Rap/Rock bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn and all those? I mean Kid Rock and everything.
John: I think that is where Rock is at right now.
Bob: I truly believe that, yea.
John: I think that it's cool in a lot of ways because it's an amalgamation of.... To me, it just shows what impact Rap and Hip Hop and R&B has had, the affect that it's had on mainstream American culture.
Robby: Right.
John: And these are guys that are reflecting that.
Robby: And we're on tour with Sugar Ray right now, and it's a lot of that same sort of thing.
John: It's a lot of that same kind of vibe. I mean, Rap music has probably been the most vital source of life for Rock music since Punk Rock. But I think Rap music became Punk Rock, the NWA and that.
Robby: Exactly.
John: And I think that a lot of kids in their formative years listened to that and it's being reflected in the bands that are young and are coming up and getting real big right now. And I think it's cool.
Mike: It's kind of weird in a way though because every time a band sort of starts a thing, like Korn all of a sudden came through and they got huge. But now there's gonna be another Grunge wave with another 20 bands doing lame imitations of what Korn's doing before people start to....
John: That's the thing about Nirvana. There was 1 Nirvana, and then there were 50 bands that tried to sound like them. There was 1 Metallica and there were 50 bands that tried to sound like them. And you have to appreciate music in its purest form. Like Metallica, if I want to listen to Metal, I'm gonna listen to Metallica.
Bob: Gonna go for the real deal.
John: Yea, you gotta go for the real deal. You gotta go for what's real. If I'm gonna listen to Rap, I'm gonna listen to NWA and Public Enemy. Because to me--and you know Sugar Hill Gang or whatever--'cos to me, that's the stuff.
Robby: But I think it's safe to say that we're just going to keep making these Goo Goo Dolls records that we've been making.
Mike: Slip through under the radar once again.
John: Sneak through under the radar.
Robby: We do our thing.
John: I feel no pressure to try and bow to whatever musical fasion is going on now. Not that those guys in Korn and Limpm Bizkit are doing that kind of thing. 'Cos I really believe that they've got a lot of conviction in what they do, and I think they do it really well. And I think that Kid Rock is really good. But I can't do that. And I'm not going to try 'n do that.
Bob: Well thank you for not. You've never followed the trends and you've created a niche in the marketplace for yourselves as who you are. And you can't beat that. No point trying to be something you're not.
John: Right on Bob!
Bob: That's it, validation to rock.
John: Wicked right on!
Bob: Wicked right on!
John: Vancouver, B.C. baby!
Bob: And to New Orleans we head. And it's Rena. Hi Rena.
Rena: Hi.
Mike: Hey Rena.
Rena: Hi guys.
Robby (whispering): Rena
John: Wait, are you a vampire?
Robby: Yes you are.
Rena: No.
Mike: New Orleans.
John: C'mon, do you hang with the undead?
Mike: Phillip Van Sela lives in New Orleans.
Rena: Ok, ok, you've figured me out.
Robby: Alright.
Bob: Way to go Rena.
John: What questions do you have for us from beyond the grave? What do the people beyond the grave want to know tonight?
Rena: You guys have been touring since September of last year. I was wondering if you had any really horrific road experiences.
Mike: Oh tons. You don't want to know 'em.
John: Tons. Like, Mike's most horrific road experience was me giving him a table dance in Italy.
Mike: It was pretty horrifying.
John: It was pretty horrifying. It was disgusting, yet arousing.
Mike: I was strangely interested.
John: He was repulsed, yet drawn to me.
Bob: Mike, could you keep dinner down?
Robby: Oh, it was bad.
Mike: It was bad.
Bob: That was a nasty moment huh?
Mike: No, I dont know, you travel for a year, of course there's gonna be some bad stories. But anybody's life in a year there's gonna be some bad stories, but nothing really extraordinary.
John: But you know what I think? I think that the best comparison to life on tour with a Rock band is, you gotta go the Blockbuster, or whatever the movie rental place is, and rent the movie Das Boot.
D-A-S B-O-O-T.
Bob: Oh, that's the German movie about submarines.
Mike: That's right. It's like living in a submarine together forever.
John: That is what being on tour is like.
Mike: With the exception, we usually don't have missiles being shot at us.
John: It doesn't matter. I got shoes thrown at me!
Robby: I was gonna say, shoes, maybe water bottles.
Mike: We don't sit around "Oh no, where's the next depth charge?"
John: It doesn't matter.
( turn tape over,missed a few lines here)
Bob: It's just a phrase you don't hear. It's just not a common phrase.
John: Metaphorical Depth Charge. Pink Floyd, you've had Pink Floyd on here, haven't you?
Bob: 6-8 times, yea.
John: 6 or 8 times, and no one ever said (using British accent) "metaphorical depth charge"
Bob: No, they never said....
Mike: Did you hang with Roger Waters, or only the new Pink Floyd? You hung with Roger Waters didn't you?
Bob: Both, yea.
Mike: Wasn't he on tour this summer?
John: Listen, y'know, we should dedicate an entire show where we come on and we'll ask you questions about all the people you've interviewed.
Robby: Could we do that?
Bob: No, you don't want to do that, man.
Robby: Oh yes we do want to do that.
Bob: I gotta work with these people, man.
Robby: But dude, you are so more fascinating than we are.
John: We are just this pitiful little microcosm of Rock.
Robby: Y'know, it's like you're Bob Coberne, for God's sake!
John: You've got a chance to digest it all.
Bob: Wicked right on, man.
John: Wicked right on, dude!
Mike: That's all we've got to say, right on, man.
John: But seriously, you've digested it all from David Lee Roth to Jello Biafra; so like, y'know.
Bob: You do not want to hear these stories, I have to work with these people.
Robby: Yes I do.
John: Yes, we do.
Bob: I think it's time to play a song. I think it's time to play Name. Here's the Goo Goo Dolls for ya on Rockline.
John: Oh, not that again!
**plays Name**
Bob: Name by the Goo Goo Dolls on Rockline. I'm Bob Coberne and we're with John and Robby and Mike from the band right now, and having a little fun tonight on Rockline as you can tell.
Mike: I can't believe you played that song like 5 seconds after John mentioned somebody as cool as Jello Biafra. And then you had to play a wussy song like that.
Bob: Yay, well you're the one calling me out.
John: Well, I couldn't find a sissy big enough to play it untill i met Mike.
All: Ohhhhhhhh
John: Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard it first on rockline, the Goo Goo Dolls are breaking up.
Robby (far off, trying to sound like a caller): So where'd you guys get your name anyway?
John (doing the same as Robby): Hello? (back to normal voice) Does that sound like someone on the telephone?
Bob: It really does, that was pretty good. Could we get a little more static on the line?
John (sounding like a caller): Hello?
Bob: And what's your question please.
John (saying in caller-like voice), Robby (making static): Hello, hello, Hi. I would like to know where the Goo Goo Dolls got their
na-ame.
Mike: We got our name out of a...
John and Robby, same as before: Hello, hello.
John: That's all we ever get, that's all anybody ever asks.
Bob: Not a bad impression.....
John: No one has asked that tonight, and thank you very much.
Mike: Thank you everybody for the nice questions.
Bob: Frank is on the internet. I have no idea where you are located. Frank, where are you located?
Frank: Well, I'm calling from around Atlanta, Georgia.
John: AROUND Atlanta?
Frank: Like, Buckhead. It's close to Atlanta.
John: Oh, Buckhead, right on. Cool.
Robby: Atlanta.
John: Winnepeg Jets. Alright, here we go.
Frank: Where and when was your first gig, and what made it memorable?
John: Mmmm...the first gig, hey, Robbo!
Robby: Yea, man.
John: He's out in the hallway.
Robby: Sorry 'bout that. I'm back.
John: What you doin'? Hey, check it out. First gig we ever played. First gig this rock band ever played...
Robby: Was at the Continental.
John: June, 1986, Continental, Buffalo, New York. Man, we played for 50 bucks.
Robby: And some beer.
John: And some beer. And believe me, we had to twist the owner's arm, and if you knew the owner, he only liked it when you twisted his arm.
Robby: Exactly. For real. But the bottom line of that show was, we had about 8 songs, we learned about 4 covers, and I think we went on at like, 3AM because Buffalo's one of those beautiful cities where bars are open till like 10 till 5 in the morning, it's like insane, man.
John: The opening act goes on after the headliner.
Robby: Yea, absolutely. So we went on late, late, late and we had pages of paper filled with things things that said A-E-B. You know what meant?
Bob: I have no idea.
John and Robby: Those were the notes to the song that we had to play.
Bob: Ohhhh.
Robby: We had to make up words to those songs, and that was kind of, how we began. And I think people used to come to see us just because there was a potential that one of us may have had like a heart attack, or possibly have died from some kind of bizarre alcohol accident or something.
John: Alcohol, drug-induced.
Bob: So pretty much, it was the free beer that made it memorable.
Robby: Absolutely.
Bob: Absolutely, ok.
John: It's fun with free beer. Thanks Bob. Alright, thank you for your question and I must say one more time, I don't mind being humiliated in public.
Bob: Some guys pay for that, y'know.
Mike: Next question please.
Bob: Actually, we're gonna take a break (goes on about how everyone who gets through gets a copy of Dizzy Up The Girl)
Mike: But we were ready for the next question.
Bob: You want more questions, we got 'em for ya, comin' up.
Robby, John, Mike: YEA!!!
Mike: We brought a football in here so we can get out some of our aggressions. Here's Robby the other side of the room. Whew!... Oh, fumble!
Robby: Robby going for 2 microphones at 1 time
Mike: He throws it full force, we're gonna die in here.
John: Ow!...Bob...
Bob: Yes?
John (in lower voice): could someone call the police?
Bob: It's the Goo Goo Dolls, as they stand naked in front of your steaming ears this evening on Rockline.
**plays Naked**
Bob: Welcome back to Rockline, I'm Bob Coberne with the Goo Goo Dolls and Naked is the name of that song. We have a call from Jessica; she's in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. Hi Jessica, you're on Rockline with the Goo Goo Dolls.
All 3 Goos: Hi, Jessica.
Jessica: Hello.
John: Jessica, how are ya darlin', what's up?
Jessica: I'm good. I need guidance.
Bob: You've called the right place.
Mike: These are our favorite kind of questions; we love guidance questions.
John: I am your high school guidance counselor, baby.
Jessica: I listened to you last week on 99.1
John: That's right!
Mike: That's excellent.....
John: I had this high school guidance councelor, you know what he used to say to me? He used to say to me, he had this weird accent and he said (imitating weird accent) Rzeznik, ya hopeless! You better join the military. Ya ain't got no hope. There ain't no hope for a guy like you.
Mike: Rzeznik's guitar teacher also told him to not play guitar.
John: Yea, he told me not to play guitar.
Robby (with slight accent): You ain't got no hope. You should get into radio. That's what they said to me. And I was like what do they mean?
John (in guidance counselor's accent): Rzeznik, ain't no hope.
Mike: Mine told me stop trying to play in a band, because it was bound to be a failure and it'd never be successful
John (still in guidance counselor's accent): Join the military, Rzeznik.
Mike: Shows what guidance counselors know.
John: Alright, well forget the '80s, let's talk about the late '90s. Tell us what you need to know, darlin'.
Bob: Yea, what do you need Jessica?
John: I will never lie to you.
Jessica: I saw you guys at HFStival, but I kind of lied to my mother about how I was getting there. I told her my best friend's parents were taking me, when in fact, one of my friends was. And I'm not allowed to drive with people my age. But it was the only way to see you guys, and you're my favorite band, and I was willing to do anything.
Robby: How old are you?
Jessica: I'm 15
Robby: You're 15?
Jessica: Yea.
John: 15, and how old was the person that was driving you?
Jessica: 16.
Robby: Did they have a lisence?
John: Yea, did they have a driver's lisence?
Jessica: Yes, they'd been driving for a year.
Robby: And had they been certified by your state.....
John: Wait! The person who drove you had a driver's lisence?
Jessica: Yes, he's 16.
John: And were they responsible and were they drinking?
Jessica: No, I would never get in a car.
Robby: Well then tell your parents to go away.
Bob: Yea, like that'll work.
John: No, no, no, no, no, no.
Robby: No, seriously.
John: No, listen. No, no, no (goes on indefinitely)
Robby: For real.
John: No, no wait, no.
Robby: Listen, listen, listen. They're lisenced, they're your age, and they're sober.
Jessica: Exactly.
Robby: It's your decision.
Jessica: That's what I said.
Robby: It's your decision whether or not you drive with someone that age.
Jessica: That's what I told them.
Robby: Your parents can't stop you. But, explain to your parents that they are sober. And explain to your parents that they are responsible.
John: But no, you have to look at the deeper issue here, which is, the parents rule over the child.
Robby: Yea, but parents....
John: Until they are of legal age...now wait a minute...no, no, no (goes on for awhile), although, according to the laws of Maryland, right? I'm assuming she has a Maryland driver's lisence?
Jessica: Yes.
John: Right. She's allowed to drive if she's sober, but your parent's wishes are that you would not drive with someone your age because your parents think that they're a bunch of irresponsible jerks, which, let's be honest, most 16-year-olds are.
Robby: Are you responsible for yourself? Are you a smart girl?
Jessica: Yes.
Robby: Ok, and will you drive with someone who is innuberated and cannot operate a motor vehicle?
John: Right.
Jessica: No.
Robby: Will you?
Jessica: No.
John: But what's more important?...
Robby: Then lie to 'em!
John: But what's more important, what's more important?
Mike: Good counselling "Lie to your parents"
John: No, seriously.....
Mike: Everyone out there in radio land, Lie to your parents.
John: What is more important, what is more important? Do you respect your parents or your friends more?
Jessica: Oh, don't make me answer that question.
John: I'm asking you honestly.
Robby: But parents aren't always right.
John: But let's be honest.
Robby: Parents aren't always right.
John: This has got nothing to do with parents being right.
Robby: Yea, it does.
John: No, it doesn't.
Robby: C'mon, baby!
John: No, it has nothing to do with them being right. It's like who do you respect more?
Mike: Look what you did, we're comin' to punches over here.
John: Your parents or your friends?
Jessica: Ohh, I respect my parents, sometimes.
John: Mmmhmmm, well then tell them the truth.
Bob: I'm sorry, I had to go to the bathroom, did I miss anything? Anything happen while I was gone?
John: No, we were just.....
Jessica: That's not the real problem though.
John: So what's the real problem?
Robby: Oh, so what's the problem?
Jessica: You guys are coming to Merriweather Post Pavilion, and she won't let me come see you!
Bob: Ok, you can.....
Robby: BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A RIDE!!!
Bob: Jessica....
Robby: YOU DON'T HAVE A RIDE!!!
Bob: Jessica, John, Robby, Mike, this is real simple stuff, it's real simple stuff. It's the job of the parent to tell the 15-year-old that they can't ride with the 16-year-old because the 16-year-old is likely to be irresponsible. It's the job of the 15-year-old to get in the car, and go to the damn concert!
Robby: Absolutely!
Jessica: But how do I come see you guys? I don't know what I'm gonna do.....
John: But Bob, let's not forget something...Bob...
Bob: Yes?
John: We can't forget one thing here.
Bob: What's that?
John: You have teenage daughters.
Bob: I have 1 teenage daughter.
Robby: But would you let...
John: You have a teenage daughter
Robby: But you would let your teenage daughter drive with a 16-year-old who has a lisence, and who is sober because you trust your daughter to get her back from the show.
Bob: And the next song that we're going to be listening to by the Goo Goo Dolls
John: But.....
Robby: No, c'mon, Bob!
John: No, but while we're talking about the parents. Bob is a different Dad than the girl on the phone's parents are.
Robby: But y'know what...
Mike: See how much use our counselling has been nil, it hasn't accomplished anything, all we're doing is arguing amongst ourselves. Song please, Bob, song please!
John: Stop! Stop, stop, stop! I'm gonna settle this right now. I'm gonna settle this right now.
Bob: You better, quick.
(someone mentions something about a beer)
John: Hello Caller, hello Caller...
Jessica: Yes.
John: Ok, now listen to me. When we get off the air with you (yells shut up to either Robby or Mike), when we get off the air with you, Bob's assistant is going to get your name, and your parents name. And your parents are going to come to our show with you.
Robby: With you.
John: Ok?
Jessica: Ok.
Robby: They don't have to sit with you
John: Now listen, no seriously. We will put them 3 rows behind you.
Jessica: Are you serious?
John: So that, listen, now check it out, you, your friend, and both your parents, so we'll arrange it to have 4 tickets for the show.
Jessica: Uh huh?!
John: Alright?
Robby: You don't have to sit with them.
John: No, you don't have to sit with them. They'll sit a couple rows behind you.
Jessica: Ok.
John: But if they've got to bring you to the show, then we'll let them bring you to the show. Alright?
Jessica: Ok.
Bob: What a great solution. And you know what I like about the solution? When I wanted to see you guys in concert, and my daughter wanted to see you guys in concert in Southern California here, what did I do you guys? What did I do?
Robby: You brought her with ya.
Bob: I brought her with me, thank you very much.
Robby: Yea, ya did.
Bob: Thank you very much.
Robby: That's 'cos you're a cool dad.
John: And you know something, caller? You may find out somethin' 'bout your mom and dad.
Jessica: Yea.
John: Is that they're people too.
Jessica: Yea. Uh huh.
John: And they may find out something about you.
Mike: And they just won free tickets to our show.
John: That you're probably, no. That most likely, you're a really great kid who deserves to have their trust and understanding.
Jessica: Mmmhmmm.
Bob: And you know what, they just might like the band, Jessica.
Jessica: They do!
Bob: Well see, there ya go!
John: Well, we play all that Sissy Rock, y'know, they might like us.
Jessica: They do love you, I make them listen to you in the car every day.
John: See?
Bob: Well for me, there was no way I was gonna miss you guys in concert, and there's no way she was; so we went together, end of deal. Of course you guys didn't make me the same offer.
Mike: Get her info, we'll get her on the list.
John: Bob, Bob.
Bob: Yes.
John: Bob, you gotta make Dominique earn some money over there. Get him a pencil and get him on the phone there. And get Jessica's first and last name, and we'll get her on +3 for the concert wherever the heck it is.
Bob: Dominique Griffin, our producer, make him earn some money?
John: No, he earns his money. He's bustin' his balls.
Bob: Well let me have a shot too!
John: C'mon! Take it! Hit it!
Bob: Let's take a number here at least. Now serving number 23. More with the Goo Goo Dolls on Rockline.
John: Oh, this is good radio.
Bob: (the whole we're back spiel) and they just set up Jessica in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area up with tickets for the show, and a very cool way of doing that, I gotta, I tip my hat to you guys, that was totally cool.
John: This might be an opportunity for Jessica and her parents to see eye to eye for a little while.
Bob: And walk away having something common. And Mike will personally check the list, he said.
Mike: I will, make sure she's on it.
John: No, seriously, we'll make sure she's on the list with her folks and they can even come backstage and meet us if they want to.
Bob: Ok, then we'll set it up, and we'll give you her name so that you have it, and you can look and make sure she's taken care of when she goes. Now there's somethin' you guys have been doing all night long that's been bothering me, and I've got to bring this up before we wrap up here...
Mike: Cutting you off anytime you say anything?
John: Belching in the microphones?
Bob: No, besides that.
John: What's it been?
Bob: Besides that, besides the whole cutting me off thing, that's a whole other issue. It's the Sissy Rock thing. I wish you guys would quit callin' yourselves that. Y'know, you guys make really good, creative, melodic rock'n'roll. There's a place for it, people have responded to it. I like what you're doing, and I don't like hearing you talk about your music like that. It ain't cool.
John: I know, but we're living in a world with Korn and Kid Rock. And compared to those guys, we're sissies. Y'know what I'm saying?
Bob: But, are ya makin' good music, from your heart?
John: I need counselling.
Bob: That's it.
John: It is. It's got nothing to do with you, Bob. It's got nothing to do with the world outside. It's all in my head.
Robby: It's in his head.
John: It's a war INSIDE MY HEAD!
Robby: Hey, could I do one thing, real real fast, considering this is the whole country...?
Bob: Sure, but it's gotta be really fast, 'cos we're out of time.
Robby: Real fast, ready? We're working with this company, with this organization called USA Harvest. OK, ok and USA Harvest collects canned goods from rock concerts. Anybody who comes to see us, please, please please, bring cans of Mexicorn , or maybe succatash, or some kind of beans or something?
Mike: Green beans.
John: Canned food in general.
Robby: And bring 'em to the show, 'cos that'd be fuck-That would be very, very....
John: He almost said it!
Robby: That'll be very very good, and it's for a good cause. And we need everyone to do that for us.
John: Now, the good thing about Harvest USA is that you don't have to go through the beaurocracy of the food banks, and all that. And the food stays right in the community, and lots of times it's distributed that night. Now, we've been lucky enough, through the generosity of the people who come to see us every night to raise 30 tons, 3-0, that's 30 tons.
Robby: Lots, and lots!
John: 60,000 pounds of food, and that is over 100,000 meals that people in the areas where we play shows are gonna be receiving, and it's a good way for you guys to help out your neighbors. Also, at our shows, we have the Big Denim Wall, and for every signature we get on the Big Denim Wall, Levis donates $1 to PAX, which is an anti-gun violence organization.
Robby: Trying to figure out a way to make guns exist peacefully, I don't know how that happens, but they are supposedly figuring it out, and so we're supporting them.
John: But what we're trying to do is, we want a youth petition, we want the kids of America to say to the legislature, to their legislators that they don't want unlimited access to guns without any kind of restriction. And it's a very strange thing, but a teddy bear, if a baby wants to hold the teddy bear, it has to go through 4 different safety regulations before that baby can get his hands on the teddy bear. Now guns don't have to go through any safety regulations before someone can get their hands on it.
Robby: And that is retarded. And let's fix that.
John: That is seriously, a case of screwed up priorities.
Bob: I agree with that, but we're out of time, and I don't mean to cut you off here.
All 3 Goo Goo Dolls: No, no, it's alright.
Bob: But listen, you're helping feed people with USA Harvest, you're helping work on the gun issue right now. Let's hear it for Sissy Rock, can we? OK?