Nylon Magazine, Jan/Feb 2000

The New Goo Revue

We sent a Polaroid camera to the Goo Goo Dolls Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac and asked them to document a week in the life of their tour in support of their album Dizzy Up the Girl.  Here's the report they filed from the road.October 18

The first day's photos are from the MTV promos for our New Year's Eve Show in New York City.This is Johnny with the Mike Malinin scale model.  It's a ceramic sculpture of our drummer, Mike.  It looks exactly like him right down to the hat.  Soon to be appearing in Madame Tussauds in London.

This is Robby being told he's gotta stay on the MTV New Year's shoot for another four hours.  Robby's going, "Oh my goodness., it's not New Year's and it's cold."

John at his best, saying, "Fuck you".  I, Robby, have a billion pictures exactly like this one.

NEXT DAY OCTOBER 19

Nylon Magazine, Jan/Feb 2000

October 19This is a "meet and greet."  Let's go through our day:  In the morning you get up and do interviews on the phone, and then you go in and do your soundcheck, and then you go and do this, also called a "fake and shake, because you stand around and you shake hands with strangers, making nice like you"re running for President.
  This was at Penn State University... and these girls were cool.  And they gave us free Penn State shit, so it was even cooler.

This is us at soundcheck.  We do this every day.  The life - the wretched life - of a musician can be really routine and boring.

This is Mike playing drums at soundcheck.

How exciting!  You know what he's thinking in this picture?  Most likely, "The geographical center of Europe is somewhere in Spain.