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August 1, 2000

GOO GOO DOLLS ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES;

USA Harvest Joins Band in Collecting Food for the Needy.

Multi-platinum recording artists, the Goo Goo Dolls have announced select tour dates in support of their sixth album, Dizzy Up the Girl. The band, who has been on the road for almost two years, will kick off the tour at the State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado on August 28th. Band members John Rzeznik (guitar,) Robby Takac (bass) and Mike Malinin (drums) will be joined on stage by guitarist Nathan December and keyboardist David Schulz. Tour dates are listed below.

The Goo Goo Dolls have invited USA Harvest, the nation-wide food delivery organization, to join them again in collecting food for the needy. Since March of 1999, USA Harvest collected over over 600,000 lbs. of food donated by fans at the band's concerts. The Goos are again appealing to fans to bring canned and other non-perishable food items to the shows. Volunteers will be on hand to collect the food and deliver it locally to soup kitchens, shelters and other social service agencies. "We're very excited about USA Harvest volunteers joining us on the road again" says Robby Takac. "We want to thank our fans for donating to their communities this past year and we hope to see them at the shows again this month." Dizzy Up the Girl has sold almost four million albums to date and has appeared on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for 95 weeks. Four singles off the album, "Iris," "Slide," "Dizzy" and "Black Balloon" have accumulated over a million plays at radio, according to BDS. The latest single "Broadway" is tops at several radio formats and a video treatment for the song, written by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, can be seen on MTV and VH-1. The Goo Goo Dolls have been nominated for four GRAMMY awards and were honored this past year with songwriting and broadcast performance awards from ASCAP and BMI.

The Goo Goo Dolls web site googoodolls.com has been redesigned and now features contest giveaways, exclusive photos, unreleased audio tracks, band information and a Goo Goo Dolls store. The site provides daily information directly from the band on "The Daily Goo" which includes news from the road, tour information, television and radio appearances, downloadable clips and special announcements. In the months ahead, band members will be available for on line chats and will supply details to fans from the recording studio when they begin work on their seventh album later this year. googoodolls.com is the only official source for obtaining band information and lyrics for all six Goo Goo Dolls recordings.

Tour dates are:

Aug. 28 Pueblo, Colorado State Fair/Events Center

Aug. 29 Lincoln, Ne. Nebraska State Fair

Aug. 30 St. Paul, Mn. Minneapolis State Fair

Sept. 1 Essex Jct., Vt. Champlain Valley Exposition

Sept. 2 Syracuse, NY New York State Fair

Sept. 3 Allentown, Pa. Allentown Fair - Grandstand

Sept. 4 Canfield, Oh. Mahoning County Fair

Visit the Goo Goo Dolls website at googoodolls.com

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