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8 unusual facts about Goo Goo Dolls


2011 Orange Bowl

For the game's halftime show, the Orange Bowl hosted American alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls.

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

KNEV

Magic 95.5 currently airs a Lite Rock format, which is composed of newer artists such as Coldplay, Rob Thomas, Taylor Swift, Nickelback, P!nk, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, and Michael Bublé along with artists from the 80s and 90s to include the Goo Goo Dolls, U2, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band, Alanis Morissette, and Jewel.

Music in High Places: Live in Alaska

Music in High Places: Live in Alaska is a live DVD by the Goo Goo Dolls.

The Otis Midnight Sessions

The Otis Midnight Sessions is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

True Detective

The magazine is also noted to be the source of the band name of internationally-famous Goo Goo Dolls.

USA Harvest

The Goo Goo Dolls used to pick up food in their concerts in benefit of the organization.

WLKK

They also played WNY musicians on a regular basis and offered a local music show on Monday nights, hosted by Robbie Takac, a local music promoter and member of The Goo Goo Dolls, a band who hails from Buffalo.


2nd Street Tunnel

It is also featured in music videos such as "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, "We R Who We R" by Kesha, "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi, "Kings and Queens" by Thirty Seconds to Mars, "Grenade" by Bruno Mars, "Sing" by My Chemical Romance, and "Protovision" by Kavinsky.

Allentown Art Festival

From 2003 - 2005 the Music is Art festival, a charity event founded by Goo Goo Dolls member Robby Takac, was held on adjoining streets concurrent with the Art Festival.

Blind Zero

In 1997, Blind Zero recorded "Redcoast", the second album of originals produced by Michael Vail Blum (an American producer that worked with Suicidal Tendencies, Madonna, Roxy Music, 3T, Tura Satana, Goo Goo Dolls, Jewel).

Good Morning, Miami

The theme song, entitled "Once in a Lifetime", is played by John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls .

Jaded Sun

After gaining new experience they started to record their debut album Gypsy Trip together with producers Richard Mouser (Weezer, Dream Theater, Tears for Fears), Jimmy Coup (The Coup de Grace and Andrew W.K.) and Robert Vosgien (Lenny Kravitz, Bush, Goo Goo Dolls).

Mando Fresko

Mando has done every time slot from mornings to nights and has interviewed everybody from Kanye West to The Goo Goo Dolls.

Sea Cliff, New York

Notable residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Natalie Portman, Ben Wagner, a translator and businessman, and John Rzeznik, frontman of the rock band Goo Goo Dolls.

Shabooh Shoobah

It has been covered by The Audreys, The Bravery, Everclear, Face to Face, Goo Goo Dolls, Grinspoon, Zero (a post-punk band from Uruguay, covered the song with the title No cambies), A Fire Inside and also most recently by Lazlo Bane.

Shaw Conference Centre

It has hosted a wide variety of guests and performers in its history, including Tiesto, Bobby Orr, Pearl Jam, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Metallica, Slipknot, Stone Temple Pilots, Paul Rodgers, Scorpions, Goo Goo Dolls, Dream Theater, In Flames, Deftones, Sum 41, Jean Chrétien, Desmond Tutu, Gordie Howe, Prince Charles, Diana Princess of Wales and Tina Turner.

Waiting for the Rest of It

Waiting for the Rest of It is an EP released by the Goo Goo Dolls in 2010 for Warner Bros. Records.


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