Goo Goo Dolls

Are we sure they aren't Kansas using a different name? Impossible, come to think of it, since Kansas is so much tougher a band name than what the Goo Goo Dolls have kept for the last 24 years. If I'd had five more minutes, I would have thought of a better name, Buffalo-bred singer John Rzeznik once said, Having been born Rzeznik, he picked the band name Goo Goo Dolls, just his luck. Wait, "Slide" isn't by the Steve Miller Band? You're sure? I'm not being a snob, Kansas was alt-rock once, too, you know. Anyway: "Iris," yes. Pre-emo, or "premo" if you will, a perfectly sweet Irishoid power-ballad cooked up for an abysmal shot in San Fran remake of Wings of Desire. "Iris" sounds ever so much better acoustic without the orchestral scaffolding hanging over it, and turns up at a lot of people's wedding parties. So does "The Chicken Dance" but, eh. Buffalo! Rock City! - Richard von Busack sanjose.com