My First Show Back: Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik On Their Measured Return to Touring

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The GooGooDolls’ John Rzeznik discusses how a band that is used to playing 100 dates a year faired through the pandemic and returned on Aug. 19 at Kewadin Casinos in Michigan.

[Our 2021 shows] are being done in a smart way. There’s not very much production and very little personnel. There’s no extra fat on anything. We’re only taking the risk of losing one show at a time. If we had booked an entire tour and had to cancel a week of shows, we would be in a lot of financial trouble. And that goes back to having a good manager. So we are making money and throughout the pandemic the band was lucky enough to be able to keep everybody on retainer.

We are working on a new record that’s going to be released in spring hopefully because our last record got screwed by the whole pandemic. But Robby [Takac] and I decided the setlist for these current shows we’re going to hit them with every familiar song and hit. Give the people what they want. [A few days prior,] I got to sing “Iris” with Billy Joel at Highmark Stadium [in New York] and I was like, 'Wow. Holy sh*t it’s Billy Joel.' That was a pretty moving moment. I got a lump in my throat because he offered me an invitation to get on his stage and play to my hometown. There were 50,000 people there. When he introduced me, I was a little overwhelmed by the response. I was out there for a song and it was humbling.

I feel like"Iris" is one of those songs that was just so much bigger than the band. Sometimes you're swimming in your own wake because you want to push forward. But I will always be grateful that that song came into my life and exists because it really helped propel the rest of our career.

 

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I'm so proud of them, they work so hard to make us happy. .・。.・゜❤・

And I was there for that awesome first show since the pandemic! ❤️

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