Goo Goo Dollsby Helen BarradellPicture this. It’s Christmas Eve 1986 in freezing Buffalo, New York. Over a nauseating loaf of pineapple Spam, a “totally shitfaced” Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls dial the president of their record company and proceed to scream all the reasons why he ruined their Christmas. Within 24 hours this notoriety finds them expelled from the label. It also scores them their first manager in Artie Kwitchoff.1987. At a Los Angeles Goo Goo Dolls gig, heavy with the presence of hungry record execs on the prowl for fresh meat, Robby Takac instigates a fig