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Goo Goo Dolls coming to Jacobs Pavilion with Collective Soul

InterviewAugust 5, 2016The News Herald

Twenty years ago, life for the Goo Goo Dolls was changing.Previously, the Buffalo band had Replacements ambitions as a punkish act that dabbled in metal.However, that would all change when the group wrote and recorded the song “Name.” After nearly a decade of obscurity, the band was about to be ubiquitous, with an unexpected and unintended style change that would forge its pop future.“It’s funny — when we were doing the demos for [1995’s] ‘Boy Name Goo,’ I remember when that song was coming together,” said bassist Robby Takac, calling from San Jose, California. “We were kind of looking at each

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