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Goo Goo Dolls through the looking glass: Revisiting 1991 on Sixth Street

InterviewSeptember 8, 2016Austin Music Source

Back in 1991, if you wanted to know the full names of the guys in the Goo Goo Dolls, you had to ask — because the credits on their records wouldn’t tell you.On “Hold Me Up,” the band’s third album, the liner notes stated simply, “The Goo Goo Dolls Are: George, Drums, Vocal; Johnny, Guitar, Vocals; Robby, Bass Vocals.” So when I got Johnny on the phone in May 1991 for an American-Statesman preview of the band’s show at Cannibal Club, a then-thriving Sixth Street alt-rock hub, I asked what the deal was.“Our last names are just really long, not very rock ‘n’ roll,” he said, but he confessed that

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