Hey Hey In Rockers! Thanks for stopping into the lobby, a brief pause in the chaos of life to catch up in the pages of the Mighty, Mighty In Rock! It’s been a busy month behind the scenes here in my hometown of Buffalo, NY as I prepare for a Summer tour with my band Goo Goo Dolls and my wife and I prepare for her upcoming trip across the US with Osaka’s legendary Shonen Knife this Summer, more on this in a bit!
Goo Goo Dolls finished our residency in Las Vegas last month and my daughter Hana and I caught a cold on the way home, so we spent a week getting over a pretty bad cold as my wife Miyoko took a trip to visit family in Japan. We’ll be doing a video for our song Ocean from our Summer Anthem EP we released last year, we’re shooting it in California with director Alex Chaloff who has done videos for Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, H.E.R. and many, many others. I’ll try to include some shots from the video shoot in the next column. We’ll be filming a proper music video for Ocean and a few days later we’ll shoot an “on the porch” acoustic style version of a few songs for a CBS TV network 4th of July Special that will air here in the US on Independence Day here in America, and this year we celebrate 250 years of America, pretty exciting!
After a short break at home, we're heading back to Los Angeles to get ready for our GGDS 2026 Summer U.S. tour. We'll be playing around 30 shows all across the country, stopping in cities like Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Syracuse?and we'll hit up plenty of spots in the South, with lots of dates in Florida and Alabama. Plus, Neon Trees will be our opening act on this leg, we’ve never met them before, so we look forward to getting to know them and having a great summer together! We’re going deep for this one, it would be a nice way to check out some parts of the country people don’t normally travel to, take a trip and join us!
We’re also readying for my wife Miyoko’s tour with the legendary female power pop trio from Osaka, Shonen Knife, our indie record label Good Charamel Records does all the label coordination, design work, merch, tour management, immigration, travel and pretty much everything else on the backend for the band here in the US. Since the release of their “SuperGroup” album in 2007. Miyoko also tours with them when they are here, this year they are opening for the bands Men at Work from Australia and the band Toad The Wet Sprocket from Santa Barabara, CA on a 27-date tour with some solo shows sprinkled into the schedule as well. This is the first major venue opening tour the band has dome in the US, and we are excited to have them play in front of some new audiences after all of these years.
Alright, that will do it for this month! I’ll be catching up with you from GGDS rehearsals, run-throughs and the shows which actually start about one short month from now as I’m writing this column... yikes .....And maybe we’ll get some shots from Shonen Knife's first few shows as well!
Have a great month and I hope to catch up with you next time!

Peace
Robby

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