Hey Hey In Rockers, Welcome to The Lobby for this month’s stroll through the memories and goings on of the last month of my life since we met up last! Lots of stuff going on in the world of Goo Goo Dolls, our label Good Charamel and I took a little trip as well, so let’s start getting caught up!
Goo Goo Dolls spent a week in the sunshine in the state of Arizona playing the Innings Festival in Tempe. The Innings Festival began in 2018 in Arizona as a festival paired with Spring Training for Major League Baseball here in the US. There’s all sorts of music and events that celebrate MLB culture, we played the Florida version of the Innings festival in its inaugural year in 2022 in Tampa with Green Day, The Lumineers, Incubus and a whole bunch of other bands. This year’s lineup in Tempe featured Blink 182, Mumford and Sons, 21 Pilots and about 30 more bands on 3 stages scattered around the baseball themed grounds. We had a great show and left the crowd singing and celebrating the time they spent together, that’s how it’s supposed to be!
Also, this month we are getting ready for our label Good Charamel Record’s latest adventure, we will be bringing Osaka’s Shonen Knife to the US for a 6-week run of shows across the US! My wife Miyoko will be touring with them across the states seeing Shonen Knife performing a few solo headline shows and over 25 shows with the summer package tour. To celebrate the release, we had the band come from Osaka to my studio, GCR Audio, in Buffalo, NY to record a new project we will be unveiling soon to coincide with the upcoming tour! It was a fast and furious recording session / photo shoot / video shoot which took place over 5 days with our GCR Audio staff here in Buffalo. We’re just assembling the artwork, mixing, editing video and getting everything ready for the release this week, stay tuned for more information about this project and Shonen Knife’s 2026 tour of the US! Goo Goo Dolls will be out all summer as well with Neon Trees traveling across the US, so the Takac family will be covering many, many miles over the summer this year!
Between all the madness of traveling and recording we managed to get away and head to Florida for a few days and get out of the arctic temperatures we’ve been living through in NY over the past few months. We rented a house in Orlando with a backyard pool and brought our daughter and little dog to hang in the sun, defrost and do some swimming and amusement park hopping for a couple of days. We had a great time, and I think most Buffalonians could benefit from a momentary thaw at this point, it really helps you cope with the monotony of the winter months as we head towards spring and warmer temperatures.
OK, I’m going to duck out now, thanks for stopping by, you know, we’ve been doing this together for what’s turning into decades now, thanks for checking in each and every month and let’s do it again huh?
Peace,
Robby

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