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〜ロビー／グー・グー・ドールズの「ROBBY'S LOBBY」〜
日本人の奥さんを持つ根っからの親日家ベーシスト、ロビーがバンドの近況やいろんな情報を教えてくれる人気コラム「ROBBY'S
LOBBY」！誌面から1月遅れで彼が執筆した英文ママの掲載です。 Hey hey in rockers and welcome to the lobby! This week I’m back in buffalo after a whirlwind 43 city US tour which took us all through the states and brought our goo goo dolls rock show to nearly entirely sold out crowds all summer on our Summer Anthem Tour ! It was a long tour, but the shows were great, the crowds were even better and for the most part the weather was perfect albeit a little hot, but that’s to be expected at an outdoor summer amphitheater tour! Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray even joined us at he Greek Theater in Los Angeles singing a cover of INXSs Don’t Change! Since we last spoke our Summer Anthem EP Has been released and we made it back home in one piece for the most part! When the tour finished we went directly to Washington DC and the NPR studios for a taping of their legendary “Tiny Desk Concerts” right in their offices, we did 4 songs stripped down, no amplification for the vocals, just a few mics picking up everything else! You’ll be able to check it out soon online and all over social media! The day after I returned to Buffalo my wife Miyoko left from Chicago to start the Shonen Knife 2025 Everyone Happy US Tour at Riot Fest in Chicago, she serves as the legendary Japanese power pop trios label-rep, tour manager and merch girl! They played on the Weird Al World Stage opening the show an the festival at noon to over 6000 people! Osaka”s Shonen Knife have been like family to us, we’ve been working since 2007 with them and my wife Miyoko travels with them on their us tours! They will be doing 26 shows all over the US finishing up on the West coast in late October! Their second show was in Buffalo at The Music is Art Festival and they continued on with sold out shows in Boston, Connecticut and 2 sold out shows in Brooklyn NY! We’ll fill you in on the rest of the tour next month! If you are a frequent visitor to the lobby you know a bit about the music is art festival, we've been doing it for 23 years now and And I've shared the experience with you all the pages of the mighty In Rock For much of that. For those of you joining us for the first time the music is art festival started as a small, free two stage music and art festival in the parking lot of my recording studio in Buffalo, NY, since then it has grown to over 20 stages of local talent from my hometown and an active cultural not for profit that promotes music and the arts through programs and events that we run all through the year! Dancers, artists, DJs, performance artists, bands, singers, the circus arts and more all combined for a free one day exhibition of the creative community in Western New York. (www.musicisart.org) I should also mention the Buffalo Bisons AAA baseball team in Buffalo had a Goo Goo Dolls Bobblehead Day the same weekend! I’ve included a pic, John and I attended the event, and they even let our daughters throw out the first pitch ! Tonight I’m in New Jersey with Goo Goo Dolls as we are on a pretty cool bill for a fundraiser for a pet emergency fund here in the states with Ed Sheeran, Shaboozey, Alex Warren, Lola Young and others, should be a blast! I’ll share some pics with you next month here in the pages of In Rock! Alright, enjoy your day and I hope to talk soon right here in the lobby! Peace! Robby
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