Hey Hey In Rockers, thanks for stopping by and welcome to the lobby, and what do you know, it seems you’re just in time for our monthly meet up here in the pages of our beloved InRock! Our family is out on 2 big rock tours winding around the US this Summer, my wife Miyoko is out doing tour managing/merch with Osaka’s Shonen Knife here in the US, and I’m out with my band Goo Goo Dolls with my daughter along for 6 weeks across the USA as well! Our little Shih Tzu Luna is spending this time with us away at her foster mother’s house hanging around with 2 more shih tzus and a chubby little chihuahua named George, they seem to be having a great time together!
My wife Miyoko’s out on a tour w/ Shonen Knife this summer as I mentioned, they are usually coming through clubs and theaters here in the US, but this tour they were paired as an opening act with the bands Men at Work and Toad the Wet Sprocket. They’re touring in support of their latest Let’s Knife Re-Cut release, a reimagination of their classic Let’s Knife album, unavailable for the last 20 years here in the US. The tour started in Pompano Beach, Florida and is making its way through Georgia as we speak; it’s been so hot at these mainly outdoor shows as they make their way across the south in deep Summer eventually ending up in Los Angeles at the end of August! The larger venues, longer drives and shorter set makes it a bit more challenging for the band and crew, but they are playing in front of many, many fans that have never experienced a live Shonen Knife show. The band plans on returning to perform again in headline performances for the new SK fans made through these support shows in 2027/28.
My band The Goo Goo Dolls has just spent the last 2 weeks in Los Angeles doing pre-production / rehearsals for our upcoming Summer tour with Neon Trees, we did the first show last night in Palm Springs, California and it was great to finally play for an audience after being in the studio for so long leading up to the first show! We moved from Los Angeles out to the desert in Palm Springs and set up in a Casino showroom that holds about 2000 people to do full production rehearsals with lights, a full sound system and all the bells and whistles that have been added to the show for this run. We have been using an amazing crew of technicians and designers for the last bunch of years, so we trust their vision and it all comes together during these crucial rehearsal times. Then last night we performed a show in that very same Casino venue and will make some adjustments based on what we experienced during the show for the 2nd performance in Lincoln, CA tomorrow evening! The tour goes on through September and winds up a week before the 24th Annual Music is Art Festival in Buffalo, NY, more on that next month!?
Oh, Goo Goo Dolls ?just released a 20th anniversary edition of our Let Love In Album with a bunch of live bonus tracks, red vinyl and some cool collector graphics enclosed. We’ll be playing that tune during this run as well as all the classics and some deeper cuts and covers that we’ve been working on over the past couple of weeks!
That’s it for me this month, it’s gonna be a busy one for us! I’ll fill you all in on both of the tour’s progress and more when we meet up again here in the pages of the mighty, mighty InRock!

Peace
Robby

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