"There were many years when nobody thought I was a pretty boy," The Goo Goo Dolls' lead singer, Johnny Rzeznik, says to me in a Boston Bar. After 10 years of playing in dives, the Buffalo, N.Y., band that blankets award shows and VH1 is finally reaping the benefits of persistence. "When people now try to lump us into the same category as some manufactured all-boy cheese-rock group, it drives me crazy," he adds. It's not his fault that people who've only heard their big hit "Slide"-in the supermarket at 3 a.m.-expect the whole record to be mushy ballads, when it's really lo-fi garage rock. I'd get loaded with him again anytime.
-Tony Ramando
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