Goo Goo Dolls In Concert: Pier 6 in Baltimore on August 3rd, 2010

The Goo Goo Dolls were in the midst of their headline tour when they made a stop in Baltimore on the 3rd of August. Pier 6 was the place and what a beautiful night out in the harbor for music! The venue was packed and if you looked around the crowd was quite diverse. Sure there were those that had grown along with the Goo Goo Dolls but there was a bit of a younger generation present as well and if you glanced at them during the Goo Goo Dolls set you would notice that they weren't just there for the opening band, The Spill Canvas and Switchfoot. Sure these other bands bring another fanbase into the wider scheme but the Goo Goo Dolls have a diverse fanbase within themselves.

The set list for the night covered most of the career of the Goo Goo Dolls as they included a track off of "Superstar Car Wash" as the earliest item but seriously you could make up a setlist with just hit singles and one would have a fairly complete show.

Coming from the mindset of someone that has seen this band over the years from small little clubs to festivals to large headlining shows, it was great to talk to bassist Robby Takac a few days prior to the show and talk about the fact that you can still go home because home is exactly where they went to record their upcoming release due out

Check out with Robby had to say:

Earplugsrequired.com :

I had read alot about how the album was finished but then you guys went back in and worked on it. Much has been said about all of that so tell me something about the album that we might not know?

Earplugsrequired.com:

It doesn't make sence. I've read the same things over and over again. i think it's great you guys went back to Buffalo, a lot of artists you move away from where you are from and and you don't go back.

Earplugsrequired.com:

That's true. I was in Buffalo maybe two summers ago, went to see a band at the Town Ballroom. that's working America right there.

Earplugsrequired.com:

That could be. I'm from outside of Baltimore; same thing happened here with the steel industry being here and now it's gone. Pittsburgh was the same way. These are all working towns. You are right, it's been going on there for awhile.

Earplugsrequired.com:

Now when your album was done, when you finished the second time... the album release date was pushed back. Why was that done?

Earplugsrequired.com:

In the past you could always tell a Robby song from a Johnny song; they were always distinct. But as the albums progressed, as your careers progressed, quite a few of the songs melded the styles together. Did you guys change the way you wrote as you went along?

Earplugsrequired.com:

I have had people suprised that I could tell the difference between the styles and then there were songs where it was like a mish mosh of the two..

Earplugsrequired.com:

You have had a long career. If you look back to the time when "Name" hit, most of the other bands that were around, are no longer. To what do you owe this longevity?

Thank you to Robby for taking the time to talk to us... I have to tell a little story about me and the Goo Goo Dolls. Back in 1996 I was in Colorado seeing the Goo Goo Dolls and Dishwalla in Boulder. At the time they had recorded "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and someone in the crowd had asked them to sing it. They did and right afterwards I said to the person next to me, "I hate baseball!" Well I was up against the stage at Johnny's feet and next I hear him say "I do too.".. I was so embarassed that he had heard me..