The Goo Goo Dolls have saved their working relationship cordial through the years by staging “slap fights” to “get the aggression out”.
The Goo Goo Dolls stage mock fights to maintain their working relationship cordial
Founding members Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac have averted falling out by ensuring they get their points out within the open after which work all of it out over a cup of espresso.
Robby instructed Billboard: “John and I’ll really slap one another and punch one another and get the aggression out.”
Requested when it final occurred, the rocker mentioned: “A few yr and a half in the past … On reflection, it’s humorous … However, you already know, it’s simply foolish. It turns into slap fights.
“We don’t need to damage one another. We love one another.”
Robby added: “John and I shared a bed room for years, platonically in fact, however that’s the place we come from. Individuals act like a******* typically – I do, he does.
“In the end we go have a cup of espresso and we determine it out and make it occur.”
The Iris hitmakers launched their new seven-track EP Summer season Anthem on Friday (22.08.25) and Robby admitted they hadn’t initially deliberate to drop new music this yr.
He defined: “Rapidly there was an enormous want from promoters to get us on the market. So we have been doing that after which looking for the pockets to have the ability to go in and document.
“We determined that when it was time for the tour, that’s what number of songs we have been gonna put out, and it turned to be seven songs …
“It’s all simply a part of that sophisticated push and pull that occurs in our group. It’s an experiment. We’ve by no means completed something like this earlier than, so we’ll see the place it goes.”
Summer season Anthem options the beforehand launched monitor Nothing Lasts Perpetually and new single Not Goodbye (Shut My Eyes), whereas the band kicked off a tour supporting the brand new launch in July.
They’re resulting from carry out throughout the US all through August and September and they’ll return to the stage for a pair of gigs in New York in November.
Within the interview with Billboard, Robby admitted the band’s gigs have change into extra household oriented in recent times, saying: “We’ve received younger youngsters popping out to our exhibits; that didn’t occur 10 years in the past, I’ll let you know that a lot.
“There’s so many youngsters at these exhibits now. Oddly, a Goo Goo Dolls present has change into extra family-friendly than, like, a Sabrina Carpenter present …”
