Back in 1999, VH1 aired a 45-minute documentary about the Goo Goo Dolls. I’m sure a lot of fans have already watched this material. It was easily streamable online for a few years before it disappeared from the world wide web. It recently resurfaced on YouTube.
Continue reading “VH1 Behind The Music (1999)”Month: November 2022
John Rzeznik’s Childhood Home
John Rzeznik spent his childhood in Buffalo, NY where he was living with his parents and four sisters. His home was located at 164 Clark Street, in Erie County. Below are a couple of shots of the building taken by fans. All of the information reported in this post is publicly available.
Continue reading “John Rzeznik’s Childhood Home”Once upon a time there was a Superstar Car Wash
Most of you already know that the Goo Goo Dolls released their fourth album “Superstar Car Wash” in 1993, and they named it after a real place in their native hometown, a real car wash which at the time was located at 226 William Street, Buffalo, NY.
Continue reading “Once upon a time there was a Superstar Car Wash”867-5309/Jenny
Not much is known about the Goo Goo Dolls cover for “867-5309/Jenny“, a Tommy Tutone hit which was released in 1981. Apparently, the band performed a cover for that tune in 1993, before the famous Metro show.
Continue reading “867-5309/Jenny”Superstar Car Wash Pre-Mixing Cuts (1992)
As many of you already know, years ago a series of “Superstar Car Wash” demo sessions leaked online. One of those leaks included Pre-Mixing Cuts of the final songs which ended up in the album. What is a pre-mixing cut? Let’s have the experts talk about it for a minute. The information below was taken from this source.
Continue reading “Superstar Car Wash Pre-Mixing Cuts (1992)”Although most people won’t notice it, when done right, it turns a song it into something better. Mixing is more than adjusting the volume levels of vocal tracks and individual instruments. Even though there are other parts of mixing, what is audio mixing in music and why is it important?
Audio Mixing is a process of blending individual things in a recording to come up with as good as a possible version of a song. The mixing process includes:
- Fine-tuning the sense or sound of each instrument using and EQ (equalization)
- Balancing pre-recorded track levels
- Panning tracks between speakers to come up with a stereo image
- Compression, Adding reverb and other effects, improve the already recorded song.
- Taking your song from Good to GREAT!
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