“Wish You Were Here”, plus more rare pictures

Today we have some material to show, coming from contributor Bailey.

Firstly, a live performance John Rzeznik did with Limp Bizkit’s singer Fred Durst. Let’s hear it from her:

About two days ago I stumbled across a beautiful performance done by Johnny Rzeznik and a band I wasn’t familiar with, “Limp Bizkit”. Maybe you’ve heard of them? They were covering “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd. This cover sounded oddly familiar, and then I realized it was featured on Temple Of Goos Melodic Minimalism part 1. I had no idea it was a live performance, and had no idea it wasn’t all the Goos! On first impression I thought it was a goo goo dolls demo for maybe let love in? To be fair, it had been on a Goo Goo compilation…but I’m excited to find there’s a video!
I got some information from the comments on where this was filmed. This was soon after 9/11 (in 2001) and apperently a lot of artists came together to perform a tribute concert to all those who died that day. John Rzeznik performed a beautiful, sobering performance of that song with the aforementioned band. They also changed some of the lyrics (if you know the original, which I do) maybe to make it a little happier during dark times.

She is right about the event motivating the performance. I also remember at some point that live take was also included on a compilation, which was titled “America: A Tribute To Heroes“.

What’s noteworthy here is that the aforementioned song was basically John’s first attempt at detaching himself from the Goo Goo Dolls and try out a solo path, which is something he fully accomplished just one year later with the release of two songs he wrote for Treasure Planet, and on other sporadic occasions ever since.

Bailey attached a collection of rare pictures as well, which we post below along with an explanation for each medium:

Well to lighten the mood a bit, I’ll share some pictures.
The first one I’m going to share is actually just a screenshot from an archived “Daily Goo” post, which was something the Goo Goo Dolls put on their website back in the late 90s, early 2000s to tell fans what was new, the tour, etc. This one was about the recording of Two Days In February. Now me, being quite into the song, was very excited to find this. Wondering who the “guy across the street” is? Who the other mysterious man standing between John and Robby? (See this video I send Temple of Goo a while back) Now I don’t think they said this, but this was recorded on the steps of Trackmaster Studios. I’d seen a comment saying that they’d recorded it on the side of a street in Boston, but I didn’t believe it. Apparently, Chief Doug was someone who held up traffic? Not sure.
I won’t spoil it for you, but I want to make a little correction: they say it was recorded for “Jed” in 1988, but that was kind of driving me crazy because in actuality it was on “Hold Me Up” recorded in 1990.

I also added a couple pictures I attached mostly because I considered them “really kick ass pictures”. Most of them are from the 1998, 1999 era, but the first one (not including the “two days” screenshot) was from 1995, from the same show that the picture was taken for the cover of “Live at the academy”. Also, the third one is a full shot of the stage during the Dolls 1996 “A Boy Named Goo” tour. Oh, and the last one was apparently from a guitar tabs book I think from 1995 or ’96.

Thanks Bailey for the very cool stuff!