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Good Morning,

I spent some more time perusing your site this morning and we share something in common regarding this band, as Superstar Car Wash is also my favorite GGD release. I bought that CD upon release and have listened to it hundreds of times over the years! I own all their official studio CDs up through Gutterflower and like them all, with a couple of my favorite tunes being There You Are and Two Days In February. Maybe I was having a bad day back in 2006, but when I heard Give A Little Bit on the radio for the first time I couldn’t believe they chose to cover a Supertramp song and I fell off the Goo bandwagon for several years. Yes, that was me being waaaaay too judgemental as I shouldn’t have based a band’s career on one song I didn’t enjoy but unfortunately, I did, my loss indeed as I’m sure some other great studio material has come out since then. Anyway, I’m ashamed of myself for reacting the way I did over it, and for the last decade or so have been seriously back into this band, not that I particularly love everything more recent and haven’t purchased any additional CDs, but S.C.W. rates as truly among my favorite albums of all time and most of the others 2002 and prior that I’ve heard all the way through several times are very honorable mentions as well. I think it’s safe to say this was probably my very favorite band for an entire decade and I’m still quite a fan to this day.

I wish I had time to look through the site some more this morning but I’ve got several things to do today, however, I’m grateful for your efforts and am already looking forward to going through it a whole lot more in the near future. Some outstanding reading for all GGD fans, for sure!

Best regards,

Mike S.

Hi.

I just wanted to let you know how much I love your blog on vintage Goo Goo Dolls. I discovered it this past weekend.

I got to see them a few times back in the day—on the Hold Me Up tour at Lee’s Palace in Toronto in ‘91, on the Superstar Car Wash tour at the 9:30 Club in DC in ‘93, and on the Boy Named Goo tour at CBGB in New York City in ‘95. All three shows were stellar!

I also caught them at a very weird MTV & VH1 party at some bar in Boston in 2004 but that was nothing like the other three because it was an industry event.

Anyway, those three albums plus Jed are favorites of mine, with Jed being my introduction to the Goos but unfortunately I was too late to the party to catch that tour.

Personally, I never liked their sound after Boy Named Goo but always rooted for them and was happy for them when they broke through and went big time.

All the best and keep up the great work!

Mike