Rosie Show "Black Balloon" - Music - http://maxpages.com/tysgoopage/Rosie

Rosie: The CD is Dizzy Up the GIrl and they rock. Cutie Patuties, one and all, the Goo Goo Dolls!

*Goos perform "Black Balloon"

Rosie: Beautiful! The Goo Goo Dolls! We'll be right back to chat with them in just a minute. A standing ovation!

*commercial*

Rosie: So you guys played last night and you were able to get up to be here on the show? Let's give 'em a'round of applause for that! *audience cheers* How was the concert last night? Did you have fun?

John: Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was a private party for Levi's 'cause they sponsered our summer tour and, ya know, did some stuff with a lot of stuff with the bands we've been working with. So, ya know, it was a nice goodbye to the end of the tour. The end of the summer tour, we're going back out. We got a week off.

Rosie: Only one week?

John: Got a week off.

Rosie: Oh my goodness. Now, do you get sick of touring? It's gotta be exhausting.

Robby: No, not at all.

Rosie: It's not?

Robby: Oh well...*puts head in hands* No, it's wonderful.

John: It's like that movie "Groundhog Day".

Rosie: The same thing over and over. Now, do you get to change the set order each night or when you go to a different city to mix it up or what?

Robby: It's a little harder now, 'cause we've got people workin' for us who have to sorta know what we're doin' every night so it's a little harder to improv.

Rosie: How are you guys doing with all the success and fame? It's not overnight for you, but for America it's sort of an overnight success.

John: *laughs* Yeah, uh...It's cool. I mean, I'm enjoying it for now. It's not something, that at this level, is gonna last forever. But it's fun for now. I mean, it's kinda weird 'cause you're used to playing in these small clubs and now you play in these huge places. *pause* And I don't wanna go back to the little clubs. *everyone laughs* I don't wanna go back.

Rosie: Well, it's a tremendous fan base that you have. I mean, you've got kids, and then you've got their parents. Like me. My neice, who's ten, thinks you guys rock the world. We listen to the same CD in the car. Do you find that at your shows a lot?

John: Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've cut across a lot of boundries. Music, music is really sectionalized or factioned off in all these little, little things. And we've been able to cut across a lot of that. Which I really like. I mean, the "hippest of the hip" don't come to see us anymore, which is fine with me 'cause they're boring anyway. But yeah, it's nice when a kid can come with his aunt or something. We get all kinds of people. We get punk kids and then we get the guy who has two beers with his wife on Friday nighit and then goes home.

Robby: And if we hang around another five years we might get grandkids too.

Rosie: You never know!

John: Yeah, that's what, that's what Mick Jagger said when we toured with the Rolling Stones. He said, "Well, there's the mothers, and the grandmother's, and the babies." *everyone laughs*

Rosie: Well, tell me what you do at your concerts with the food and the Harves USA. Tell 'em about that. And the non-violence thing.

Robby: Well, we've collected, with the people from USA Harvest, we've collected from the people who come to see our shows, 500,000 meals.

Rosie: Wonderful. And how about the non-violence part of it. With the...

John: Well, we've been working with...Actually, it was really nice becuase Levi's sponsered this thing called The Big Denim Wall. And what happened was, you came to our concert, you signed the wall. We got like 30 or 40,000 signatures on the wall. And for like two weeks now you can go online and sign the virtual petition and try to end gun violence in this country.

Rosie: And that's so important.

John: It's cool.

Rosie: Levis.com. The Goo Goo Dolls. Dizzy Up the Girl. We'll be right back after this.

*[note from Tyler] If you would like to help try and end gun violence in this country, go to levis.com and click on 'virtual petition'. This is very important, not only to everyone in the country, but especially important to me. Please help this country by signing the petition. I don't know how you can say no after Columbine.*

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