Goo Goo Dolls Profile
Group Name: Goo Goo Dolls
Genre(s): Alternative rock, rock
Current Members:
Johnny Rzeznik — Vocals, guitar
Robby Takac — Vocals, bass
Mike Malinin — Drums, percussion
Founding Members:
Johnny Rzeznik — Vocals, guitar
Robby Takac — Vocals, bass
George Tutuska — drums (fired in 1994)
Formed: formed in 1985 in Buffalo, New York
Influences: Rolling Stones' Ramones, the English Beat, and the Clash.
Name Game: Band derived name from an ad in a True Detective magazine
Nationality: American
Debut Album: Goo Goo Dolls (1987)
Breakthrough Single: "Name" (1995)
Did You Know:
Band originally called "Sex Maggots" for two days
Originally signed on by Metal Blade Records,
Johnny Rzeznik is the fifth and youngest child of a working class family
Johnny Rzeznik received lifelong love of music from his mother, a schoolteacher, and father, a postal worker, who were both musicians
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