Billsman
October 18th, 2007, 1:22:01 PM
Goo Goo Dolls' lead singer plans to move back to Buffalo
John Rzeznik, lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls, says he is coming home to live in Buffalo right after he finishes being a judge on the new Fox series, "The Next Great American Band." The show premieres at 8 p.m. Friday on WUTV.
Rzeznik, who was born and raised here and launched his highly successful career at local clubs, said in a telephone interview this week: "I need to be in Buffalo to write. I can't do it in L.A., because what I'm made of is (in Buffalo). As cliched as it sounds, I'm much more comfortable in my own skin there than I am in Los Angeles.
"I live in L.A. -- nobody cares what I do. I'm a musician. If I get drunk and fall down, it's whatever -- it's passe. But if I am on some TV show, then all of a sudden people want to try and dig up dirt on you. I don't live in a gated community in Beverly Hills. I live in a house on a street. I don't want my girlfriend to be affected by it. I don't want any of that Hollywood crap. I know I can go back to Buffalo and I'm Rzeznik."
To read more about the Fox show and a conversation with Rzeznik, see Thursday's Buffalo News.
-- Alan Pergament
John Rzeznik, lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls, says he is coming home to live in Buffalo right after he finishes being a judge on the new Fox series, "The Next Great American Band." The show premieres at 8 p.m. Friday on WUTV.
Rzeznik, who was born and raised here and launched his highly successful career at local clubs, said in a telephone interview this week: "I need to be in Buffalo to write. I can't do it in L.A., because what I'm made of is (in Buffalo). As cliched as it sounds, I'm much more comfortable in my own skin there than I am in Los Angeles.
"I live in L.A. -- nobody cares what I do. I'm a musician. If I get drunk and fall down, it's whatever -- it's passe. But if I am on some TV show, then all of a sudden people want to try and dig up dirt on you. I don't live in a gated community in Beverly Hills. I live in a house on a street. I don't want my girlfriend to be affected by it. I don't want any of that Hollywood crap. I know I can go back to Buffalo and I'm Rzeznik."
To read more about the Fox show and a conversation with Rzeznik, see Thursday's Buffalo News.
-- Alan Pergament