Hey hey and welcome to the Lobby for this month’s look at the adventures and goings on in my world here in the pages of the mighty In Rock which we’ve been gathering together for many, many years now, I've lost count as to how many actually … But as always, I'm super glad you stopped back to check in!

This month Goo Goo Dolls performed at The Stagecoach Festival in Indio California, it’s on the exact same grounds as The Coachella festival, but one week later using all of the facilities, stages and equipment that was set up out in the desert for the Coachella weekend, but this night caters almost entirely to Country music aside from a tent that has EDM and DJs like Steve Aoki and another larger tent that had a variety of non-country artists. Our stage was called the Palomino stage and throughout the weekend featured acts like Creed, Sammy Hager, Backstreet Boys, Bacon Brothers, Lana Del Rey, Nelly and many, many more. It turned out to be an amazing day for us, after a rehearsal the day before with our friend and cello player Dave Eggert who’s played with everyone from Coldplay to Phil Phillips and a friend of his on violin, we headed to the dusty fields of Indio. We performed our hardest with an hour long, hit filled set, finishing the afternoon with our biggest song to date, Iris.

We've played that song thousands of times in our lives but this particular performance, on this particular day, on this particular stage was something very special, there were about 15,000 people inside of our tent and maybe about another 30,000 more watching on video screens right outside the open sided tent! The singing from the crowd was louder than the band could even play, and it reverberated not only through the Stagecoach grounds, but through social media all over the world with the same excitement and impact it did coming off of that stage. John even performed a couple of songs w/ Steve Aoki in the DJ tent after our show, it really was a special night.

Later in the month we took that very same song on national television here in the US and around the world on the season finale of American Idol, a 3 hour long live singing show that aired on the ABC network here in the US. We played with one of the contestants from earlier in the season named Mattie Pruitt in an abridged but widely seen version of Iris with John and I along with Mattie performing with the American Idol band. This marked the first time we had played with our old guitarist Greg Suran (Sunny Day Real Estate, Lionel Richie) and got to say hello and hear him play some sweet mandolin on the song! It’s always a long day when you do TV, but we got to say hi to our friend Ryan Seacrest and have a chat with Michael from The War and Treaty, great day and lots of eyes on the Goo Goo Dolls leading up to our summer North American tour with Dashboard Confessional.

We’re still in the studio working on new music for a release early this summer, and we’ve got a few weeks of rehearsals to make our way through before we head out on the road again, but I really can’t wait to get out there and get the tour going with some new music for you all! OK …..That does it for me this month, thanks for checking in, and I hope we can catch up again next week here in the pages on In Rock!

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