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〜ロビー／グー・グー・ドールズの「ROBBY'S LOBBY」〜
日本人の奥さんを持つ根っからの親日家ベーシスト、ロビーがバンドの近況やいろんな情報を教えてくれる人気コラム「ROBBY'S
LOBBY」！誌面から1月遅れで彼が執筆した英文ママの掲載です。 Hey Hey In Rockers and welcome to The Lobby, thanks for meeting up here in the pages of In Rock for this month's update on my orbit … and those who orbit around me! I'm on a crazy mostly weekends schedule with Goo Goo Dolls that brought us to Florida and California for a handful of shows, Las Vegas, and Hawaii among other various American cities as we continue doing short jaunts around the US/Canada this year. Lots of airplanes and vans, but more than happy to be busy … So I've been spending the first part of most weeks at home in Buffalo and have been busy planning for the Music is Art Festival, staying in the mix with our gang down at GCR Audio Recording Studios and just being a Dad as we enter this joyful time being showered by sunny days here in the Northeastern US and the feeling the warmth of Summer quietly creeping up on us for another year. The 22nd Annual Music Is Art Festival, which if you are not a frequent reader here, is a Music and Art festival I founded here in Buffalo that features hundreds of local bands and hundreds of local visual artists and performers celebrating our city's creativity each year. It's been growing and growing for the past couple of decades and has been held in many locations around the city. For the past 7 years (minus the pandemic year when we had no audience and still managed to broadcast 17 stages online) we have been at a venue called Riverworks in Buffalo, a sports and entertainment facility on the river in an industrial portion of the city. This year we have decided to make a move to the newly re-opened Albright Knox Art Gallery and the grounds of Buffalo State University in the Elmwood District of Buffalo. The AKG had hosted Music is Art many years ago and we had many successful (and some very wet) festivals on their grounds and the surrounding areas. The move comes with lots of adjustments and exciting additions to the layout, format, and logistics of the day, but we are charging through all of the challenges and making sure that the move will provide for an even more exciting and inclusive event for all of the artists and attendees involved! As I mentioned earlier here, GGDS just flew to Hawaii to do a show for the US Navy / Air Force troops and their families in Hawaii with the band Walk The Moon, it was a super quick trip, much too quick, but even a few hours in paradise beats none at all! It was a great show and the next morning, after a nice Hawaiian loco moco breakfast and a quick stroll on the beach, I was back in a plane headed to Buffalo to make life happen here! I've been spending time in in the studio working on some demos with my friend and GCR Audio engineer Jay Zubricky (Every Time I Die, Taking Back Sunday, The Menzingers), we’ve been working out a few songs that have been kicking around inside my head for the past couple of months, eventually later this year Goo Goo Dolls be regrouping in the studio to work on another GGDs release for 2025! OK, that does it for me here in the Lobby this month, we'll be back next issue with some more updates from my world, the world of Goo, and all that brings with it! I look forward to talking with you all soon right here in the pages of the mighty In Rock! Peace!
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