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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, our monthly chance to catch up here in the pages of the mighty In Rock for the past couple of decades! This month I’m writing you from Burbank, California as Goo Goo Dolls prepare for our upcoming North American Summer tour with Dashboard Confessional, it’s called The Summer Anthem tour, which Is also the name of our upcoming album which we are racing to finish for a release later this summer, more on that in a bit! I was talking with some of my family before leaving for these 3 weeks of rehearsals we are doing before the tour and someone said “What do you guys need to rehearse? Don’t you know those songs by now?”; well, yes, we do know the older songs, but every time the tour’s setlist gets put together in a different way. Based on the songs we’re playing in that set the arrangements may change a bit; we have to rehearse and arrange any new songs we may add and then of course we need to integrate the lights and all of the audio elements to make sure the tour is in fine form from day one. That takes some time, and let’s face it after all of these years we have an awful lot of songs to dig through! The first couple of weeks here will be done in a rehearsal room here in Burbank without lights and staging, then after the US 4th of July holiday we move to the first venue of the tour in Palm Springs for another week of rehearsals with full production. These rehearsals are done with full staging, lights and the touring sound system, after that last week we are staying at that same venue, we do the first show and then the tour moves on across the US until mid-September winding up at the Bourbon and Beyond Festival in Louisville, Kentucky! I’ll be bringing you along with me with some pics, posts and all of that, we’ve shared a ton of summer tours together here in this column over the years, looking forward to sharing another….. Our Summer Anthem album is planned to come out later this Summer, a short EP-ish release, this first single, Nothing Lasts Forever, should be out before the tour with another dropping before the actual release of the album! Keep your eyes on the web, I think we may be playing some new stuff at the shows! My wife Miyoko and I are getting the details together for Osaka’s Shonen Knife to come to the US and do a 28-city tour in support of their latest Our Best Place album. We have been releasing Shonen Knife albums on our Good Charamel Records label for the past 18 years and plan and manage their tours from our hometown of Buffalo, NY. This year’s tour begins in Chicago at the legendary RIOT FEST Festival and then makes its way to Buffalo, NY for The Music is Art Festival. If you are a frequent visitor of The Lobby you will know that's a huge local music / art festival I’ve been involved with in Buffalo for the past 23 years, I will get into that all a bit more next month as we continue this journey together! Alright, that’s it for me off I’m to rehearsals for all of the reasons we discussed earlier! Hope to see you all next month as we’ll be nostrils deep into the tour and I can bring you into the tornado that is a summer tour. All the Best…. Peace Robby
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