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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! Always great to catch up with you here in the pages of The Mighty In Rock! Today we’re on a much-needed day off in Salt Lake City, Utah for a show tomorrow, our 37th show of the 2025 tour here in SLC! We just had a 9-hour overnight bus ride from the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado! A long drive, but a long drive in a cozy bunk in our tour bus! Last night’s show at Red Rocks is always a highlight of the Summer when we get a chance to perform there. The Summer Anthem tour with Dashboard Confessional has been selling out all over the US and Canada, making it one of the biggest tours of our career, kind of crazy after all of this time, and when all that momentum is combined with the sheer excitement of playing Red Rocks it was sure to be a great, great night! Red Rocks has been open since 1957 from natural sandstone, the venue is most recognized by its two massive monoliths, named "Ship Rock" and "Creation Rock", as well as the smaller "Stage Rock", which together make up its 10,000-person seating area and naturally form the amphitheater. The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, U2, Rush and thousands of others have played the Red Rocks stage over the decades, this was our 5th performance at Red Rocks since 2007 and the 2nd sold out performance at the historic venue. We even recorded a DVD at the 2007 show with Public Television in the US/Canada which is still aired to this day on public television. We got to play a show in my hometown of Buffalo, at the local arena, which was pretty awesome! We had a legendarily huge guest list of friends, relatives and acquaintances that celebrated the tour with us, the show came off without a hitch as we released hundreds of large black balloons into the venue and did our best to make our hometown proud! The next night we had a show in Toronto, Canada, about 1.5 hours away from Buffalo, which was actually a bigger ticket count than our hometown show! But 1 song into the Toronto set, our guitar player of the past 20 years, Brad, passed out from a nerve problem in his shoulder and we ended up doing the entire set without a 2nd guitar! PANIC! But it ended up being a super fun show, and we had Brad go home to do physical therapy and rest up his arm so he can come back out to join us! But in the meantime, we brought our new friend Sammy Boller from Detroit out to play guitar for a while, he learned a whole set, did a quick run through of the songs and we were out playing the next night! My family was out with us for a while, my wife Miyoko, my daughter Hana and my little Shitzu puppy Luna spent a couple of weeks touring, traveling on the bus and doing some hotel living, but now they’re all back in Buffalo and Miyoko is getting ready for The Shonen Knife tour as they arrive from Osaka to tour the US the day after I arrive home from the Summer Anthem Tour! Busy, busy, busy! OK…that’s it for this month, Check out Goo Goo Dolls new Summer Anthem release on all the streaming platforms as we speak! The Music is Art Festival is coming up Sept 20th in Buffalo, Goo Goo Dolls Bobblehead day the 19th at Buffalo Bisons baseball field and tons more rock shows around the US before then! Look forward to keeping you all in the loop and I hope you all have a great month! Peace! Robby
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