Brevard Live October 2011 - 1 2 - Brevard Live October 2011 Brevard Live October 2011 - 3 4 - Brevard Live October 2011 Brevard Live October 2011 - 5 6 - Brevard Live October 2011 Content october 2011 page 51 FEATURES ORIGINAL MUSIC SERIES Starting this month Lou’s Blues, will be THE GOO GII DOLLS host to a series of the best original bands Columns The 80’s were ruled by pop music and in our area. Every Tuesday night there will Charles Van Riper hair bands. However, there was some- be a new group to showcase all of their 22 Political Satire thing else going on in this decade that own material. was a quiet continuation of the alterna- Page 18 Calendars tive scene. The Goo Goo Dolls were part Live Entertainment, of that. 25 Concerts, Festivals Page 9 BONNAROO: BELA FLECK This year in Tennessee the fans at Bonna- Brevard Scene STEVE MILLER BAND roo were in for a real treat. Béla has played What’s hot in this gig many times before, but this year The Steve Miller Band has released 18 33 Brevard studio albums, 3 live albums, 7 (official) he was with the original line up of the compilation albums, and at least 29 sin- Flecktones including monster bassist Vic- Out & About gles. He continues to perform successful tor Wooten. sold-out concert performances. Page 20 Brevard’s vibrant Page 11 37 club & restaurant scene EGAD! ART LAB THE MIFF If you want to have your finger on the Life & The Beach Last month the Oaks 10 Cinema was once pulse of the Brevard Art Scene, “EGAD! 44 Relationship again host to the Melbourne Independent Art Lab” is a great place to start! They Column & More Filmmakers Festival which in its 13th have some very unique art shows each by Matt Bretz year of carnation features filmmakers, month and offer classes for those who both local and abroad. want to learn. Page 12 Page 42 Brevard Live October 2011 - 7 8 - Brevard Live October 2011 Brevard Live BREVARD LIVE The largest and most popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 20 years. PUBLISHER/EDITOR Heike Clarke STAFF ACCOUNT MANAGER Charlene Hemmle MUSIC WRITERS Heike Clarke Matt Bretz John Leach Steve Keller OUT & ABOUT Heike Clarke Charlene Hemmle ART Mike Patrick PHOTOGRAPHY Jesse Hearndon November 5th, 8 pm, at The King Center in Melbourne Heike Clarke Misti Blu Day Janet Eckhard The Goo Goo Dolls COLUMNISTS Chuck Van Riper Matt Bretz he Goo Goo Dolls formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and gui- Reproduction of any portion of tarist John Rzeznik and vocalist and bass guitarist Robby Takac. Since the Brevard Live Magazine is strictly Tend of 1994, Mike Malinin has been the band’s drummer. The trio picked prohibited without the written their name from a True Detective ad for a toy called a Goo Goo Doll. “We were permission of the publisher. young and we were a garage band not trying to get a deal. “We had a gig that night ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES and needed a name. It’s the best we came up with, and for some reason it stuck. If Phone: (321) 956-9207 I had five more minutes, I definitely would have picked a better name” John stated. Fax: (321) 956-9228 Two and a half decades later, the Goo Goo Dolls have released 9 albums and it is [email protected] quite clear that they are here to stay! COMMENTS & LETTERS The 80’s were ruled by pop music and Rzeznik says, “Somewhere in there we sort Brevard Live Magazine hair bands. However, there was something of figured out how to write songs.” The P.O. Box 1452, else going on in this decade that was a quiet band’s third album, Hold Me Up, released Melbourne, Fl 32902 Copyright © 2011 continuation of the alternative scene that in 1990, showcased the sound of the band Brevard Live broke in England in 1977 with the Sex Pis- that would later be refined on their next All rights reserved tols and the Clash. There were plenty of kids two releases, Superstar Carwash and A Boy We are not responsible for photos who felt the same frustration and outright Named Goo. It was the latter of these two or scripts sent to Brevard Live boredom that Johnny Rotten and Joe Strum- releases that landed the band their first hit Magazine. Published photos and mer spoke about so well. America had its song with “Name” in 1995. A Boy Named articles become property of this publication. We are not own underground scene going, most notice- Goo went on to sell over two million copies, responsible for wrongful ably in Southern California and New York and the band toured extensively around the advertised or canceled venues. City. However, there were also bands in the world to support their newfound success. rest of America that spoke even more effec- But it was in 1998 that the Goo Goo tively to kids trying to ignore what the mass Dolls proved that they were not destined to Download a pdf file of pop culture was throwing at them. Many be a “one hit wonder.” In that year Rzeznik BREVARD of these bands, fueled on cheap beer and a penned “Iris,” which originally appeared on FLORIDA general disdain for “The American Dream”, the City Of Angels soundtrack, and was also looked to Paul Westerberg and The Replace- included on the band’s sixth album Dizzy Up LIVE ments for their inspiration. The Goo Goo The Girl. “Iris” spent almost a year on the www.brevardfloridalive.com Dolls were such a band. Billboard charts, including a phenomenal 18 www.brevardlive.com www.floridalive.org And then, as lead singer / guitarist John weeks at #1. continued page 11 Brevard Live October 2011 - 9 10 - Brevard Live October 2011 Brevard Live THE GOO GOO DOLLS continued And that was just the beginning. Dizzy Up The Girl also contained the hits “Slide”, “Black Balloon” and “Broadway,” all of which were top ten hits on the Billboard charts. The band spent the next two years touring relent- lessly all around the world, building a loyal following that most bands can only dream of. The band has continued to build October 7, 8 pm, momentum. 2002 saw the release of at The King Center Gutterflower, which included such in Melbourne hits as “Here Is Gone” and “Sympa- thy.” In 2004 a live DVD was released featuring an incredible July 4th show Steve Miller performed in the band’s hometown. Let Love In was released in 2006, and Band featured “Better Days” and a chart- topping cover of Supertramp’s “Give A Little Bit.” And the whole time the band has been racking up an impressive he Steve Miller Band has re- Scaggs joined the band soon after and list of achievements to say the least: 4 leased 18 studio albums, 3 live the group performed at the Monterey Grammy nominations, 13 consecu- albums, 7 (official) compilation Pop Festival in June. In May 1968 tive top 10 multi-format hit songs, and T albums, and at least 29 singles. Bingo! while in England, they recorded their over 10 million albums sold. Rzeznik is a new album of blues and R&B cov- debut album Children Of The Future, has also been the recipient of the Hal ers and was released on June 15, 2010. followed by Sailor which climbed the David Starlight Songwriter Award. Let Your Hair Down, a companion Billboard chart to #24. 2011 marks the 25th year since release to Bingo!, hit the market 10 Miller’s audience expanded with founding members John Rzeznik and months later, on April 18, 2011. each album: Brave New World (#22, Robby Takac first starting playing mu- In 1965, Steve Miller and key- 1969), which featured the successful sic together and the Goo Goo Dolls boardist Barry Goldberg founded the song “Space Cowboy” and the track will be touring in support of their ninth Goldberg-Miller Blues Band along “My Dark Hour” that was co-written studio album, Something For The Rest with bassist Shawn Yoder, rhythm gui- by and featured Paul McCartney (aka Of Us. Written and recorded over the tarist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Paul Ramon) on bass, Your Saving past couple of years, the album deliv- Lance Haas after moving to Chicago to Grace (#38, 1969), Number 5 (#23, ers another dose of great Goo songs play the blues. The band was contract- 1970). The Joker (#2, 1973) showed such as “Sweetest Lie,” “One Night”, ed to Epic Records after playing many audiences a new style of the band. The and “Soldier.” With his songwriting, Chicago clubs. They also appeared on title track became a #1 single and was Rzeznik confronts some of the issues Hullabaloo with the Four Tops and the certified platinum for reaching over that have become part of many people’s Supremes, and gigged at a Manhattan one million sales. everyday lives. “I wanted some of the club. Three years later, the Steve Miller material on this album to address the Miller left the group to go to San Band returned with the album Fly Like disillusionment of the difficult period Francisco where the psychedelic scene An Eagle, which charted at #3. Re- we live in; I wanted to give a voice to was flourishing. He then formed the leased in 1978, The Steve Miller Band’s the emotional uncertainty that accom- Steve Miller Blues Band which, when Greatest Hits 1974-1978 has sold over panies hard times.