With the Goo Goo Dolls on the road to celebrate their 25th anniversary, it seems now’s a good time for a flashback (This story is adapted from a piece I wrote years ago for my college paper). Enjoy.The Sex Maggots are coming to Connecticut. Or at least, they would have been, had the Goo Goo Dolls not changed their name two decades ago. As legend has it, the band was forced to find a new moniker when a club owner refused to put the old name on his marquee. So the boys flipped through a copy of True Detective magazine and settled on a change after finding an advertisement for a “Goo Goo Doll.”“T
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