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Goo Goo Dolls' Robby Takac not crying over the past

InterviewNovember 23, 2016Knoxville News Sentinel

Robby Takac, founding bassist with the Goo Goo Dolls, is in Allentown, Pa.“It’s very hotelly-out-by-the-airportish!” says Takac with a chuckle when asked how Allentown is.The band is supporting the new album "Boxes," released in May 2016, which marked the 30th year since Takac and lead singer/guitarist John Rzeznik started a band called Sex Maggots in Buffalo, N.Y., and, shortly thereafter, changed the name to the almost equally unlovable Goo Goo Dolls. The band began as a loud and punky garage band, but hit platinum with the emotional 1998 pop hit "Iris."“The audience, honest to God, you’d la

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