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Unrecognizable John Rzeznik hates the Goo Goo Dolls band name: It was ‘a joke’
The nearly unrecognizable musician, 57, recalled the night the group decided on the name during a recent episode of drummer Kenny Aronoff’s podcast, the Kenny Aronoff Sessions.“I still hate the name of our band now,” Rzeznik said during the interview, which was released on Thursday. “I wish we would’ve had 10 more minutes to find a cooler name.”Rzeznik and his band members — Robby Takac, Mike Malinin and George Tutuska — initially chose it as “a joke” because they “had a gig” and “had no name” to be introduced as.“And then it kind of, like, caught on,” he said.“We made a record and we sold like 400 copies.