GOO GOO DOLLS BUILDING NON-PROFIT STUDIO

Goo Goo Dolls have set up their hometown studio, which is non-profit.

The Goo Goo Dolls hail from Buffalo, New York and they’ve always given back to the community in which they were raised. In fact, bassist and co-founder of the band Robby Takac still spends about half the year in Buffalo. Takac opened up Chameleonwest studios there when they could have opened their studios anywhere else.

Bandmate Johnny Rzeznik, who recently picked up an ASCAP award for his song “Better Days,” spoke about the band building a non-profit studio in their hometown.

“We’re building a non-profit recording studio in our hometown of Buffalo. Because as the record industry keeps changing the budgets for the albums are shrinking, so of course the last guys to get paid and the first to be cut out of the equation are the musicians and the artists. So the record budgets are shrinking so basically what we’re putting together is a studio that would normally cost 2,000 dollars a day to go into and record. It’s a totally first class, world class recording studio. And artists can come in for about 300 dollars a day, and they don’t have to beg. They don’t have to beg for money from people.”

Rzeznik will be busy in New York City proper, as he’s playing the ASCAP Music Lounge for the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday (May 4). He goes on at 5:30 and the venue is the famed Canal Room. Goo Goo Dolls will then continue their touring in support of their latest release, Let Love In.