A Look At The Goo Goo Dolls’ Summer 2022 Tour With Blue October (Videos Included)

With over 15 million albums sold worldwide, four GRAMMY Award nominations and over a dozen Top 10 hits charting at Hot AC radio — reportedly the most Hot AC-charting singles of any artist in history — the rock band known as The Goo Goo Dolls has been doing things at a high level for over 25 years. Its latest studio album is 2022’s Chaos In Bloom, as released last month via Warner Bros. Records and featuring the also-played-on-the-radio singles “You Are The Answer” and “Yeah I Like You.”

On August 19, 2022, The Goo Goo Dolls — as led by Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac and founded in 1986 — returned to the Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater for the first time since 2019. The group’s 23-song set opened with the earlier-mentioned “Yeah I Like You,” which then led into a spirited rendition of mega-hit “Slide.” While The Goo Goo Dolls’ show was hit-heavy, the band has released so many charting singles over the last three decades that some of the expected songs were missing from the performance (e.g. “Long Way Down,” “We Are The Normal,” “Only One,” “All That You Are,” “Before It’s Too Late”). The evening ultimately closed with a fun cover of Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down A Dream.”

Supporting The Goo Goo Dolls, with a huge fanbase of their own, was the Texas-based Blue October. Founded in 1995, Blue October — as comprised of frontman Justin Furstenfeld, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Delahoussaye, bassist Matt Noveskey, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld and guitarist Will Knaak — first found major success with 2006’s Foiled, which yielded the hits “Hate Me” and “Into The Ocean.” Plenty more hit singles came from album’s like 2013’s Sway, 2015’s Home and 2018’s I Hope You’re Happy. The band’s 50-minute set largely leaned on the band’s charting singles, although the group also performing the recently-released single “Spinning The Truth Around,” which is slated to be part of Blue October’s upcoming “two-part double album”; the first half of this album is slated for an October 2022 release. The set closed with a cameo by Longwave’s Steve Schiltz on “I Hope You’re Happy.”

Highlights from the Live Nation-produced concert are embedded below for your viewing pleasure, while more info on The Goo Goo Dolls’ tour with Blue October can be found here, here and here.

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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."