Goo Goo Dolls Songs : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Slide” (Goo Goo Dolls Acoustic Cover)

    Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    What’s happening world?  It’s Jeff Copperthite here with the latest installment of The Laptop Sessions.  After two incredible showings by Chris and Jim, I can only hope that today’s video comes close to the quality that is on theirs.

    I am happy to bring another new band to the sessions, and it is a band I have been a long time fan of.  I’m more surprised that it has taken me this long to dig up a song i’d like to cover by them.  The band is The Goo Goo Dolls - a band that has been around for over 20 years and has released multiple albums.   It took their 5th album to gain a significant following, upon the release of the song “Name”.

    Well, i’m not doing “Name”, but I am doing one of their other popular songs - hey, it’s only one more character too - called “Slide” from their album “Dizzy Up The Girl”.  While seemlingly simple to play, getting the strum pattern and the arpeggiated intro/middle down was tough.

    I hope you enjoy the new original album scrolling image on top of the page - be sure to check out our material as all three of us are very proud of our work, and we hope you agree!

    Be sure to come tomorrow to see another terrific original tune performed by our very own Jim Fusco.  I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us all.



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Goo Goo Dolls Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

It all started with three songwriters and musicians by the names of John Rzeznik, Robby Takac, and George Tutuska who decided to name their band the Sex Maggots. According to Wikipedia, the manager at an early gig requested they change their names, as the newspaper would not print their name. Go figure. Well, they changed their name to Goo Goo Dolls and never looked back, making new rock music and acoustic music to this day. The name change certainly didn’t hurt their chances at songwriting and performing fame and fortune. Since their first album in 1987, the band has had many successful music videos, not the least of which was the very popular new music single “Iris” from their Dizzy Up the Girl album. Classified as alternative music, the Goo Goo Dolls have had much success, both in sales and music reviews, although it wasn’t until their fifth album that they finally found mainstream success. They continue to demonstrate they know how to write a song, recording new music and having released a greatest hits album. In addition to writing their own music, they have recorded cover songs, such as covers like Supertramp’s “Give a Little Bit.” The songwriters of the Laptop Sessions have only begun to record free videos from their catalog to post as YouTube videos.