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The Chicks concert was rescheduled (boo!), but I did get to go to Merriweather Post Pavilion to see O.A.R. and the Goo Goo Dolls on Friday night. I had seen O.A.R. perform at the National Zoo ten years ago (read that blog post here), but I had never seen the Goo Goo Dolls before. I went with a friend, and then some other girls joined us, so it was a fun night!
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| Rzeznik sitting with his leg propped up. And then his AI friend named Tapey! |
I thought there would be a smaller, less-known opener, but the show just started out with the Goo Goo Dolls! That also kind of surprised me, because I thought they would be the headliners. The lead singer, John Rzeznik, had injured his foot (he said it wasn't a good story: he just walked off stage one night and thought, "Ow!" haha), so he was sitting with his foot propped up the whole time. But he was in good spirits, and it was still a good show! I didn't realize how many of their songs I actually knew, so that was cool. Here are some of their best-known songs:
Iris (Funny story: the name of the song has nothing to do with the song itself. John just read about a singer-songwriter named Iris and thought it was a nice name!)
When it was time for O.A.R. (which stands for "Of A Revolution." Did you know that?), way more people in the audience stood up, so maybe it did make sense that they were the headliners! I didn't recognize many of their songs, but I knew a few, and I thought their cover of Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down was pretty good (I put that below, too.).
