John Rzeznik, lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls, says he is coming home to live in Buffalo right after he finishes being a judge on the new Fox series, “The Next Great American Band.” The show premieres at 8 p.m. Friday on WUTV.
Rzeznik, who was born and raised here and launched his highly successful career at local clubs, said in a telephone interview this week: “I need to be in Buffalo to write. I can’t do it in L.A., because what I’m made of is (in Buffalo). As cliched as it sounds, I’m much more comfortable in my own skin there than I am in Los Angeles.
“I live in L.A. — nobody cares what I do. I’m a musician. If I get drunk and fall down, it’s whatever — it’s passe. But if I am on some TV show, then all of a sudden people want to try and dig up dirt on you. I don’t live in a gated community in Beverly Hills. I live in a house on a street. I don’t want my girlfriend to be affected by it. I don’t want any of that Hollywood crap. I know I can go back to Buffalo and I’m Rzeznik.”
