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ByBrian Boone

For more than 25 years now, the Goo Goo Dolls have been a consistent and dominant part of the American audio landscape.

Since 1995, with the success of its breakout hit guitar ballad "Name," the Goo Goo Dolls have cranked out one massive radio standard after another, pop-rock favorites and smashes like "Iris," "Slide," "Black Balloon," "Here is Gone," and more.

In every permutation a powerful trio that gets a lot of sound out of just a few guys and their instruments, the band formed in Buffalo in the 1980s and toiled for years building a cult following as a melodic punk outfit — reminiscent of peers like the Replacements or Soul Asylum – before finding their sound as the preeminent grown-up rock n' rollers of the '90s and beyond.

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Through all the successes, however, the Goo Goo Dolls — alone and together — have experienced and endured all kinds of heartbreak, heartache,