Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, Vanessa Carlton Begin Tour

07/29/2002 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(7/29/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- Goo Goo Dolls and Third Eye Blind kick off an extensive tour together on Monday (July 29) at the Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix. The veteran modern rock hitmakers will be joined by successful newcomer Vanessa Carlton on the trek, which includes 32 shows through mid-September.

The Goo Goo Dolls are on the road in support of their latest album, Gutterflower, while Third Eye Blind will presumably be test driving songs from its third album, Crystal Baller, due this fall. Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik told LAUNCH how he recorded "Big Machine," the second and latest single from Gutterflower. "I was sitting at home with a drum machine, and I broke two strings off my guitar, and then I detuned my guitar with four strings on it and just started playing this riff to a canned disco beat. I called the song, 'The Disco Song' for about two months and then it became 'Big Machine,'" he said.

The Goo Goo Dolls are scheduled to perform "Big Machine" on CBS's The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn on August 2.

Carlton, meanwhile, begins the tour as the current best seller of the trio--her gold-certified debut album, Be Not Nobody, checks in at Number 30 on the latest Billboard 200 album chart, or 114 places better than the Goo's Gutterflower.

Goo Goo Dolls/Third Eye Blind/Vanessa Carlton tour dates (subject to change):

July 29 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion

July 31 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre

August 2 - Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

August 3 - St. Louis, MO - UMB Bank Pavilion

August 4 - Kansas City, KS - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

August 6 - Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheatre

August 7 - Cleveland, OH - Blossom Amphitheatre

August 9 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center

August 10 - Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena

August 11 - Boston, MA - Tweeter Center

August 13 - Hartford, CT - ctnow.com Meadows Music

August 14 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center At The Waterfront

August 16 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach Amphitheatre

August 17 - Holmdel, NJ - P.N.C. Bank Arts Center

August 18 - Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Gazette Pavilion

August 20 - Columbus, OH - Polaris Amphitheatre

August 21 - Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Center

August 22 - Chicago, IL - Tweeter Center

August 24 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post

August 25 - Hershey, PA - Hershey Park Pavilion

August 27 - Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

August 28 - Raleigh, NC - Alltel Pavilion

August 30 - West Palm Beach, FL - Mars Music Center

September 1 - Atlanta, GA - HiFi Buys Amphitheatre

September 2 - Nashville, TN - AmSouth Amphitheatre

September 5 - Houston, TX - The Woodlands

September 6 - Stillwater, OK - Oklahoma State University

September 8 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion

September 10 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay

September 12 - Concord, CA - Chronicle Pavilion

September 13 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theater

September 14 - Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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