Are the Goo Goo Dolls still considered alternative?
JR: No, not any more. Alternative back when we were coming up as a young band, there was no alternative radio format. We got played on college radio. We played in college bars and tiny little clubs. Things like that. We came up through college radio the same way that bands like Soul Asylum and REM and The Cure, Depeche Mode, a lot of these bands that made it into or got signed to major labels through being played on college radio and developing a following out on the road.
