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Tonight, the Goo Goo Dolls play the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.; the concert will be aired live on television, but not on an MTV-affiliated channel:
The Goo Goo Dolls are making their QVC debut next Tuesday night to sell a specially packaged bonus material DVD and CD set three weeks before it hits stores.
The shopping network will broadcast a special behind-the-scenes interview and concert with the band live from the music venue Nightclub 9:30 in Washington, D.C.
We're not fans of the Goos' increasingly wan love-rock, but this is a smart move by the band. QVC exposure has been good for artists with large fanbases who may have moved on from actively finding out about new albums—last year, Barry Manilow sold 43,000 copies of The Greatest Sounds Of The Sixties during an hour-long segment on the shopping network. The question, then, is this:If more bands start clamoring for QVC airtime, will a music-only spinoff channel—with blocks hosted by Mark McGrath and Steve Harwell, natch—rise up to give VH1 Classic a run for its hits-of-yesteryear money?
Goo Goo Dolls Make QVC Debut [Showbuzz]
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it's innovations like these that will save the music industry..
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...seriously...
(aside) I would watch anything hosted by Mark McGrath, his legendary VH1 Music Jeopardy performance, coupled with his charming smile and mad business/work ethic, have to give him some sort of free pass...
Maybe they can do some cross-promotion by wearing Quacker Factory sweaters.
Before anyone goes hatin' on the Goo Goo Dolls, please try to look past the 10-year-long Meg-Ryan-movie-soundtrack they've been crafting and remember a time when the boys named Goo were true artists.
Exhibit A:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oGSwNvp_8mY
Hard to believe this is the same band that made "Hold Me Up," which is actually a nice little rock record.
OMG, let's register a D/B/A and get crankin' on that business plan! "Idolator TV" has a great ring to it!
And we need to get someone to develop the companion website, which, like Jewelery Television's, has a live streaming video of the station's 'programming.' (Yes, really -- and don't ask how I know about that.)
Whaddya say? Surely we can get some seed money from the record companies, right?
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