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  • everybody search iris live in buffalo, wow.

  • awessooommmmeeee.

  • yuh the song is really classic...unfading.. great!

    

  • @ 3:02 GUITARIST FAILED. <3 Even rock stars fail...

  • awesome live version, where he HITS the high notes...

  • @akerockstar

    The reason why the notes are so incredibly hard to hit is because they're so sudden, Even people that cover this sing it the way Johnny does now, Else your just tearing at your vocal cords. He would've still had this though if smoking didn't catch up to him. That and he admitted himself in interviews even when they were recording it he could barely reach those chorus notes. I have great respect for him for admitting it, cause most Frontmen would not.

  • @Xeltosxx wow, i never knew that. ...yeah, high notes or not, the songs a classic!

  • @akerockstar

    His voice is getting better in my opinion, Though i do miss those notes, But it's still a phenomenal song live, Especially when you go to a concert yourself. (I went back in February, Feb.13th to be exact.)

    It was the best night of my life.

  • The concert i went to in February, It was Epic, Not like mostly all of the low quality recorded live vids on here.

    I mean i do miss that he can't hit these notes in Iris, But i got over that years ago.

  • I think it's time for people to get over his voice changing, His voice on this tour has been way better than it was in 2007 period.

  • their biggest flaw was naming themselves "the goo goo dolls" otherwise i bet they would have been a bigger force

  • comforting to know there are so many whores out there. nice

  • Such emotion. Such passion. This is music. And this is how it should be performed.

  • yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • I agree. This is the best live performance ive seen. Not to say the others are bad, they are a good live band. Definatly not pop.

  • mmmmm lickable!

  • his smile is gorgeous

  • was this before his voice surgery?

  • @soundbounce123 yes, he ruined his voice by smoking and using an overly aggressive vocal style in the early and mid 90's so he got nodules on his vocal chords. Since he hasnt sounded as good. His degrade is most noticeable shortly after the release of Let Love In around 2007

  • @rockstar450

    Lol his voice is alot better now than it was during 2006/2007.

    It's not as deep.

  • Well the pianist dicked up didn't he.

  • there are 6 dumb fucking people out there.

  • ...Gave me chills. o.o I love these guys. They're too epic... Never to fail.

  • Squall from FFVIII

  • @PrehistoricPinup haha i see it :P

  • what a lovely good sound his voice has here !

  • buenísima la rola!!!! Gracias

  • It would seem 6 people missed the "like" button

  • @Motorcycle0emptiness Alt rock is what you're thinking off. No pop rock band could ever write a song like this. The guitar isn't in standard tuning so that right there would make it impossible for a shit pop rock band to write. They would actually have to know how to play their instruments.

  • @420Guitar420 That's the dummest thing i've ever heard. With an open tuning, anyone can make a decent song. This is a great song, don't get me wrong. But you are way wrong with the assumption that it's harder to make a song in any other tuning than standard. And you are awfully wrong in saying that pop musicians aren't capable of writing comlpex or "good" music.

  • I just want you to know who i am, that's the point.. how epic was that

  • love.love.LOVE. his voice <3

    i'm seein' them next month =D

  • Nice hair Johnny

  • 90's simply the BEST. =)

  • The 90's was such a great time for music. I'm not gonna smash music nowadays, bc i like a lot of new music too....but man there was something specal about the 90's. So so many great bands/artisits and so so many great records. There is a lot of good music today, but none of it is as impacting and moving to me as some of the great 90's songs. Iris being one of them. :)

  • Sexiest man alive!!!!! OMG!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

  • lol nerd playing the keyboard

  • @dodow1234 i know , right? couldn't they get a cooler looking dude to play the keyboards? he looks like he works for the geek squad at best buy!

  • i agree big machine i always sing this song when im mashed up walking to my gf house!

  • Such an amazing song. Always will be.

    And what a sexy voice :)

  • This is the most powerful power ballad i have ever heard so beutiful and it means diffrent things to diffrent people. x

  • man it is a war zone at Woodstock festivals now!!

  • yeah im from the philippines too, Goo Goo Dolls sis one of most underrated but impressive bands i've heard. They never fail to give me chills.

  • Most would agree one of the best pop songs in the last 15 years if not longer.

    The lyrics have been talked about for years and interpurted many ways...bottom line this is a GREAT song, That has touched millions.....but of course...one of my all time favorites....Not the greatest band of all time...BUT they sure hit a homerun here....

  • BEST live performance I've ever seen Goo Goo Dolls do. Usually he changes the melody live, but here he sings it full voice. Wonderful.

  • @birdfinder6 obviously you havent seen iris in the rain... THAT is their best live performance

  • @KH2fanatic2010 i agree. live from buffalo july 4th.....whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­addup

  • @KH2fanatic2010 i personally think that their best performance of this song will base on his high notes

  • @birdfinder6 plus, it's 1998...and they had just released the album. he did do his own song justice live, though!

  • What did that guy throw at johnny?

  • is that a trash that they threw over them??

  • Check out 1:55 where Mike Malinin is rockin' some awesome mutton chops!!!

  • Oh, God, this is great. I want to time-travel back to 1998. Not everything was yet virtual: some things were still Real. Thank you so much, jetskiters, for posting this.

  • an incredible live performance of a beautiful song, thank you goo goo dolls!!!

  • amo esta cancion, ke buena es!!!!!!

  • loved this song

  • Usually "live" is shit, but this is done with heart :)

  • WOW!! HE SOUNDS AMAZING LIVE!! <3

  • lol at the synthesizer/keyboard player, it looks like he's pulvic thrusting the keyboard.

  • now back to the video:

    that was a pretty incredible job!

    just really started listening to john's stuff a few months ago (aside from obviously Iris and I'm Still Here) and his voice grows on ya!

    great performance!

  • wow dude you must be retarded...

    your telling me that it is a "hideously horrible performance" because they made a couple mistakes like everyone else on earth does? what about the other 98% (more like 99%) of the song that was great? i suppose that just doesn't mean anything if they happen to make a mistake?

    really? ok since a I am a musician playing shows weekly I can asure you that mistakes happen ALL THE TIME and what makes proffesionals is being able to keep playing and they did that.

  • its a live performance.... what do u want studio quality??? get lost

  • hey jeffifp.... shut the fuck up no1 cares

  • amazing

  • Woah! mikey has side burns! (unless it isnt him. haha)

  • I love this song and ...

  • ok he slipped man its hard when ur perfoming i kno cucz i perform sli ups all the time lol its just u accidently hit it

  • Sometimes when music is performed live mistakes happen. I can forgive them...

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  • That shit's always happen dude, be cool

  • lol at the 2:16 to 2:30. hahaha the pianist is fucking high man!

  • Hahahaha...it was really hot that day. Not everybody was at their best concentration levels. And this was already at the end of the show, people were tired.

  • OMG

  • awesome song, love it. Had to have a go at singing it. Its on my youtube page.

  • dont remeber much of these guys,at wood stock, but hell,ill never forget as long as in here, that was a blast,kevin,gary,mike,jonh,nic­ole,margie,

  • how did they mess up at 2:30?

    Ace song! Try listening to 'name' or 'black balloon'

  • Virtah, at 2:30, the keyboardist played a flat note, where it shouldnt have been.

  • Guess what? They really didn't... like you really had a doubt x

  • 2:30

    they messed up!

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  • i'm not a goddamn hippie!! i gonna change my name !!

  • you have got to admit... guy behind ''casio'' looked lame :D

  • Yeah but why do you really care? - his playing sounded good!

  • Got the rest of the Goo Goo Dolls music videos back on YouTube, feel free to stop by and check it out,

    - Chad

  • Best vid ever!

  • Excelente Cancion

  • i dnt get y fans try hitting bands that theyve paid to see with bottles.....i rly dont understand y if i was standing next to some1 and they threw a bottle and it johnny and they had to cancel the show.i wud set him on fire rite there.

  • hell yea!!!

    burn the spas!!

    lol

    i like ur thinkin

  • Woodstock! That is how you enjoy the music!!:D

  • john was even hotter back then.

  • besides the buffalo concert this is probably the best version of iris I've ever heard

  • So Good!!

    Damn i love this song!!!

    How fuckin stupid are this audience to not give a shit through all their songs and then when iris comes on be all yay cool!?

    Man thats messed up!

    i hate people who think they r all about that one song - they have like 140 something fuckin definitive songs!!!!

    BTW though - i do fuckin love iris - but its not their only song!!!!

    and what a wanker throwing the bottle - some people are cocks!

    best bloody band ever and so underappreciated

  • Because "Iris" was their big breakthrough hit, and this was '98. Especially back then, this was the song they were known for.

    And while I love for them to get the appreciation they deserve, why would you want them to be a mainstream band? We have Fall Out Boy and such for that.

    YOU love this song, why shouldn't all those people?

  • touchéé PteradactylKat

    i just dont like them throwing bottles at them

    and i get frustrated i guess cause my friends pay me out 4 lovin them and theyre all like - oh they only have one song.

    i like thatt they dont get overplayed on radio - but i wish they were seen for more than just iris

    but this would probs be one of my fav songs to EVER get to hear live

    but point well taken

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  • Glad Were on the same Wave length then!

  • Wat a Wanker if you look at 2:55 some idiot throws a water bottle at John. Nearly hits him!. God there are some pricks out there.

  • Well, I hate to say it but would you look comfortable standing up there doing your best while people are throwing bottles and stuff at you? I think he did an amazing job - they all did. Kudos to the Goos. Best band ever! Ever! Ever! Ever!!!

  • when the band 1st formed robie did all the singing.when john would sing he would face away from the crowd from being so shy,i would say he turned out ok FUCKER

  • best live version eva

  • then you obviously haven't seen how they did it in Buffalo on July 4th 2004

  • correcto, i think the live in buffalo is the best version ever!

  • The live performance of the guitar solo has gotten steadily better over the years.

  • Probably because it's 3 different guys who've played it the past 10 years. (Nathan December, Greg Suran, Brad Fernquist)

  • goo goo dolls rock. yeh johnny's voice is different thats porbs due to the smoking but his voice dont suck atall i saw him a couple of months ago and he was amazing!! ggds was amazing!!! he may not be able to hit high notes but he can def hold em better now!

  • why dont u like him?

    =D

  • hahaha..

    i see..

    =D

  • it ain't acting =P

  • lol, youtube feuding.....^_^

  • pinoy k no?

    =D

  • If you want to put down johnny's voice at least get your facts straight, if you were a fan you wouldnt complain about his voice like a little bitch in every one of these live Iris videos, Im sure when the fans go to see them, they know he can't sing it the way he used to, So grow up

  • Grow up you immature piece of shit,i seriously doubt you're 27 years old, go do something with your life, instead of knocking Johnny because he can't sing the high notes in this song anymore. Im pretty sure he doesnt give a damn because hes not the one sitting on youtube making fun of singers, Iris was a one time thing for his Voice as you can see after that song his voice started changing alot, plus hes 42 years old now. So why dont you get up on that stage and sing it, think you can do better?

  • I'm a huge ggd fan. I have all of their CDs and I think John is the best singer songwriter ever. However, I can't deny that his voice sucks now. Disease or not, it sucks. We're fans because we like music and if he music change, opinions change. Nobody ever said that being a fan means you have to like everything and be unconditional. This ain't family..lol. Sorry to say it, but his voice gone downhill.

  • well if u look at sum of the older bands, james hetfield and even axl rose, over the yrs their voices have taken a beating as well. Johnny is no different

  • why the fuck are you posting on all these vids, gtfo youtube, your obviously not a fan of the goo goo dolls, so why dont you get your fat ass off the computer and do something with your life instead of insulting singers that you dont fuckin like, or you could continue to sit on your fat ass and rot, Asshole

  • Shut the fuck up dude, get a life!

  • you are my hero iris

  • If you even remotely liked the band you wouldnt even say his voice sucks, go support fall out boy or some other lame live band

  • u can see his leg tatoo at 3:05 really well iv never actually seen it up close until now but its a big ass question mark and never actually thoght it was there but now i know! cool

  • you sure that one a legitimate tattoo? i've never seen that one in anything else....

  • huh

  • No, its fake "Sharpie",

  • the one on his left arm is real, if thats what you're talking about.

  • that is such a beautiful song

  • what gets trown at him at 2:56?

  • keep on rock'n...

  • my all time favorite..keep on rock'n goo goo dolls...

  • what is he distrackted of?

    he looks up, he looks around.

    maybe because his guitar isn't tuned in..?

  • when i go to hell im going to kill the person who thought of cigaretts and when johnny is on hi way to heaven im going to scream Johnny Love you

  • great!!!!!!!!!

  • yea i wish he hadnt started smoking at all, it ruined the kickass voice he had, well its still awesome but you get my drift lol

  • Yeah, pretty true. You can see it a lot in the newer songs, and it's all over the place in the live from buffalo cd. But he does still sound amazing, and hits them occassionally. I think it depends.

    But he yodels, yeah? So atleast there is that.

  • i miss the way he use to hit high notes. It actually sounded the ssame as a recorded version.But caus of his smokig he cant hit those notes anymore

  • I LOVE YOU JOHNNY!

  • puta som! baita banda! great!!!!

  • its faster isn´t it? I like it^^

  • esta cancion es muy inspioradora para tod lo del amor

  • hmm in the newer versions of this i miss those high notes, also in their other older songs =(

  • Johnny is a judge for this new show on fox something about bands... I can't wait to see it!

  • I Agree with Iranne, hes not suffering from strain, that sounds perfectly normal to me O.o

  • Jeez, some of you guys don't know what you're talking about, can't you hear he isn't suffering from strain, that's how he sounds live, in fact i'll be damned if you can find another live version of iris where he does use the high notes, this is probably the only non-studio version where he does that (Most of the other live versions of this song during the chorus are inaudible due to the crowd singing with him, thank god they didn't in this version)

  • The live performance on the Late Show, the 2002 Olympics,Live in Buffalo, and a few others he uses the high notes. It's the vocal nodules which have impaired his vocals lately. And he does suffer from it, he was diagnosed with it.

  • I'm talking about this live performance in particular, i agree that he has the strain at the current point in his life

  • i'm not from an english-spoken country, so could you explain to me what strain is? I can't place it.....I just think he smoked too much over the last 2 decades, that's why his voice has lowered so much. He sometimes even squeekes a little througout his songs nowadays....

  • what do you mean he can't hit the high notes? this is in '98, four years before Gutterflower- and amazing album with Johnny at his best!

  • Strain is another word for more juevos thats spanish for more balls LOL

  • yes he has a vocal nodule

  • LOL at2:55-2:57

  • awesome! I love the performance! it's not the best but it's great!

  • Herr Schulz: Er schaukelt das Haus unten zum Quadrat. Irgendjemand nicht diensthabend wir, im Rücken des Schädels schnell geschossen werden.

  • where did he throw his guitar

  • and why the fuck did he do that.

  • Goo Goo Dolls rock, don't get me wrong. I love them, grew up on them, and celebrated my sweet 16 on the same day as their concert in my hometown. But you can not POSSIBLY mosh at one of their concerts.

  • una cancion demasiado maravillosa

  • After watching the beginnings and ends of the songs from Woodstock, I finally figured out the order: 1. Long Way Down 2. Fallin' Down 3. Burnin' Up 4. Stop the World 5. Lazy Eye 6. Slide 7. Name 8. Dizzy 9. Full Forever 10. Naked 11. Broadway 12. Flat Top 13. Iris Awesome performance by the Goo Goo Dolls!
  • congrats you have too much time on your hands lol fuckin loser

  • it took u that long XP lol the guitars that he palys with are numbered XD

  • I bet he could sing the chorus in iris if he wanted to its just a ritual to get the crowd 2 do it, just like when bryan adams gets a girl on stage to sing when youre gone. Its just a ritual now.

  • He can't hit the notes. He has vocal nodules, and it makes you lose range. Freddie Mercury had the same thing.

  • what u talking about

  • In the chorus Johnny can't hit the high notes anymore. He has vocal nodules. Vocal Nodules is a lump which develops on the vocal chords, it causes pressure on them, not allowing the singer to reach high or very low notes. Nic Cester from Jet was diagnosed in 2004.

  • oh okay so what is it a deisease

  • Yeh it's just a condition some singers get from the strain of singing.

  • whats strian

  • the song seems a little fast doesn't it?

  • THat MIc IS REally CRapped UP

  • Isn't that keyboard player in Depeche mode? Man He's handsome.