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  • were can i but one of those ball necklaces that he has on

  • I love this performance, but did anyone else thought it was funny every time Rzeznik did a diva head turn to brush the hair out of his eyes?

    Also, Takac was so into the music. Too cute.

  • 10 dislikes !!

    Nice try Bieber...

  • red pants:D

  • Thank GOD!!! there are still great singers in the world.

  • I remember this like it was yesterday

  • This song will be my number 1 4ever!!

  • Geez, his voice is so damn perfect, he sounds just like the studio version its ridiculous.

  • amazing song!

  • maravilha!!!!!!!!!

  • his hair in the IRIS video is so kool......

  • not great but good

  • @polaroidalwaysfrozen

    LOL good joke. It was fucking amazing.

  • epic hair

  • Excelente, de que año es

  • @leoncas100 salio en 1998 como sountrack de la pelicula ciudad de angeles o en america latina como un angel enamorado

  • John wrote this song because he was asked to write a song for the movie City of Angels, so after he viewed the movie he went back to his hotel room inspired and write the song in under an hour.

  • damn what a great hair

  • Among this all commercial shit and cheap wrecks being served day to day na radio an music tv stations, I consider John Rzeznik to be on of the last singers with real men vocal! Be honest, and tell me how many singers today can you hear with real vocals like man?! Bieber, Timberlake, that monkey rappers or other homo superstars?

  • @Hrafn22 there is one left his name is james dupre he is really good

  • I always used to confuse John R with Criss Angel. Goo Goo Dolls awesome live

  • @CaliforniaBlondes16 chris angel is a fag

  • @SDCDIABLO really? I thought both Criss and John were very humble. I saw Criss at his show in Las Vegas and he signed alot of autographs and talked alot with his fans, John hes really nice, but he's got a weird sense of humor not that i didn't laugh. Criss and John were the same in alot of ways they would have been great friends.

  • @CaliforniaBlondes16 By a fag I just ment I don't really like his show or what he does, its extreamly fake...I'm sure hes a nice enough person like you said.

  • @SDCDIABLO oh lol 

  • Bassist rocked this song lol

  • I love John and Robby <3! I just wanna hug em both so badlyy lol XD

  • he looks like a mysterious character from a romantic movie! love him <3

  • What an epic fucking song. He can die happy knowing he created a timeless hit. He's a dope frontman too, cool hair and handsome

  • this guy (sorry, i dont know his name :S) is an amazing singer, and I can tell because its coming from the heart.

    thats what makes this song so touching

    love this song....to bits

  • Johnny Rzeznik...ie...his name.

  • As much as I love how they sound here, cutting the instrumental is completely unacceptable! =( =( =( It's a very important part of the song IMO... taking any part of it away also takes away part of the beauty. Though I suppose we could blame that on the show's producers and time constraints.

  • It doesn't come closer from the heart then this

  • its just so really intense when he sings this live.

    its just blows me away! :)

  • god damn!!!!!!!! THIS SONG IS SOOO DAMN BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG!!! I LOVE IT SOOO DAMN MUCH!!!!!!! He sings with so much emotion.. so much power.. its totally intoxicating.. so beautiful.. & all of that beautiful music came from him! HE is soo amazing! HE IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THAT CAN SING HIS SONG LIKE HE DOES!!! WONDERFUL!!! ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!

  • @StrawBeriLuv95

    I agreeeeeee

    Paqua69

  • @Paqua69 ^_^ there is a version if this song tht i want you to listen to if you haven't already. just look up Goo Goo Dolls - iris. The vid is by marcohageman. Its them recording this song at Abbey Road Recording studios. Its my fav version if this song. look it up on youtube.. lol

  • BTW - they ROCK live and they all still look AMAZING! They sound better live then on the cd's! The new music is great - I am very much looking forward to 8/3 or 8/13 or whenever it is for the official release date of the hard copy of the cd. 

  • I wish I could stop looking at this guy.... I'm obsessed!!! Just met them last month and had very front row center stood in front of him for the whole show. I cannot stop looking. Total eye candy and the music is sooooooo good!

  • I almost cried... o_o

  • Kind of song that everyone will love forever

  • Damn why his wife divorced his sexy ass,shit he could sing to me all night.

  • MY FUCKIN FAVORITE SONG FOR EVER

  • best song ever, by the best band ever!

    well, they're my favorite at least =P

    & I can actually cover this one pretty well

    [my fave artist is matthew mayfield...you should check him out...he's amazing]

  • Wow in this performance he sounds almost exactly like on the record. This is one of his better performances of this song. If you listen to any of his recent performances of iris he nearly always either sings in a lower key or makes the audience sing the high parts.

  • his ex-wife had to be stupid to divorce him

  • he looks like jon bon jovi

  • It's kinda ridiculous how beautiful he is. And his music, of course

  • nice voice and live performance..too bad he cannot sing like this anymore..i like his old voice

  • yea i agree...what exactly happened to his voice ...i heard it was a medicle condition

  • @rocky1399

    We don't exactly know cause he never came right out and said it, But he's still an amazing singer and always will be. His voice is alot better than the 2006-Early 2009 Period. I'm assuming its from singing this song so much and the fact the way you sing it like the record isn't good for your voice especially for how many times he sang it. Also smoking and aging are very common to do this aswell. I myself still think he's amazing and they will always be my #1 Fav Band in the world.

  • @rocky1399

    They're still amazing live, If you ever heard him sing iris live now the way ive seen it, it's still amazing.

  • @Xeltosxx no he is still an amazing singer and musician i aint sayin he aint lol just differnt thats all and wanted to kno if it was a condition caused by singing or wud he he have gotten it anyways?

  • aww love this wee song

  • lol the look so young!!! but they still are the best no matter what age

  • he looks like a ff7 character

  • @meowmixtures nah ff8, squall

  • @reillydon nah give him a tail and hes zidane ff 9 ;)

  • @meowmixtures What a legend you are! made my night <3

  • @meowmixtures He doesn't look like a FF7 character. FF7 characters look like him. =)

  • hawt!

  • This guy is impossible to cover because everything he writes comes straight from the gut. It all seems so personal to him, really a very intense experience listening to him sing.

  • your completely right...

  • @schwapj It's funny you say that, since he's considered the world's most successful Paul Westerberg cover artist.

  • @dashofchutmeg Maybe the old Goo Goo Dolls, in the punkier days. I can sing Alex Chilton like Westerberg, and have many times, but I can't sing Iris anywhere like Rzeznik.

  • @schwapj He's impossible to cover because he uses all those wierd tunings lolol...a genius none the less

  • @schwapj no, it's impossible to cover because he uses crazy tunings in all of his songs

  • @schwapj That is SO true!

  • how is anybody this perfect???

    seeing them live changed my life.

  • ballsack

  • Even his hair screams s-e-x-y...

    He is so adorable, the band is awesome and this song is in a class of its own.

  • Totally agree :)

    I've said before & I'll say it again...he's pretty darn hot! So is this song!

  • he is such a good singer and i love this song its so so beutiful

  • He looks heaps similar to Bon Jovi!! And that in no way is a bad thing =P LEGEND of a performance!!

  • Awesome!!!

  • one of the greatest songs of all time

  • No Brasil tinha um programa de animais que tbm se chamava "Late Show".

  • pretty good live version. One of the best I've seen on Youtube.

  • Bleed. Just to know. You're alive.

  • this song is beautiful... just like him <33

  • hes 32 here, hes now 43,his birthday is on the 5th of december.

  • gah the boy can sing

  • hes around 30 here, isnt he?

    he looks signifigantly younger than that to me.

  • he is so beautiful.

  • what year was this?

  • 1998

  • brilliant

  • good job

  • ah ...amazing

  • What guitar is he using? Looks a lot like the one I have.

  • its a Guild thats about all i can tell you

  • He penned it before it was selected for City of Angels.

  • what with the red jeans?.....

  • johnny used to be able to sing out all those high notes in the chorus...what about now... =[

  • and he also reaches them in this perfromance... Amen

  • he quit smoking and now he can do the high notes again its awesome

  • @kodyinc

    Yes some of his Iris performances where he sings the chorus are amazing, specially the light of day benefit one. =D

  • @Xeltosxx acoustic version of iris..

  • lol johnnys wearing red pants...amazing performance!!=]=]

  • amazing

  • my music teacher in midle school used to play with them before they got big, iguess the goo goo dolls opened up for my music teacher lmao.

  • It sounds like Johnny is sick :(

  • love this song, one of my all time favorites! I LOVE THE GOO GOO DOLLS

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  • wow, that is a sad thing. never knew that. thanks. =]

  • its not about his wife at all, he wrote it for the movie city of angels, its about an angel giving up his immortality to love a living woman

  • ok, genius.

    EVERYONE knows its was written for the movie City of Angels. however, his INSPIRATION came from the separation between him and his wife, immediately before he approached the project. it didn't help that he was suffering from writer's block.

    long story short, he separated from laurie farinacci in late 1997/early 1998, then officially divorced in 2002.

    BAM!

  • How about you dont sarcastically call me genius, i know all about his separation and divorce, but the only song hes been quoted as saying is about his divorce and moving to LA is here is gone, ive never come across any interview on this or in any article ive read that refers to iris bein about his separation, maybe im wrong

  • Oh and BAM!

  • @pinay22690 that's not true at all. it was written for the movie city of angels. he was still married at this point. however the song "here is gone" off their next album "gutterflower" was written after his divorce.

  • @pinay22690 Not true, he wrote this for the movie "City of Angels" you dumb filipino monkey maid!

  • @kyokonkyochin Took the words out of my mouth.

  • el loco este es una mezcla de david bowie con bon jovi jajaj

    Un grande

    this guy looks like david bowie and jon bon jovi together jaja

    great!

  • still the best!!!

  • Such a good version of the song. And The band looked great abck then (as they still do). And Johnny's hair has to be mentioned because its PHWOAARR =]

  • what are you talking about?? they're one of the greatest live bands ever.

  • what is ur problem dude they are freakin awesome live or not

  • gave me goosebumps

  • I want this vid never to be remove FCK!!!!

  • I have watched one million live goo goo dolls irises tonight and this so far is the best one. congrats

  • have you seen the one in buffalo???

    that was one of their best performances

  • I don't want the world to see me, cuase i don't think that they'll understand...

    that phrase tells my life

  • This song is just fantastic, it makes me feel so great *.*

  • **sigh** incredible, is there anything else to say...

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

  • his hair is awsum. ftw

  • Rock on Goo's! Luv ya.

  • Letterman has changed much

  • 3:33 .. the bass player his face.. awesome

  • u dont even see his face at that time:S

  • lol man, you realize you just called a band that were around before the world was cursed with your idiocy. these guys are like seasoned veterans of the music world. you're such a dumbass Shalomp if you think that bon jovi and the goo goo dolls are so alike johnny is trying to be a wannabe, cause even though they're both awesome, they are different bands and if you bought a cd tugknuts, you'd realize that. so don't shoot you're mouth off cunt!! fair play to the guys above me who know music!

  • haha maybe u wanna reply to my message directly rather than post a separate text comment. ever heard of "if u got something to say, say it in my face"? you're a coward.

  • that is probably the most pathetic thing ive ever heard. lol whats wrong, you upset cause you had to get off your fat ass and scroll up the screen abit. like honestly, is your life so pathetic you spend you're time looking for videos to diss? if you don't even like these guys, don't bother watching the video dumbass!

  • i'll give u props for finally replying directly to me but u still are the moron u are! get that sand out of your vagina!

  • lol your the one still commenting on a band you think are wannabes dumbass. whos the real moron? =P

    i dont need a vagina, your mom says im welcome to hers

  • u say to say it your face and yet u want to insult people on youtube!! haha come on now.

  • say to say it your face? huh? am i talking to another idiot now who never went to school!

  • dude f you don't care, then why are you still replying to this. you're pathetic man. go fuck yourself man, you're the kinda guy that ruins youtbe for people. asswipe

  • sude, if you don't care, why are you still replying to this? jesus christ man, fuck off and go screw you're fat slut of a mom. seriously, we get discounts on the weekend ;-)

  • why are u repeating yourself over and over again? go jack off to your nickelback videos and whatever faggot big hair bands u listen to irish fag!

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  • lol whatever faggot

  • Your comments are a disgrace. I'm pretty sure you mom & dad didn't bring you up like that. Theres no pride in the attitude you've shown.

    Nottingham, GBR.

  • can someone post me a link to this music video cause the on i had in my favs was removed due to copywright claim or w/e. thanks.

  • Go 90's!!!

  • and i feel sorry for the one minded dipshit who can't appreciate what people do with their instruments and voices xD

  • a lot of them love playing this, the world would be a boring place if all we heard and all they played were concertos

  • I don't like you, Shalomp.

  • u don't like me? well don't start crying now fag...

  • Fag? That's a real original insult, think of that one all by yourself using your amazing musical prowess.

  • is that your great comeback swizzcheeze?88711? thanks for playing...

  • hah he does kind of look like bo jovi xD

  • that IS THE SONG!

  • i thought it was so funny the way letterman said dizzy up the girl" lol

    btw the goo goo dolls are THE best band EVER.

  • Absolutely awesome! What's amazing is how well these lyrics go with the movie it was made for (City of Angels) but can stand on their own as well.

    Everybody "hiding" they like this song because "they look like fags" are insecure idiots. I'm mostly a metal fan, but I appreciate good music...this is good music (imo).

  • same here bro

  • i think that make you look gay by hiding the fact you like a great band like THE GOO GOO DOLLS>they took their name from an old comic book things 4 sale in the back of the book.i bet you secretly like THE GO GO"S(sn4keoi1)

  • well atleast now

    everyone knows that u like this song..

    =D

  • I find they really good... like oasis doesnt write emotional tunes that touch u,... they write like...huge hits... goo goo dolls, have a more human emotional feel to their songs, oasis write theses big hits that pick u up off your seat. both bands are amazing, oasis is still my favorite band :)

  • oasis FTW!

  • that's sorta true but oasis has stuff like wonderwall and songs that make you sit and think and wonder...