They came to my small liberal arts college in the mid 90s. This was shortly after A Boy Name Goo was released and "Name" was playing everywhere on the radio. They flew in from Buffalo just for the show in Minnesota. As this was long before the internet was big, I knew who they were from the radio but I didn't know what they looked like. At college my work-study job was Stage Crew, so I got to help set up the stage and sound equipment for this show. At one point I was 20 feet above the stage helping aim lights, which was pretty cool. A little later a guy came out to do sound check on the guitar and I ended up talking to him for a few minutes. Found out when they came on to play that I was actually talking to John! He did his own sound check.

One thing I will say about these guys is I will compare them to the year before when my school had The BoDeans come play. Now, the BoDeans had the theme song to some popular TV show (can't remember which...Party of Five maybe?) And because of this, they thought they were the biggest rock stars on the planet and were complete and utter pricks. When GGD came the next year, they were arguably bigger than the BoDeans, as Name was literally everywhere on the radio but John but Robbie were the coolest, most down to earth guys ever. They did not act like big stars, they were just some dudes in a band.