Do you like to freak your kids out, too?
Blog • February 4, 2011 • Cities97
Yea...I thought so. The freaky deaky can be fun.
My son Jackson
is a big John Rzeznik and Goo Goo Dolls fan (BIG fan), and so when the
musician and songwriter was here on Jan. 27th for a special Studio C
performance, I asked Jack to hightail it over to the radio facility
after school that day to attend.
What he didn't expect follows.
John
and I were chatting in the studio before the performance - we met
twenty years ago this year, at the studios of KJ104 when I was doing the
morning show there. Anyhow, we got along pretty well then, and have
done a few over-the-phone interviews and via-satellite conversations
since, and it was nice to catch up a bit face-to-face.
So when
Jackson texted me that he had arrived and was waiting in the radio
station lobby, I said to Johnny "...come with me to the front desk and
help me fetch my son, and let's watch the expression on his face when
you walk through the door with me to bring him in..." Of course, John
was all over that!
Needless to say, the kid's jaw dropped to the
floor. His eyes got all wide, and he was looking for words to say. But
John, being the real gentleman that he is, put Jackson immediately at
ease and started asking him questions about himself and his guitar
playing and things that put the 18-year old in a total comfort zone.
Later, when it came time to take a picture after the performance, John got in a stab at me, for Jackson's benefit: "...Hey Jackson. Grab your old man there and have him hobble over here for a photo!"