Smash Mouth’s new singer, Zach Goode, spent years with such San Diego indie-rock bands as Ghoulspoon and Geezer
Zach Goode of Smash Mouth, which performs Saturday, Aug. 17, at the SoCal Taco Fest in San Diego. What comes in between years of singing in small clubs with such homegrown San Diego indie-rock favorites as Geezer and Ghoulspoon, and then performing to tens of thousands of people across the nation as the front man in the chart-topping band Smash Mouth?
“I did that for 100 days straight and included an online tip jar for my local food bank,” said Goode, who performs Saturday with Smash Mouth at the SoCal Taco Fest at San Diego’s Waterfront Park. “It kept me busy and I was able to have new content to put on my YouTube page. “We started to talk on the phone and they told me about what the gig is and why Steve left the band ,” Goode, 54, said. “They told me they didn’t want a bunch of singers; they wanted to do this one time only. And they also asked could I do the Smash Mouth gig having a day job and young kids. It’s worked out great because Smash Mouth almost always only travels on weekends for gigs.”
Goode spent some of his summers studying at upstate New York’s Stagedoor Manor, whose other past students include Natalie Portman, Robert Downey Jr. and Mandy Moore. He also attended St. Ann’s Performing Arts School in Brooklyn, where Jennifer Connelly was his sixth-grade classmate. “I was doing both the band and school plays,” Goode recalled. “No other feeling is more invigorating, terrifying and edifying than being ready and prepared to go on stage to do a theatrical performance, and stepping out on stage from behind the curtain when it goes up.Goode qualified for a National Merit Scholarship, but never applied to any colleges.
But before he could get there, the band decided to relocate to San Diego and he joined them here instead. Renamed Ghoulspoon — “We all liked monster movies,” Goode noted — the group mixed metal, rap, punk, grunge, ska, reggae and more. Its first San Diego performance was at the Casbah and the band went on to appear alongside such rising young homegrown artists as blink-182, P.O.D. and Unwritten Law.
Zach Goode was also a member of the San Diego band Geezer, which was formed to re-imagine the Los Angeles band Weezer as senior citizens. Goode was also a member of Geezer, which was launched here in 2005 by musical parody specialist Adam Gimbel with the goal of reimagining the Los Angeles band Weezer as a group of senior citizens. Gimbel brought Goode in around 2008 to be the new bassist in Geezer. Neither was daunted that Goode had never played the instrument before.
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