Should have gotten a Grammy for this song. Another oversight from the Music Industry. I love this song!

Love his voice! Johnny is gorgeous!!

I feel like crying everytime I watch the goo goo dolls or listen to their songs. I recently found out their music, like a week ago, and I'm so annoyed at myself for not listening to their songs 10 years ago..I love them so much. I wish they know that they still have alot of fans out there supporting them and would keep on creating albums until they turn 70.

Whenever I watch this and sing with it, there is always a tear that wants to come out of my eyes.... what a powerful music.

wow. beautiful man inside and out.

Love this band!!! And they're still awesome in 2019!!! Now that's start up talent!!!💞💋💞

John is the GQ Man of the Year!! He's absolutely gorgeous here! EDIT: John is the GQ Man of EVERY Year!! I could watch this video a thousand times!...perhaps I already have!!

Great performance......carry ON GOO GOO Dolls.

This was his Cloud Strife era.

lol he always looked like the main character of a final fantasy game during this time

John Rzeznik ...one of the sexiest man alive in his youth 😆

best performance of black balloon here.....i like how he hits the notes like he is supposed to

Nice, Johnny in full on Rockstar mode. Love it.

i love his hair

I love the goo goo dolls

I remember watching this when I was 7 what a beautiful song and year 99 till infinity.

Such a beautiful man 😘

Awesome!!!! Voice is so powerful!!!

absolutely johnny is an amazing musician

Love you Goo Goo Dolls

The only live version where Johnny sings “swallow the light from the sun inside your room” in the same tone of the record version…

This guitar tuning is fucking beautiful

His voice

Love the Goos! Wish for things that I dont need like a Goo concert ticket! Seen them 8 times its always awesome! 😀

😍Per il cantante ,perché lui e 'bellissimo .ALTO HA UN FISICO VIGOROSO ED UN VISO BELLISSIMO; PER CANTARE IO DICO ;LUI È UN 'UOMO BELLISSIMO. CANTANTE.😍.CANTA BENISSIMO.

drug addiction never souned this good.

whoever was running sound for them sucked at his or her job

When I here this song it makes me drip in tears😢 this song will always be iconic!love you Johnny

Love you guys forever

Johnny looks so yummy here! ...Back in the 90's I was so in love with him!OMG he looks so fine in this video, he is GORGEOUS! I still love this man going to see them in concert next week!!!

He looks so cute that way

fantastic song :)

It's about someone he knew hooked on heroin. "Coming down the world turned over..."- He's describing how coming down from the high of the drug makes you world hell. Pretty sad but beautiful.

wow, thank you very much for taking time to reply, It's really appreciated. I fell in love with The Goos since a was a teen. Gracias! desde el Caribe!

God they're awesome

Love and heroin addiction. My song -.- so beautiful.

My special place!

Greatness + Hotness.

holy moly! whoa. look at john! nice leather pants! love the hair! and , goo'reat performance! thanx so much for posting- u always have the best vids!

yeah he does

Io dico per cantare è molto importante tutto il viso .Lui ha un viso ed un profilo perfetto per cantare, ha un viso bellissimo. Alto. Lui ha un fisico vigoroso. E' MOLTO FORTE .Ha tanta forza fisica.E'cantante ;canta benissimo.

Fuxxing Fantastic :)

OMG loved the leg flick at the end there at 3: 26!! :O

LEATHER PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg back when guitars still had cables

Well said! :D

their prime was actually before dizzy up the girl I have been a fan for 20 years now

Legend has it, that Johnny raided Midgar directly after this performance.

3:10 ... just wow

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Normally when a band changes the key in live performances is to a lower key to make it easier for the singer. Why a half step higher for live beats me

Always going to your uncomfortable though on something you're not used to

In un momento storico; così difficile per tutti, indossando la mascherina sul viso , il mio abbraccio virtuale, e ' per tutti i miei amici. Io e loro ,pensiamo sempre ad un matrimonio, romantico .Siamo romantici ed attuali.📚.

LOL yeah it was pretty sick :P

OMG this is amazing!!! where did u get all this footage????

Imagine loving a girl who was struggling wirh a heroine addiction...

Wish they didn’t raise the key by a semi note, maybe John could’ve hit the notes at least once. Would’ve loved to hear the “and I’ll go on I will lead you home and” like the studio just once

Someone had to make a career out of detuning your acoustic and singing at the coffee shop . He’s the one. He took two with him…..all the way to the bank…..awesome .

@ZeeIris98 There's quite a few here on youtube.

Do you have any footage of them playing Iris in 99 or 98???

age is a terrible thing, however, he still sings better now than most young artists do. I do wish he could hit all the notes so I could hear It live haha, I can hit them, but I'm not John Rzeznik so its not the same (;

Sometimes it's better to jump into the edge of something

1:25 Mitch Hedberg?

You'll be sorry when you don't sleep under the edge of something

What type of hairdo is he rockin?

The best black balloon live performance? Too bad whoever was responsible for the sound production did a bad job 😥

Play watch the guy step off the edge and now he's laughing about it

is that what this song is about? Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker...

*sounded

bassist looks and sounds like sambora

Great song, great band, but weak performance. This is probably the weakest version of Black Balloon I've heard so far. My opinion.

Sounds like the sound man (men?) was pretty bad at his job both before and after. Rough performance and a really bad mix.

Such a pretty face, my chin dimple is like Johnny's 😳

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Who would've thought a song about a heroin addicted prostitute would sound so beautiful.

he hits the notes cuz he's young lol not 50 like he is now

I think this song he wrote for her mother, who got depressed when his father died.

I can see why he dodges high notes so much. Don't get me wrong Jonny is an amazing singer but his range is limited probably from all the cigarettes. Like sticks nicks

I definitely got bad taste

I really dislike how all the verses are altered in all their live versions

Terrible ass acoustic electric sound.

He's always played awful sounding acoustics for some reason lol