Check out our photo gallery of the Goo Goo Dolls/Augastana show here.

He did not wait long for his tickets, but Brandon Dohman spent his teenage years waiting to see the Goo Goo Dolls in concert.

Dohman has wanted to see the Goo Goo Dolls live every since he was 12 years old.

On Sunday, he finally got his chance.

“I was pumped,” said Dohman, a senior computer information service major. “I think they did a really good job of getting the crowd into it in the beginning and keeping everyone into it the whole time.”

Dohman was one of the 3,500 people who came out to see the Goo Goo Dolls and opening act Augustana perform in Lantz Arena.

The lights flickered on and off to the beat of a guitar right before the Goo Goo Dolls took the stage.

Eventually, the band ran onto the stage and opened their show.

They performed around 17 songs.

Leader singer Johnny Rzeznik walked across the stage, pointed to the crowd and even crouched down to greet the audience in the front row throughout many of the songs.

The audience greeted Rzeznik with their hands in the air, cheers and even body surfing.

“I screamed a lot and now I can’t hear anything, but I don’t care,” said Jaclyn Patulo, a sophomore student from Bradley University.

Patulo traveled two hours just to see the Goo Goo Dolls perform.

“They’re really good live especially because most bands (can’t) perform live,” Patulo said. “I like the energy that they had.”

The Goo Goo Dolls performed hits including “Slide,” “Name,” and “Iris,” while performing newer songs off their 2006 studio album “Let Love In.”

While performing “Iris,” the Goo Dolls were greeted with cell phone backlights and lighters that the audience held in their hands.

Throughout the entire concert, students held digital cameras and camera phones high above their heads to capture the performance.

Dohman said that it was worth the wait and that he did not leave the concert disappointed.

After performing the song “Let Love In,” the stage went dark and the Goo Goo Dolls walked off the stage.

The audience cheered and even stomped their feet, to try and draw the Goo Goo Dolls back out to play more songs.

After about five minutes, the band came back on stage played “Give a Little Bit.”

Toward the end of the song Rzeznik spread his arms wide and waved goodbye to the audience.

Augustana opened for the Goo Goo Dolls and played around nine songs off their first album “All the Stars and Boulevards.”

They played other popular hits like “Boston” and “Wasteland.”

“I’ve heard them a few times before and got hooked on them right away,” said Kevin Blankenship, a freshman mathematics major.

Blankenship said that Augustana had an excellent performance and that they are a good band with good music.

“I thought the show was awesome,” said Mallory Taylor, University Board concert coordinator. “I think the audience reacted great. I think everyone was having a good time.”