RADIO TRANSCRIPTS San Diego, California's Channel 93.3
Backstage At The Grammys Broadcast
07 February 2008GINA: Hanson right in front of me. How are you guys?
ZAC: We’re doing good. Glad to be here! Hello San Diego.
GINA: Right when I said “Hanson” all the girls in San Diego went, “Wooooo!”
ISAAC: We were just down in San Diego, we had a great time.
GINA: Oh you were? Where’d you go?
ISAAC: At the House of Blues.
ZAC: Hopefully be back soon. We’re going to be starting up another leg of a tour starting in March, still promoting this record so hopefully we’ll make it back around and see San Diego again.
GINA: Oh yeah, you gotta come to our radio station. How were you guys there and didn’t even come in, show us no love!
TAYLOR: You gotta give us a call!
GINA: I’ll give you my phone number.
ISAAC: Sweet.
ZAC: Ooh, we’re getting digits.
TAYLOR: Getting digits, this is a real party here.
GINA: Alright, so The Walk is the album and tell me, you guys did everything on your own.
ZAC: A couple years back we decided to leave the label that we were with and form our own label, an independent label.
ISAAC: Mostly cos it had become a rap label, which was kind of awkward.
ZAC: Well, a little prefacing: we ended up, as a part of a merger—200 bands got dropped and we got put on a rap label because the label we were on didn’t exist anymore.
GINA: What? You mean you aren’t rappers? *Isaac starts beat boxing*
ZAC: And we said, “Wow, this is just not a good home for us!” So you know, that sounded nice. That groove was popping.
ISAAC: I was doing my best.
ZAC: So, we decided to form our own label and go out on our own and do it that way and I don’t know, I think we just feel like the future of the music is in the entrepreneurs and the people who are willing to invest in their fans. And say the relationship with the fan is the most important thing. It doesn’t matter how many songs they get on radio if I can’t create that relationship with someone that says, “I feel connected to this music in a personal way.”
ISAAC: The remarkable thing that I just feel so lucky that we’ve been able to be doing this for as long as we have cos you see young people starting off and they were our age—when the first record came out I was 16, Zac was 11, Tay’s 14, so young fans. And they grow up throughout their lives and some of them became full on Goth, like, into heavy metal and stuff and they’re still showing up at Hanson shows and they’re saying, “I love Slayer and…”
ZAC: Rob Zombie.
ISAAC: “…and Anthrax and Rob Zombie… and all of these bands, and Hanson.” And you’re like, “This is cool.”
GINA: Every time I do a story on you guys and luckily, you aren’t all the dumb gossip that doesn’t come out, just like “Congratulations on getting married” and kids and all that, but all the girls in the studio go crazy and they’re you know, we’re all grown up now but they’re still, “Woo hoo!” They keep giving me the wrap up too but I have two things to ask you. This girl who works back with us who will be listening right now, Sienna, loooooves you guys.
ISAAC: So, you want us to say “Hi” to Sienna?
GINA: Yeah, do something. Make her day.
TAYLOR: Hey Sienna. We really miss you here, we really look forward to a time where we can all sit together and talk about our feelings and serenade you with love songs.
ISAAC: Hi, I’m Isaac and I like walks on the park…
TAYLOR: On the park?!
ISAAC: …in the park, and picnics on the beach and long conversations…
TAYLOR: Ike, are you doing a personal ad?
ZAC: I think what you meant was, “and my favorite color is Sienna.”
ISAAC: Heeey, there you go!
GINA: One last question, what are you filming here for? You guys can’t see but they have a bunch of cameras, I feel like I’m on E!, some reality show or something. What’s going on here?!
ZAC: We do a variety of things, like I was talking to you earlier when we weren’t on the air about the internet and focusing on using that, and we did a documentary about the making of one of our records a couple records back when we left that label and formed our own and using the internet for things like podcasts and keeping your fans involved in what you’re doing, so there’s just a variety of stuff.
GINA: Well, those are big cameras.
ZAC: Those are big cameras.
GINA: That means there’s big things going on! That’s not no little podcast!
ISAAC: Those are big things! (deep voice). We only do things big.
TAYLOR: We just have a big podcast!
GINA: Okay, alright!
TAYLOR: You know what I’m saying? Our pods are just big.
ZAC: We’re just so big on the screen that we need big cameras to pick us up!
GINA: Okay, okay, good luck with whatever “big” podcast you guys got going on! And we look forward to hearing whatever you got going on and if you’re in San Diego feel free to stop in whenever, you’re more than welcome.
TAYLOR: Absolutely.
GINA: Hanson.
GINA: Thank you.
typed up by Heidi (me)