PAST APPEARANCES Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Star 100.7
Backstage At The Grammys Broadcast
07 February 2008JOHNNY, HOST: It’s Isaac, Taylor, Zac, it’s Hanson ladies and gentlemen!
ISAAC: Hello!
ZAC: Hello Pittsburg!
ISAAC: I guess I should clap for myself!
TAYLOR: That was a huge resounding applause!
ZAC: No one knows we’re clapping for ourselves!
JOHNNY: Does it seem like ten years have gone by since “MMMBop?”
ISAAC: In some ways. In some ways it does, yeah.
JOHNNY: I worked for a Top 40 radio station in Pittsburgh when you guys came in. It was absolutellllly bizarre. It was bizarre. It was just like, “ahhh!” screams and yells.
ISAAC: Up on the bluff?
JOHNNY: Yes, you remember that?
ISAAC: I remember it.
TAYLOR: We just about lost body parts trying to get out of that station.
JOHNNY: There were girls, like, sleeping out in people’s yards before you guys came in…
ZAC: I think the…
JOHNNY: We did something at a mall and it was just pandemonium.
ISAAC: No, I remember. I remember.
TAYLOR: You know what’s amazing about that—and obviously that first record coming out you hit a chord with that age group and we were so young but you know what blows me away? It has been ten years since the first record and the fans that have stuck—they are so passionate, so devoted…
ISAAC: Every show. Every show.
TAYLOR: And they showed up every time!
JOHNNY: We asked listeners to send emails in and Kate says, “First, congratulations to Zac on his first baby.”
ZAC: Thank you.
JOHNNY: The question is, has fatherhood affected your career path?
ISAAC: I think for me, and I’m—I know for Taylor…
TAYLOR: Ike’s jumping in there.
JOHNNY: All three of you have kids?
ISAAC: Yeah, yeah. I think for me it makes the issues, in particular as Taylor was talking about in Africa and other things, all the more poignant for you. There are like, 14 million kids who are orphaned from a disease in Africa. If that was my kid, I’d…
TAYLOR: It makes it a lot more real.
ISAAC: It makes it a lot more real. So I think everything you do is that much more important. But we’ve always felt like music was about inspiring people, music was about encouraging people to do valuable things with their lives. Sometimes it’s about being with them when they’re depressed, sometimes it’s about lifting them up, but hopefully you’re encouraging on some level.
JOHNNY: You all have kids? What if your kids joined like, a group?
TAYLOR: A group? If it did happen, much like with us, if it’s going to happen it’s going to be totally unavoidable, we’ll have nothing—we’ll have no say in it.
JOHNNY: Hanson Jr or something like that.
ISAAC: I hope for their--
TAYLOR: We would veto that title.
JOHNNY: Trademark it right now.
TAYLOR: Do you have a trademark right now? You can’t touch that.
JOHNNY: Nice. Alright, guys, thanks for dropping by and saying “Hello” to Pittsburgh. Hey, if you want to hear this interview or any interviews we did this afternoon, go to 1007.com. Grammy central at 1007.com. It’s Star 100.7!
typed up by Heidi (me)