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02 November 1998

CHATYAHOO_LISA: Welcome to yahooligans! Chat Hanson is here! Send in those questions now!
ISAAC: Hey, this is Isaac, I’d like to wish everyone a big hello.
TAYLOR: This is Taylor, welcome to the chat!

THUNDERGIRL35: Which do you feel is more challenging, performing live or filming a show for television?
ISAAC: Television is the hurry up and wait show, while live is very spontaneous, they have many similar aspects but on very different ends of the spectrum.
TAYLOR: Between the live video and the live album almost all the songs were included, so if you get both of them you get all different songs.
ISAAC: We were kind of bummed b/c there were songs we couldn’t include collectively, but don’t worry.
TAYLOR: You get all the songs.
ZAC: The way we decided in video were the songs that had the best footage.
ISAAC: So that decided what was the best for us.

LENETAYLORCIBRIAN asks: Which song that you've written are you most proud of?
TAYLOR: A lot of the songs that we might be most proud of people have never heard, hopefully people will get to hear them as time goes on…
ISAAC: There are songs with so much of you in it that it's hard to decide. I'll list off a few that are our favorites... “Soldier” on 3 Car Garage, “Yearbook” on middle of nowhere and “Weird” was very cool.

RICH9384: Hanson, what are some of your favorite TV shows?
ISAAC: Since we've been on the road we haven't gotten a chance to watch all that much television...
ZAC: I'd say one of our favorites is South Park.

DEBBIE14O22: Does any particular moment (special/funny/etc) stick out in your minds from the tour?
HANSON: it was fun to have the crew out with us, having water fights, enjoying being out on the road.

GREATBIGHANFAN: I just want to say that I really admire what you do. What do you hope that people get from your music?
HANSON: All sorts of different emotions…
ISAAC: You hope people identify with all different emotions that everyone has gone thru.

SWEETY_SARAH_02: What was it like the very first time you had a concert?
TAYLOR: I think you hope that people just enjoy it. I think the reason for music is to make people happy and.

ENERGIZER_HONEY_98: Hi guyz, my name is Sarah and i'm13 years old and from Ontario Canada, I just would like to know what you guyz were for Halloween and where u were on Halloween night? Thanx!!! P.S. Your Toronto concert rocked
ZAC: Thanks a lot, we're glad you enjoyed the show. On Halloween night we had a party at our house. One of us was an 80 yr old sailor, one was the grim reaper, and another was Jekyll & Hyde.

EVER_LONELY21: What was the most special gift to you guys that a fan has sent you? Just one though!
ISAAC: We've gotten a lot of cool things from all over the web site. It's really unbelievable.
TAYLOR: One way we deal with that is thru the fan club magazine MOE and you can see that thru.

ZACHARY_ISAAC_TAYLOR_HANSON: Out of all the celebrities that you have meet which one is your favorite?
TAYLOR: Once again, a very hard question to answer. We've met a lot of actors, actresses and musicians. We met Billy Joel...
ISAAC: Aerosmith...
TAYLOR: Blues Traveler.
ISAAC: Jewel... Heather Locklear...
TAYLOR: We were just on that show. It's almost impossible to pick.

REDJELLYBEANS3: Do you remember the first time you were recognized? If so, how did you react to it?
TAYLOR: We don’t remember the first time we were recognized, but when we were making the Christmas album on the outside of London, getting a piece of pizza and we thought we were being followed during the day and it turned out it was a group of girls and they screamed out.
ISAAC: It was pretty funny, they screamed out and they ran after us and we ducked into a car. It was funny.

_SEEMBA_: We love your music sooooooo much!! Did anything while you were on the road inspire you to write a new songs for your next album?
TAYLOR: On the road, we wrote lots of new songs. Everything as always is an inspiration for good and bad songs... It was an inspiration for us to be playing more music than in our usual schedule
ISAAC: It was also the chance to jam before the shows every night. It was a great opportunity.

PLABM: What goes through your mind when you see fans crying??
TAYLOR: Well, the first thing we just want them to just stop crying, but it's great seeing fans, we want to keep playing for them.
ISAAC: But the truth is, we're nothing to cry over.

AIRWALKGIRL16: Hey, I’m Maria. Do you usually go to concerts of your favourite bands?
TAYLOR: We do go to some concerts, sometimes it's hard to go there, but we try to go to as many as possible. We just saw Lenny Kravitz live in Houston.
ISAAC: It was a great show, anyone who hasn't seen him live should go. And we saw Blues Traveler in the Horde Festival.

JYNX1583: What is your fav song on the new cd??????
ZAC: I guess you have to say Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau.
ISAAC: His Civil Disobedience was very cool...
TAYLOR: Ann Rand
TAYLOR: There are two brand new songs on the live album. One is a song called “More Than Anything” and the other is a song called “Ever Lonely.”
ZAC: Those are older songs, no one's ever heard...
TAYLOR: They will be newer to all the fans tho.

SUMMER9988: Do get nervous before each concert?
TAYLOR: Just before the show all your excitement and adrenalin gets going... Once you're on stage you're just enjoying it. That's all.

LOVELYLOVELESS003: What was your favorite part of the tour?
ZAC: It may not have been the favorite but it was pretty cool -- playing in Tulsa.
ISAAC: We played two shows in our hometown.
TAYLOR: It was cool to have people, friends and family see you play.
ISAAC: Plus playing a place that you went to concerts at... It's a very eerie experience. It's surreal.

THE_HITZ: “Ever Lonely” sounds like more rock than pop. Are you guys trying to break away from the so-called bubblegum pop, because I think "Ever Lonely" is your best song yet!
TAYLOR: I wouldn't have ever put Hanson as bubblegum pop or any particular category, but that's always been one of the rock-ier Hanson songs.
ISAAC: I think you'll see more songs on that rock/pop kind of thing.
TAYLOR: Hopefully we'll always be along that sort of thing.
ZAC: I would just say that Red Rocks was awesome. We climbed thru some of the rocks and got behind the stage.
ISAAC: It was definitely unique, there's no auditorium quite like it and the audience was loud.

BELIEF2002: How do you feel you have developed musically since “MMMBop” hit the charts as #1?
ISAAC: I think musically you're always looking for new things... always writing new songs
TAYLOR: I don’t think there's one thing, there's just the evolution.
ZAC: The music you listen to changes your perspective on things.

LOLLIPOPS_AND_MMMBOPS: Do you ever wanna get away from all the fame and take a break?
ISAAC: We try to just chill out sometimes and right now we're chilling out, just not doing a whole lot.

TUBBA_IS_ROMEOZ: How do you like airplane food?
TAYLOR: It depends on what airline actually... And we won't go there. And how long the flight is. If the flight is really long and you're really hungry...

ILUVDANNY_Z: Why did you base the live album on the Seattle show?
ZAC: Because originally it was a shorter tour and Seattle was the last date, and b/c it was an indoor venue and that's the best place to record.
TAYLOR: The tour extended longer and longer but Seattle was supposed to be the last date. It was a really fun venue too.

MMMSAMANTHA asks: If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?
ISAAC: I would make faces at people that I knew and just do really weird stuff in front of them and the fact that they couldn't see me would be really funny.
TAYLOR: You'd do all the things that you want to do but you can't b/c they can see you. What would you do?

TREEFREAK56: What inspires you to write your lyrics?
TAYLOR: Writing lyrics and melodies is in a package, the real question is what inspires you to write songs and that's…
ISAAC: Life.. TAYLOR: Yea, it's life.

HANSON_GIRL_123: Hey guys! What's your new album going to be called and what will be your first single?
HANSON: Title when that comes...
ISAAC: The title is the last thing.

QUESTION?
ZAC: It's strange to be home when you're constantly going back and forth, but it's fun to get back into daily life at home but it's also strange b/c you're used to being in different hotels and eating plane food
TAYLOR: Gus is a really great director and really easy to work with so whenver you have that combo it's a great thing... I: gus really got what we wanted to do with the video and he really made it possible. Without his directing skills we wouldn't have been able to do what we did.
TAYLOR: Also, he's become a good friend thru that experience.

MAX_TRACKER: Do you pick out most of the clothes you wear or are they mostly chosen for you?
ZAC: We pick out all the clothes we wear. TAYLOR: No one picks out our clothes for us.

DEBBIE14O22: If you could go on tour with anyone, who would it be?
TAYLOR: We haven't thought about touring with anybody, but that may be discovered in the future. One person we ran into on tour was Jonny Lang, so who knows what will happen in the future.

TAYSJENNYBABY: Will there be songs from various venues on the video?
TAYLOR: On the video the idea was to not make a video just about one show, but about the tour, so you do see all the different venues. Almost every show on the Albertane Tour is in the video. Although the sound was recorded in Seattle...

QUESTION?
ISAAC: I do a lot of different things, but it's merely a hobby. I like to goof off and do things like that .. And entertain myself and friends
yahoo_Hanson: t: mostly himself...

GIMMESOMELOVIN14: Do you guys have chores to do at home?
ZAC: Definitely.
TAYLOR: Chores are part of life, even when you're on the road they fall in there somewhere, so there are things you have to do throughout the day...

ISAAC: Again, The Road To Albertane, the video, comes out tomorrow and Live From Albertane comes out tomorrow. It was very cool because on the album we got to work with Elliot Shiner who got to work on The Eagles, Hell Freezes Over and also Fleetwood Mac and we produced the album.

KRYSTAL_ANTUNES: How many drum sets does Zac have?
ZAC: Two... The one the hit the most, the one I hit the least and the one I hit sort of sometimes.
TAYLOR: And then he sees a psychiatrist ;-).

yahoo_Hanson: t: a lot of times the tour is connected with the album that's out, so since we dont know what the songs that are going
yahoo_Hanson: to be on that next album, we can't really say yet
yahoo_Hanson: t: a group's not a group without fans, so that's always a good thing. It would make it a lot harder if we didn't have any fans

KRISTINPOWER: Do you guys have a bed time?
TAYLOR: Nobody has a bedtime. We try to be in bed before dawn.

_JULIE_85: What is your fave Lego sculpture that you have made?
ZAC: We've never heard of Lego sculpture.
TAYLOR: We do build a lot with Lego but sculpture is usually clay...
ISAAC: Or marble...

JADED_HEART_1983: Does Wickett go on tour with you are does he stay home?
TAYLOR: Wickett stays at home most of the time. We've taken her on a few trips.

LACIEBRIEN: Do you guys ever jam just for yourselves or is it always a job?
ISAAC: Definitely just for ourselves, but sometimes you have to for the job.
ZAC: When you're jamming it's not work, when you're practicing it's more on the work side.

ROCKETTS007: Zac, how much energy does it take to play the drums?
ZAC: About 4.4 milligrams of energy per second.
TAYLOR: Just kidding. By the end of the show we're very tired most of the time.
ZAC: By the end of the show you're already in bed.
ISAAC: You sweat out about 1/3 of your bodily fluids.

UNCATHING: Which of you guys pulled the most pranks during the tour?
ISAAC: One time a member of the tour left early and we gathered everybody up with water balloons and guns and squirted her.
TAYLOR: She was very, very wet.

CYMBALOM: To what extent were you guys involved in designing the stunning light show and staging for your Albertane tour?
TAYLOR: We had a really good lighting designer named Stan Crocker.
ISAAC: We worked with him and Bruce Rogers on set design. They were very creative and very much help.
TAYLOR: Also the lighting director Eric Dismuke (sp?).

MANFROMMILAUKEE: Tay, how do you manage to jump and still hit the right notes on the keyboard??
ZAC: He's not jumping, he's slamming his foot in the cement!
TAYLOR: Sometimes it's complicated and I’m not really hitting the right notes, but that's what makes it live. I just try to be as tired as the rest of the audience is from jumping around
ISAAC: But hopefully not as hoarse.

CANDYKAT: How long did it take to actually record the new album?
ZAC: The live album was one night, so the show is 1 hour and 45 minutes long. So an hour and 45 minutes.

YADDA_15: I know how much you guy like history, and I just want to know... what is your favorite time period?
ISAAC: Right now we're studying great people of the 20th century, it's been very interesting reading about those people. Ghandi, MLK, Stalin, Lenin...
TAYLOR: Bad and good.

SSAND4177: Do you guys still get to do stuff like any average kid?
ISAAC: No we don't, we live in a hole.
TAYLOR: No we don’t, we live in a van down by the river! ;-)

SLEEPYTWINKIE: Hey Ike, Tay, and Zac! My name is Brynn, I am 13 and I was wondering what made you want to do a documentary on the Albertane tour?
TAYLOR: Well, we were enjoying it and wanted people to enjoy it as much as we did. And it was for people who couldn't come to the show. So they could see wait was like.
ISAAC: And we had our video cameras and wanted to document it and it was really interesting for us to be there in post production and see it all come together piece by piece.

DAISYZZ_15: How big of a tour are you planning for next summer?
TAYLOR: If we do do a tour next summer it will probably be more extensive than the Albertane Tour. We’ll probably hit places like Australia and South America.
ISAAC: There are a lot of places overseas in Europe and stuff but the tour will probably be late next summer or a little later than that. We're concentrating on the new album and relaxing right now.

HEIDI_LUVSTAY: Is there any backstage footage on the video?
TAYLOR: In the video there's everything from on the bus, to backstage to on stage.. There's as much as possible. There's a lot of concert footage as well.
ISAAC: There's definitely behind the scenes stuff.

QUESTION?
TAYLOR: We never really discovered whether we do or dont.. I: we deal with that everyday.. I hear taylor sing in the showe
yahoo_Hanson: and I question that every day... ;-d t: we sing everyday.. But we dont' question ...

johar923 asks: do any of you guys bring a lucky charm on stage
yahoo_Hanson: z: we do bring some cereal on stage.. Not lucky charms.. ;-) sorry.. We do have lucky charms that we bring on
yahoo_Hanson: the road with us.. The only things that go on stage are socks, shirt, and instruments..
moreHanson asks: what was the coolest country that you have been to so far?
yahoo_Hanson: t: I dont think there is one coolest country.. We've liked every different place..
yahoo_Hanson: i: each country has its own charm and you have to appreciate whats differnt about each one
yahoo_Hanson: australia'svery cool, japan's really neat.. England, france.. T: home is pretty great too
zippy2546 asks: where do you get your extras for your videos?
yahoo_Hanson: t: when you cast a video there's usually a casting person you work with.. I: like in the weird video we told them
yahoo_Hanson: we wanted people to look weird.. T: different videos have different ideas i: and in weird it was
yahoo_Hanson: casting of identical twins...
redjellybeans3 asks: are you guys planning on doing another christmas special like you did last year? Or is the one from last year going to be re-aired?
yahoo_Hanson: t: there's numerous things that will be happening.. Letterman, rosie, howie mandel -- i: letterman on 11/9
yahoo_Hanson: rosie on the 10th and howie mandel on the 11th and other tv appearances like that
emilie_rose asks: do you surf the internet a lot?
yahoo_Hanson: t: we get on the internet quite a bit, not just surfing around, but use it.. We check out fan sites, but we use
yahoo_Hanson: it as a very cool tool..
andy_aka_tay asks: taylor, is it true your ambidextrous??
yahoo_Hanson: t: no it's not true.. I'm very right handed. I can't do anything with my left hand except do monkey bars, eat and keyboards
chatyahoo_lisa: keep those questions coming folks....Hanson is going for the record!
foxy8419 asks: what albums are you listening to now?
yahoo_Hanson: t: once again, we said lenny kravitz earlier.. I: jonny lang's record is really good, we recommend everyone
yahoo_Hanson: goes out and gets it along with live at albertane...
chatyahoo_lisa: I hear you guys are going to be on space ghost
yahoo_Hanson: z: yeah we did a space ghost episode.. It was really fun.. I: it takes them a long time to animate the show
yahoo_Hanson: z: so keep your ears open i: and check the Hanson line on the date it will air.
kittykatpurrrr asks: your music is awesome and thoughtfully done. I was wondering, it looks like tay is taller that ike and zac is catching up, is that true?
yahoo_Hanson: t: pretty soon we're all gonna b a straight line instead of a stair step. I'm not as tall as ike but zac is catching up
yahoo_Hanson: I think we'll all be lookin up to him soon
meesh_14 asks: does Hanson like coming on yahoo??
yahoo_Hanson: t: yahoo! Is great. We're glad they decided to do our official chat.
zac_4_eva asks: "i have a question for zac...or I guess taylor too...hehe. Anyway, do you have any advice for a girl who plays the drums but doesn't want her hands getting all blistery?
yahoo_Hanson: z: don't play the drums! That's the answer!
yahoo_Hanson: i: or you could wear large woolen mittens! ;-)
flirts_lair asks: do you ever get hiccups and can't perform?-ashley, ne
yahoo_Hanson: t: if you get the hiccups you have to perform anyway.. It's like m-- hic -- bop.. I: most of the time you dont'
yahoo_Hanson: get the hiccups during show, but usually before one.
muzikgurl asks: how do you guys feel about having your personal life so publicized?
yahoo_Hanson: z: a lot of our life a lot of people don't know about, but it's really interesting when you learn about yourself
yahoo_Hanson: thing you didn't even know... Rumors get spread alot.. Movies we're doing that we're not really doning
tayzcookiebg asks: do you guys read the fan fiction?
yahoo_Hanson: t: we do check out a lot of websites ... I: the fan fiction stuff is very creative.. When that first started we found
yahoo_Hanson: a few sites and we were very entertained.. T: it's amazing, there are a lot of cool sites out there
yahoo_Hanson: t: thank you everybody for coming to the chat. We'll be chatting next week.. Tuesday 11/10 at 8pet/5ppt
yahoo_Hanson: t: check out the album and the video in stores tomorrow.. And check out Hansonline because it will be
yahoo_Hanson: and the new issue of moe is in the mail. Thanks you guys and rock on!
chatyahoo_lisa: thanks for joining us!