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11 november 1998

CHATYAHOO_LISA: Welcome to yahoo! Chat! Have you joined the yahoo!'s Hanson club yet? If not, check it out at clubs.yahoo.com. Welcome to yahoo! Chat... Hanson is here!!!!!!
HANSON: Hey guys! Let's get this thing started!

CHERRY_SAKURA: What do you prefer between the Playstation and the Nintendo 64?
ZAC: That's a really hard question. You can't really beat 007 on Nintendo 64 and Nintendo has some really good games, but Playstation, they have Tekken, so it's really hard to say.

PUFFBROCCO: Taylor, what is the band around your elbow when your performing at concerts? Kryss, 16, AR
TAYLOR: All it is is a necklace I got from a friend and I decided not to put it on my neck, but on my arm instead.

CRAZI0NE: TAYLOR: Writing songs is one of those things that can be inspired from any event or anything going through your mind.

ZAC__26345: Okay, I know your CD is recorded in 1 place but is the video recorded everywhere or just the 1 place?
TAYLOR: If you get the video you'll see that it is shot in every different venue, so you see all the different shows. The music on the album was all recorded in Seattle, but the video was shot throughout the tour, so you get to see all the shows.

KRAZY_4NICK: Hi! I just want to say your new CD rocks and I would like to know if there was anything about your tour you would change?
TAYLOR: I think there's always something, like we messed up on a song in one show where something went wrong but it's always great to go out and experience something new and just groove as musicians and do something we all really enjoy. So there's not much we would change. It was really fun for us.

MIGHTYAPHRODITE_16: Hey guys, I was wondering if you have a particular routine you go thru before getting onstage? Any favourite CD you listen to? A mantra chat perhaps? (lol)
TAYLOR: A group that always gets you really psyched up is Queen. It has a psyching up to it.
ISAAC: Queen was just a great band, so there's no set CD... If you change the set you're going to do, you just think about it and prepare for what's going to happen.

HITZWILD: Hey guys! I loved your appearance on David Letterman last night! What made you decide to sing “Gimme Some Lovin?”
TAYLOR>: “Gimme Some Lovin” has become sorta like the title song off the album, b/c it opened the shows on the tour. We really enjoyed playing. If you watch Rosie O'Donnell on the 16th we'll be playing “Man From Milwaukee.”

IBDAISY: Have you started working on the new album yet?
ZAC: We have, on the tour, written songs, but we haven't really started recording.
TAYLOR: We have a lot of songs we're demoing and putting together, so we're very excited about that.

TAYLUVA4EVA: I have two brothers and I can't be with them 24/7. How do you manage not to kill yourselves?
ISAAC: We get along for some weird reason very well. I don't know why that is. Perhaps b/c we spent a lot of time together already, since we were home schooled... We used to practice karate on each other. But we definitely have brotherly love.

ROADTOALBERTANE: What is Ike going to be doing for his birthday?
ISAAC: This will be the first year that we'll be at home for my birthday in the last 3 yrs. I'll probably spend it with my friends doing god knows what...
TAYLOR: Perhaps since we'll be at home, maybe he'll get a car or something...

HANSON_TOUR: Hey! The CD and video rock. I have a question for Taylor and Isaac... why do you two go by your middle names rather than your first names?
ISAAC: Why do you go by your first name and not your middle name?

MARGARETEH Hey! I love the new live stuff. It is awesome to see that you guys are so real, it really helps me relate to you even more. Do you enjoy making all of this live stuff for your fans?
TAYLOR: Anything that we're able to put out and the fans respond to is fun for us...
ISAAC: It’s an honor that our fans have been as responsive as they have and that they like it is a great thing so we enjoy their enthusiasm.

HANSONYOUAREGORGEOUS What can we expect on the future issues of MOE?
TAYLOR: By the way, did anyone get the third issue? If you have, what do you think of it? MOE will continue to be the best and closest way to find out what we're doing and what's going on.
ISAAC: And what we're doing in the future will be in the next issue... You can expect more great articles from Dr Food.

IKEYPOOHBABE I heard your song “More Than Anything,” I think it's very romantic. So I was wondering what inspired you guys so much to write it? The song is beautiful and romantic.
ISAAC: I think it's fairly appropriate that it was written for a particular girl at the time.

STARLYTE13 What was your feeling, at first, about fame?
TAYLOR: Fame is sort of this thing that people blow into this big proportionate thing. It really hasn't changed us as people. We’re still just normal guys and any of our friends would tell you that. The only thing is that we're able to play for more people.

MIZERY13: Do you guyz still hang with your palz back home?
TAYLOR: When we're home we definitely hang out and do whatever you do with your friends.
ISAAC: Hang out at the coffee shop or whatever... do what everyone normally does.

DAGIRL4565: Hello Hanson!! What's it like being in such a big family?
TAYLOR: I guess the question would be, “What's it like not to be part of such a big family.” Being part of the Hanson family is quite an experience for anyone who joins in on the road, or whatever, it's always fun to have people around and somebody to goof around with. There's never a small party, we always have very large parties.

SOFIAA_98: TAYLOR: I don't think there's really one thing that makes me the happiest. Definitely playing music is one of those things, definitely being able to see places and travel around.
ISAAC: I agree with Taylor on the music thing, music whether you're playing an upbeat song or a mellow song, it always seems to uplift your spirits in any way. And another thing would be holding hands and going out on a date with a cute girl.
ZAC: Sleeping.

IMONTHEROAD2ALBERTANE: Hey!! I went to the Jones Beach concert on the 2nd. I was wondering if it was fun playing in the rain?(lol)
TAYLOR: I know it was very cold and that was one of the craziest shows, but to be honest, I think it was the most fun place to play on the tour.
ISAAC: It was very cool b/c we had impeccable timing. God was waiting for us to finish the show and then came the rain!
TAYLOR: We thank the fans for hangin in there... We saw a lot of familiar faces at all the NY shows, they really stuck it out there in the rain.

ALBERTANE4: What does Albertane mean?
TAYLOR: What, you don't know what Albertane is? For all of you that don't know, Albertane is a place and if you listen to the song “Man From Milwaukee” you can figure it out for yourself.
ZAC: But you have to listen closely.

ITZ1234: The new issue is great especially the backstage photos. I was wondering, is it true that you’re re-releasing Snowed In for the holiday season?
TAYLOR: Snowed In is out right now, you can check it out if you didn't get it last year. It's in stores right now.

CHATYAHOO_LISA: I’m curious, did you write any original songs for Snowed In and what are they called?
ISAAC: We wrote 3 original songs for the record, “At Christmas,” “Christmas Time,” and “Everybody Knows The Claus.”

MARLJAY: What impact has such intense adoration from so many young women had on your self esteem?
ISAAC: We appreciate their enthusiasm for the band. I hope that it hasn't changed us any...
CHATYAHOO_LISA: I’ve met them... they are really great in person :-)

EM13_15: How did you choose the songs for your live album?
ZAC: Basically, it was pretty easy, most of the songs were in there, but the live video we chose the best video cuts that the best videos, and put them on there and then took the live cuts of songs we liked...
TAYLOR: We had to choose, but there are songs that are on both of those products.

FUNNYBUNNY_GURL: Are you excited about driving soon, Tay?
TAYLOR: I'm definitely excited, but definitely worried for bystanders or anyone on the road. I'm worried b/c anytime I go to drive a go-cart or motorcycle, i'm very reckless...

TSUKINO_YUME: How did you decide which covers to put on the live album, and will any of those covers be on your next studio-recorded album?
TAYLOR: None of the covers will be on the next album, that will be all new original songs. We wanted to put those on the record b/c they were songs that we did in the live show.
ISAAC: And also, “Gimme Some Lovin” opened the show and opens the video.

IBDAISY: Have you seen any good movies lately?
ISAAC: Antz was good.
ZAC: It was good for a movie about antz.
TAYLOR: Two ants kissing doesn't have as much as live action...
ISAAC: I thought it was cool b/c of the different celebrity voices in the movie like Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, and Woody Allen.

CHATYAHOO_LISA: We are chatting with Hanson! Send in your questions now!
TAYLOR: BTW, rumors of us being on a soundtrack are true. Three songs of ours will be on the soundtrack to the Michael Keaton film Jack Frost. The song “Good Lovin” will only be available on that soundtrack. Not to be confused with “Gimme Some Lovin”
ISAAC: The Rascals did the original.

XPACLOVE: Ike, how do you pick your guitars
ISAAC: I’m a huge Aerosmith fan, so I was able to get a Joe Perry signature guitar. It's a black sunburst with black curly tiger stripes with an internal Joe Perry created wah wah pedal.

PEANUTS_1440: If you could go to any concert, who's would it be?
TAYLOR: We're big into going to see live shows... It depends.
ISAAC: Whoever's in town...

JUDY_LUCY: Ike, which Aerosmith album you like the most?
ISAAC: We have Aerosmith’s Box of Fire. It’s a huge compilation of 12 of their releases, so that covers a lot of bases. Also Pump, Get A Grip, and Nine Lives. The newer albums.

BAAADGRRRL: Hey guys. I'm Samantha, 13/F. I'm a musician myself, and I was wondering if you could give me any advice on how to write some good songs??
TAYLOR: First of all, I think being into music has to be the start. Just doing it, that’s the biggest tip. Just do it. Songs can come from anything, so don't be pigeonholed about anything, just write what you feel.

KBINGLE: Did anything on the road to inspire you to write any new songs?
ZAC: On the road, sometimes things inspire you, but I don’t think it's just being on the road, or being in a room that is completely black or white, but I guess being on the road you see a lot of different things so I guess that would help.

TSUKINO_YUME: How many people, would you say, on average, pass out at your concerts?
TAYLOR: Well, we try to keep as many awake as possible.

ITZMEG: Hey Zac, if ya'll don’t mind clearing up a rumor for everyone. What do you *really* say at the end of “Look At You?”
ZAC: I say nothing. :) I don't really say anything, I’m just mumbling. Most of the lines you can understand, we can understand.
TAYLOR: He's yelling, "turn me loose!"
ISAAC: “Like a one eyed goose!”
TAYLOR: He just started yelling things.

ROXYGIRL37: How was it like to meet a fan like Aaron on Fanatic?
TAYLOR: It's always cool to get to meet fans you wouldn't quite expect to have, that's what makes it cool to meet people like that.
ISAAC: He's a very nice guy and it was real cool to hang out with him before the show.

SUNSHINE1237: Do you read the signs in the audience?
ISAAC: Yes, we do.
TAYLOR: Probably the most frequent sign is "here's the love" from watching all the signs from the tour. That's the sign most people did. It's really cool to read all the ones people did.
ISAAC: Well, the "We love Hanson" one was pretty popular too ;-D

STRIPES_14: Why is the video so short? We can never get toooooooo much Hanson.
TAYLOR: We didn't want to bore anybody, it's mostly music and video. We thought the time was just enough to capture what it was like on tour.

BRITZ_HITZ314: Do you guys ever just sit around and listen to your own music? -Brittany, IN
TAYLOR: Most of the time we hear enough of our own music that we usually listen to something else. After you record an album, you're listening to yourself a lot.

TAYLORSDREAM: Guys, what is your Christmas wishes??
HANSON: Peace on earth, goodwill towards men
TAYLOR: And women.

KALLIE85: Do you guyz have crushes on ne celebrities?
TAYLOR: You definitely get to meet celebrities you admire.
ZAC: I wouldn't say crushes.
TAYLOR: But there are a lot of people that people could definitely have crushes on...

EMILY_KRISTIN82: When you write a song, how do you start, and how do the different instruments fit in (how do you write the different parts?)
TAYLOR: As we've said many times, there's no real formula.
ZAC: It just comes to you.
TAYLOR: There's always music and words.
ISAAC: They pretty much come simultaneous for us... I know there are musicians who work differently, but we work best writing both of them at the same time.
TAYLOR: BTW, the brand new Hansonline webpage will be launched on Friday. It's www.Hansonline.com.

BLUEDOLPHIN12: Do you get to be online much?
TAYLOR: We get on a lot.
ZAC: We're online right now... On our official yahoo! Chat :)
TAYLOR: If you do want to chat ever about Hanson, check out the official Hanson club on yahoo! And the official Hanson chat.
ISAAC: The best way to find out the official info and news about Hanson is www.Hansonline.com.

TAYLES_TAIL_15: Hey guys, we were wondering in "Road To Albertane" when you are having a water fight w/ the other bus who are the girls who are on the other bus?
TAYLOR: The two girls are our makeup artist and stylist on tour. We won't reveal names, but almost everyone on the crew joined in in some way, it was fun.

SOFT_ROSE_: What does “MMMBop” mean??
TAYLOR: “MMMBop” is supposed to be a frame of time. It says in the song, "In a MMMBop they're gone, in a MMMBop they're not there." It’s supposed to relate to how time flies by.

GUITARIST_7: It's nearly two in the morning here in the UK, do you guys suffer from jet lag much?
TAYLOR: Thanks for staying up this late. We're glad you decided to join us. Yeah, we always get jetlag coming over to the UK but it's always worth it.

BOPPIN2ITZ: How do you feel your musical talent has change over the past few years?
HANSON: I don’t think your musical talents ever change, you just try to develop and grow. There are a ton of other people out there who are more talented than we are musically.

POOK_OG: You guys did a benefit concert for pediatric AIDS recently. Are you planning on doing any more charity work? If so, for what causes? What other charities do you care about?
ISAAC: Our charity support has been in other ways besides concerts.

LITTLEBLUEFAIRY: What are your first thoughts when you are on stage, the curtain goes up, and there in front of you are thousands of people, screaming for you?
TAYLOR: It's quite a rush. Blah blah blah. Duh. It's really, really awesome. That's why we decided to go play and do a tour.

JANFAM4: Do you ever have to cook for yourselves? If so, what do you know how to cook?
TAYLOR: We definitely cook for ourselves.
ISAAC: I make a mean grilled cheese.
ZAC: We just throw things together
ISAAC: We don’t have a cook at our house.
TAYLOR: Our in-house cook is Dr Food.

LUV6260: Who are your idols??
TAYLOR: I wouldn't say we have idols...
ISAAC: There are people we admire musically, but no idols.

ALEX__BG: Guys, seems that “Gimme Some Lovin/Shake A Tail Feather” is your latest single, are you going to make a video for it?
ISAAC: We may or may not, that decision has not been made yet.

HANSONFAN_36: Hi again, Ike, Tay, & Zac, well my first question for tonight is; you know the baby at the end of your new video; isn't that baby your new sister Zoe?
TAYLOR: Zoe made short cameo in the video, yes.

DREAMSHY56: Hanson, have you guys ever been to Disneyland? -Margaret, 17, LA
TAYLOR: We went to Disneyland and Disney World earlier on... It's definitely the experience...
ISAAC: My favorite ride is Tower of Terror (MGM Studios).

HITZ_CANDYCOATEDANGEL: What are the last CDs you have bought?
HANSON: We just bought several CDs... The new Alanis Morrissette album, Beck, Lenny Kravitz, and Sheryl Crow.

TYY_13: What inspired you to write “Ever Lonely?”
ISAAC: It's both a romantic song and a song encouraging someone who has lost someone significant in their life. It's both of those.
TAYLOR: We played it for a long time locally in Tulsa, that's one we kept in the closet for a while.

LQQKATU221: A lot of famous bands when they go on tour nick name their tour bus. Did you guys, and if you did, what did you name it?
TAYLOR: Our bus didn’t have a particular name, but one bus was called the White House, because it was a big white bus. But on tour everyone has a nickname.

HANSON45601: IOf you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
ZAC: I would have the super power to turn into anything at anytime but still have my own mind and my own voice.
TAYLOR: Zac has thought that out for a long time, that's why we worry about him sometimes. I don’t think Ike and I have.

PURPLE_1220: What are you guys working on now?
ISAAC: The new design for the website. It's very, very cool, don’t forget to check it out on Friday.

TWODREAMINGGIRLS: Do you have any other career goals besides your music?
ISAAC: To keep doing music as long as we can...
TAYLOR: You want to keep trying things, doing music for a movie and things like that. Of course being involved in producing and music videos, that's always fun. We produced the video and co-produced the live album.

CRAZI0NE: Is it hard for you to sing "With You In Your Dreams?" Because of the fact it’s to your grandmother?
TAYLOR: It’s definitely a very sentimental song, but I think we enjoy singing it b/c we're singing about her. It's a fun thing, it's a happy thing to play.
ISAAC: Although it's a sad song...

ITZWILLOW: Hey guys!!! My name's Christina, and I was wondering... how is Isaac’s book coming along?
ISAAC: There's this rumor that keeps floating around that I’m writing a book. I said in some interview two yrs ago and that has spurred this rumor that I’m writing a novel or something... But I’m not writing a book.

SARAH_JESSYCA: What do you do with the leftover concert footage that you don't use for the videos?
TAYLOR: It's sitting in a deep dark closet somewhere. You never know, we might release some of that stuff to our fan club MOE as a special bonus one of these days...

KORA747: Do you guys pick out your own clothes for appearances? Your wardrobe is amazing!
TAYLOR: We always pick all of our own clothes, yeah. But there's a stylist that goes with us to our appearances, but no one's forcing us to wear anything.

R_STAR2003:Do ya’ll think there can be a part 2 of Live From Albertane because there were so many songs not put on the CD.
TAYLOR: A lot of those songs were covers and stuff like that, unfortunately there's only so much that can fit. We're going to keep playing them, and who knows you might be able to hear them later on.

WSACLAIRE: Thanx for making great music.
HANSON: Thank you. Thank you guys for being here.

TAYS_GIRL_FOREVER: Tay, when you learned to play the piano do you remember what your first song you did was?
TAYLOR: My first song I think was “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” and I used to show off how fast I could play it.

MMMBOPINZAC: Are you going to release "River" as a single?
ISAAC: “River” was kind of released as a single. We made a video for it with Weird Al.
TAYLOR: But never released it commercially.
ISAAC: But thanks for making the “River” video a top 5 on MTV’s Total Request.

MS_INSANO: Are you guys ever coming out with an a capella CD?
ISAAC: We've done a capella CDs in the past, b/c we were only acapella at the time. It's possible that we could do a CD a capella, but there are no plans to do so right now.

GJPETRO: Who won the water-war?
HANSON: We creamed them...
ZAC: They would attack us and get us good and then we would come back and destroy them!

KARA_14_1998: What do you miss the most when you are away from home?
ISAAC: Home. Period.
TAYLOR: Just being home.

COOKIECUTTER7: What was your favorite venue?
ISAAC: Red Rocks outside of Denver, CO... Jones Beach in NY... Shoreline Amphitheater in San Francisco... and because we saw many concerts there before we did one, The Mabee Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

SILLYHILLYHANSON: Zac, were you painting those flowers for the fun of it, or was it an assignment?
ZAC: That was just me goofing off. It was maaad baby, yeah.

BUTTERFLY829: Hey Hanson! I loved the video and the album!! Did you guys like doing Hard Rock Live with Fastball? That must have rocked!
ISAAC: That was very fun.
TAYLOR: That was fun to play. Most of the fans who were in that taping were the diehard NY fans.
ISAAC: So, we knew most of the people in the audience.

MANDASH23: Do you ever wish you could just walk around the mall or something without someone always knowing who you are? Amanda – Minnesota - 13
ISAAC: You do wish that sometimes...

KBINGLE: Where was your fave place to stay on tour?
TAYLOR: We usually don't give away where we stay, but we've stayed in some really cool places.

BJBIGPURPLE16: Could you give us some advice on starting our own band?
ISAAC: Get together, practice a lot and try to get gigs.
TAYLOR: Just need to be writing and work really hard, but love what you're doing.

TAYLOR: Thank you everybody for coming to the chat one more time...
ISAAC: Check out Hansonline on Friday, the new design will be up. And check out the Hanson club on yahoo! To chat about anything going on with Hanson on the web and anything else.
TAYLOR: Thanks again and we'll see you next time
CHATYAHOO_LISA: Thanks for joining us! Hope you have the Hanson CD -- it's terrific!