KISS INTERVIEW 1 -- 10:31
HOST: hanson will be in our studio just after 7 this morning. right now they're in the process of setting up double keyboards and guitars. i don't know that we'd ever had a full pearl drumkit set up our studio, kelly, but we're about to have it this morning.
KELLIE: very exciting!
HOST: there are now about 100 girls downstairs.
KELLIE: really?
HOST: that's what i'm told. lets see who's on the phone. shannon!
SHANNON: hello.
HOST: how's it going down there? hsannon's downstairs?
SHANNON: its getting crowded down here
HOST: really? why don't you hand the phone to someone.
SHANNON: okay, let me pick somebody
HOST: pick somebody
((talk to girl downstairs))
HOST: kristy, say hi to hanson
KRISTY: hi hanson!
IKE: hey, how are you?
TAY: there ya go.
ALL: hey.
KRISTY: oh my god.
IKE: how you doing this morning?
KRISTY: i'm good, how are you?
IKE: i am very good.
KRISTY: ah, i'm so excited for ya'll to be here!
HOST: kristy, you're the first american woman to talk to hanson on the radio in how long, guys?
IKE: ahh, i don't know, its been awhile, its been awhile.
HOST: and kristy, its official now, they're all taller than kit kaddick.
ALL: (laugh)
HOST: i knew it would happen
KRISTY: alright was that hard to do?
HOST: well thanks, thanks a lot.
KRISTY: i'm just playing, kit i love you, i won money from you guys just a couple months ago
HOST: see why they love me, they want money from me.
TAY: exactly.
IKE: exactly, you know. that's what you get when you're giving money away...
HOST: you guys make money they relate to, i give them money. that's the difference... thanks a lot kristy, hold on okay? hanson in the studio on kiss fm.
HOST: i gotta tell you what i did with this song. we played it, we didn't tell them who it was, we opened the phone lines to musical experts and we said, "tell us who is that?" first guess? tesla.
ALL: (laugh)
ZAC: who is that?
HOST: have you never heard of tesla?
IKE: i... i...i honestly can say that i haven't... so maybe i mean...
HOST: people. who else did they guess kellie? they guessed like motley crue?
KELLIE: guns and roses i think was one
HOST: guns and roses
AL: parliament
KELLIE: maybe they said parliament
HOST: yeah. they were guessing everything, ??? they were guessing everybody. and finally after 50 calls they got it. this is a really new sound for you guys, really different. isn't it? it must not be cos its you...
TAY: its a weird thing you kind of like, its kind of like growing up or something, you never notice it till you can look back on it and go "wow, that was really scary" you know? why did i have that haircut, you know. its ah, but um, i think um things change and you just try new things and this is just how our sound is now, so.
HOST: that's cool, very cool. life changing. i mean cos you guys had a couple years right to... basically work...
IKE: yeah, last year. actually we ended the tour in 98 in dallas actually
HOST: that's right
IKE: we ended our summer tour in dallas and since then just focused on you know, finishing writing songs and getting ready for the record
TAY: pretty much throughout 99 we took a little break at the beginning of the year and then we pretty much kind of started the album process, started writing songs, pulling stuff together, demoing and then kind of searching for different producers that we wanted to work with and basically through the summer - we spent the summer in los angeles and recorded the ablum.
HOST: when you guys came to dallas to play those two shows that finsihed up the tour you did a thing at planet hollywood or hard rock one of the two?
TAY: planey hollywood, yeah
IKE: yeah, yeah
HOST: yeah, planet hollywood. you guys were so tired.
IKE: yeah we were
HOST: you were so tired. i was like "let these kids go home. let them go home and get some sleep."
TAY: yeah well we were having a good time though, it was the end of the tour by that point you were like "40 shows down the line, you know, its just time for a little break."
HOST: ok so everybody knows who's who lets just go down the line so the can recognize your voices and tell them who you are
IKE: hey everybody. this is isaac.
TAY: this is taylor
ZAC: and this is zac
TAY: so its very confusing now the voices
KELLIE: they're all so similiar now
HOST: zac, you're not nearly as annoying as you used to be
TAY: wait till you spend time, zac'll make --
AL: zac you were bouncing off the walls at grapevine mill, dawg
ZAC: well you know that happens
KELLIE: what was he, 12 then?
HOST: how old are you now zac?
ZAC: i'm 14
KELLIE: yeah, so 12 then
AL: so you're growning up now?
ZAC: yeah too many pops, too much something
IKE: yeah, too much caffeine
ZAC: of course when you get up at 4am in the morning you can't do that
TAY: its impossible, so its just impossible for everybody to notice, but of course you guys have to do that every monring, so...
KELLIE: oh man boy, whoo
AL: she rolled in at 6:15 this mroning
HOST: kelly's here at 2 or 3 miunutes to 6 every morning
TAY: as close as you can possibly cut it
KELLIE: man
HOST: but when we get up we don't have to go get on a private jet to dallas
AL: well it'd be nice
HOST: sure it owuld, sure it would
AL: land one right here on douglas avenue
IKE: ah, i don't know. its hard to say really. its kind of nice to go somewhere where you --
TAY: not la or new york or something you know
IKE: someplace that you're familiar with, where your friends are and you just have a litle bit more down to earth
ZAC: they label can't quite bug you when you're in tulsa
IKE: they have to go to a lot of trouble
MAN: not till they put the phone lines in
IKE: at least two of them
MAN: or maybe some paved roads
HOST: now mike, you have a very perplexed look on your face here. this is their record guy.
MIKE: i think we're very fabulous people at the label. i don't know where he's...
HOST: why would anyone want to get away from you?
MIKE: i mean, we don't make them work too much, we fly them in at 4 in the morning so its easy
HOST: did you guys ever get tired of getting being beat up?
IKE: um we actually never got beat up
HOST: not by me
AL: its about the girls. there are 100 girls
KELLIE: no, he means by the press al
HOST: it became very en vogue to make fun on hanson
IKE: ah well, no
TAY: um well i think everybody kind of there is always gonna be a reason to make you know, a cut at somebody - well you know you're in the public eye you're out there, people are gonna go "oh the hair, they're young..."
IKE: i think they probably had more reasons, we had more easons thatn some toher bands would have to be made fun of
TAY: you've got three young --
IKE: cos we're young guys...
HOST: you provided more ammunition
TAY: exactly
KELLIE: you played along with it too
IKE: unwillingly, but we...
KELLIE: you know i mean like whe david spade came out: "i'm the fourth hanson" you know that was so cute i mean ya'll you guys were having fun wth it too
TAY: we always had fun with it, you like, can't take yourself too seriously
HOST: can you actualy listen to that dennis leary thing and laugh at that?
KELLIE: what dennis leary thing?
IKE: oh yeah, the dennis leary --
HOST: it's so rude
IKE: yeah, i actually have not seen all of it, i've only seen parts of it
HOST: this very rude thing
KELLIE: just tearing them apart?
TAY: well its funnt tough, there's alwatys somebody ready to cut something down
HOST: when i thoguht of that and heard it for the very first time back a couple years ago when people, when there were some ragging on you was... its one thing to rag on cher - she's 50 years old she's been thru the busines, she can handle it. you guys were really young and impresionable and if you went to school and people made fun of you like this it would devestate you
TAY: well you just can't take any of that stuff seriously
KELLIE: you're getting paid!
TAY: ahh, whatever...
HOST: they're getting paid. true. those who can't do critique right?
KELLIE: thats right, the rest of us get paid.
HOST: how in the world are you guys gonna play in this tiny little studio this morning?
TAY: um, i think --
IKE: i think we're gonna do it acoustic
TAY: we brought an acoustic guitar with
IKE: so i think that's gonna be the best thing
HOST: with a full drum set?
IKE: no, not a full drumset.
TAY: not acoustic drums...
ZAC: that was not our idea
IKE: yeah, a drumset appeared in the studio and we were like "well hey, that's kind of cool..."
TAY: stick it in the hallway, so you know... well maybe
HOST: well you can't, they worked on that for hours. you can't let that sit there
KELLIE: just let zac - you know what we could do? we can let zac do a little drum solo. that way it would have been used.
AL: i can do it. i used to play drums in the 4th grade.
TAY: hey, we'll let you bang on it.
AL: alright, cool
HOST: see if you guys remember this. this was outside of a mall in dallas how long ago?
KELLIE: two years i guess
HOST: two and a half years ago
((REPLAYED OLD FOOTAGE))
HOST: that was at 7:00 in the morning!
TAY: that was about this time.
KELLIE: we got in so much trouble for doing that!
HOST: when you guys left town tha'ts when the troule really started
KELLIE: "oh you're keeping kids out of school!"
TAY: there were a lot of people there
HOST: well i almost got arrested. i was the worst guy ever!
TAY: well the good thing is we were awake at that point.
IKE: well you hear that much noise and your eyes kind of --
TAY: like now we are alive
HOST: well after you guys left every talk radio station in dallas took it upon themselves to make us the bad guys
TAY: well they're listening to your station, they have to rag on you
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KISS INTERVIEW 2 -- 9:59
HOST: hanson's in the studio. there's 100 screaming kids, we'll bring a couple of them up to hear you play if that's alright with ya'll.
IKE: okay
HOST: only the real quiet ones
IKE: only the real quiet ones (laughs)
ZAC: yeah, anybody got some duct tape?
HOST: can we hear them downstairs? hey, make some noise downstairs!
KELLIE: we're in a sound proof building
HOST: i could hear them a minute ago, i could hear them screaming
KELLIE: they're not listening... okay, i hear them
TAY: oh yeah, you can hear them
AL: i'm gonna go down there an pick up one person and bring her up
KELLIE: one?
HOST: bring one for each of them.
AL: bring three.
HOST: we need an isaac fan, a taylor fan, and a zac fan.
TAY: and a kidd kraddick fan.
HOST: a kidd kraddick fan.
KELLIE: a kellie raspberry fan would be nice.
HOST: where's that hanson drop? you know what i'm talking about? the one where you said ... you can't find it? ok. it was pretty funny.
HOST: the first radio station in america to welcome back hanson. their second album.
KELLIE: really?
HOST: yeah.
KELLIE: wow.
HOST: when we played the single kellie we were the first station to play that too
KELLIE: really? we're so lucky.
HOST: we are lucky.
KELLIE: i heard them down in mr ed's office practicing.
HOST: yeah, they're practicing
KELLIE: they're so cute
HOST: they're doing an acoustic thing for us. they have a new single coming out with the album, its called "this time around" ... rehearsing? we have no time for rehearsing. what do you mean they're rehearsing?
MAN: they asked for just a couple more minutes, they have to get the ending together
HOST: lets check with big al...
((pretend to be hanson and answer phone questions))
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((hanson enters...))
HOST: okay, so am i to believe now that we set up all this equipment for nothing?
ZAC: yesseree.
IKE: yes you did
ZAC: don't tell me that you actually lifted a finger.
HOST: i was up here at 2:30 -- getting the ?? out of that keyboard, wasn't easy.
AL: sweating over a hot stove
KELLIE: al just killed that one
HOST: alright, where's the other one? in the bathroom?
KELLIE: who's in the bathroom?
HOST: hanson will be performing here live in moments. isaac, answer a question. rebecca you're on with isaac.
REBECCA: hi um uh sorry
IKE: that's okay rebecca
ZAC: yes definitely
REBECCA: do you think the other album, MON is different from the new album you have and which one do you like, favor more?
IKE: i really don't particulary favor either one. i think both records represent us equally well in just different states in the in our musical career, different stages in you know... time
ZAC: in life
HOST: thanks rebecca.
REBECCA: thanks.
KELLIE: so, ike who has a girlfriend now?
IKE: who has a girlfriend now? oh i'd have to say unfortunately no one!
KELLIE: oh, that's too bad
IKE: well, i said unfortunately
HOST: did you ever learn to drive?
IKE: oh yeah, oh yeah
HOST: okay, cool
ZAC: he's 19, what do you expect?
IKE: oh definitely, ueah
HOST: well i know, but he had no time
KELLIE: last time he was here i think he said he either had a car and couldn't drive it, or didn't know how to drive it.
IKE: i didn't have a car, i had a license
KELLIE: oh that's it, okay
TAY: he has a car, but doesn't know how to drive it (laughs)
AL: so am i to understand that you're to say you're looking for a girlfriend brother?
IKE: well looking is a relative term.
HOST: gotta cool car now? have a kia or a... hundi excel?
IKE: don't have a kia, kia's are very wonderful cars
TAY: he has a pinto
KELLIE: you guys don't strike me as being really extravagent with your money. you strike me as horders, like you're saving it.
IKE: i wouldn't... well hoarders wouldn't be quite the right word
TAY: well we're definitely not extravagent, no.
ZAC: we're not out there buying...
KELLIE: mansions
IKE: the biggest thing i bought was a 1966 gibson es 335, cherry red
HOST: sweet
AL: how does that drive?
TAY: its on the new album
HOST: an electric guitar, al (laughs)
AL: i thought it was a drop top!
HOST: which one of you is most likely to blow a lot of money?
IKE: zac
TAY: zac
KELLIE: baby
ZAC: i have the bad rap on anything
HOST: "look mom, its am $800,000 skateboard!"
IKE: zac is just the scape goat. if anybody says anything like, you know, "who is the most liely to jump off a building?" it would be zac.
>TAY: every band has that
HOST: doesn't the little brother syndrome suck? cos i was the youngest one.
ZAC: well no, that's the little brother syndrome, you know, we have motercycles. and everybody comes over. "you can ride motercycles with the guys, just don't ride with zac."
HOST: what are you better than than taylor?
TAY: the better motercycle rider! he's definitely a better driver...
KELLIE: that kisser. (??)
AL: are there any other siblings?
ZAC: there are four of them
KELLIE: there are 50 million of them. the last time you were here your mom was big old pregnant, wasn't she the last time you were here?
HOST: thats right, you have a 2 year old brother?
IKE: a 2 year old sister, a 4 year old brother, a 9 year old sister -- or 6 year old brother. you're right
KELLIE: she was pregnant with the 2 year old
IKE: see there's so many poeple, i'm thinking of the disance between them, not the age.
ZAC: just don't ask me any of their birthdays (laughs)
IKE: yeah
KELLIE: or their names...
HOST: jaclyn?
JACLYN: i'm about to get on. hello!
HOST: who's your question for?
JACLYN: where's zachary?
ZAC: i'm right here (deep voice)
JACLYN: hi zachary! aw, i love you so much! i wanted to know, taylor and isaac, why did you guys cut your hair?
TAY: well, it was a long and winding road of thoughts we were trying to decide -- no
IKE: i don't know...
HOST: cos it kept growing!
IKE: it just kept growing, you had to cut it. we thought about curtting it, i thought about cutting it when we were released the first record, i just didn't have the guts to do it. so.
TAY: we always said "its just hair!" its like, it grows back.
KELLIE: kidd kraddick thinks that um, zac looks like tara lipinski.
HOST: oh, that's love. that's not me!
KELLIE: or was it tara lipinski looks like zac!
TAY: that's a low.
IKE: okay, that's a low blow to both of them.
HOST: rj said that
KELLIE: rj said that tara lipinski looks like zac
IKE: i feel bad for tara
HOST: i can't believe you're fronting me out. i never said that. what jaclyn? go ahead.
TAY: well first of all, zac can't ice skate. (laughs) sorry...
JACLYN: please don't make zachary, you may make cut his hair, and he's so cute
KELLIE: don't cut your hair zac!
IKE: well nobody made anybody cut anybodys hair, we just decided to do it
TAY: nobody could make zac if they tried, so..
AL: oh i heard that
JACLYN: kidd, can i just ask one more question?
HOST: sure, go right ahead.
JACLYN: zachary?
ZAC: yes?
JACLYN: do you have a girlfriend?
ZAC: no
HOST: he said no
ZAC: just me and betsy
HOST: i think its all about you right now, jaclyn, its all about you.
TAY: just remember you're on the radio, so whatever you do..you're on the radio. loveline...
HOST: thanks jaclyn. talk to you later.
JACLYN: alright. i love you zac.
ZAC: goodbye...
JACLYN: bye!
HOST: isaac and taylor getting NO love right now...
KELLIE: they have their turns, they each get their moment.
HOST: now we've got about what? 20 girls here? are you guys all skipping school again?
GIRLS: yes!
KELLIE: we're gonna get in trouble again!
TAY: gonna get that bad rap again.
HOST: here we go again, the truency officers...
IKE: we are so rebellious, you know. skipping school? my goodness!
HOST: what are you gonna play for us?
IKE: we are gonna play noather song off the new record which actually is i think gonna be the single in..
TAY: internationally
IKE: internationally, in +++ its a song called "if only."
TAY: here we go.
KISS INTERVIEW 3 --
KISS INTERVIEW 4 -- 21:58
APRIL: kidd? can i ask another question please?
HOST: please do april
APRIL: um, when is moe, the next moe coming out?
IKE: when is the next moe coming out?
ZAC: dun dun dun!
IKE: good question. for all of you that don't know, moe is the fanclub.
TAY: the magazine, we had a little delay. we had to review some more of the next so its almost on its way.
IKE: but the... moe eight
HOST: had to take out the nude pictures?
IKE: moe eight will be following moe seven soon after.
HOST: what does moe mean?
IKE: moe stands for "middle of everywhere."
HOST: middle of everywhere.
IKE: well its mainly because we thought it sounded cool, it was more of that it just sounded cool.
HOST: "hey moe"
TAY: moe is the 32 page magazine we put out to fans.
ZAC: our thought was, once we got over the middle of everywhere thing, we'd just have "not larry, not curly, just moe."
ALL: (laughs)
HOST: thanks apri!
APRIL: thanks! love ya'll!
ALL: bye
APRIL: bye
HOST: hey, you got a question about the ah, the us single, "this time around." go ahead melissa.
MELISSA: um hi, um i was just gonna tell you that you were an inspiration to me.
IKE: well thank you very much
ZAC: thanks
MELISSA: cos i went to a modeling, modeling agency, it was like a model search down in houston, it was like the south by southwest of modeling. and i got turned down...
IKE: okay...
MELISSA: it was like the 50 biggest agents in the world and i was just wanting to tell you that you were an inspiration to be cos you got turned down so many numerous times
TAY: yeah, well, that happens
IKE: keep going for it
TAY: keep going for it
ZAC: yeah
AL: i'm a real inspiration for ya cos i know i've been turned down
ITZ: (laughs)
HOST: all gets turned down sixteen times a night
MAN: i don't know why that is, we can't figure that out
ZAC: hint of sarcasm
HOST: melissa, did you want to ask about the song?
MELISSA: no, everyone's asked all of my questions.
HOST: okay
MELISSA: but my sister would like to say something
HOST: okay
MELISSA: okay, hold on...
SISTER: hello?
ALL: hello
TAY: hey, how's it going?
IKE: you're on the radio
SISTER: i'd just like to say something to ya'll guys
IKE: okay
SISTER: i said, i'd like to say uh, that i love ya'll all and stuff and uh,
TAY: well, thank you very much
IKE: thank you!
HOST: thank you! okay, bye bye
TAY: thank you...
KELLIE: well you're gonna be on the making the video, i was just on the website. may 6 and on mtv
IKE: yes...
KELLIE: and you're gonna be on letterman and rosie
TAY: on march 6, march 6
KELLIE: okay, march 6, i'm sorry, he just took my site off. and then letterman and rosie odonnel, so you're gonna be really like, pumping this thing up. oh, there we go - may 8 on ah, letterman and may 9 on rosie.
IKE: yeah
TAY: well officially the first single, well the song "this time around" is ah, comes out march 6. so that's...
IKE: but you guys are ahead of the game
HOST: yeah, we had it a month ago
TAY: you guys are rockin' it!
HOST: are you guys worried about the mp3 stuff and everybody stealing your music and not paying for it?
IKE: ahm...
TAY: this is, ya know, the companys and the record companies i think are definitely scared about it just because its, its so rampid - how do you control that? but its, you know, its ah, what's cool about it is people are going, they're able to find --
HOST: yeah
TAY: -- stuff, they're about to get information, and hopefully it drives them to the sales, you know?
ZAC: its kind of like its just going to encourage them to buy the record also, so...
HOST: sure
TAY: yeah
HOST: well i tell ya, last night, knowing you were coming on, last night i went to my computer and i downloaded mp3's of every one of your songs that you've ever done.
TAY: cool.
HOST: completely free, and i didn't have to buy it.
IKE: cool, that's great.
HOST: that's probably not right though.
TAY: well, you know, like one of the girls who walking otu of the room right now was just like "oh i already knew all of the lyrics to the song you just sang." and i was like "oh, that's interesting. the record's not out." and she was like "oh, well, i've heard it like, 10 times on the internet" or whatever, so...
IKE: no no no no no no no... but she probably has the WRONG lyrics, because - okay, okay. we were doing the "this time around" video, right? and somehow the lyrics get filtered out to all the production people...
HOST: uh huh
IKE: and in the third verse it says "cannons are blazing, shower these moonlit skies," and the lyric said "ken is amazing, shower leaves, moonlit skies."
IKE: and we were like "whooa, wait"
HOST: well you can't deny that ken is amazing
ALL: (laughs)
IKE: i'm sitting here going, "you just butchered the song, right there!"
ZAC: you know the funniest things was, i was talking to the ah, playback guy who was playing the music and he goes "i had your song figuered out, and then i read the lyrics and i got to the third verse!"
HOST: yeah
ZAC: "who is ken?!"
HOST: and why is he so amazing?!
KELLIE: i guess little girls just hear it on the radio and they tape it and they listen to it, listen to it, listen to it, and they take --
HOST: sure
KELLIE: -- what they think it is..
HOST: oh yeah. jimi hendrix: "excuse me while i kiss this sky."
IKE: exactly.
TAY: the ultimate misread lyric.
HOST: i'm sorry, jimi hendrix is this guitar player... back when...
KELLIE: oh i'm sure they know who that is
IKE: everybody knows...
HOST: hey, we want to tell everybody that the pictures of hanson are now up on the website, i think there's some video there also, from this morning.
TAY: cool.
HOST: at www.kiddkiss.com. and we'll take a break and come back - can you hang out for just a little bit longer?
IKE: yes, yes
ALL: yes
HOST: alright
KELLIE: what else are ya'll doing today? anything else in dallas?
IKE: ah nothing, we're just...
TAY: having fun
IKE: having fun
KELLIE: just us?
IKE: we're doing some interviews and stuff like that.
TAY: hanging with you guys.
KELLIE: hanging with us?
IKE: just hanging with you.
HOST: isn't that nice?
KELLIE: very nice.
HOST: you guys have been very nice to us over the last few years, thank you so much.
AL: and thank island/def jam records for coming in the house
HOST: yeah (claps)
AL: ... you know, we give you props when you're good.
HOST: and if you need any coffee or anything, motel jordan is here to get you that. enough already. hey dale, what's going on?
HOST: hanson on kiss fm, its 8:37 with kidd kradick in the morning. its quite a scene up here this morning, isn't it?
KELLIE: oh boy, i'm already exhausted
HOST: gayle, you're missing it.
GAYLE: i know it, i miss everything.
HOST: it's so hectic in here today
MAN: they're totally being swamped today.
HOST: yeah, are they?
MAN: yeah, we're trying to get them in
KELLIE: thanks al
HOST: tell them they can come back. they're gonna have to come back.
KELLIE: its al's fault.
HOST: yeah, al brought up like 50 girls instead of the six that we asked for
KELLIE: you didn't, you asked for three.
HOST: well first you said three, then had to bring up more than that so three and three guests and then al brought up 50.
AL: you know me, i'm a river to my people
HOST: hanson's new album will be out on may the 9th. and ah, they've been working on it in tulsa for ah, the last.. for all summer.
KELLIE: in just a couple weeks you can see the making the video on mtv march 6th.
HOST: march 6th. and that's when the single comes out, march 6?
KELLIE: no, that's when making the video, i don't know...
AL: man, this is ridiclous
HOST: yeah, go get them. go get them.
AL: i'm gonna put my foot down
HOST: otherwise...
KELLIE: yeah, al. put your foot down.
AL: hey!! lets go!!
ZAC: sorry! it wasn't our fault!
KELLIE: i know, its al's fault.
HOST: its not your fault
ZAC: you told us to, um...
HOST: i know, yeah.
ZAC: and i was um... on the...and then we...
IKE: "there was a hurricane!"
KELLIE: it's al's fault...
IKE: "my coat didn't come back from the cleaners!"
ITZ: "IT WASN'T MY FAULT!"
HOST: quote from the blues brothers.
ALL: (laughs)
HOST: you guys have memorized that movie?!
IKE: oh gosh...that movie
ZAC: is a classic
IKE: that movie is one of my favorite movies, by far
ZAC: that's like --
IKE: the music is amazing...the comedy is hilarious
HOST: you guys been turned on to cattyshack at all?
IKE: oh yeah
HOST: alright. airplane?
TAY: i dunno, we were talking about it with some of the crew guys
IKE: (recites some lines)
TAY: see, this is, this is a problem. its getting bad...
HOST: so what ah, cds do you have right this moment, zac?
ZAC: dun dun dun...nothing!
HOST: come on!
ZAC: i have nothing on me!
HOST: i don't mean this second!
ZAC: a few letters...
AL: in the cd player at the house, is that what you mean?
HOST: huh? yeah! what's playing in the hanson house?
TAY: ah, well, what do we listen to?
ZAC: ah...
TAY: well, first of all - all the crows: the black crowes, sheryl crow
HOST: the black crowes, alright
KELLIE: the counting crows...
IKE: the counting crows...
ZAC: beck - the beck crows, exactly
IKE: the beck crows (laughs)
HOST: so you're all black crowes fans, really?
IKE: oh yeah, yeah
HOST: what is it about them that you like?
TAY: ah, its just good rock
IKE: good rock
TAY: its good music, man
HOST: okay
IKE: its basically their first.. ahh, well, not their first record, their recent record is really good
HOST: right, they were sober on three tracks on that one
ZAC: wow
IKE: yeah, cool.
HOST: yeah, cool
IKE: cool. good for them.
HOST: okay, what else?
ZAC: ah, lenny kravitz, um...
HOST: lenny kravitz...
TAY: ben folds five, lauryn hill, ah
ZAC: atheanaeum
TAY: that's a band called athenaeum.
ZAC: larryland...
KELLIE: who are fans of you? who comes - you're fans of all these people, who are fans of you that you know of?
ZAC: beats me!
KELLIE: nobody comes up and says --
IKE: actually, we actually had lenny kravitz walk up to us and say "yo. i really like your record, dude."
TAY: and we're like --
IKE: -- "whoa, that's so cool!"
TAY: that's pretty awesome.
IKE: nice to meet you, man!
KELLIE: lenny kravitz, that's like, the epitome...
ZAC: no, i think
TAY: no, i don't know how many... that's kind of a weird question...
ZAC: the best moment of my life was when we went to um...
IKE: we've said this several times - to the skywalker ranch
ZAC: yeah, the skywalker ranch. and ah...we met george lucas and his daughters
IKE: they introduced us --
ZAC: "this is hanson!" and he goes "i know."
HOST: oooh....
IKE: "i know who these guys are"
TAY: you grow up and you're like "star wars! star wars!" and you meet george lucas and he's like "oh, i know who they are."
HOST: yeah, you're like "i can die now"
TAY: yeah, okay, i can die now... that's fine...
HOST: that's cool
IKE: my life is fulfilled...
TAY: yeah, that's the thing
ZAC: no, my life would BE fulfilled if i just had you know, a limb of mine as a storm trouper or something
IKE: yeah, you just saw zac's arm and zac would be like "that's my arm in that scene! i swear!!"
HOST: now there are a lot of babes out there in hollywood where you were, is there, are there any that caught your eye? that you were like "oh, we're famous, we can ah, we can hook up"?
TAY: yeah, its not really that way...
HOST: like that girl from american pie or something? i don't know.
TAY: i think most of the time when we're working on the record we're pretty much workaholics, in the studio
IKE: no, yeah yeah, our producer and engineer were like "come on guys, you need to get some girls in here!"
ZAC: gotta get some babes!
TAY: "we've gotta finish the album!"
IKE: yeah, you were like... yeah, we were pretty bad that way.
HOST: so there's not one heartthrob where you're like "when she's in a movie i gotta go see it"? not one girl? come on...
TAY: of course there are
HOST: who, who, who? what are some names? come on!
TAY: (laughs)
AL: jennifer lopez?
HOST: its not gonna hurt your image to say that you think jennifer lopez is good looking. there's nothing wrong with that.
TAY: oh, i think everyone knows jennifer lopez is good looking, that's... there's no denying that.
HOST: so if you could meet somebody, some hollywood star babe?
TAY: some hollywod star babe...
IKE: well we met her, we met her.
HOST: you met her already?
IKE: cindy crawford
HOST: cindy crawford...
TAY: the ultimate star, or the ultimate...
ALL: babe
TAY: definitely the ultimate...
HOST: was she tore up?
TAY: she was...
ALL: (laughs)
AL: tore up from the floor up?
TAY: she was incredibly nice, very very
HOST: very nice, huh?
TAY: very nice
HOST: who has, who's famous that has brought their kids to a hanson concert, come backstage afterwards to talk to you guys?
TAY: a lot of people!
HOST: i bet
IKE: ahh... lets see. i'm trying to think.
ZAC: you find out that everyone has a daughter, a son, a neice or a nephew
HOST: uh huh
IKE: of some sort...uh yeah, that's...
TAY: yeah, there's been so many i've totally - i've lost track. i mean, everybody does. billy joel.
HOST: billy joel brought his kids back?
TAY: well actually we went to he - we went to his show and he had all his kids there and...
HOST: sweet. forget dad, we want to meet hanson.
IKE: yeah
TAY: yeah, yeah. there's a lot, i mean... to be honest i'm blanking out.
IKE: andie mcdowell...
HOST: taylor, you play any billy joel on the piano sitting right in front of you there?
TAY: i wish i could, he's amazing. we're huge billy joel fans.
HOST: okay
IKE: actually one of the one's we've been listening to recently is stormfront
TAY: we just bought that
IKE: the billy joel record
HOST: cool
ZAC: we just got that out of our cd box...
HOST: cool. lindsey?
LINDSEY: um. oh my god. um...
HOST: you're on kiss fm with hanson.
LINDSEY: hi isaac, tayor and zac
IKE: hi hi, how are you?
TAY: hey! how's it going?
LINDSEY: its going really good, how about you?
TAY: very, very good
HOST: are you supposed to be in school right now?
LINDSEY: yes!
HOST: okay. just checking.
TAY: see kidd wants to make sure he's breaking the rules
KELLIE: mmm hmm
LINDSEY: i just want to say that i came to planet hollywood last year, or in 98 actually, and i got to ask you guys a question...
TAY: uh huh
LINDSEY: and i was gonna come up there today but i've been sick all week so my mom wouldn't let me. and so um... i love you zac. um and ah..
ALL: (laughs)
LINDSEY: i was just wondering what the most memorable moment about the album... (trails off)
KELLIE: aww
TAY: well hey, hey don't cry um the...
ZAC: it wasn't that bad
TAY: it really wasn't that bad.
ZAC: come on! i mean, we're bad live but come on!
IKE: (laughs)
HOST: "hanson brought the audience to tears again last night..."
KELLIE: well its funny to hear her voice go slowly up the octaves
IKE: umm...
HOST: most memorable moment
IKE: most memorable moment...
LINDSEY: meeting me, of course
IKE: well meeting you, and, and...
HOST: what was second?
IKE: and dallas would probably be second...and you know, there were a lot of cool things. we got to play in a place called red rocks ampitheater, right outside of denver
TAY: in colorado
IKE: which is a really great venue
TAY: awesome
IKE: umm....
LINDSEY: i heard its really pretty up there
IKE: it is really pretty.
TAY: it was really fun to play there.
ZAC: of course i wanted to go rock climbing.
HOST: lindsey, when you marry zac you'll be able to go
LINDSEY: oh yeah, of course, cos we're gonna marry
HOST: i know you are, i can feel it
KELLIE: have you already named your children?
TAY: (laughs)
LINDSEY: oh yeah, i wish, i wish.
HOST: lindsey, feel better, ok?
TAY: yeah, get better
LINDSEY: okay, thank you!!
HOST: okay, talk to you later
ITZ: bye
LINDSEY: bye
KELLIE: i was gonna marry mickey dolans.
IKE: you were?
HOST: it was gonna happen, huh? why did you pick the goofy monkey?
KELLIE: he was my favorite!
HOST: really?
KELLIE: i was six, he was fourty!
HOST: ashley? that would be awkward, yeah. ashley, hi!
ASHLEY: hi
HOST: ashley's been waiting over an hour to ask you this question:
ASHLEY: where have you guys been?! like...
IKE: where have we been?
ASHLEY: ya'll like, faded away and now you're like...back
ZAC: where has hanson been? tonight on 20/20!
TAY: ashley, i'm sorry, we're getting to the point where its really hard to answer a straight question, somethings happened...
ZAC: um... i've been in the john
TAY: in that case...
HOST: alright, taylor - since you're the only one capable of seriousness on this question...
TAY: lets think about this. um, we really haven't been anywhere. we've ah... lets go backwards. when we finished the albertane tour, as we were just talking about, in the end of 98, we just kind of took a little break and basically through 99 we've pretty much been working on, were pretty much working on this record, so...
IKE: whether it be writing, or...
TAY: writing or demoing the record, meeting with producers and then spending time in the studio putting it together. so, in a lot of ways we really haven't stopped but i know that we've kind of ah - we were kind of off the radar because we were working away, so...
HOST: does that scare you at all to be off the radar for two years?
TAY: so that's what we've been doing.
HOST: does it scare you?
TAY: i don't know...not really
IKE: no, not really... it was a, it was a nice... it wa sa nice pause.
TAY: its nice to be able to spend some time at home, to be able to you know, just to that, relax a little
AL: chill...
IKE: it felt like a very natural time, it felt like the right thing. i mean, we - its - we've yet to see if it has been the right think or not, but, but you know, we feel good about it
TAY: we're excited -
IKE: we're very excited about the record and you know, the possibilities of what maybe -
HOST: what could happen, yeah
IKE: so we're just crossing our fingers and going forward and...
HOST: okay, this is a serious question: could you feel the lull? you know, when it was over, and you guys were taking a break, all of the sudden maybe you could walk down the street or go to the mall and you couldn't do that before. could you feel it? was it...
ZAC: we were in our hometown...
TAY: its a weird thing, cos there's still places you still can't go. you're like "aah, bad idea." but you know, its up and down. like sometimes: cool, no problem. sometimes its a huge pain.
HOST: but being out of the public eye for two years i bet there were more doors open that you could go into.
TAY: sometimes, yeah. so its nice...
HOST: just not the three of you together.
ZAC: okay, lets let it out: that's why we stopped. okay?
IKE: we wanted to be able to go to the mall! that was our sole...
ZAC: I LOVE GOING TO THE GAP! come on!
HOST: that's why every famous group breaks up, so they can go to the mall.
TAY: that's true...
IKE: exactly.
HOST: hi destiny!
DESTINY: hi!!
HOST: say hi to hanson!
DESTINY: hi you guys!
IKE: hey, how are you?
DESTINY: you know, my tape just ran out that i was recording, and i just got a new tape in, so i was really really close to not getting this on the tape.
HOST: let's pause so we can get past that little leader part
DESTINY: okay
TAY: lets just hold off for a second
HOST: okay
(( pause ))
IKE: okay, cool
HOST: okay, we're here with destiny on kiss fm. hi destiny!
DESTINY: um, i have... well, i have a question and then i have something to say.
ZAC: alright
DESTINY: what's the one thing you guys miss most about being at home when ya'll are touring?
TAY: the one thing we miss being at home...
ZAC: betsy.
TAY: well i think its pretty simple, just being --
KELLIE: who's betsy?
TAY: (laughs) its his motercycle.
KELLIE: okay, he keeps saying "betsy"
IKE: he keeps hinting to betsy. he, he did that at a yahoo! -- yeah, well, i can't say anything
TAY: i was gonna - the answer to - the answer to your question is, i think its just being at home, you know. you spend your tie there, you feel comfortable there, you sleep in your own bed, you see your friends...
HOST: okay taylor, i'm gonna front you out. i need you to play the intro on the piano to "this time around." he was doing this earlier
TAY: (laughs, plays)
ZAC: yeah baby (deep voice)
KELLIE: who was that?
HOST: that was zac
KELLIE: oh my gosh (laughs)
ZAC: i am your father (deep voice)
HOST: isn't that beautiful?
KELLIE: it is
HOST: who wrote this? who wrote the music?
ISAAC: we did
TAY: we did
HOST: we did? not one person came out - you all three of you put your hands on the keyboard at the same time?
ISAAC: well tay came up with the intro, tay came up with the intro there
TAY: yes, i wrote the piano part, yes
HOST: play it one more time, one more time, one more time. that's so beautiful, i love that.
HOST: okay isaac, now you sing
ISAAC: "its getting colder in this ditch where i lie..."
TAY: ___ ____ trying there, that's so ridiclous!
HOST: no - he, he
ISAAC: "i'm feeling older and i'm wondering why..."
KELLIE: oh, are they not supposed to sing?
HOST: i could tell that he wanted to do it! that's all!
TAY: he can't, he's pushing the envelope now
HOST: i am not pushing the envelope
TAY: he's a true radio dj
HOST: yes i am
AL: that sounds kind of like the cheers intro, just a little...
TAY: yup, that's where i took it from
HOST: yup, that's gonna be the big story -- stolen from norm
ISAAC: the cheers intro -
KELLIE: al...
TAY: that's where it came from
AL: i felt that a little bit!
TAY: i... uh, maybe just a little bit
ISAAC: "i wanna go, where everybody knows your name
TAY: that's - you know what?
ZAC: do you just need a beer or something?
AL: maybe that's what it is
ISAAC: we all just need a beer
HOST: what are you doing the rest of the day?
TAY: um, we're gonna be doing a few interviews here while we're in dallas, see a few people, do some things
HOST: cool, alright
ISAAC: and go home tonight to see shannon curfman.. at a...
HOST: now who is that?
ISAAC: shannon curfman is another blues guitarist person
HOST: so you guys are into this?
TAY: she's pretty cool, yeah
HOST: are we all into blues? everybody?
TAY: um well, blues is very cool music, it just depends. i mean some is really cool, so yeah
AL: so do ya'll get id'd if ya'll go to a club to see a jew -- (laughs)
HOST: to see a jew? what are you saying, al? i'm thinking, why do they go to a club to see a jew?
KELLIE: he's trying to say "blues" and "jazz"
ISAAC: what did you say? did you call me a jew? (laughs)
ZAC: what?!
AL: a blues... (laughs) nevermind
HOST: he meant the big jewish blues groups out there
KELLIE: riiight
ALL: (laughs)
ISAAC: "i was going down to __ a car..."
HOST: al, do you go to a clubs to see a jew?
AL: all the time (laughs) i mean, do they let you in or i guess they do?
TAY: well ah um yeah,
ISAAC: a german blues guitarist - "i was going to play the blues. playing!"
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