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Katie's Tulsa Review
July 8, 1998

MY NAME IS KATIE AND I WENT TO THE TULSA CONCERT AND IT ROCKEED!!!! IT WAS REALLY LOUD AND THE PLACE WAS PACKED. WHEN ME, MY DAD, AND 2 FRIENDS DROVE BY AT ONE THERE WERE ALREADY PEOPLE OUT THERE WAITING HOPING TO SEE HANSON AND SOME I FOUND OUT HAD BEEN THERE SINCE EARLY MORNING. WE DIDN'T STICK AROUND THOUGH WE HEADED OVER TO TACO BUENO FOR A BOB (I KNOW THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CONCERT BUT YOU HAVE TO TRY A BOB AND SOME REX'S BONELESS CHICKEN THEY RULE!).

ANYWAY WE SHOWED UP AT THE CONCERT AROUND 6 SOMETHING AND STOOD AROUND OUTSIDE THE DOOR CAUSE THERE REALLY WASN'T A LINE I MEAN U COULD WALK RIGHT OVER TO THE DOOR. AS WE WERE WAITING THIS LIMO PULLS AROUND THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING AND PEOPLE STARTED YELLING 'OH MY GOSH ITS ZAC' BUT BEING MYSELF I WASN'T CONVINCED AND IT TURNED OUT I WAS RIGHT IT WAS THIS GIRL PROBALLY HIRED WITH HER HAIR IN DREDS AND RAY BANS ON. SHE DID LOOK LIKE HIM FROM A DISTANCE BUT I COULD TELL RIGHT OFF IT WASNT ZAC BUT I DECIDED TO WAVE SINCE SHE WAS TRYING SOO HARD TO ACT LIKE ZAC SHE EVEN HAD SILLY STRING.

OF COURSE THERE WAS THE CROWD THAT CHASED AFTER HER THE THIRD TIME SHE CAME AROUND (YES SOME HANSON FANS STILL HAD NOT FIGURED IT OUT) IN HIGH HEELS AND A DRESS. BY THEN THEY STARTED LETTING US IN SO WE SQUEEZED THROUGH THE DOOR WHERE THEY TOOK AWAY CAMERAS AND POSTERS BUT OF COURSE THERE WERE A FEW WHO STILL SNUCK UM PAST. WE WENT TO OUR SEATS FINALLY AND WAITED THEY WERE PLAYING SOME WELL KNOWN OLDIES SO THE CROWD WAS ALL SINGING TO MY GIRL AND OTHER FAMILIAR SONGS.

ADMIRAL TWIN CAME OUT AND ROCKED THE HOUSE MAN YOU HAVE TO BUY THEIR CD. AFTER THEY PLAYED FOR ABOUT 30 MIN OR SO THE STAGE STARTED BEING CLEARED FOR HANSON WHICH TOOK !FOREVER! IM NOT JOKING THE CROWD WENT THROUGH THE WAVE AROUND THE UPPER SEATS (HAHAHA THE FLOOR PEOPLE TRIED BUT FACE IT U GUYS IT DONT WORK HAHAHA). OF COURSE WHEN HANSON CAME OUT THEY HAD THE CURTAIN UP BUT FROM WHERE WE WERE SITTING U COULD SEE EVRYTHING INCLUDING BEHIND THE CURTAIN SO THE PEOPLE ON THE FLOOR DIDN'T SEE THE FIRST PART OF GIMME SOME LOVIN.

THEY PLAYED THINKING OF YOU, WHERE'S THE LOVE, SPEECHLESS, EVER LONELY, THAT DOCTER SONG AND WEIRD AND THEN LEFT THE STAGE AND THE STAGE CREW PUT IN THE BACK DROP FOR THE ACOUSTIC SET AND THEY CAME BACK OUT AND IKE TURNED ON THE LAMP AND SAT DOWN IN HIS RECLINER SO THEY COULD SING STORIES, SOLDIER, AND WITH YOU IN YOUR DREAMS. THEN IKE WAS LEFT ALONE ON STAGE TO SING MORE THEN ANYTHING OFF BOOMERANG WHICH HE SOUNDED AWESOME IN. I MEAN THE BOY HAS AWESOME TALENT. THEY THEN SANG ON THE NORMAL SET SOMETIMES, MADELINE, A MINUTE WITHOUT YOU (WHICH TAY DEDICATED TO US IN THE UPPER AREA YA BUDDY), MMMBOP, I WILL COME TO YOU, AND THEN FOR THE FINALE (HAHA) THEY SANG MAN FROM MILWAUKEE. OF COURSE BEING HANSON THEY CAME BACK OUT TO SING LOOK AT YOU AND SUMMER TIME BLUES IN WHICH TAYLOR LET ISAAC TAKE OVER ON THE KEYBOARDS AND HE RAN TO ALL POINTS ON THE STAGE LETTING US SING TO SUMMER TIME BLUES.

NOTE WORTHY HIGHLIGHTS WOULD DEFINATELY BE ZACS (PLUGGED IN) DRUM STICKS THAT GLOW DIFFERENT COLORS WHICH HE USED IN A FEW SONGS AND OF COURSE BEING ZAC STARTED WAVING THEM IN THE AIR BEFORE THE SONG WHEN TAY WAS TALKING WHICH CAUSED EVERYBODY TO SCREAM EVEN LOUDER. ALSO WHEN TAY STARTED ONE SONG AND THE SCREAMING WAS SOOOOO LOUD HE QUIT AND PLACED HIS ARMS ON THE KEYBOARD CAUSING A LOUD NOISE WHICH SHUT US UP. TAY PLAYING THE DRUMS WHILE ZAC RAN DOWN TO SHAKE HANDS WITH THE PEOPLE UP FRONT WHERE ONE GIRL JUMPED OVER THE GATES AND GRABBED HIM BUT IT DIDN'T PHASE ZAC AND HE KEPT RUNNING AROUND. SPEAKING OF THEM SWITCHING INSTRUMENTS THEY ARE REALLY GOOD AT IT AND DONT MISS A BEAT ONCE HARDLY, AND IKE RUNNING AROUND ON THE STAGE WAS COOL TOO BECAUSE HE WOULD STAND ON ZACS PART AND PLAY AND THEN GO OVER AND JAM WITH JASON TAYLOR!!! AND THEN RUN OVER AND SHARE MICS WITH TAY, ALSO ZAC RECIEVEING A NEW PAIR OF DRUMSTICKS EVERY SONG WAS FUNNY, TAY GETTING COVERED IN SILLY STRING WAS FUNNY TOO AND I MEAN HE WAS COVERED YOU COULD BARELY SEE HIM, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST WAS THE PART WHERE THEY JAMMED WHILE THEY INTRODUCED THE BACK UP PLAYERS WHICH ROCKED CAUSE I ALREADY KNEW ONE BECAUSE HES A FRIEND OF MY FRIENDS DAD THE 2ND GUITAR PLAYER JASON TAYLOR FOR WHOM WE YELLED LOUDEST FOR. THE CONCERT ENDED WITH AN AWESOME A CAPELLA OF WEIRD IN WHICH THEY SOUNDED AWESOME AND SHOWED THERE TRUE TALENT! AFTER THE CONCERT WE ( ME AND MY FRIENDS) WERE FIRED UP STILL EVEN THOUGH WE COULDN'T LITTERALLY SPEAK AND WENT JUMPING DOWNSTAIRS AT THE CENTER WHILE OTHER GIRLS WERE CROWDING AROUND THE BUSES LOOKING FOR HANSON WHOM DIDNT END UP COMING OUT TILL 1 IN THE MORNING. THEN SOME GUY CAME AND TOLD US THAT TULSA HAD A LAW SAYING ANYONE UNDER LIKE 18 COULD NOT BE OUT PAST 11 AND IT WAS NOW 11 LAME EXUSE TO GET US TO LEAVE!!! SO WE RAN AROUND SOME MORE DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SANE AND THEN TALKED TO SOME GUYS AROUND OUR AGE ABOUT ALL THE LIMOS LINED UP FOR ALL THESE TEN YEAR OLDS!

THE NEXT DAY WE WENT TO LASER QUEST WHICH TOTALLY ROCKS WHERE AN OLD FRIEND OF WALKER TOLD US WHEN THEY HAD LEFT AND THAT POOR MRS. HANSON HAD HAD TO BE ESCORTED BY GUARDS OUT OF THE BUILDING WITH A PILLOW OVER ZOE!! I HAD SEEN HER OVER IN THE SOUND BOOTH WITH AVERY DURING THE CONCERTAND WALKER OF COURSE WAS UP ON STAGE RECORDING EVERYTHING.. THE CONCERT WAS DEFINATELY A TEN AND OF COURSE THE NEXT DAY TAYLOR WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWS PAPER WHICH WAS PRETTY MUCH SOLD OUT EVERY WHERE ALONG WITH THE OTHER ONE WITH THEM ON THE COVER (LUCKILY WE FOUND SOME).

BUT ANYWAY I WOULD SAY IT ROCKED AND THE CROWD WAS AMAZING THERE WERE PEOPLE FROM BRAZIL AND GERMANY WHO HAD COME ALL THE WAY WITHOUT TICKETS BUT MANAGED TO FIND SOME! AND OF COURSE THERE WERE HANSON FANS EVERYWHERE YOU TURNED TAPING PICS OF HANSON TO THE MOTEL DOORS! WELL THATS ABOUT IT EXCEPT IF YOU EVER RIDE THE TRAIN AT THE ZOO IF YOU MENTION HANSON TO THE GUY RUNNING IT HE MIGHT LET YOU SING OVER THE PA. AT LEAST HE LET US SING NOT OVER THE PA UNFORTUNATELY CAUSE WE DIDN'T HEAR HIM. (OF COURSE IT HAD TO DO WITH US BUGGING HIM CAUSE HE SAID THEY LOOKED WEIRD)

KATIE-LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS

P.S.-SORRY ITS SOOOO LONG!

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