Cubby: Oh yeah! Welcome to Hanson Live. I'm your host Paul "Cubby" Bryant. We're beaming off the top of the Empire State Building from z100 in New York City. Hey, for the next 90 minutes you have a chance to talk in, hang with Isaac, Taylor and Zac, plus hear some great tunes from their brand new album "Three Car Garage." Hanson Live. You wanna talk to Hanson, call 1-877-HAN-SON1 and to prove they are here they are going to say hello to you right now.

Taylor: Hello to you right now!

Isaac: Uh, hello, yeah

Zac: Hello to you right now!

Taylor: We are Hanson and you are listening to Hanson Live

Cubby: Exactly guys, welcome.

Taylor: Thank you.

Isaac: We are happy to be here and I would like to say right now that...I'm...not...sure what I'm saying.

Taylor: Okay (laughs)

Zac: And I want to say hello to green jello.

Taylor: Yeah, yeah that was something that some loyal fans asked us to say.

Isaac: And I would also like to say...(weird voice) Midwest. Okay, sorry, that was just a weird thing...

Cubby: Now we've got Isaac, Taylor and Zac..and I'm sorry. Should I call you guys by your nicknames now? Ike, Tay, but, but wait..Zac, do you have a nickname?

Taylor: Zac is Zac

Zac: Zachary

Cubby: How about just Za?

Taylor: We can call him Za...well that would be kinda...

Zac: or Caz

Taylor: We can call him Caz, thats his name backwards. Its Caz, Yat and whatever Ike's name is backwards.

Isaac: eki, I think.

Taylor: Ki, it would be Ki... (to ike) Hey, Ki. If we are getting really familiar then we could...

Isaac: Whatever...whatever, ya know.

Cubby: Guys, can you describe in a nutshell the last two years of Hanson? Or the last year and a half for that matter...I mean, Its been a whirlwind.

Isaac: Uh, well, if I were describing it in a nutshell it would be kinda hard considering I can't get in a nutshell because I'm a little too big. (everyone laughs) But, If it were a large nutshell I would attempt it and then I would probably...okay...whatever...I don't know what I'm saying again.

Taylor: Its gonna be hard to describe it in a nutshell..I think its just been a very awesome year and hopefully we will have more awesome years, ya know.

Cubby: What were you doing May 11, 1996?

Isaac: May 11, 1996?

Taylor: We were performing at Mayfest, which is a festival...

Isaac: 1996? 1996? Was that true?

Taylor: Yes we were.

Isaac: Ah, thats right.

Taylor: Err...no we, we were probably recording this album, then...yeah we would have been recording "Middle Of Nowhere," actually.

Isaac: Or about to record it, yeah.

Cubby: Some parts of the album were already done though from the independent release, right? Or is it all new...

Taylor: Umm...its all..."Middle Of Nowhere" was new versions, but, "Three Car Garage" this album that we are re-releasing, no, its totally different versions.

Cubby: Yeah, ya know its funny, "Three Car Garage" is earlier material...wha..what was it...recorded in the womb?

Taylor: A lot of people say that. The thing is, this is our second album. So that would mean "Middle Of Nowhere" would have been our third. So it wasn't like....we have been recording for awhile.

Zac: So in other words, we recorded two albums in the womb. (everyone laughs)

Taylor: If thats what you're calling it...if thats what you're saying.

Isaac: Uh, no..this is recorded in late '95 and early '96..it was our second independent record. It was the music that got us signed. And...

Taylor: And..it was what we promoted to Mercury and to different record companies trying to get us signed, yeah.

Zac: And that was one of the reasons we released it because we wanted the fans to hear what Mercury heard and what all the labels heard when we were trying to get signed.

Cubby: Well actually the reason for "Three Car Garage" being released is partly due to the fans..

Isaac: Oh, very much, definitely due to the fans. Yeah, because we had so many requests for the record. "When are we gonna be able to hear it?" "When are we gonna be able to hear the original versions..of these songs?"

Taylor: I mean, really, I guess you can say...It wasn't really our idea almost. It was almost all the fans...

Isaac: It was the fans idea really.

Taylor: ...so they can get kinda the inside track and hear what we did before.

Cubby: Well, of course tonight we are going to be hearing cuts off of "Three Car Garage." Comes out tomorrow. Go out and buy that at your nearest record store!

Isaac: Hey, you said it...I didn't.

Taylor: Well...that was a promo right there.

Cubby: But until then, I know this sounds weird to say, but how about some old Hanson? (laughs) Let's play "Weird" from that old album. By the way, very cool video. What was the whole concept of that whole video. You're like in the water....

Taylor: Yeah, its based around...if you have seen it or not...its based around a subway because of one of the first lines talks about being on a run-away train. So we thought it would be cool to get to base it around that. Gus Van Sant directed it and we basically came up with the idea and talked to him and he was really psyched about it and we used some cool special effects like swimming through a train filled with water and...it was very cool to make it.

Isaac: And its actually very weird when you said lets hear some old Hanson because actually its new Hanson...

Taylor: ...thats old. So it..

Cubby: ...gets confusing.

Taylor: It gets very confusing.

Isaac: Ya know, people keep talking about the...supposedly...the *new* record..which is not really a new record because its...

Zac: ..."Three Car Garage" and its old

Cubby: Exactly.

Taylor: This is so confusing. I'm totally, like...I, I'm very confused.

[They play "Weird"]

Cubby: Who requested all this junk food by the way?

Taylor: (laughs) We didn't do anything.

Isaac: Ya know, actually...I was thinking...I'm sitting here, drinking a diet pop and I'm going...Ya know, this is absolutely disgusting. (Cubby laughs) Whoever invented diet..stuff? I mean it has no calories....

Cubby: Look how healthy you guys are...

Isaac: .....but it tastes like it has no calories...(laughs)

Cubby: Look how healthy you are gonna be, Isaac.

Isaac: These calories things...they go right through me, man.

Zac: (deep and IMO sexy voice..hehe) We're Hanson...and your talkin' on Loveline.

Cubby: That's right...What are your turn-ons and turn-offs

Taylor: Late night Loveline....

Cubby: You wanna talk to Hanson...1-877-HAN-SON1...let's take a phone call. First one of the evening....Julia from California. You're on the air with Hanson.

Julia: Hi

Hanson: Hi, Hi Julia.

Cubby: You have a question for the boys?

Julia: Yeah, umm...What time is your CD coming out tomorrow. I wanna be the first one to buy it.

Taylor: Wow. Your right on...umm...

Zac: I do not know.

Taylor: It comes out the 12th, so, I guess it just depends...It comes out tomorrow, so I guess it just depends on what store, what record store your going to.

Cubby: You know people are lined up out of a record store somewhere.

Isaac: Well...I hope so. I mean that would be very cool.

Taylor: Umm...I guess it just depends on what time the record store opens. So..(laughs) thanks for being pysched about the record.

Cubby: How about people for the fan club...maybe you can get them...

Taylor: Well...well the fan club you can definitely get special stuff...but the record does release tomorrow and that's the first time you will be able to get it. So...

Cubby: We are going to Toni, down there in Alabama. Toni, you're on the air with Hanson.

Toni: Hi

Cubby: Hi Toni

Toni: What's up?

Taylor: Hey Toni...whats your question?

Toni: Umm..before you were famous and everything...did you have like special nicknames or anything like that?

Isaac: Uh..No..No special nicknames.

Taylor: We were always Ike, Tay and Zac. Those were always our nicknames..so..thats never changed.

Isaac: Yeah (laughs)

Cubby, Ike and Tay: Bye Toni...Thank you for calling. See ya.

Cubby: Bye bye Toni!

Taylor: See ya!

Cubby: Mary Elle (or Mary L.), listening to us here at z100 in New York City, you're on the air! with Ike, Tay and Zah! (no, not a typo, he said "Zah")

Taylor: And "Zah"? You mean "Caz."

(Zac laughs)

Cubby: I just created a new nickname for him. I like "Zah."

Taylor: You like "Zah" it sounds kind of like a--

Zac: I sound like a--

Isaac: I think we should call Coby-- (no, not a typo again, he said "Coby". They all have problems talking I guess.)

Zac: I saw...

(Isaac makes a weird noise)

Cubby: What'd you just call me, Colby?

Isaac: Or something like that.

Cubby: Kobe plays for the Lakers. Call me Cubby.

Isaac: That's actually what we're gonna call you is "Colby."

Taylor: We're gonna really confuse you. Throw you off.

Zac: So now, Kobe, when did you get out of basketball and into radio? (note: I dunnno if I'm spelling Kobe right (Kobe Bryant). They say it like Colby anyways.)

Cubby: Okay back to the caller! Mary Elle, what's up?

Mary Elle: Hi.

Isaac: Hi.

Taylor: Hi.

Cubby: This is your big shot here.

Mary Elle: Okay, I'm really nervous, so, all right. Um--

Taylor: Don't be nervous.

Mary Elle: Sorry. All right, how does it feel to know that half of America's got you guys' pictures hanging up all over their room? (Only half? I woulda thought more)

Taylor: Oh wow, I didn't know! God! You just made me nervous! (hehe) Um, I don't know, I think it's really cool, I mean, that people bought the record, I mean that's really what we're psyched about.

Cubby: Actually, Taylor, do you have a picture of your band hanging on top of your bed? (I don't think he knows that they share a room.)

Taylor: No, I do not.

Zac: NOOOOOO WAAAYYYYY!!!!

Taylor: T think it's awesome. We could, I, um (stutters), we would not be able to do it without them. All the people out there who do that. But I do think it's kinda scary when a lot of people send pictures of their walls and it's really wild, so--

Isaac: It's like, wow, I didn't know people took THAT many pictures of me!

Taylor: It's pretty scary, but it's awesome, I mean, it's just--

Cubby: Taylor, describe your bedroom. What posters are hanging in your bedroom?

Zac: Uh . . . right now, nothing.

Cubby: Zac, nothing?

(They all talk at once. It happens throughout the interview and I can't understand everything.)

Zac: Absolutely nothing.

Taylor: We kinda go through cycles, you know, where you strip it down, start over, strip it down, start over (woo-woo! go tay! hehe) so it's kinda in the strip it down mode now--

Isaac: We're not big, we're not actually big poster people, really.

Cubby: I just still have a Farrah Fawcett from like 1975 hanging in my bedroom.

Taylor: I think you need to do a revamp.

(All talk again!)

Isaac: However I guess it could be a good picture, and then that wouldn't be bad.

Zac: Every once in a while, you need to, you know, retune up your car engine. I think your car engine need retuning.

Cubby: How many posters are there, of, you know, if you're a huge hanson fan and you wanted to get every poster out there, do you know off the top of your head how many posters out there are there?

Zac: No.

Taylor: The thing is a lot of it out there is--

Cubby: Bootleg?

Taylor: --based around magazines giving away posters so you know, we're not putting out all those posters, but you know, what can you say?

Cubby: All right, we're gonna go to Julia, actually Julie, in PA, you're on the air with Hanson!

Julie: Hello?

All: Hi Julie!

Julie: How you guys doing?

All: Good!

Isaac: So uh . . .

Zac: What's your question?

Julie: Okay, what is the craziest thing a fan has ever done to meet you?

Isaac: Ooh, uh . . . . well--

Taylor: The craziest thing . . .

Isaac: Mmmm . . . I think, well, people actually hang out outside the hotel quite a bit, so that happens. but I guess that's not so crazy.

Cubby: You ever get nervous though?

Taylor: Well, there's definitely crazy moments, like when you're at a concert and you're trying to get out and there's fans outside.

Isaac: Nervous about fans being outside the hotel and stuff like that?

Cubby: Yeah, like maybe it gets a little bit weird, like they're hanging out TOO much?

Taylor: No, it's not, it's not, the thing is like, none of our fans are there to kill you or something, you know, it's not like--

Zac (in a maniacal voice): I love you so much, you're DEAD, you!!!!!

Taylor: No, I think it's just, I think it's cool that you have fans that are willing to hang out that long, just to, get to meet you, and we always like to get to say hi when we get out of the hotel or somebody's waiting or something like that, so that's what it's about.

Cubby: Now you might remember this, this is a great story, I know we love talking about this, uh, z100 here in New York City, remember we did that little promotion at Paramus Park Mall? It was a mall in NJ, it was a year ago last week--happy anniversary, guys.

Zac: Thank you!

Cubby: It was a year ago last week. We estimated that a lot of people were gonna be there, we didn't think, what, about 8000 would show up at the mall. When I first got there I thought it was a line for Cinnabun. I went "oh my god will ya look at this!" and they're all here to see Hanson. I mean, were you guys amazed? Zac, you were getting like your jacket pulled off.

Taylor: That was--

(Zac makes a weird falsetto noise)

Taylor: That was the beginning--

Isaac: It was pretty nuts--

Taylor: It was awesome--

Isaac: The thing for me was the fact that it was SO loud.

Cubby: Yeah, you were getting mad at me for saying, you were saying, "don't ever say our name again."

Isaac: You would be like--

Zac: "DO YOU GUYS KNOW THESE PEOPLE?!" eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

Taylor: And we were like "stop! stop! stop!"

Isaac: I don't know how all of us came out with our hearing, period. You know, with the screaming and stuff, so.

Cubby: I tell you what, all the calls we've had so far, we've had a Julia, a Julie and here's another Julie. It's like Julia night. Uh, Julie, from MD, your'e on the air with Hanson. Say hi to the guys!

Julie: Hey Tay, hey Ike, hey Zac.

Isaac: Hello.

Taylor: Hi, you've got your names down.

Isaac: Yeah.

Julie: Okay, I'm like a huge fan and everything, so.

All: Awesome.

Julie: All right, first of all lemme say that I'm going to your concert, definitely.

Ike and Tay: Cool. Very cool.

Julie: Um, I just wanted to ask, what kind of music did you guys used to listen to? (Duh, and she's a HUGE fan)

Isaac: uh, we, uh--

Taylor: Okay, are you a real true hanson fan? Psycho fan?

Julie: Oh yeah.

Taylor: If you are, then, you--then, the answer to that question, you would already know. (hehehe!) but the answer to it is rock and roll, really, 50's and 60's, you know, early 70's rock and roll music. And that's really the music that inspired us most. But still we listen to all kinds of stuff that's out right now.

Cubby: What's in your cd player right now? Guys, go around the room. Zac first.

Isaac: Actually, a band that I wanna get ahold of, what's, what's-- (hey! he's not zac!)

Taylor: The name of, there's a song by a band called Fastball. Which I really like, it's a cool song.

Cubby: Oh yeah. The Way.

Taylor: Yeah. I think it's a really cool song. (Hey me too!)

Cubby: People compare that to the Wallflowers kinda sound.

Taylor: I think it's different though, I think it's--I like it. I like the song a lot. I like the video too.

Cubby: You know what song I love a lot?

Ike and Tay: What?

Cubby: River. (heh!:))

(pause)

Taylor: River? You like that song?

Cubby: That was a good segment, wasn't it?

(all laugh)

Taylor: Oh man! (In corny announcer voice) Well that's a song from our new album 3CG you can buy it tomorrow!

Cubby: Never been heard until right now are you guys ready?

Zac: It's the--

Taylor: This'll be the first time on the radio. whoa-a-a-a! (Think entertainment tonight when they were talking about zoe and the grammys and weird) This is a song that we did, we recorded a couple years ago, um, it's off our new album, 3CG, old album, actually, so, um, we did it in a garage--

Zac: In a ONE car garage.

Taylor: One car garage.

Isaac: Yeah so--

Zac: Here it is, River.

Cubby: It's on Hanson Live.

[River plays]

[i fast forward some more]

Cubby: Hanson Live, and that is brand new, it's called River from 3CG--

Taylor: Oh yeah!

Cubby: From the cd that comes out tomorrow!

zac: And you are on Loveline!

Taylor: What is this Loveline thing?

Cubby: Zac, you're really into this Loveline stuff. I think you have a problem that you wanna talk about.

Taylor: It's like late night and you should have a guy with a really low voice like (then he says something in a REALLY low voice that I can't make out)

Zac (in a low voice): Now, what's your problem?

Cubby: Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna come back with some more--

Zac (in a high voice and southern accent): Well, my baby's leaving me and, I think he's goin' out with my girlfriend--

Taylor (in a pretty good imitation of a black lady): Hey girlfriend, what you need to do is you need to talk to that man, you tell him he's yours!

Cubby: We need to take these maltballs away from Zac here, I think the sugar's gettin to him. (Now he just closes up to go to commercial. He just gives the phone number again and then commercial.)

[commercial]

Zac: Well we decided we need to be like--

Cubby: Welcome back, we're on Hanson Live! Isaac, Iaylor and Zac!

Taylor: Live, with Hanson!

Cubby: You might know them as Hanson.

Taylor: In the ring!

Cubby: What's goin' on man, welcome back.

Zac: Um, we're gonna have our next caller and he is Bobby.

Cubby: No, no, actually--

Zac (in voice of Bobby from Bobby's World): Hi Bobby!

Cubby: You wanna read it--

Zac: I'm Bobby!!!

Cubby: No Zac, go ahead, read it! Katie--

Taylor (or Zac): KAPUSHNICK!!! (I was laughing so hard by now)

Cubby: No, Katie!

Taylor: Oh, this is Katie. This is Katie.

Cubby: Katie, from Philadelphia. She's listening to us on WPST. What's going on, Katie? (pause) Are you there?

Taylor: Katie!

Katie: Hello?

All: Hi, how are you?

Katie: Good!

Isaac: So what's your question?

Katie: Well, first of all I'm totally thrilled to have gotten through and be talking to you guys b/c the lines have been absolutely clogged. (that's an understatement!)

Taylor: We're totally thrilled to be talking to you too!

Katie: And, um, I just wanted to ask if you guys are coming to philadelphia on your tour, because I would absolutely go to your concert.

Isaac: Um, unfortunately, I don't think we'll be making it to Philadelphia this time around. However, what's happening is we're trying -- we're doing kind of a short tour this summer and then we'll be going back into the studio for our next album and then we're gonna be doing a more extensive tour.

Taylor: It's, I mean, we're very psyched about doing a lot of shows. There's alot of people that we're gonna be missing which we're very bummed about. This time around. So, Katie, we will look for you (pretends to start crying) when we're back in Philadelphia. (normal voice) but it's really just a short tour that we're gonna be doing this summer so we can get out and play a few shows and we're very psyched about be able to play a lot more once the next album comes out.

Cubby: Now Taylor, over the summer, you're going to be going back to Tulsa, back home, right?

All: Yes, we will be going to Tulsa.

Zac: Katie, we will be going to Washington so maybe you might be able to come.

Cubby: That's close.

Isaac: Yeah, it's close.

Cubby: It's like an hour and a half drive from Philly, or two hours.

Isaac: Yeah, so maybe she can make it there, hopefully.

Cubby: All right, let's go to Rachel, in Michigan. Hello Rachel, you're on with the guys!

Rachel: Hey guys!

Ike and Tay: Hi Rachel!

Rachel: Uh, what's up?

Isaac: Uh, nothin much, how about you?

Rachel: Uh, pretty good. this is kinda cool (well duh, she's talking to Hanson for godsakes) Cuz, um, earlier this evening my friend from NJ was like, "oh here's a number that you can call to call Hanson" and I was like "what?"

Taylor: Whoa-a-a-a. (same whoa as before.) Cool.

Rachel: So this is kinda unexpected but, um, my question is, um, i wanna get into the music business and...

Taylor: Uh-huh.

Rachel: I have really no idea like what to do and my family has not ever been like in the music business so--

Ike and Tay: Yeah, mm-hmm,

Rachel: Do you have any advice?

Isaac: Well, I recommend finding out exactly what you wanna do in the business and really--there's a lot of hard work involved, I mean, like anything you have to love what you're gettin into, but there is definitely a lot of work work in yet, and you just kind of have to go for it.

Taylor: We're not really in the music business. We just play music, so. We don't like to say we're IN the music business, so--

Cubby: You get like a check for having fun.

Taylor: Yeah well--

Isaac: Soemthing like that.

Cubby: It's never work though. (What, does he think they don't practice?)

Ike and Tay: There's definitely a lot of work involved.

Taylor: I don't know, it depends if like you're singing or if you're in the record business, like working at a record company or something.

Cubby: What's the worst part, I mean, dealing with the press?

Taylor: With us, it's like everything's a part of it, it's just depends on the day, or how much sleep you got the night before, you know.

Cubby: Let's check out Leslie in Buffalo. Hi Leslie, you're on the air with Hanson!

Leslie: Hey!

Isaac: Hello!

Taylor: Hi Leslie.

Cubby: She's a baldifyer (I have no clue what the hell he said but this is what it sounded like.) Hey, come on, let's go, let's get some energy here! People have been trying to get through since 4:00 this afternoon and you're finally on the air with Hanson!

Leslie: Oh . . . FINE. (well she sounded real happy to be talking to them.)

(All laugh)

Leslie: You guys are a little too . . . happy there.

Zac: See what it is is we've been having these sugar highs and we have tons and tons of candy here so we're just munching on candy and gettin so high--

Leslie: Sounds good to me.

Isaac: So what's your question?

Leslie: Um, how'd you like making the weird video with Gus Van Sant?

Isaac: That was extremely cool. We really, really enjoyed meeting him and--

Taylor: It was very cool to get to work with somebody who has directed such cool movies and he's very open to working with us and the ideas, the different ideas that we had, so it was cool to get to work with somebody who's open to just about anything, so, we were definitely psyched about doing that.

Isaac: And you know, he really facilitated making that video happen, you know, we had a lot of crazy ideas and he went ahead and said, you know, let's do it.

Taylor: Let's just do it, so it was very cool.

Isaac: And he really made it happen and we, like Taylor said, we really enjoyed working with him, so it was really cool.

Taylor: Yeah, it was cool.

(You think that they thought making it was cool?)

Cubby: Thank you for your call, Leslie.

zac: Next caller.

Cubby: Before we get to the next caller, I wanna play a little, like, Middle of Nowhere music. I mean, we're here to talk about 3CG, the brand new cd, but we love Middle of Nowhere. Before we play Where's The Love, how about a little a cappella Where's The Love, right here in the studio. Can we get you guys to do that? Or you want some more sugar?

[They snap their fingers and sing the chorus] (You can hear Taylor, very faintly, sing the key so they know what key they're in. Cool!)

Isaac: All right, here's Where's The Love.

Zac: Where's the Love!!!

[Where's The Love plays]

[commercial]