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dmscmtrue: AJ who are some of the acts going on tour with you ?
A.J. McLean: we have Nobody's Angel. And we're trying to get three acts. We have Mindi Abeair, our saxophone player. She's also a solo artist, and plays for our band, as well as Johnny No Name.
Denise McLean: I think the agent is looking for local acts as we go along.
QTPIE8780: okay, aj, please help me out. I have heard from people that you guys chat online anonymously and that you don't. Which is it? Do you guys ever venture online for an anonymous chat with fans?
A.J. McLean: I don’t. But my girlfriend will sometimes, using my username. She'll go on and talk to all of the fans, and lots of them ask about me and how I’m doing. And sometimes if I’m here, I’ll pop on and talk too. It takes me sometimes 20 questions to convince them it's me, but.... eventually we get into some great discussions They ask some crazy questions, like "what color was the shirt at the Motown awards" (LOL)
i_luv_howiebsb: Do the other guys help out any with the Johnny No Name concerts and stuff?
A.J. McLean: they're all supportive, cause it is for charity, and each of us has set up a different charity foundation.
bsb_maxmartin_cheiron_rocks: Johnny what happened with "Suede"? (cuz it's Johnny No Name now...?)
A.J. McLean: Brian has the Heart Foundation. I've been trying to get a Diabetes Foundation. VH1 SAVE The MUSIC is really influenced a lot by guys in my position, and I really believe that keeping music in the schools is a very important thing to do. The govt. is cutting back on all kinds of financing for the schools, and they're cutting music. And they lose how important it is to the world, and to kids. Without the kids listening to and buying the music, we'd all be out of the job. I know all the guys are very into it. Brian wanted to come up, during one of my charity shows, and sang with me. The crowd went nuts and loved it. Howie may join me for one of the shows in LA, and I’m trying to convince him to come up. I don’t know. We'll see.
dabonesgrls: aj, this is the most important question to all the fans, were only asking it cuz we REALLY care about u, do u still smoke? please give us an honest answer,
Denise McLean: Yes, he should stop.
A.J. McLean: Great. My mom is
now involved. I actually quit at the beginning at the beginning leg of the
world tour. The same thing that happened to me last time I quit happened
again. When I quite in Europe about a year ago, I lost my voice about the 2nd
week of our tour. It wasn’t a good thing.
When I started smoking again, my voice came back. Now that we have so much
downtime, and I’m not under any pressure or stress....I think it'll be easy
to quit.
I don’t want to go onto any supplements, and have any side effects, and I
think...
it'll make me a stronger person if you quit cold turkey.
My cousin quit. My chief of security quit. His wife quit.
Everyone is quitting, and it's a lot harder than people think.
Especially if you know that you have an addictive personality (like me), if
you get hooked on stuff easily, then don’t even try it.
Don’t go near it. Don’t be around it. If your friends smoke, tell them to not
do it around you.
It's going to be really difficult to quit, and if you ever do, quit.
It doesn’t make you cool.
Lots of fans have told me, "We think you're cool even if you don’t
smoke, so don’t do it." And I say that back to you.
latinhuny69: hey this ? is for Denise;-)~ How do you feel about your son's success like do you go to the supermarket and see a mag with him on the cover and be like that's my baby?
A.J. McLean: Remember, I’m in the room. be nice.
Denise McLean: I'm very proud of hi. I don't even think he realizes how proud I am. It's amazing to me what he's accomplished at a young age. I used to think he was an alien because no one was as outgoing as him in the family. My reaction when I see things out and about how him, I see caricatures at Kiosks. My friends will get them. When I'm out I'll say “that’s a good picture of my son." They don't believe me. It's definitely a weird thing. You expect your kids to go to school and be successful in their 20's and 30's.
A.J. McLean: I still want to go to college, but you know...I’ll be thirty before that happens.
Denise McLean: But he's known he's wanted to this since he was 6, it's amazing what he accomplished. I was lucky I could pay my rent when I was his age.
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