"I'm never very scared of fans," Zac said. "Some fans are too over zealous and it's scared me slightly, but I've never been scared to the point of `There's a fan, man! They're coming to get me, man!'"
~Zac, Kansas City Star, October 19, 2000
Teen-Market Act With the Most Integrity: Hanson, who put on a fine show at the Warfield.
Teen-Market Act With the Least Integrity: Everyone else.
~Jane Ganahl, "There's Hope: Teen Pop Is Waning", December 24, 2000
TITLE: Hey from the Studio
MESSAGE: I am happy to say that the album is now under way, and that we are very excited about the out come. We feel really good about the songs we have written and can't wait to release the record and get on the road. I know that the record is a long time coming but I hope it will be worth the wait. In the mean time the new song "Wake Up" is out. I know it's not much but maybe it will tide you over for a little while. We will keep you posted. You are awesome.
~Isaac, From Us To You, H.net, August 14, 2001
"Tay is 17, Ike is 19, and Zac is, like, 42. I think they've replaced him with someone new since the last album. He's huge."
~Stephen Lironi, co-proudcer on the record 'This Time Around', from Spin Magazine article "Never Mind the Mmm-bollocks", by Kate Sullivan, June 2000
The youngest Hanson, Zac (who seems to have sprouted three feet in the last year, and will probably surpass his older brothers in height by next month if he keeps growing at this weed-like rate), looked like the ultimate grunge kid with his shabby Doobie Brothers T-shirt, baggy cargo shorts, and greasy ponytail, as if he ought to be drumming for Soundgarden or Queens Of The Stone Age instead.
~Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, concert review by Lyndsey Parker for Launch, August 15, 2000
TZ : Here's a good one, Have you guys ever gone skinny dipping?
IKE: Have we ever...? (bursts out laughing)
TAY: (sits back with hands up *smiles*) I decline from answering that.
ZAC: (raises hands in the air) you know what? I PLEAD THE FIFTH!!!
IKE: (still laughing) I plead the fifth.
~teenzonemag.com interview
For the record, Hanson's main monkey at the moment is coffee - preferrably vanilla lattes, taken any time of day. In the van back to the hotel from our hilltop photo shoot, Ike makes tweaked gestures with his hands and mimics a speed freak: "You go to the Coffee Bean in L.A., and go back to the hotel and you've got this antsy feeling, like, wow! This is great...morning!" But he adds, "I'm not an addict, I am a social drinker, I can stop anytime, all right?"
~"Never Mind the Mmm-bollocks", Spin Magazine article by Kate Sullivan, June 2000
We don't care if it didn't sell gazillions of records, we still like it. Why? Because Taylor, Ike and Zac revealed deeper, darker personalities in this transitional album as they make their way to manhood. One, not only have their voices gotten better, their material has been steered away from the sunny teen pop realm of MmmBop. Two, they intended to rock as semi-adult musicians and that they did, on tracks like In The City and If Only which cram in rousing guitars and thwacking Latin percussion. Three, their self-concious maturity has resulted in hardened sentiments and a smooth, well-crafted record. Four, it's easy not to confuse with the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync.
~Galaxie Magazine (Malaysia)
Quote credit to: Hanson Hotel and Nadiah
Zac- (really, really, really low voice) Hi, I'm Isaac, how are you? It's Isaac over here.
Priestly- Oh, whoa-
Taylor - Zac, (laughing) that's Zac's late night radio voice.
Hawaiian Ryan- *laughs*
Priestly- Hey man, you could have a job right here.
Taylor- He's, uh, Loveline, he's doin' loveline now.
~B102.7 Interview with Hanson - March 2000
Thanks to Meghan, who typed up this interview for us! :)
Taylor: We just kind of go, "OK, whatever," and then when people start wondering about toothbrushes or boxers, we say, "OK,I'm not going to answer that."
Zac: We think it's really funny.
Isaac: There are multiple levels of that kind of stupidity.
CDNOWvideo interview, By Allison Stewart CDNOW Senior Editor, Pop/R&B and Lori Raso CDNOW Video Producer
Thanks, Marie!
omgilovehanson: Zac, what is the most interesting thing or gift you have ever gotten from a fan?
Zachary: Hmmmm.
Zachary: A dog is pretty high up...but please don't send us any!
~Transcript from the Fox.com chat with Hanson August 17, 2000
Guitar.com: Why did you want to play with Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman at Wetlands?
Isaac Hanson: We're musicians. If you're a musician and you get the opportunity to do something interesting, you do it; it doesn't matter what anyone else says. It was nerve-wracking, because when you don't know a song that well, you have a tendency to make more errors. But you have to take chances like that. Half the songs we did that night we learned that afternoon -- "All Along the Watchtower," "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad," "Wang Dang Doodle" and "Gloria."
~Hanson Is the Only Teen Band That Matters guitar.com, March 2001
Carole King made her fourth visit to the annual "songwriting bootcamp" hosted by Miles Copeland at his Chateau de Marouatte outside Paris, France. King's collaborators this year included the talented brothers, Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson, with whom she penned two songs: "Let You Go" and "One More Time."
www.caroleking.com, September 2001
It's taken a twist; it has just kind of evolved, and that's what music always does, as we've said many times. Music keeps changing, and that's really the beauty of it. You don't have to be this or that. You can be anything in the spectrum of classical to death metal.
~Zac, CDNOW video interview, By Allison Stewart CDNOW Senior Editor, Pop/R&B and Lori Raso CDNOW Video Producer
Many thanks to Marie for the interview! :)
We're always wanting to try something new. Every song that you write and every day that goes by, something changes slightly. Therefore, with the more time that goes by, the more differences there will be.
~Isaac, CDNOWvideo interview, By Allison Stewart CDNOW Senior Editor, Pop/R&B and Lori Raso CDNOW Video Producer
Many thanks to Marie for the interview! :)
"We know how pop music can eat its young (when you're out of the spotlight)...and we didn't want to be a casualty. That's not going to happen to us, because we're not gracing the cover of every hip magazine. We've never been hip, which is cool because that way we will never become unhip in anyone's eyes."
~Rob Thomas, MB20
Well...Rob Thomas said this about his own band, but I think we would all agree that Hanson is of the same mindset.
Zac: Hey, guess what? We turn 25; we're going to get gray hair, and then wow, it's gonna change. And then we're going to get flabby.
Isaac: I doubt we'll have gray hair at 25.
Zac: Then all these different things. Like our hair will grow in, and come out on our faces.
Taylor: OK, she [the interviewer] gets the idea.
CDNOWvideo interview , By Allison Stewart CDNOW Senior Editor, Pop/R&B and Lori Raso CDNOW Video Producer
"I'm in a constant pursuit of the female species."
~Zac, Hanson Goes Hollywood, Mary Kate and Ashley Magazine, August/September 2001
Music is for everybody. We are not saying, "Let's write a song for a 15-year-old or a 35-year-old, or someone in the middle." That's not what it's about for us. We are just writing music that comes out of us, and it hopefully can appeal to a lot of different people, and I think it really does. It's just a matter of whether people gravitate towards the music or not.
~Isaac, CDNOWvideo interview, By Allison Stewart CDNOW Senior Editor, Pop/R&B and Lori Raso CDNOW Video Producer
Many thanks to Marie for the interview! :)
FAN: Hi, I'm Molly , and um, what is your favorite song on the new album?
Taylor: Hmmm.
Ike: (joking) Oh, "This Time Around", definitely!
Taylor: *laughs*
Priestly: Tough question.
Ike: No, no, no-
Taylor: That, we, we're always terrible, we can never really answer that question, because it's, ya can't really have, like, I mean, a lot of people listen to a record an go 'Oh, that's my favorite song' but, when its your record, its not like you can go 'Oh, this is my favorite song of all the songs'.
Ike: I mean, you'll like one song for the groove, and one song for the melody, and one song for the lyrics, and you just kind of-
Taylor: Yeah, I mean, there's certain songs that have a lot of meaning, I mean, that, like, your attached to each song in a different way, but I don't think we have one favorite song.
Priestly: Interesting.
Taylor: So, we fail to answer the question.
Priestly: Nah, no!
Ike: It was a good question, we just failed to answer it!
Priestly: They just side stepped ya a little bit. Well, all the songs are good, that's why you gotta get the new album.
Taylor: Ya gotta- there's just a lot of different stuff on there.
~B102.7 Interview with Hanson - March 2000
Thanks to Meghan for the interview!
These are three small-town kids in a garage band who sound like three small-town kids in a garage band. They bash out their chords in a burst of youthful enthusiasm; they join their genetically matched voices in giddy harmonies. They sing about every teenager's eager hunger for romance and experience and about every teenager's impatience that these things never come quickly enough.
~Hanson Is the Only Teen Band That Matters, guitar.com, March 2001
A big thank you to Annette for today's picture! :)
"I guess I just look like an average Joe."
~Zac, Hanson Goes Hollywood, Mary Kate and Ashley Magazine, August/September 2001
Shyeah...RIGHT, Zac!
A big happy 16th birthday to the big guy himself from TLS, TC, and TH!
Thanks to Marica for putting together this collage of Zac throughout the years.
With every record you do, you're more confident, you have a stronger vision. Even when you experiment and you don't know where it's going, you have more confidence that when you get it, you'll know it. You choose the stuff that you feel most closely expresses who you are.
~Isaac, Hanson Is the Only Teen Band That Matters , guitar.com, March 2001
FAN: Hi, I'm Casey and um, I was wondering if, um, what do you guys miss most about not being home in Tulsa?
Taylor: Hmmm, what do we miss most about not being home in Tulsa? *ponders*
Ike: Probably the bed!
All: *laugh*
Taylor: I don't know what it is-
Ike: Just laying in the normal bed, ya know,like 'Wow! This feels comfortable!'
Taylor: Yeah, our beds are actually really comfortable-
Zac: Just, so, worn out!
Ike: Well ya know, I think it's a subconscious thing though, about the beds at home.
Taylor: No, it's just once you home though.it's just like, ya know, being comfortable.
Priestly: The comfort of home.
Taylor: Yeah, you get to go home, ya know, your friends are there, just, the same reason anybody likes to be home.
Priestly: Comfortable.
Taylor: It's awesome.
Priestly: Hey, we all can relate to that.
Taylor: Yeah, exactly.
~B102.7 Interview with Hanson - March 2000
Thanks to Meghan, who typed up this interview for us! :)
"Hopefully this thing will be signed, sealed and delivered much sooner than later, but until then we will all keep working our way through, slowly getting "Just A Little Bit Closer", with some "Blood, Sweat, Tears" and that "X%*#" tape recorder always turned on."
~MOE 11
"Since we were close we also made the forty-five minute drive to Monaco where we were invited to attend an event put on by the Prince (Oh, now we're sounding ritzy.)"
~MOE 11
Phoebe: Do you guys ever get to watch other bands? If so, who?
IkeTayZac: We love to see as many shows as we can. On our last trip to LA, we got to see Aerosmith, The Bee Gees and Travis!!!
~MOE 11
YM Asks: If you had to be in a boy band who would you choose?
Answer: "Hanson, They're talented, and they write their own stuff."
~ James Marsters, "Spike" on Buffy, The Vampire Slayer YM Magazine, November 2001
"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts."
~ Sapphire, from the movie, "Almost Famous"
Isn't this movie just the best? :-)
"But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music."
~ Jeff, from the movie, "Almost Famous"
Question: Of the candy corn, what is your favorite part, yellow, white or orange?
Zac: I don't like Candy Corn! It doesn't look anything like corn!
~ Hanson Net Chat, October 29, 2000
Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween!