AOLiveMC10: Welcome, HANSON!!!!!!!!!

HansnLive: Zac: Hey, guys! This is Zac! Thanks for coming to the chat!

HansnLive: Taylor: Hello everybody!!!! :D This is Taylor! How are you guys doing?!

HansnLive: Isaac: Hello everybody out there. Thank you guys for coming to the chat. We'll be talking to you for a little bit and hope that you enjoy yourselves!

AOLiveMC10: We are very glad to have you all here -- let's start out on questions right away.

AOLiveMC10: Before we get started guys, let's open with a couple of standard questions. Is there an address where your fans can write to get pictures?

HansnLive: They can write the Hanson Fan Club at: PO Box 703136, Tulsa, OK 74170.

AOLiveMC10: Is there a place, either on the Web, or an address that your fans could visit/write to find out your tour dates and cities?

HansnLive: Absolutely! www.hansonline.com

AOLiveMC10: Thanks, guys. Here we go, now.

Question: What are you doing for Thanksgiving? I heard you were going to be in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. If so, are you going to sing any songs from the "Snowed In" album?

HansnLive: Isaac: We were asked to be but we had a scheduling conflict and won't be there.

HansnLive: Taylor: But we will be having at 8:30 EST on November 28, the day after, on ABC a special performing Christmas songs. There will be other songs too as well.

HansnLive: Zac: We'll be doing Christmas song at 9:00 PM EST December 19th with President Clinton and his family on NBC.

Question: Just curious, what groups do you like to listen to? How have they influenced your music?

HansnLive: Isaac: Aerosmith, Counting Crows and Spin Doctors.

HansnLive: Taylor: Jewel.

HansnLive: Isaac: Natalie Merchant, No Doubt.

HansnLive: Zac: Boys to Men, En Vogue.

HansnLive: Isaac: In subtle ways. We like listening and they get us excited about doing music. The music that most influenced them as performers and song writers was early rock and roll and R&B.

Question: ARE YOU PLANNING ON MOVING OUT OF TULSA ANY TIME SOON?

HansnLive: No. Tulsa is home! :D

Question: Will the 'Tulsa, Tokyo and The Middle Of Nowhere' video include old footage from Mayfest, or any other shows from a while back? Love and Peace Always, jonna isaac

HansnLive: Yes. There will be early clips from free time and including "Hanson does Stupid Stuff on Video"!

AOLiveMC10: Well, gee...in that vein, then...

Question: Hi, Hanson, it's Megan and Meerdith here! We'll be seeing you on Sunday at the y-100 wing ding! But here's 2 questions: Have you ever made a funny home video with your camera, Isaac, and when you guys went trick-or-treating, what was your favorite costume?

HansnLive: Isaac: I made a funny home video including one in the video in the middle called "What the Hansons did last Thanksgiving" shot last Thanksgiving Day.

HansnLive: Isaac: Nothing sticks out. We've done lots of fun things at Halloween.

Question: Are you going to release "A Minute Without You" as a single?

HansnLive: Maybe. It's up to the label a lot of times. The next single goes on sale today... "I Will Come to You" with an unreleased track entitled "Cried", and it's on sale today. We hope you all like it. And no decision has been made on a single after that. Maybe man from Milwaukee.

HansnLive: Zac: What do YOU think the next one should be? Let us know at our web site!

AOLiveMC10: I tried to get one for my son, and they were already sold out. Looks like a hit!

HansnLive: GREAT!!! :D

Question: How long have you been homeschooled?

HansnLive: We've done some school, but very little. Mostly been home schooled. We like "self directed education".

Question: Hey guys! My name is Lindsay! I just wanted to say keep up the good work and wanted to ask what the name of the OFFICIAL Hanson biography is and what the cover looks like?

HansnLive: Isaac: I'll get to the question, just a quick comment!

HansnLive: Brooke Shields is right next door! I just got to meet her! WOW! :D

HansnLive: The cover is a picture of the 3 of us from one of our photo sessions. The title is Hanson: The official book. It's big, 8 1/2 x 11 in size. For the record, we have nothing to do with the other books on the market. They never talked to us, and some information is incorrect. One of our best friends wrote this one for us and we edited it. Sorry to tell you...you WON'T be able to find out what color underwear we wear. ;)

AOLiveMC10: So, the Official book, is the OFFICIAL book. Thanks, Isaac.

Question: Ike, Tay and Zac: Hey guys!! Was the Toronto show really the loudest the girls have gotten? And what happened at the Chicago show? You guys seemed to just stop during "Thinking Of You". Well, we Love You!! Can't wait to see you in Pittsburgh next week!!!!

HansnLive: According to the sound meter at the Toronto show.. yeah. It was the loudest we ever experienced. We were at 140 decibels and the loudest in the Guinness book is 126 by a Who concert.

Question: What are some of your favorite things to do with your family while not performing?

HansnLive: As for the Chicago show, there were sound problems. We didn't stop we just didn't get through the sound system. Then it came back on.

AOLiveMC10: Sorry, I sent that last question a little early.

HansnLive: of our studio. There's actually scenes of that wall in the video. 8ball, laser quest, motorcycles, dirt bikes, we spend a lot of time painting the wall of our studio. There's scenes of THAT in the video.

Question: What is it that fans do to annoy you?

HansnLive: We LOVE the fans, they don't annoy us but sometimes they scream really, really loud. The only times that the screaming bothers us is when we're trying to play.

HansnLive: Zac: Sometimes we can't hear ourselves think.

AOLiveMC10: Zac, Tay and Isaac, tell us a little about your Christmas album Will some of the "old standards" be there?

HansnLive: The album is called Snowed In. It's co-produced by Hanson and Mark Hudson who co-wrote "Where is the Love". It was recorded during October outside London in the country. Had a great time recording it. Hope you like it. It's old R&B Xmas song and some new ones we wrote in England. And a medley of sacred Christmas carols.

Question: Is it true your mother is going to have a baby soon?

HansnLive: Yes, she is. She's going to have a baby at the beginning of the new year. It will be Hanson #7.

AOLiveMC10: Congratulations, Mrs. Hanson!

OnlineHost: HansnLive has left the room.

OnlineHost: Ladies and Gentlemen, please stand by, until HANSON returns to our event.

AOLiveMC10: While we wait...let's all put MMMBop on the disk players, at full volume, and rock this place!

AOLiveMC10: Louder, gang...I can't hear youuuuu!

OnlineHost: HnsonLive has entered the room.

AOLiveMC10: Welcome back, guys!

AOLiveMC10: Let's take a couple of more questions before you have to go?

Question: Hey you guys kick. I was wondering if you listen to any ska and if you like to hacky sack. Thanks a lot.

OnlineHost: Just one or two questions folks then we have to get back to the ABC Special. :)

HnsonLive: Everyone: Definitely learning hacky-sack and we love the Mighty Mighty bosstones...

AOLiveMC10: Last one tonight.

Question: I just got the Middle of Nowhere CD. It's great! How much time a day do you spend working on your music?

HnsonLive: We only have time for this last one.

HnsonLive: Great question. Except for school, music is our number one priority.

HnsonLive: Oh, hey, one more question!

HnsonLive: We are walking down the hall.

Question: Hanson: Since you sang at the World Series, I would like to know if you like baseball and if so, what is your favorite teams.......Love Amber.....

OnlineHost: HnsonLive has left the room.

AOLiveMC10: I guess the TV people pulled them off and down the hall!

AOLiveMC10: Thanks so much for being here and talking with us tonight, Zac, Tay, and Isaac! Come back soon!

AOLiveMC10: We are trying to pull them back down the hall...and if they can make it we'll wait a couple of more minutes. We will try to get one or two more questions in.

OnlineHost: HnsnLive has entered the room.

HnsnLive: Sorry about that folks!!

AOLiveMC10: Wow...back...super.

HnsnLive: We are about to run to the ABC Special!! We are literally walking down the hall to do the acoustic segment of the show!! I hope you all catch it! Thank you for coming!! We had a blast! Thanks again!!

AOLiveMC10: We are glad that you made it back...and you are welcome anytime! Thanks for being here! We all had a great time.

HnsnLive: Thank YOU all!

AOLiveMC10: A SPECIAL thanks to the audience, for the GREAT questions!

AOLiveMC7: Thanks to Zac, Ike and Tay for spending time here with us tonight.