BB Magazine
September 1999

"Gabbing With Hanson"

BB: Hi Ike! What have you guys been up to?

Ike: We went on tour during the past summer and that was really, really awesome. We spent about 5 months turing and since then we have just been working on songs and taking a moment to catch our breath, I guess.

BB: When are you hoping to release our next album?

IKE: Well, tentatively--and I do put the emphasis on tentatively--we're hoping it'll be out by mid-fall. Or, I know early winter.

BB: Is it true that you name your guitars Ike?

IKE: Oh, I don't name them. I've joked around and called them Betsy and things like that, just goofy little names. Nothing more than that, not necessarily serious. It's like I got name plates! Oh, wait. I'm gonna let you talk to Taylor.

BB: Hi Tay!

TAY: Hi.

BB: Are you still living in Tulsa?

TAY: We live in the place we've always lived and we're in and out of Tulsa a lot. But that's still home because we still have our friends and our family there. And that doesn't change.

BB: Do a lot of fans still try to find you guys in Tulsa?

TAY: Yeah. Lots and lots of people have come up to the house. Since all this has happened, people come and they take grass out of the lawn and just caravans of people stand outside. And there are buses that come and unload. We're kinda like ...

BB: A tourist attraction?

TAY: Yeah!

BB: So give us the scoop, are you dating anyone?

TAY: Well, actually I'm getting married.

BB: Huh?

TAY: No just kidding! I'm handing [the phone] to Zac."

ZAC: Hello?

BB: Hey Zac, two questions for you: First, how's your li'l sister Zoe doing? And have you gotten any new pets?

ZAC: The answers are good and no.

BB: Do you have any plans for the summer Zac?

ZAC: For the summer? I don't know. We're going to be recording the new album in the summer. That is really the main thing we'll be doing. This fall we will hopefully be doing another tour around the world, like Australia and South America, just everywhere, 'cause on our last tour we really just stayed in the states. We did a show in England and a show in France and two in Germany, but mostly stayed in the states. This time we are going to go to more, to Japan and everywhere.

BB: Cool. Finally, is there anything fans don't know about you that you want to tell them?

ZAC: [in a robot voice] I am Zac. I come in peace.

BB: All right peaceful one, thanks for calling. Talk to you soon.