AOL-Host: Welcome Hanson!!!!!
Zac: Hey guys! This is Zac! Thanks for coming to the chat!
Taylor: Hello everybody!!! :D This is Taylor! How are you guys doing?!
Isaac: Hello everybody out there. Thank you guys for coming to the chat.
Hanson: We'll be talking to you for a little bit and hope that you enjoy yourselves!
AOL Host: We are very glad to have you all here, let's start out on the questions right away... Is there an address where your fans can write to get pictures?
Hanson: They can write the Hanson fan club at PO Box 703136, Tulsa, OK, 74170.
AOL hOST: Is there a place, either on the Web or an address that your fans could visit/write to find out tour dates and cities?
Hanson: Absolutely
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?
Isaac: We were asked to be but we had a scheduling conflict and we won't be there.
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.
Zac: We'll be doing Christmas songs at 9:00 pm 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?
Isaac: Aerosmith, Counting Crows and Spin Doctors.
Taylor: Jewel!
Isaac: Natlie Merchant, No Doubt.
Zac: Boys to men, Envouge.
Hanson: (Boyz 11 Men)
Isaac: In sutle ways. We like listening and get as excited about doing music. The Music that most influenced us 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?
Hanson: No. Tulsa is home! :D
Question: Will the 'Tulsa Tokya and The Middle Of Nowhere' video include old footage from Mayfest or any other show from a while back? Love and peace always joanna isaac.
Hanson: Yes. There will be early clips from free time and including "Hanson does Stupid Stuff on Video!"
Question: Hi Hanson! It's megan and meredith here! We'll be seeing you on Sunday at the y-100 wingding! But here's 2 questions... have you ever made a funny home video with your camera isaac, and when you guys went rick-or-treating, what was your favourite costume?
Isaac: I made a home video including one in the video (Tulsa Tokyo and the Middle Of Nowhere) called "What The Hanson's Did Last Thanksgiving" shot last thanksgiving day.
Isaac: Nothing sticks out. We've done a lot of fun things at Halloween.
Question: Are you going to release "A Minute Without You" as a single?
Hanson: Maybe. It's up to the label a lot of times. The next single went on sale today... "I Will Come To You" with an unreleased track called "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."
Zac: What do you think the next one should be? Let us know at our website!
AOL Host: I tried to get one for my son, and they were already sold out. Looks like a hit!
AOL Host: How long have you been Homeschooled?
Hanson: GREAT:D
Hanson: We've done some school, but very little. We've mostly been homeschooled. 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.
Isaac: I'll get to the question in just a moment! Brooke Shields is right next door! I just got to meet her! WOW! :D
Hanson: 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 3.5x11 in size. For the record we have nothing to do with the other books on the market. They never talked to us, and some of the 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 colour underwear we wear!:)
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!!" Can't wait to see you in Pittsburgh next week!!!
Hanson: According to the sound meter at the Toronto show... yeah, it was the loudest we ever experienced. We were 140 decibels and the loudest in the Guiness book is 126 by a Who concert.
Hanson: 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.
Question: What are some of your favourite things to do with your family while not performing?
Hanson: Draw on the walls of our studio. There's actually scenes of that wall in our video. 8ball, lasor quest, motorcycles, dirt bikes, e.t.c
Question: What is it fans do to annoy you?
Hanson: We LOVE the fans, they don't annoy us but sometimes they scream really, REALLY loud. The only time that the screaming bothers us is when we're trying to play.
Zac: Sometimes we can't hear ourselves think.
AOL Host: Zac, Tay and Isaac... tell us a little about your Christmas album. Will some of the 'old standards" be there?
Hanson: The album is called "Snowed In." It's co-produced by Hanson and Mark Hudsen who co-wrote "Where's The Love." It was recorded during October outside London in the country. We had a great time recording it. We hope you like it. It's old r&b Christmas songs and some new ones we wrote in London. And a medley of sacred Christmas carols.
Question: Is it true your mother is going to have a baby soon?
Hanson: Yes she is. She's going to have a baby at the beginning of the new year.
Hanson: It will be Hanson#7
Question: Hey you guys kick! I was wondering if you ever listen to any ska and if you like to hacky sack. Thanks a lot.
Hanson: Definitely learning hacky-sack and we have the Mighty Mighty Bosstones CD
Question: I just got the Middle Of Nowhere CD. It's great! How much time a day do you spend working on your music?
Hanson: We only have time for this last one... Great question...Except for school, music is our number one priority. Oh hey one more question! We are walking down the hall... Sorry about that guys!
Hanson: We are about to run to the ABC special!
Hanson: We are literally walking down the hall to do the accustic segment of the show!!
Hanson: I hope you all catch it, thank you for coming, we had a blast, thanks again, thank you all!
AOL Chat November 11th `97.
On the 11th of November`97, Hanson had a chat on AOL