Recovery

 

Recovery Interview August 4th `97 (Pool Interview) BACK



Start of MMMbop plays....

Dude: Enjoying massive success in Australia, their album has gon to number one in every territory in the world! Unbelievable, they`re here they even have time to muck around in the pool,it`s very nice for them, please welcome the peaceful Hanson!!

(Isaac and Taylor squirt him with water guns)

Footage from MMMBOP......

Dude : Are you enjoying Australia?

Isaac : Yes actually very much so, so much so in fact, so much that we`re actually wrestling crocodiles! (wrestles this blow up one in pool)

Dude : How are you coping with all the success you guys so many have?

Taylor : You know. If we ever get stressed, we just do everything, we just swim in the pool with all our clothes on, get all our stress out.

(Zac says something laughing)

Dude : You seem to be coping fine with all the success Mr Zac, does it go to you`re head?

Zac : I don`t know (laughs)

Dude : (looks at the camera) No.

Taylor : No It can`t go to you`re head, you have to have fun with it you can`t let it make you

Isaac : Yeah, I know, the thing is, the thing is, you`re really just kinda holding a position though it`s like, I mean if it wasn't you you`d be somebody else.

footage from singing Speechless `you guys ready to rock?` (Taylor)

Dude : The little mini gig that you had yesterday, they were expecting about 8000 people there were six thousand there by eight am, now by the time you guys we`re there, I think there we`re about twenty thousand people...

Taylor : There were a lot of people!

Dude : Were you expecting this, was it the biggest gig you guys have ever done?

Zac : Yeah!

Isaac : This was the biggest gig that we have ever done by far!

Dude : Was it massive? Were there people everywhere?

Taylor : It was amazing.

...Footage from the gig, 'One thing I have to say is.. Melbourne rocks!!' (Isaac)

Dude : Why do you think your music's so popular?

Zac : I don`t know, you know

Isaac : I have no idea, I mean it`s

Taylor : It`s awesome that people respond to you...

Zac talks to interviewer meanwhile

Taylor : I mean really, who knows?

...Zacs still talking...  

Dude : Taylor`s giving a sensible answer here (all 3 laugh)

Dude : What was that? (to Taylor)

...Shows footage from singing Madeline Acoustic...

Dude : When did you start singing?

Taylor : Arhhh we started... we did our first performance about six years ago.

Dude : Yeah?

Taylor : acapella

...meanwhile the interviewers holding his shirt in this weird way...

Zac : You`re weird! *laughs hysterically*

Dude : Who wrote the songs?

Taylor : We did, I mean we sing covers...

Zac : One, (points to Taylor) two, (points to Isaac) three! (points to himself)

Isaac : Yeah, all three of us

Taylor : All three of us we sing covers like Johnny B Goode, Splish Splash, Rockin Robin, but also...

Dude : Rocking Robin??

Isaac : Oh Yeah

Taylor : Yeah!

(all four of them sing rocking Robin for about thirty seconds! cute!)

Dude : No more covers any more, all originals?

Taylor : No I mean really when we do real concerts, we will definitely put those in, cause I mean it`s fun for the crowed to know what`s going on,

Isaac : They know the songs really, I mean a lot of people know

Dude : I know!

Isaac : Cause rock and roll, that`s where it all,it all so when we started actually six years a go we we`re just doing acapella just singing, the only voices so yeah, then we actually we`re playing keyboard and then added drums/guitar and they`re spitting across the camera arhhh!

Dude : Do you play other instruments?   

Zac : I play drums

Taylor : Yeah, we all do play keyboard I mean drums also and yeah, that`s that

Isaac :  Yeah and I don`t play drums because that`s the only thing I cannot play is drums but Zacs

Dude : Zacs the man here

Taylor : He is the man!

Isaac : That`s why he`s

.... Cut to footage of Where`s The Love........

Dude : Do you have a very super big (supportive?) family?

Taylor: Very supportive!

Zac : Yeah, very supportive!

Dude : Is it big?

Taylor : Um there`s three other kids in our family, three other siblings yeah

Isaac : Six kids in the family

Dude : Are they good singers?

Zac : I don`t know

Taylor : I think they like singing pretty cool,

Dude : Do you wanna let them in the band?

Zac : I don`t know, I think it`s more up to them then us

Dude : Oh really? yeah really?

.......Cuts to footage 'God you guys are loud! you can stop screaming now!' (Taylor)    .......

Dude: You got girlfriends at home?

Zac : No

Isaac : Nobody has girlfriends

Dude : No girlfriends? that's... have you been asked that a lot?

Isaac : Yeah, actually quite a bit

Zac : Yes, many times

........Footage of MMMBOP acapella..............

Dude : Are you rich?

Zac : I don`t

Taylor : I think that`s kind of a weird question, but the thing is, because that`s not what it`s really about at all.

Dude:.........can`t work out the question

Taylor : Not at all

Zac : Nup!

Isaac : I think the reason...

Zac : You have big eyebrows! * laughs hysterically*

Dude:* Looks at camera then pushes over Zac whos sitting on this crocodile thing*

........ Wheres The Love film clip for a couple of seconds............

Dude : Where do you think you`ll be in two years?

Isaac: Umm actually we

Zac : Hopefully doing music

Dude : Music yeah?

Taylor : I mean really, you have to hope that in a year we will still be doing music, but I mean Ideally you`d love to be doing it for a long time...

Dude : We better get out of here..

All :  yeah

Taylor gets out, then Zac, Isaac says something you can`t hear...