Some of Danielle’s scrapbooks with Hanson articles from 1997-2000 and her room!
Un concerto degli Hanson è un memorabile tuffo nel passato (che va ben oltre MMMBop)
On Stage
(Translated using Google Translate)
What is the song that has been pronounced in the world – and written – always in the wrong way? But of course, it is MMMBop, the tormenton of 1997 that initiated baptism in the world of international music of three brothers originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who at the time had respectively 17 (Isaac), 14 (Taylor, who presented Just with the words that we brought back the famous piece during the concert) and only 12 years (Zac).
Hanson: The band, which ended on June 7 at Fabrique in Milan, is in the midst of a double celebration: on the one hand, we celebrate their 25 years of activity – though, as brothers, we imagine that The story is actually much longer – and the other 20 from the release of the debut album, Middle Of Nowhere.
Let’s do for a moment local mind: the pop phenomenon represented by MMMBop, which beyond the game of incomprehensible words has been played from now on as an easy, sparkling and fun song that it is today, came as a lightning strike in a clear Where we could still see Mtv the American one, which in Italy was able to take miraculously through strange rides of the remote control. Isaac, Taylor and Zac managed to fill the gap in our fragile teen heart left by Robbie Williams from the Take That and their subsequent dissolution (1995-1996) just before the explosion of the other boy bands that came after (See Backstreet Boys).
However, at some point, after a few years of listening to Middle Of Nowhere and the successor (not the first one) This Time Around of 2000, in addition to Christmas Snowed In, while simultaneously plundering Adhesive covers of Cio with their faces to stick on our half-meter high marks – which we kept together with the elastic – bam! The irreparable thing happened: in 2002, Taylor, who, let’s say, was also the finest of the three, married, started to leave behind a bunch of children and Hanson we forgot a bit. Gossip aside, however, this time was perhaps more tied to the choice of the trio to abandon the major who had contracted them and made them known all over the world.
But, and that’s what we understood last night, we actually forgot only us that in the meantime we started listening to things a little less (forgive the easy labels but it is to be understood): in fact if there is someone who He has never ceased to follow the musical steps of the band are their most loyal fans, and in Italy there are still many. Those who, starting with Underneath (2005), have not abandoned them anymore and have singled out every single piece during live. The band then did not spare, playing for almost two hours and interrupting the songs in a ladder with some anecdotes, such as the story of With You in Your Dreams, written in the middle of the night by Taylor at a time when Grandma was not much good.
The Italian audience, who has been able to see them live more than once in the last few years, loves them literally. Indeed, even because live Hanson is nothing more than a pop phenomenon: they are impeccable, accurate and talented musicians not only on the latest songs but also and above all on older ones like Where’s the Love, Weird, Madeline and If Only, the band is re-reading in a completely new way (sometimes even improving them).
During the concert there was also room for a tribute to some pieces that evidently marked the musical growth of Hanson, two great rock’n’roll classics such as Rockin ‘Robin by Bobby Day and Johnny B Goode of the immense Chuck Berry, in addition to I’m a man, Give me some lovin ‘and Long Train Running, thus demonstrating with these little pearls that Zac, Taylor and Isaac know so. In short, Hanson’s live was a great opportunity not only for those who have always loved them, but also for those who listened to them at that time, who at that time in the past, although in the meantime swore loyalty to other musical genres, Always keeps an affectionate and sincere memory.
Hanson in concerto al Fabrique di Milano: la recensione
(Translated using google translate)
Before young Dawson and his anxieties came to life in the lives of thousands of teenagers with Dawson’s creek, for those who lived their carefree youth in the mid-1990s and the beginning of the new Millennium it was quite easy to come across dozens of posters Of these three blond boys and capelloni, who dominate the airplay for an unrepeatable season. It is a joy and, perhaps in part, a torment for the Hanson Brothers because if their “MMMbop” has become one of the most successful singles ever, the trio is no longer able to get rid of that childish incarnation, also Now that the formation, now no longer so embarrassing as at the beginning, is about to celebrate the first twenty-five years of career.
Yesterday, June 7, at the Fabrique of Milan for the only Italian event of the “Middle of everywhere tour”, Hanson brings on tour a good representation of a complex adventure, celebrating both the two decades of their work in this 2017 The famous “Middle of nowhere” (the MMMbop album, so much to be clear) that its longevity, which went on over the years without the clamor of their most famous singer but could always rely on a truly solid and faithful international fanbase. It is a fairly heterogeneous audience that slowly begins to fill the room, ready to sing in chorus all the sci-fi proposed by the ex-brothers prodigious, demonstrating a horse’s memory in remembering word by word all the most famous pieces of the band in Tulsa, Oklahoma .
They enter the scene at 9:30 pm, after the opening ceremony of the young English songwriter Lewis Watson, with a five-year training for a bassist curiously resembling Omar Rodríguez-López of Mars Volta and a second guitarist / keyboard player who keeps for the two Thread threads of the show a rather low profile. The Hanson blondes with a few more years on their shoulders confirm a band with a good shot and leave immediately with the high gears geared up, very ridiculous and almost unbelievable to find so much affection. They ring and gladly welcome those who do not have too much trouble in front of an even too heterogeneous repertoire, where old pop hits blend into a modern, simple southern rock of the latest works, going for cover with the most funky rhythms and some old song Scratched for the occasion.
The Hanson in these twenty-five years have somehow tried to get rid of the boyband image, never losing that aura of innocence, simplicity, and gentle ways that have always manifested it. The same intentions that can be found in the performance of the evening and in the stage management: beating of hands, choirs, jokes, jumps to stimulate interaction with the public. They know how to use the right irony and awareness to tell about their past and still be credible, though with several springs on their shoulders, to sing motivated non-intellectual texts like “You’re always in my head” and I can not live another day without You “or” Where’s the love / it makes the world go round and round and round. “The songs follow almost uninterruptedly, in a constant flow that puts in close thirty songs, with the surprise that in the end yes, the Hanson They have shown for what I am really, a good pop-rock group, genuine and totally innocuous, good guys with a vaguely old 1970s who could not inherit it. A boyband-not boyband that keeps straight on his way with craft , Even now that Ike, Tay and Zac, who disappeared from the star system radars, preferred the free way of self-production, grinding over the years records and concerts, beneficial ep They would own the production of a craft beer, as well as repopulating their County with a good dozen children in three.
Here is the full amarcord happy service to whom the late-nineties lived live in his room, divided between unprepared pop spring and new computer science that opened to the phenomenon of the Internet: it all jumps together between vocal harmonies And beaten up with “Penny & Me” and “This time around”, up to homage to rock dad Chuck Berry and his Johnny B. Goode, passing, obviously, for “MMMbop”. Of course, growing is always a complicated task, especially if you suddenly find a teenager – or little more than a kid in the case of drummer Zac – rich, famous and idolized, but the Hanson are somehow still trying , With passion and honesty. After all, they are young.
(Chiara Leandri & Marco Di Milia)
SETLIST
Already Home
Waiting for this
Where’s the love
Look at you
Tragic symphony
Thinking ’bout somethin’
Been there before
This time around
Weird
Go
Madeline
Juliet
Strong enough to break
Penny & me
Watch over me
With you in your dreams (acoustic)
On and on
I was born
A minute without you
Get the girl back
Medley cover: I’m a man (Spencer Davis Group)/ Give me some lovin’ (Spencer Davis Group)/ Long train running (Doobie Brothers)
MMMBop
If only
Fired up
In the city
BIS:
Rockin’ robin (Bobby Day cover)
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover)
Lost without each other
The Clear Appeal of Tinted Windows
The GoodMen Project
If you like power pop in the vein of Cheap Trick, The Knack, Jellyfish, The Raspberries and Big Star, you should check out the relatively unheralded but hugely entertaining Tinted Windows. It’s a bracing combination of clever songwriting and killer musicianship from folks whose bands you may already admire.
It goes without saying that power pop fans all have their favorite bands: Some favor the Raspberries; others, Big Star; still others, a second-generation group like Jellyfish. Yet one power pop group that seems somewhat unfairly overlooked by many listeners is Tinted Windows. The group began when Adam Schlesinger (the bassist-songwriter for Fountains of Wayne) and Taylor Hanson (the lead singer of Hanson) decided to work on some music together. The two then brought in James Iha (former guitarist for Smashing Pumpkins) followed soon thereafter by Bun E. Carlos (the drummer from Cheap Trick) who agreed to work on the album after hearing some of the songs the initial trio had prepared. The band released a self-titled album in 2009 and what a refreshing blast of old school power pop it is.
The opening track “Kind of A Girl” wouldn’t sound out of place on a vintage album from The Knack, “Nothing To Me” powers along like a Cheap Trick B-side, and “Messing With My Head” is a perfect blend of Hanson’s solid vocals, Iha’s crunchy power chords and Schlesinger’s tasty bass playing. Tying it all together is Carlos’ strong backbeat, even on songs like “Dead Serious” and “Take Me Back” with their hook-filled choruses ear-worming their way in your head. The smooth production by Iha and Schlesinger gives the songs such a shiny pop-rock sheen that enthusiasts for vintage rock, pop and even New Wave will think they’ve dug up a lost classic from the ‘70s or ‘80s.
Despite Hanson’s presence, this disc is devoid of keyboards; instead this rock & roll summit meeting is all about propulsive guitars, thumping bass, and fierce drumming. Which isn’t to say that there’s not a nod to Schlesinger’s Fountains of Wayne. That comes most explicitly via a pop confection titled “Without Love.” As for Hanson, the power ballad “Back With You” resides solidly on his home turf. (For a contrast, check out his gritty vocals on “Can’t Get a Read on You,” a fast-paced rocker.) All the songs concern those RNR staples: girls, girls, girls. What more could you ask from on a self-proclaimed back-to-basics release? Hey, this unlikely supergroup may end up your new power pop fave.
The album resulted in a brief tour, but the band members have since gone on to other projects, though Hanson did provide vocals on a track for Carlos’ recent solo release, Greetings from Bunezuela!. Adam Schlesinger has hinted in interviews that the group may record together again, though nothing has officially been announced. Tinted Windows was almost criminally ignored by music fans upon its release in 2009. The album is truly worth discovering by power pop aficionados.
Fox & Friends All American Concert Series
Fox & Friends All American Concert Series will welcome HANSON for a performance on Friday, July 14.
1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036on the corner of 48th st on 6th ave
Join us every Friday from 6 – 9 am ET for free music and free Famous Dave’s BBQ.
Konzert im Mojo-Club Hanson – viel mehr als eine Retro-Boygroup
Mopo
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Concert at the Mojo-Club Hanson – much more than a retro boy group
Hansons live im Mojo-Club. Das hat sich gelohnt!
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Hanson at the Mojo-Club: They are a real surprise! After all, bands such as the Backstreet Boys and Take that have reunited after the end of the 90s – and they had, in contrast to Hanson, even more than a hit. But the three brothers from Oklahoma are much more successful.
Of course, a large part of the audience is probably here to listen nostalgically giggly to the 90s-earworm “MmmBop” – but quickly everyone can grab the honest, emotional guitar sound of the sympathetic brothers.
They impress their audience with really good music. Since he plays retro aspect suddenly no longer a point – a point, which other boygroups have never really reached.
A really nice evening. And: Towards the end, “MmmBop” is also on the program. As sweet.
Hunting Birds to support Hanson in Perth
Miley Cyrus Shares Amazing Throwback of Herself and Her Siblings with Hanson
Miley Cyrus shared an amazing (and embarrassing) family photo with millions of Instagram followers on Monday night.
The “Malibu” singer posted an epic throwback pic of her and her siblings posing for a photo with Hanson, calling out older brother Trace, 28, for his mullet, and older sister Brandi, 30, for rocking a tank top over a T-shirt.
“Oh. Em. Gee! @Hanson !!!! I am still freaking out!” Cyrus wrote in the caption. “PS @tracecyrus you look like you could be one of their brothers as much as ours! Congrats on that bas ass mullet! @brandicyrus YOU are serving so much 90s realness! Yas! #tankontee!!!”
Cyrus, 24, didn’t stop at calling out her older siblings. She also pointed out her younger siblings, Braison, 23, and Noah, 17, who wasn’t even born when the picture was taken.
“@braisonccyrus you were & still are the absolute cutiestttt of all cuties… sorry to embarrass you in front of millions but that’s what a big sis is for!” she continued. “UGH this pic is suchhhhh a GEM. Top 5 best day of my life 1000000% I will never forget sharing this concert with my sibs!”
She added, “@noahcyrus sucks you weren’t born yet! Wish you could’ve been there!”
The photo was taken with the Hanson brothers: Taylor, 30, Zac, 31, and Isaac, 36.
Tuesday Trivia
It was during the recording of “Do You Believe in Love” that Zac said he was channeling his inner Freddie.
During the making of Play, what guide vocal was sung by someone other than the song’s lead singer?
Hanson in the Media
Hanson is featured in the May 26, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly with Wonder Woman on the cover. Back issues are available at the list price of $4.99 per issue plus $4 shipping. (Shipping seems to be $4 regardless of the number of magazines ordered so you may want to place orders with friends to get the best deal) https://backissues.ew.com/storefront/cBackissuesEW2017-p1.html
Hanson is featured in “The Sounds of Tulsa” Tulsa World Magazine Issue 9. They can be seen on the front cover as well as an article inside the magazine. Tulsa World Magazine back issues can be found online at Tulsa World’s Website for $3.95 plus $1 shipping. https://www.tulsaworld.com/site/forms/tulsaworldmagazine/tulsa_world_magazine/