Chords for Bobby Bones Interview with the Band HANSON

_ _ _ Her Hanson's here Isaac you good.
I'm good.
I was just playing guitar tech at the same time.
Yeah, I saw he was working on strings
Well Dean so I met your son.
Yes.
Yes
Look, I spinning image.
Oh, how old is he?
Um, he is 11.
That's crazy.
You guys have kids all around.
Yeah, we have
Taylor has five kids.
Yeah.
No, I but it's 11.
You're the oldest kid.
No, my oldest is my oldest 15
You have a 15 year old.
Yeah, man.
What's happening?
We're all getting older man.
Yeah
I got it freaks me out.
I mean I started early cuz I mean I was 20 basically
So, I mean that's not that's not common and I wouldn't start it with kids.
Yeah 20.
Yeah, not music.
Yeah
Yeah, I was kids at 20.
Yeah music was like
Yeah music I was nine and _
_ _ Props to this to being a young parent though.
I will say I wouldn't I wouldn't go around saying hey everybody
you should start having kids at 19 or 20, but
It is awesome to be young and like be kind of still have that that connection with having kids
I mean, it's like the energy of doing stuff and going places and sharing things and you know, that's pretty cool
So you have a 15 year old 11 year old all the way down
But what would you tell them about music because you guys as handsome started again?
Like you said you started singing at nine you and three brought this do they have interest any of your kids have?
massive interest to be in music I
It's it's interesting because they're there, you know face with it every day
So I think it might have been a different scenario for some of them if if it wasn't like oh
That's what dad does, you know, because we didn't have that we were going up in a family
That was musical but there weren't any musicians around us
And so it was very much our own thing and I think it's it's different when you're looking at something and sort of comparing yourself
To it.
Hey, my my my boys rolled their eyes and were frustrated, you know that I was leaving town
You know what?
I mean?
Like
_ _ It's like so they in a weird way
They actually have some like you say some kind of like slightly negative kind of days just to music like oh, man
He's got all that but they
For my kids my oldest son has started playing guitar
My next son plays bass and stuff.
I mean so they're they're starting to show real interest in that as
To whether or not they make a career out of it a profession out of it.
Who knows you want them to
You wanted to do stuff that they love I mean basically anything you do is hard
I mean I wanted to do something they're good at you know, like if you're a good musician go for it, man
If you're a mediocre musician don't go dude.
I love you
You're my son, but you know become a plumber become something you can excel at like _ don't
Music is awesome, but it's so hard and there's so much
There can be so much judgment and like self-doubt in in being somebody on stage
It's sort of burying your soul and all that.
It's like just you know
Do something that you're good at do something that you feel like you can just destroy at you know
And and maybe that's music Hanson is here when you guys started because Zack you're the youngest
Yeah, but if you're nine is Isaac you're the oldest right?
Yeah, so, okay, you're 11 right now _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Wow, yeah, so I was six when we started the band
_ At that time, you know, we were just singing it was more like we had heard 50s music
we heard, you know rock and roll and Motown records and gospel and so we were doing kind of a
vocal groups harmonies
Resinging 50s rock and roll songs and very quickly.
It was a couple years and then we were full-on, you know drums and guitar piano
It was such a it was a tool for us for us.
We heard songs
We wanted to replicate songs and so the idea of becoming the band
Going from just singing to sort of guitar solos and Chuck Berry and all that exactly.
It was just this natural thing
But you know, it's it's kind of crazy.
You know, I look at my kids
I have a nine-year-old son and a seven-year-old and a four-year-old and a one-year-old, right and like
If it was me like three of them would already have been singing writing songs at this point and you just you just go
You know, I don't even know my life is not your life
I think a lot of early driven in a certain way though.
How at that age?
Well, I think it's it's really not an age question, you know, I think it's just who we are
And who we were at that time and I was thinking about this a lot because this last year we were celebrating an anniversary
You know mark years every you know every time but we're like, hey, we've been playing for 25 years like since we were kids
So we made it we did a whole tour last year kind of and hey, this is a big deal
_ And age is such a strange thing because everyone is not the same at every age
I mean sure
There's a reality like you can't read until X point and for most people and you can't drive vote
But you can't vote but but I think I think we just that's who we were and like we didn't see
We didn't see a huge roadblock, which is a credit to our folks.
Just not telling us you're completely crazy.
_ Yeah
to try we didn't see a roadblock to trying and
_ And you know, whatever it is like there was a combination of just enough just enough talent and just enough like drive and and guts
I guess what's that?
Like when you're that age in your whole world is like boom
You're the thing because it happened what seemingly to us it was like boom.
They're a thing.
Yeah kid.
These kids are a thing I will say
You know parenthood I think really enlightens this a great thing about being a kid like a young
_ _ Person is
It stresses parents out because kids don't think about anybody but themselves
And so when you're a kid, you're the center of the world and when you become the center of the world for that moment
You know that you know the actual to the world actually you're still the center of the world Yeah, right
so I think for us like we we were we were driving towards this idea of success as a band and
So the center of our world was that how do we how do we get our music in front of this?
How do we get a bigger show next week?
How do we what's our next album Sima and then all of a sudden it's like other people cared
But we were still like, okay.
What's our next album?
What's our next thing?
Well also, I mean we were talking about you know age and how and how we start out and everything like that
I mean you do have to think about it from a contextual point of view
I mean when you're 11 years old and you start out singing with your brothers and they're 9 and 6 years old and
You're memorizing songs and writing songs and you're doing that for almost five years
Which is making multiple records and all that kind of so that's like a lifetime in that
at that point you're like five six years into the making music and then
Something really works like on a next level working.
You're like _
When did you know?
_ When did you know that song was like boom?
Like this is a song that's gonna change our life.
Well, I mean we
The the real moment there's a story and some of its documented the first time we actually physically saw [Ab] it was a radio event in New
Jersey with a Paramus Park Mall
Which was we I mean the short version of the story is that we we were rehearsing to do our first major TV and we kind
Of had our heads down right because you you make a record you put it out it goes to radio
And we're just preparing to actually come out
Throughout _ the years we were actually quite [F] serious
we're way more serious in a lot of cases than than not but
We were rehearsing to play Letterman [Ab] and we were asked to go do radio show that we'd been agreed to do it [E] was kind of
Oh, really?
We're rehearsing for David Letterman.
It's [Abm] tomorrow
And so we kind of reluctantly went to to this really a little acoustic performance
Thinking that it was us, you know on a little corner stage [N] in front of you know
A hundred people doing the kind of thing we'd done as a local band or whatever doing our thing and place was packed
It was 10,000 people there and that's when I was like, holy cow.
This is the thing we looked around and went eat something happened
What happened, you know, there's so I you know fast-forwarding though, I the thing that's really cool about you know
Continuing and back to that very first day first songs
We wrote is we actually genuine they're still doing it for the same reason
Which is like that's an unbelievable feeling to walk out and see people sing your songs back last year
We were all over the world doing that and but in the end it like it's still the same rush the rush of creating something _
Is still like the thing that causes you to want to chase that next like 10,000 person crowd
It's like that's amazing.
But you're still that you're still excited to walk in front of any you know _ _
_ _ People's fun, but I actually think I actually think theaters like the Ryman is that for probably more fun because they it really it really
feels like you
[E] _ It really it really
Serves the the art form really well for like a bit of a and serves the interaction _ _ _ _ _