Fansons | Rebels Without a Clue
And I'm Not Sorry Either
There’s a constant battle that every single human being on the earth has to fight every day: the war between good and bad. Taking that parking spot would be bad. Donating bone marrow to that person would be good.
Hanson fans had to make several Good vs. Bad decisions throughout the progression of the This Time Around Tour. I did. Sneaking camera in = illegal. I did it anyway.
Bootlegs, in my ever so humble opinion (it’s so humble, I’m putting on my webpage) are perfectly acceptable and even hugely enjoyed by myself, unless the band/artist is releasing an official. Live album from that particular show. It it, therefore, with arms wide open that I (personally) welcomed the Hammerstein Ballroom concert bootlegs. But it also raises quite a few questions. If you’ve heard the recordings (and I know you have), you’ll see they’re see they’re 3 degrees away from being professional recording quality. Also, of all 52 concerts during the tour, how fortunate could the “bootlegee” be to get such a suburb quality product from one of the two concerts with a special guest? It’s quite interesting that Jonny Lang happened to pop by this particular concert date. The concert itself, with a, pardon the cliché, crapload of covers (Crosstown Traffic, Can’t Always Get What You Want, Piece of my Heart, Johnny B. Goode (featuring Jonny Lang-Wonderboy himself) and I Want You to Want Me.
A coincidence?
I think not.
There seems to be a black market for unpublished Hanson music. The demos, not affectionately referred to as Album X, mysteriously leaked from 3 Car Garage Studios in Tulsa in mid-1999. It had almost a year since fans had heard anything from Hanson. The drought (which is slowly but surely coming again as we speak) had settled in; the fans were griping. “When will Hanson’s new album come out?” they said mournfully. “What will become of them? What does their new music sound like?” Bam, three weeks later HansonHouse had a 33 second clip of Runaway Run up and fans were gulping it down. Soon after, many more demos, and then, some people got full demo tapes.
A coincidence? Of course not. Hanson, unlike their haughty, we’re-too-good-to-care-about-the-fans label, Def Jam, heard our… uh, pleas for help and most likely did something tricky to get away from Death Jam, and snuck a copy of their demo tape to their friend Dwayne in Ohio, told him to make a copy and send it around, and blah blah blah.
They knew we wanted a live album, they heard us. Constantly asking, begging, pleading (sometimes the fans can be incredibly immature) and they quenched the thirst.
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