interview

[cdmeggers]

Well, Taylor stopped by a radio station last night in NYC and yeah.. Someone on livejournal typed up a transcript. Kind of interesting, he even played a solo song of his that he wrote with another musician.


Girl: I've got some guests in the studio....
Taylor: Hey, this is Taylor Hanson, just hanging out...
Girl: How was your dinner?
Taylor: It was great actually. Of course probably a lot of people come over from the restaurant. Hey how's it going? No, but it's actually such a good vibe in there. I was listening to music earlier, I was like I really wanted to play some tracks. And you were telling me a really cool story about the Ya Ya Ya's.
Girl: Yeah, so I'm playing a new song by the Ya Ya's next. It's called, "Ceilings," you can find it on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack, but yeah, Taylor as I was telling you, I've been waiting like 2 years to get my hands on this song. I was, when I first moved to New York 2 years ago I was living in this crazy store front with 6 boys and this weird band and I didn't really like to be around there and it was Christmas and I just wanted to be somewhere else and Nick Zinner (??)from the ya ya's was going out of town for 6 months so he let me and my friend's stay in his apartment. We didn't really go through his stuff, we just happened to find this cd...
Taylor: You were just going through...Hey I just stumbled across this disk.
Girl: It said demo. And we're like let's just listen to it.
Taylor: It's not like somebody's journal. Like if you see a demo, your not supposed to open it.
Girl: So we listened to it and it was amazing. It was unlike any Ya Ya song I had heard yet. And so I told them afterwards, like you know look, I found this cd and I listened to it and I really liked it and I um, asked him if I could have it and he was like no you can't, but uh, wait for it.
Taylor: It said demo on it.
Girl: It did say demo. Um, so the last ya ya's album came out,"Show Ya Bones." I was really excited. I loved the album, but that track wasn't on it. And I was like wut's up with that song nick like where is it, where can I find it? He was like well we're holding it off for a soundtrack. And he didn't tell me and the time what soundtrack. I don't think he knew. But, yeah. Here it is. It's gonna be on..It's on the spriderman soundtrack. So, here it is. This song is called Ceilings. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Taylor: Nice...

**Plays song**

Girl: Alright, Ya Ya's. What do you think? Was it worth the wait?
Tay: I think it was worth the wait, yeah. Especially if your a ???? fan. And obviously, they have there sound and that's really...Gosh (Gosh? Really Taylor, lol) how does it sound compared to the demo when it all started?
Girl: Um, it was so long ago, I don't really remember.
Tay: It's a blur.
Girl: I think it, yeah, it does sound better. It sounds bigger.
Tay: It's spiderman. It must be big. It has to be large.
Girl: So, your uh, still looking for stuff.
Tay: Yeah, I, uh, think I'm might throw in like a couple songs.
Girl: alright.
Tay: Why don't you play one more and then we'll plug up while we're rocking on one (???).
Girl: Alright, yeah. I'm gonna play a track by a new band from New York called White Rabbits. This is, "While We Go Dancing."

**Plays Song**

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Girl: And we're back.
Taylor: Cool. That was really cool.
Girl: That was nice. They've got two drummers in that band.
Taylor: You know that's actually one of those things that underestimated. The two drummer thing. A great story about little Richard used to say. He used to get two drummers playing a lot of those beats that really shuffles, **insert a chugga choo a chugga choo sounds here (LMAO)** Because he was always trying to create that train. He would say it's gotta sound like a train. **chooga sound** It's gotta have...And that kinda has that sorta sway to it. So, um, thanks for letting me storm (?) your time a little bit.
Girl: Of course...
Taylor: It's just fun to play records. This...I was saying...I'm so frustrated, cause there were a couple of things that I wanted to play. I totally rocked out at the hotel. But, this is a cool tune called, "Don't Destroy Us," by a band. Now, this is sort of in the process, so it's a band called, "Astro Command (???)." It's a really cool bunch of guys from L.A., some friends.
Girl: Cool...
Tay: And it's called, "Don't Destroy Us." Pretty cool.

**Plays song**

Girl: I really like that. And I love the fact that you just told me that Chris Holms is, has been working with this band.
Tay: Uh, yeah. It really is kind of his band. It's him singing. We actually...I wasn't planning on playing stuff that we were singing on, but that was us singing on it. then I was looking at tracks that I had. What should we play next? It's only a couple of minutes left in your show.
Girl: Yeah we got...Yeah, so one last song. We only have time for one song.
Tay: Oh gosh, that's like really hard. Now, I feel really bad for playing something that's like my, sort of my song.
Girl: No, you should play it.
Tay: This is a song that I wrote with a couple of friends a few months ago that is really beautiful. Not because I'm singing on it. But, because it's a good song. Andrew W.K and myself.
Girl: Was this during one of the retreats?
Tay: This, yeah. Around the same time.
Girl: Cool.
Tay: So, yeah. Here we go.

**Plays songs** (Very different... So, different then Hanson's music. Sounds sort of 70's- ish with the keyboard and vocals).

Girl: So, "take my time." I wish we could.
Tay: That's nice. That was nice. Good work.
Girl: So, thanks for coming in Taylor.
Tay: No, thanks for letting me storm your fortress a little bit.

[silvergirl]

Thanks for that! But whoever typed up the transcript originally should know that it's "Sealings" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not "Ceilings" by the Ya Yas, lol.

[cdmeggers]

I wouldn't know that! haha. And perhaps whoever typed it up didn't either. who knows! :)

[musicsdarling]

Sweet, thanks. :)

[cdmeggers]

Speaking of Taylor's song.. I've heard from several people that they really do not like the song he did..... I haven't heard it yet but haha. Someone did type up the lyrics, but I've lost them.