Questions I'd Like To Ask Hanson
Should I ever get the opportunity, here are some questions I'd like to ask the band. Heaven knows, when standing face-to-face my brain doesn't work so I'll plan ahead. I'll add more to this page as I go along.
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If you could go back and release any one of your songs as a single, which would it be?
If you could go back, would you not release any of the singles you released?
You're playing a show and the crowd just is not 'into it.' They're more interested in the goings-on at the bar than you, which song (or songs) would you play to bring the crowd back?
Opposite question: The crowd is damn near ripping the paint off the walls, obliterating the floor boards. What song do you play to mellow the mood? Or do you keep playing as scheduled and keep the crowd crazy?
How often do you change the set list mid-concert? Or does the set list pretty much stay as-is?
Are any of your songs "censored," meaning the lyrics are just too personal and you've changed them for release?
You've always said that music is your passion but some aspects of music, promotion for instance, are more like a job. What do you do when the 'job' aspect of your music gets to be too much?
You've changed some of your songs since they were released on albums: changed the tempo of "Runaway Run;" added a bridge to "River." Is this something that you do a lot or more of a fluke?
Do you ever go back to your old songs, or do you only try to look forward to what's not written?
**If one of your songs could be the theme song for a video/computer game: which game? And which song?
**While interviewing a writer a few years ago, he told me that he chooses his his article subjects in three ways: ideas that he thinks would be good, ideas that people give him, and/or ideas that just spring to his mind. What is your writing process like?
**How often do you change the set list mid-concert? Or is the set list pretty much concrete once you step onstage?
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I'll let you know if any of them get answered someday.