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All right you HANSON guys and gals, you've wanted it, you've begged for it, and now for your reading pleasure...
Here's My HANSON Concert Experience
Ok first we woke up in the morning on July 12th, 1998 at 8:00am... never mind I'll
skip that part...ok well first my Aunt Sandy came over in the "big 15 footer van" (that's what Zac says on one interview) that we rented (actually it was just a 7
seater van) Since we were gonna be seating in REALLY HIGH seats at the concert, Aunt Sandy had to go buy binoculars. My other aunt, Aunt Sue wasn't felling to well
so she ended up giving her ticket to my sister Samantha. Sabrina really wanted her mom to go so she kinda got upset before we left. She was worried about her mom
staying all by herself when she was sick.... so finally we're off at around 2:30pm! Sabrina got upset again at Wal-mart (we had to return some broken binoculars)...
she started crying cuz she wanted to go home. We kept telling her she would have a really great time and that she would regret it if she didn't go... we stopped at
Jack in the Box to get some food. Sabrina didn't want anything at the time so Uncle Dana didn't get her anything. When we were on the freeway she decided she was
hungry so we stopped at Jack in the Box and she stopped crying.
FINALLY WE WERE ON THE FREEWAY AGAIN - On our way to L.A. (which it takes us about 3 hours to get up there) Ok so we're driving and SUDDENLY we see the sign that
says HOLLYWOOD at around 6:00pm!!! Yeah we're finally there! As we try to find a parking lot somewhere we see all these people with HANSON t-shirts on (including
lots of boys! and I think that's pretty cool!) While we're still looking, Sabrina, Samantha and I keep waving to people on the street saying HANSON RULEZ! out our
windows. Ok we got there..... when we get out, I see this REALLY cute HANSON t-shirt... I yell "hey, I really like your shirt!" it was a spaghetti strap shirt that
was yellow and had the Middle Of Nowhere cover picture on it.
We got a paper that said no signs or cameras allowed.... so we took out the posters I made and we took about 6 pictures. (I think that paper was stupid! When we got
in there almost everyone had a poster and cameras! How rude!!!!) We put the stuff away in the van...we went in. We were there early so we had to wait awhile. Aunt
Sandy, Mark and Sabrina had to go to the bathroom so Justin, Uncle Dana, Sam and I waited outside. As we were waiting for them I saw three girls who had on what looked
like back stage passes!!! Justin and I were about to go after them! I'm said to him "C'mon let's go steal their passes!!!" and he's like "yeah c'mon!" Well it turned
out that you can buy those things that weren't back stage passes at the souvenir stand for $15!!!
As we were waiting I also saw so many cute shirts that people made! Ok well we went in and this time my Uncle Dana and Justin had to go to the bathroom. So while we
waited (I was really starting to get hyper) I was standing by the stairs greeting people! I said to everyone who came by me, "hi welcome to the HANSON concert" "enjoy
your stay" "HANSON Rulez!" and then we went to find our REALLY HIGH UP SEATS! My Uncle, my sis, Sabrina and I went to go buy souvenirs... I got a really cool HANSON-T
for $35 and one of those badge thingys for $15... there went all of my money! My Uncle bought us each a program that was $15.
Ok we sat back down! There were two opening acts and I didn't really like them cuz all I came there for was HANSON! The first band was ok. The lead singer had on a blonde
wig! Then another band came out. I personally thought that they sucked cuz I wanted to see HANSON!!!!!! FINALLY HANSON came out and the crowd went wild! Tay was wearing
a silver over shirt, (itz in the pic of the European Music Awards, I think or was it the pants?)...he had on some silverish purplish pants on and his big black boots...
Zac was wearing a black shirt with a red strip on it (I think I couldn't really see cuz of his drums) and some really wild looking orange pants that had some cool designs
on it. Ike had on a green shirt with a black shirt on underneath. He also had some silver pants on.
When they came out they said "How's everyone doin' tonight?"(Ike) "Ok you're at a HANSON concert so do you know what that means?!"...."YOU CAN'T SIT STILL!!!!!" (Tay) The
first song was "Give me some lovin' " I love that song! I don't really remember the rest of the line up, but anyways the songs they sang were... "Where's the Love", "Thinking
of You", "I Will Come To You", "With you in Your Dreams", "Look at You", "River", "More Than Anything"(Ike's solo), "Soldier", "A Minute Without You"(which they dedicated to
the whole back sections!) "Summer Time Blues", and there was this song that wasn't really a song...they were just introducing people in the band and had music playing (that
was when Tay took over for Zac and Ike took over for Tay)....I think that there's more, but I can't really remember, but the very last song was "Weird" On one song Ike started
jumping off of Zac's little stage thingy and he was really wild! He kept doing that on a lot of songs! On one part of the concert Tay went over to take over for Zac on the drums!
THAT WAS REALLY KEWL! Taylor plays them so well! Zac went out into the crowd and squirted them with a big water gun! Well when Tay went over to go back to the keyboards he was
running and jumping all over the place and he tripped on Ike's guitar cord!!! (POOR TAY!) But he didn't really fall he kinda caught himself before he fell. Tay took his over
shirt thingy off on the 3rd song!!! ::Sigh:: I really liked when they had the setting changed to where they were all sitting down. When they went off to have it changed back
to the first one it was cool cuz when Tay came back he was drenched (I think they might have had a little water fight back stage or something.) His hair was all wet!
Ok, well, whenever Ike had his own little part the crowd always went nuts! I think there were mostly Ike fans there! Poor Tay and Zac! Oh well, Ike deserves the attention!
Before they sang "A Minute Without You" Tay said "we would like to dedicate this next song to the whole back section!!!!" And everyone near us started cheering really loudly!!!
Well there's not really that much left to tell except that Tay threw 3 bottles of his water (that he drank out of!!!!!!!) in the crowd!!! He also threw his towel!
(OH MAN! I REALLY WISH I COULD HAVE SAT CLOSER!)
When we were leaving my Uncle Dana and cousins had to go to the bathroom AGAIN! So I said to people as they were leaving "by hope you
enjoyed the show!" "come again soon!" "HANSON Rulez!" "bye! good bye!" Most of them said bye back, but some of them thought I was crazy! On our way out of the gates I thought
I saw HANSON leaving to their tour bus! At least I think it was them...(I'm guessing by the loud shrieks from all of the girls.) On our way to the car I said to Sabrina "Man
whoever had those water bottles I'm gonna kill them!" and these girls in front of us heard and said "I have one of those bottles" I'm like "oh well uhh...I don't mean you, I
meant the person who had the last bottle" (cuz he drank out of that one!) They asked me what part I was sitting in and I said "section U, I couldn't even see them very well
what about you guys?" "section L" and as we were going 2 different ways they said "see ya next concert" and I said "yeah! front row seats! BYE HANSON RULEZ!" and they said bye.
From then on every person I saw I said "bye HANSON Rulez! See ya next concert! Front row seats!" Some of them looked at me like I was crazy again!!
But oh well, and then when we FINALLY FOUND OUR VAN we had to wait about 10 minutes to leave! So we sat in the back saying bye to HANSON fans, while we had the tape with all of
the HANSON radio interviews playing... at first the people around us were like hey is HANSON on the radio?!?!? I told them no it was just on tape and they're like ohhh, ok. We
sat there for awhile and then said good bye to all the people around us and we were on our way home. Sabrina, Samantha and I talked for awhile about how great the concert was...
talking about all of the highlights like for instance when Tay almost fell, or how about the time when Isaac started to jump around on the stage, or when we all thought they
were about to leave, but then they suddenly came back and sang "Weird" for us. Or my favorite was when Tay was jumping up and down on the song "Where's the Love" and when they
dedicated the song "A Minute Without You" to the whole back sections (like the section I was in).
We then got really sleepy and fell asleep... when we woke up again we were back
again in El Cajon at 1:30am (man life on the road! I feel just like HANSON! Ya fall asleep in LA and when you wake up you're in a whole new city! (or for them sometimes it might
be a whole new state!)... it was all over! Back to reality. How sad! I never wanted that night to end!
That was the BEST day of my WHOLE life! - Tara Marie Hanson...
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