What we've been able to do with The Walk, very simply, is to.you know, talking about that connection.really say, 'Hey, thank you for being here.' But ultimately we're all individual people. I will say in our going forward in our careers, there's something really powerful about taking your relationship with a group of people that like these causes and turning it into a human story. Well, we had the opportunity and approaching that challenge a certain way.

Why is raising awareness about issues in Africa important to you? Hanson is always up for thinking of new ways to make positive changes in multiple communities, as you did on The Walk in 2007. ' It should be, 'Hanson's back! I'm really excited to hear that thing or that new song.' And in this case, 'Did you vote on what album you want to hear? Yeah, you can vote on the set list,' and people go, 'What?' It makes it something that's, or overkill. You don't ever want the show to be, 'They're just backing. It's about not just going out and making people expect the least. Now that we have five to pull from, there's a sense that there's kind of an arc. It's something you can't do if you're only two albums in. They're going to hear our whole body of work. Of course, they're not just going to hear our whole album. But the bulk of the concert is the one album that the fans voted for in that city. You're still going to have a mix of songs from across our career at the opening and closing of the shows. That's one of the things that I think is good about the tour. But they're voting on albums we made, so at least we know that everything they're going to vote on is recorded and written and put out as a record. Well it's definitely risky! It's risky as far as our ability to rehearse well. You guys seem like you're confident that concertgoers will make good choices. To further make the music become a personalized experience, you're allowing fans to choose the set list on this tour. It makes you want to drive it makes you want to cry it makes you want to go do something. People connect when they hear your song and it makes you feel a certain way.

That's got to be the model for me because music is about a feeling. In a lot of ways, that's all we try to do: make music that we're passionate about and use tools that allow us to come closer. But people like Bruce Springsteen, an icon, who is somebody I respect but maybe I'm not the biggest fan of ever, he's an example of someone with whom, even long before there was technology, people felt kinship because he would play a three-hour show, go on and on, and tell stories about real life. I was thinking of music that I love as we were planning for this tour, and there are artists that I'm a bigger fan of than others. We haven't been as high tech or as fast at Facebook or Twitter, but over time we've always tried to make what we do be a part of, in a way, something that's not just, 'Oh, I like that song.' Ultimately it's about building a connection. Taylor Hanson: Our position on that kind of stuff is to always come back to the music. Tell me about your longstanding relationship with your friends. You allow them to get a somewhat personal experience while you're on tour or working on new material, and you utilize social media better than a lot of other bands. Up On The Sun: You guys have always shared a very special interaction with your fans.

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