About the favourite band

Love is only what you give up -
Life is in what you get
Love won’t always fill your cup,
But life’s when you start to live
Life’s when you learn to give…

It’s generally so hard to formulate why we love this or that thing, since the more we love it the greater spectrum of details about it falls into this love zone. We’re all looking for something that would correspond with what we feel or think, that would explain to us some simple formulae about a difficulty to make the right decision: “Sittin’ on the corner of nowhere road just between “I wish I could” and “I don’t know”; about a loss of a dear person: “I don’t want you to cry and weep whooooa. I want you to go on living your life. I’m not sleeping an endless sleep whooooa. It’s in your heart you’ll have all of our good times. Oh, all of our good times...”; about lack of understanding and loneliness: “Sitting on the side, waiting for a sign, hoping that my luck will change. Reaching for a hand that can understand, someone who feels the same. When you live in a cookie-cutter world being different is a sin. So you don’t stand out, but you don’t fit in. Weird…”; about love: “It doesn’t mean love’s wrong just because you’re feeling low. And it doesn’t mean love’s gone ‘cause you feel that you want to let go. No one wrote in this book of love that you’d always know. I wish someone would have told me before…”; about life and struggle: “Everyone waits on a walk. Some are long and some small, but all of them tall. And everyone must make a choice – will I go for it all, and possibly fall? The tightrope is thin, I could possibly win on the walk…” They’re just the same as they were when they first showed up 10 years ago being merry 12-17 year old kids bombing concert halls with pop/rock’n’roll songs. The same in the sense that they never got false to themselves and yielded to the destructive influences of show biz placing show above music to snatch a large sum. They still write all the songs themselves, the songs in which they describe experience gained, life situations they got in, and conclusions drawn out. Their whole life passes before your eyes in their albums. They grow up, and the songs grow up with them. They become harsher, more serious, more mature. 10 years ago they sang about computer games, comics heroes, favourite toys, friendship, and other things that worry children. Now, they sing about problems of AIDS and poverty in Africa, about family and children (‘coz they all are married by now, and two of them have children), about the ‘many-sidedness’ of life and inability to grasp the whole of it, about music. What am I fascinated at? Someone else’s life? No. Sincerity! Music as a form of expression your inner state, your feelings and emotions – that’s the way it should exist. And it does exist in their songs. Unpretentious lines, with no definite rhyme structure make you imagine them saying the same if you got a chance to talk to them. Real names they often refer to make you deepen more into their world. And you don’t care that this song is dedicated to their friend, or a wife of one of them. It is devoted to a real person, close to them; the lines come out of the heart, that’s why it’s always easy to transfer it on to your friend or lover, ‘coz “we all are human”, and we all feel and suffer the same, although we might live in different countries all-around the world. To say nothing about rock’n’roll and rock/pop rhythms, so dear to my heart! They are masters of arrangement, and their versions of James Brown’s, Chuck Berry’s, Kingsmen’s, U2 songs are a marvel. The more you listen, the more you feel it could not be done better.

Tell me does it move you?
Does it soothe you?
Does it fill your heart and soul
With the roots of rock’n’roll?..

Every rock’n’roll lover has his face and his name of rock’n’roll. My face is called IKE-TAY-AND-ZAC. My name is called HANSON.