your fans are probably freaking out
because having you guys together like
this on stage I know you guys have
celebrated 26 years together
is that true it's amazing a new gift to
be able to have and we're in our 30s and
we've been doing it for you know an
amount of time that many people don't
ever reach yeah
exactly but that's one of the reasons
why this project we wanted to do so
we're playing with symphonies not just
in the u.s. also in the spring were be
in Europe and in Australia and it was a
bucket list item and so we said this is
the reason you're still you know do
something this long it's because you're
still interested in the next thing
you're still sort of trying and
challenging yourself otherwise you kind
of hit cruise control and and things
kind of decline and so for us we've just
seen into that connection to grow and
it's if we're excited about it we feel
feel like we can get other people except
salutely and I think this stage is so
incredible looking at that video that we
just rolled and with the symphony of
course tonight you're gonna be with
Houston's Center on stage and I think
that this is so neat to be able to of
course you know the Grammy nods that you
guys have or the multi millions of
albums that were purchased but to be
able to sit down with an orchestra with
a symphony that's really I'm gonna say
like taking it back to the basics but
that's kind of where your love for music
all three of you kind of started right I
mean you're all musician right started
playing classical piano and yeah we can
all read music at different levels yeah
nine months
I wouldn't put myself in a sight-reading
gun it's this scale of it is really cool
you know tonight it'll be in more than
50 musicians on stage and the great
thing about the symphony is it has so
much emotional depth I think when you're
listening to sort of traditional pop
music these days or a lot of you know
you know urban records are so popular
they have like a beat and a melody and
it's like two parts but when you come to
the symphony you have you know strings
and you have the woodwinds and you have
the brass and yet
in the back the bass drum and it's also
venes in the pairing with with you know
it gives us a chance to highlight what
we really see is probably our greatest
thing the most pride in which is
craftsmanship as songwriters I've always
written her songs and always been sort
of you know too greatly involved in that
and that hope you know we love you know
great players but really our heroes are
you know great craftsmen great
songwriters from Billy Joel the you know
even really Chuck Berry who was who was
playing rock and roll but he was writing
great lyrics and melodies and and so
like it's at the core of this I mean we
you saw Bob which is you know kind of
certain lesser-known song we play it as
an acoustic song because it was written
as this sort of campfire song and then
you have brand-new songs that are
happening like siren call and reaching
for the sky but all of it really it's
like at the core of this deal you can
the DNA of that Orchestra is in that
song and you're really in watching a
symphony and being there you don't know
where to look right things going on
let's talk about reaching for this guy
because this is such a I know I've
listened to a lot of the documentaries
and things that are done so you're kind
of introducing a character yeah and
that's right well I mean the story of we
couldn't settle on one way to pick
musically what to do with that show and
so we really went back to the story
let's tell a story in a sense it's
almost like a musical of sorts without
being a music we knew that we couldn't
possibly just go this is the sound we
had to say well what do we want to say
it's a reach of this guy sort of starts
with this character and it's really it's
our story but it's really sort of this
human story of you know this character
that says hey I I think I'm I'm an
outcast maybe by everybody else's
standards but I see this thing in front
of me and doesn't have to make sense to
anybody but I'm gonna sort of reach for
the sky I'm gonna I see that this this
possibility and so that the story the
show you begin the hair with just a
piano and an orchestra and then it just
takes you on a ride more bittersweet
lyrics to in reaching for the sky which
always kind of resonated with me because
I think we felt this a lot as young
musicians starting out and I think a lot
of people have to kind of go through
this and deal with this in their lives
which is you know good things come to
those who wait don't think too big just
know your place and I remember that and
and that lyric in particular I think
sets up the fact that
there there's going to be a lot of
people telling you that the dream is too
big or that you're not capable of doing
that but you have to decide not any age
exactly and you have to decide whether
or not you're willing to kind of go
through the pain and the person and and
have the perseverance that it takes to
do that really hard work and so we feel
lucky that we've had the chance to do
that and that we've had a lot of people
along the way who have said oh no keep
going but you still constantly are
running into those obstacles and you got
to be willing to you know get over those
was a really amazing show to put
together and that's really what it is
it's this big experience you listen to
it like like listening to an album not
not going to a rock concert I mean it
has loud guitars and drums and all that
stuff but but you kind of sit down and
you get to enjoy this progression to the
end which is you know everybody playing
and sort of the size is really great and
you guys have such a loyal fanbase it's
hard to believe it's been it was 1997
that Bop was released I think it's so
cool that you have still embraced that
song and that will be one of the songs
you perform on stage we're just about
out of time but we got to talk about the
beer line we drink here at yes we have
our own beer company handsome Brothers
beer we started a few years ago we also
have a beer festival we're from Tulsa
so just up the road a little ways people
can come every May - it's called hop jam
but yeah the main that the first year we
put out is called um hops it's an
English style Pale Ale and you know we
come to it just exactly the way you
would expect drinking beer and traveling
the country and tying all these craft
beers around the world and around the
u.s. and then going man we should in
fashion to do this for ourselves like
yeah to incorporate our own flavors
things we like beers we like beers we're
tasting and then we've got the Omaha
yeah and then we thought the ohm ops
panel was pretty fun basically no that's
the worst idea No
delicious the picture of it looks
delicious I wish we had a glass in our
hands right now but we can leave that
for next time
okay perfect there's the information on
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catch Hanson string theory tonight just
visit Houston Symphony org guys thank
you so much for stopping by Isaac Taylor
Zach good luck to you on stage you can't
wait to to hear you guys