Transcript of the AJ and Howie Interview at TMF Holland

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: May 25, 2000 Source: The Music Factory (TMF) Holland Submitted By: Christine Interview with AJ and Howie in Koln, Germany. With VJ Tooske, from TMF (The Netherlands) Tooske: AJ and Howie welcome. Thanks for being on our show today. Howard and AJ: Thank you! Tooske: Where are the rest of the guys? AJ: They are in my pocket.....I have Nick in my pocket.....no.....they are actually at home.....uhmmmmm......a couple of guys had...uhmmmm......some personal things to take care of...and they are also still writing and producing stuff...they are gonna meet up with us in the following week in the UK and were gonna finish writing some more stuff for the new album. Tooske: Are they preparing for their weddings? Howard: Uhmmmm, yeah a couple of them are..... Tooske: A couple of them are???? AJ: There is only two of them..... Tooske: Exactly.....Those two are.....Which one of you is going to be the next to be married???? AJ: JOHN!!!!! Tooske: John???? Howard: You mean Johnny No Name???? AJ: No, no, not Johhny No Name.....no, no....I don't know....we are not looking to even get married any time soon. Howard: No, nope. AJ: We have a whole new album to work on....and we got things to do. Tooske: What do you think the influence of their marriages might be on the future of the Backstreet Boys....do you think they wanna be home more? AJ: No Howard: They might be...... AJ: No, they have their wives out with them....wherever the go.....they have their fiancees now...they have them whereever they go pretty much. Howard: Yeah....I think it's gonna be the same....it's not that they just met those girls.... Tooske: They just added the ring Howard: Yeah, they got the ring (AJ: There doesn't change much.) Tooske: The last time we talked was right for the major tour.....right for the introduction actually of the Millennium album.....how do you look back at that? AJ: I can't remember.....I can't remember that far back Tooske: Picture Amsterdam, June 5th...... AJ: Oh, now you are getting specific.... Tooske: In the Arena AJ: Oh yes... Howard: Remember with the haringfish and all that stuff??? Tooske: And you loved it, didn't you? AJ: Not at all!!!! Howard: I didn't Tooske: Raw fish.... AJ: It was an experience...defenitely.....I mean the crowd....ESPECIALLY in Holland was just insane!!! Howard: Yeah, that was our biggest European concert. AJ: 65,000 or 70,000 people.....it was SICK!!! Tooske: I was amazed that....uhhmmmm....every time Nick tried to....I was there....somewhere way way in the back....every time Nick started singing....the crowd would be louder than Nick. Howard: OH really??? Tooske: Did you notice??? Howard and AJ: NO!......we had ear monitors so we didn't really know...... Tooske: Oh sorry. AJ: We didn't even hear Nick, cause we don't even wanna hear Nick Howard: Exactly!....we don't wanna hear the fans screaming for him. Tooske: But how did the tour go? The early days of the tour in The Netherlands, and then you had a whole way to go. AJ: The tour went splendid, it went really well....I mean it was long...the last week was the longest actually...and we ended the actual tour ended in Toronto.....in the second week of March??? Remember???? Howard: Yeah. AJ: Somewhere in March.....yeah...and it was just....a lot of fun, it was just a long tour. Howard: Yeah!!! It was one leg in Europe and two legs in America. Tooske: What is a leg? Howard: A leg??? AJ: Right here, you got this (pointing at his leg...LMAO) Tooske: I know that leg......I think he is talking about a different leg. Howard: A leg is like a certain timespan.....2 months a month AJ: 2 months 3 months....a certain area...we did Europe for like 3 months...we did the US for 3 months and then we came back to the US again and did it for 2 months. Tooske: Is it something....I don't know, cause I've never done a worldtour....is it that at....when it starts you think oh this is gonna be incredible and at the end oh I want this to be over??? Howard: You know actually for me....when I start it it seems like wow it's gonna be a long time...but then it starts to go kind of quickly then and at the middle it starts dragging a bit.... AJ: YEAH!!! (with a deep voice) Howard: And at the very end it's WOW were did it all go? Tooske: Uhuh. AJ: The first month is like....???.....making sure everything is right....the middle is like dragging ass...and by the time you get to the end....it starts to pick up speed but then like I said the last week of the tour felt like a year.....just cause, we were all waiting to get to the end of the tour, to have some time off, take a breather from it, you know, but.....we're gonna put together a true worldtour for this next album, which means.... Tooske: You already planned the next one, huh? Howard: Yup. AJ: Once we finished the album and we figured out what this team will be and what the title of the album will be and.....you know Millennium was more that futuristic type of vibes.....and find a theme for this album and then.... Tooske: And when do you think this one will be ready? Howard: We'll probably be done in a quarter here AJ: Probably 2001 or 2002. Howard: Maybe... AJ: Ok....no, we'll hope fully be done soon. Howard: Probably the end of August hopefully. AJ: Yeah. Tooske: Who are you making it with? Howard: Actually the five of us went down to the Bahamas.....and did some writing... Tooske: You just had to go down to the Bahamas to write, huh Howard and AJ: That's right. Tooske: You didn't pick Iceland you picked the Bahamas. Howard: It's in our contracts. AJ: We had to go, where it's sunny and beachy and beautful women.....that's where we had to go. Tooske: It's good for inspiration? AJ and Howard: YES!!! Howard: It's good to concentrate. Tooske: So we'll get a whole album about beautiful women in the sunshine....that's why we have this setting here too. Howard: Everything now around us is in the Bahama style....it keeps us AJ: Pom pom pom Tooske: Is it gonna be Max Martin and his people again? Howard: Yeah, we're actually gonna go to Sweden.... AJ: 2 weeks. Howard: in 2 weeks Tooske: Are you at all worried that...his sound is such a big thing now...there are sooo many artists that use him to create a sound for them....and you might sound like a whole bunch of other people? Howard: Everybody sounds like us. Tooske: But even if that's true a lot of people sound the same way. Howard: Us were the first and that's all that is. AJ: It's defenitely all good......I mean I think....whenever we work with Max we always seem to... some of the songs are very similair....like I WANT IT THAT WAY was the second coming of QUIT PLAYING GAMES....AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME and SHOW ME THE MEANING and all these songs...all these accoustic songs or what not....and then you have DON'T WANT YOU BACK kind of threw a wrench at everything it was kinda different....you know..... Tooske: Yeah AJ: And LARGER THAN LIFE had the rock....DON'T WANT YOU BACK was more like the hiphop.....we had the Latin song SPANISH EYES....we kinda threw a couple songs in on the album that kinda changed our sound...just a little bit....but not drastic. Tooske: That haven't been singles...YET. AJ: I know...which really SUCKED, cause I wanted DON'T WANT YOU BACK to be the last single... Tooske: Me too, me too....is it going to be a single? Howard: Nope.... Tooske: What's gonna be the next single? Howard and AJ: I'LL BE THE ONE. Tooske: I'LL BE THE ONE....why? AJ: It was actually...I have been saying that it was a group idea, but actually it was my idea.... Tooske: So modest, huh. Howard: Hey, hey now, common....give a little credit to the rest of us alright? Tooske: Yeah alright. [you should have heard the way Howard sounded and AJ looked when he said that.....oooooppppsssss.....LOL] AJ: I brought......since, no....well, actually it was me and Howie's....since the rest of the guys are not here.....I brought a suggestion up to the guys a while back when we were up on the US tour...and I thought it would be kinda cool if you would let our friends pick the next single.....all of us sat and brainstormed.....and we picked 3 songs...and then we were gonna....Brian was like why don't we shoot 3 videos......and show the fans and let them pick....and we were......we don't have time to do 3 videos dude....so we chose DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU KNOW, DON'T WNAT YOU BACK and THE ONE....and DON'T WANT YOU BACK lost by one point. Tooske: So you wanted that single, but didn't have it? AJ: No....it would have been a good song. Howard: See you messed yourself over....see with this brilliant idea it all backfired on you.... AJ: It was Nick's fault....it wasn't my fault. (stop guys!!!! No, need to fight, huh :-) ) Tooske: It was nobodies fault, butbutbutbut...we wanna know about the video....is it done? Howard: Yes, it's done. Tooske: What does it look like? Howard: It's actually a compilation of the whole last year...all of our touring....you actually see some touring from Europe. Tooske: Ohhhhhhh, N'sync has a video with that. AJ and Howard: We just heard that, yeah. Howard; But that's ok..... AJ: Ours is better...and it was our idea. Tooske: Is it that style? AJ: Yeah, but I mean, we.....we also do a lot of the behind the scene stuff....just us messin around......doing stupid stuff.....riding the bus...playing basketball.....uhmmm.....meeting some of the sick children that we have on our shows from MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION....meet some of the kids that have cancer...or whatever. Howard: We have shots like the Rolling Stone photo-shoot.... AJ: With our pants on the floor. Howard: And MTV. Tooske: Oh really? AJ: We dropped our pants for the cover Howard: Did you see that? Tooske: Yeah, I saw that.....so when can we expect you back in The Netherlands? AJ: As soon as we finished the new album. Tooske: Because you guys.....we missed you at this years TMF Awards. Howard: I know...we were, uhhhhh... (she is getting their award) AJ: Ahhhh, does it still light up? Tooske: No, it doesn't..... AJ: Ahhhh man(this was a disappointing ahhhh) Tooske: It doesn't need to. AJ: I know... Tooske: We missed you a lot and you were nominated for BEST LIVE ACT...cause everybody was crazy about your concert in June.....so you won Howard: Oh, thank you....we wanted to come here, but it was at the exact same time that one of our personal secretaries was getting married....in Miami....so Tooske: Alright, so a whole country suffered for one wedding? Howard: Yeah, y'all should be very mad with her. AJ: Yeah, you should be very mad with Nicole not us. Howard: Give her number. Tooske: So you promiss at least try to be there whenever there might be another.....cause if you never show up people might stop giving it to you. AJ: Yeah. Howard and AJ: we don't want that. Tooske: Who wants it? AJ: Me!!!! Howard: I'll take it. AJ: No, no. Tooske: Don't drop it, don't break it....alright let me say goodbye. [Ok that's it from my side of the Atlantic...yeah that took me quite a while....hope you guys enjoy it!!! :-)] Comment on this item. Recent Comments Submitted by: top seo guys 9QJosb Muchos Gracias for your blog post.Really thank you! Awesome. Submitted by: Cherry Hill NJ personal trainer Pleased to read intelligent thoughts in Russian. I`ve been living in England for already 5 years!.... Submitted by: viagra I read online (computer problems) positive feedback about your resource. Didnt even believe it, and now saw myself. It turned out that I was not fooled!.... 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