Open House Party, October 23, 1999

John: Howie and Nick, hello.
Nick: WAssup! (in this high-pitched cutie voice)
Howie: Hey!
John: Nice to see you again!
Howie: Good to see you too!
Nick: You too man!
John: You guys have an incredible tour going on and I guess the biggest
problem for the tour is you didn't have more time to spend in every single
city. It sold out in what, 3 or 4 hours?
Howie: Yeah
Nick (simultaneously): Something like that..
Howie: It's unbelievable. It was in the record, the guiness book of world
records I heard.
Nick: Did we?
Howie: Yeah that's what I heard...a lil bit ago..
Nick: (stumped and so cute) Oh wow..
John: You didn't expect that?
Nick: No..
Howie: not really
John: So now what do you do? I mean, You have all these fans, people are
trying to get the tickets and the scalpers are making a fortune and even the
scalpers can't get the tickets.
Nick: I know..::sigh::
Howie: (simultaneously) I know..we even put on extra dates, but we only had a
certain amount of time to put in those amount of dates and we weren't able to
get into every place we really wanted to like Texas and Cleveland and
Indianapolis, so there's some talk about possibly doing another feature tour
maybe in Feb, sometime around in there, ya know, to finish up and hit more of
the states that we didn't get the chance to.
John: I imagine the fact now that the winter season of basketball means that
the arenas are really booked up.
Nick: Yeah, exactly..
Howie: yeah..right..
John: That slows it down..
Howie: We had a little bit more free time now...we're having some actual days
off.
John: I can see the fans listening now, ooh they're out running around in the
daytime, where do I find them?
Howie: Psst...McDonald's..
Nick: Arcade!
John: You go to places like that? McDonald's and arcades?
Nick: It's hard. It's It's been hard..I mean, like I wanted to go to the
movies the other night, and it really kind've couldn't happen because we had
a little fan situation outside the hotel. And ya know we..we try our hardest,
ya know some of the guys go to clubs, and we usually don't get much of a
chance to get out of the hotel, but when we do..
John: Do people recognize you?
Nick: YeEs!
Howie: A bit now more..
Nick: Yah, a bit more than usual..
Howie: More than in the past..
John: Oh your pictures are all over the place. I just came into the San Jose
Arena and people are driving around with vans, with ur posters all over the
sides of the van, and holding big signs and ur pictures are on the signs!
Howie: The poor parents! I've seen them out there with shaving cream on the
windows and everything and I'm thinking, Oh my god...they're serious.
Nick: (interrupting) I got stuck in traffic, man. I mean, I was on the way
back from my house cause I just moved to...Oh (Howie and John laugh at his
mistake here)..I just moved to LA, so we were performing in Anaheim and I
stayed at my house and I got stuck in traffic on the way to the concert with
all the fans and I was looking around and we asked some fans how to get to
the venue cause we didn't know how to get there (Howie and John laugh some
more)...Hey, scuse me..you know how to get to the venue?
John: Ahahahahahaha! (he's gonna die of laughter..i swear)
Howie: Just follow the thirty cars ahead of you..
John: Are you Nick??
Nick: No, I just look like him! ::does a cute little laugh::
John: Tell us about the show. Because all of the people who can't see the
show, I mean, there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of fans who won't be
able to see the Millennium show.
Howie: We've got about I'd say 14? 14, 15 songs that we do?
Nick: Yeah..
Howie: I think there's more than that..
Nick: There's like 18..
Howie: 18 maybe?
Nick: There's like 18, almost 20 and..and uh..we have every..like...all..most
of them are the singles and and..it's I mean, it's an all around great
show..it's a lot of..it's really energy packed..
John: It must be so much different than when you first started out. Cause you
have all these hits and u go up and sing these hits and the minute you start
they go, Oh here's my favorite song...
Nick: (interrupting) That's...unbelievable...
John: As opposed to when you first started out..as a new group..
Nick: I can't believe, I can't believe that ya know..after all these years
we've been working and have all these songs and everything and it just
baffles me to think that ya know every single one of the songs we're doing
were singles and very successful singles..
Howie: Yah..and actually this show..it's pretty much we do all the new songs
from the Millennium album and we do all like the greatest hits of the singles
from the last album and it's good to see all the fans out there knowing all
the music and they're singing, they're right along with us.
John: Well ur coming out with such great music. I mean, these are great songs
that you do and it's...(Nick says thanks in the background) Howard Stern was
playing I want it that way on his show every day, I mean he loved the song. I
mean what's with that?
Nick: Really? I dunno..
Howie: I think I heard he had a different version of it? Uh..was it get Ky or
something like that?
John: hahahahaha!
Nick: NO WAAAY!!! ::laughs:: OOh man. I knew it was too good to be true!
Howie: I know, right? It was funny, we had a umm..after the Mtv Awards,
Howard Stern..What is his buddy? Um...
Nick: OOOh...Lisp..Lisp...
John: Stuttering John?
Nick: Ooh! Stuttering John! We, we were having a regular interview...with the
press and everything..
Howie: I mean just everybody, the whole media..
Nick: and all of a sudden, this guy just comes out of nowhere..and starts
yelling at us..
Howie: And he was askign us our sexual preferences and if we were with each
other..and I just mean, it was like..
Nick: And we were like..And we were like...And who is this guy?
Howie: And what was so funny about it, none of us recognized him...
Nick: later on..
Howie:..We just thought this was some kinda weird pervert guy in the audience
that was just trying to ask us some sex...
Nick: (interrupting) And NOBODY was doing anything about it!
(Howie, Nick, and John were all laughing hysterically throughout this)
Howie: Exactly!
Nick: Nobody was doing anything about it!
Howie: And finally, they kicked him out..he's cool..I hear his kids are
really into our music..
John: Really?
Howie: so I heard he respects us as well.
John: But you know, when you get to the top, everyone's going to come at you
with something, I mean poor Celine Dion..ya know..
Nick and Howie: Right..yeah..
Nick: Oh my god..
Howie: We just bumped into Weird Al Yankovic the other day. He said he did an
album..
Nick: He said he had something on his album..
Howie: Yah a track..
Nick: Everybody? A polka version of Backstreet's Back, yeah..
John: Oh you know what you're in? I just realized..the Blink 182 song..
Howie: Oh yeah..
John: Have you seen it?
Nick: That's hillarious..yah we saw it..
Howie: I think it's hillarious..
Nick: Naw, I mean, it's just that at this point in our career, you gotta be
able to learn to poke fun at your ownself..
John: That's a great way at looking at it, Nick
Nick: Mm hmm..
John: Congratulations on all your success. I know you work very, very hard to
get where you are, and its gonna keep on going...so thank you.
Howie: Thanks for all your support! We won't forget the early days back in
the basement.
John: We'll get a couple of lights turned on for you next time!
Nick: I tell you what! I hope you get some lights down on that driveway, man,
because I was afraid at what was gonna come out and get me! hehe (aww! i'll
protect my sweetie! hehe)
John: ::laughs at Nick:: Howie Dorough and Nick Carter, Backstreet Boys on
Open House Party..
Howie: Open House parrrttttyyy!!

Radio Interviews, October 28
>
> Kevin on Z100
> Brian on 106.1 KISS FM
>
>Kevin on Z100
>
>From: Kevsbaby143@aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:31 PM
>
>Hi, this is Welela. I just heard Kevin on the radio and I typed out the
>transcript for my newsletter so I thought about sending it
>here.
>
>from The Pumpkin Patch- a Kevin Newsletter
>
>Paul: "Cubby" Bryant- Kevin....!!
>
>Kevin: What's up?
>
>Paul: Kevin...!!
>
>Kevin: Hey, hey!
>
>Paul: What are you doing, Kevin from the Backstreet Boys?
>
>Kevin: If you make it, he will call
>
>Paul: You know, I've been telling people you were gonna call since like 4:15
>and I know that's a risky thing to do, you
>shouldn't do it in this business. You could get busy and not call, right?
>
>Kevin: Well, I am about running around but I haven't forgotten about ya!
>
>Paul: I love ya!
>
>Kevin: I wasn't gonna leave ya hanging!
>
>Paul: Kevin Richardson, see, we go way back, we bonded back in May when we
>did that big national live, ya know, radio
>show-
>
>Kevin: Live thing
>
>Paul: Yeah, yeah, where are you now?
>
>Kevin: I'm actually at Salt Lake City, Utah.
>
>Paul: Ahh, you doing some skiing?, nah it's too early for that probably.
>
>Kevin: Actually, they're getting dumped on right now in the mountains so
>maybe tomorrow I can go snowboarding.
>
>Paul: Ah, you might get snowed in!
>
>Kevin: Well, actually down here in the valley it's raining but up in the
>mountains, that's about 10, 000- 12, 000 feet, it's
>snowing. Hopefully, maybe they'll get some snow out there and I can go
>snowboarding.
>
>Paul: I don't know if you heard the news or not, that when you were here
>back in September doing all your shows at
>Continental Arenas and what have you, it's been a month since the concert,
>just about a month and there's still 8 girls passed
>out at the Continental Airlines Arenas. (JOKING!)
>
>Kevin: What?!?
>
>Paul: Yeah, they're playing hockey, they're in the way.... (Kevin laughs)
>
>Paul: They got pre-season Nets going-
>
>Kevin: No Way!
>
>Paul: They can't get them off the floor! They're still trying to throw water
>on them! What does it feel like, Kevin, to have that
>effect on the ladies?
>
>Kevin: It's...incredibly flattering, you just think to yourself and ask
>yourself why do they react like this?
>
>Paul: Why? What do ya think? You write hit songs and you're good looking!
>That's why! (Kevin laughs, hehehe)
>
>Paul: You know, a couple of people called me before you called.
>
>Kevin: Uh huh.
>
>Paul: Stephanie from Lond Island, she was wondering, uh, what do you
>consider a perfect fan?
>
>Kevin: (long pause) Wow.
>
>Paul: Good question, I can't think of questions like that.
>
>Kevin: I don't know man, we've had so many incredible experiences when we've
>met fans, from backstage, from meet and
>greets and stuff. Gee, that's a hard one, I think a fan that can understand
>that we are human beings, and we are just like
>everybody else. We have, you know, we got our feelings hurt, we cry, we
>love, you know, we're just human beings.
>Somebody that, like a lot of fans get upset sometimes or frustrated when
>they meet us or see us or whatever and they can't
>spend as much time as they want to, and it's hard to be able to accommodate
>everybody, I don't know.
>
>Paul: If you just tuned in, we're talking to Kevin Richardson of the
>Backstreet Boys! You know, I could probably answer that
>question for you, what would you consider a perfect fan? A perfect fan is
>someone who buys all the CDs, the posters, the
>t-shirts and key chains.
>
>Kevin: Hahahaha
>
>Paul: Right? Am I right? Carla, from the Bronx, she wants to know how did
>you spend your birthday? It was like, uh October
>3rd, wasn't it?
>
>Kevin: Yes it was. We had actually had about 4 days off.
>
>Paul: Right
>
>Kevin: Around that time, I went to, up in the Berkshears in Massachusetss,
>in the mountains, the leaves were changing and I
>went up there with a romantic friend of mine, lady friend of mine and we
>just had a good time together. Spent some time up in
>the mountains, went canoeing, hiking, just chilled.
>
>Paul: Well, you know, you better be careful when you go canoeing...like any
>deliverance action going on. (Kevin laughs) You
>gotta be careful! Stephanie from New City, New York, have you ever sung to a
>girlfriend?
>
>Kevin: Yes.
>
>Paul: Do you get like into it? You don't pull out the amps and the
>microphone and band or anything like that.
>
>Kevin: No...well, on one of my first dates with my girlfried that i have
>now, I've known her for a long time but we've been on
>and off the rocks for the past couple of years, but o one of our first
>dates, I took her to a hotel where they had a piano. We
>had some after dinner drinks and i just sat dow and began playing for her
>and started singing to her. This was before we were
>singed to a record label or anything.
>
>Paul: So, basically you take her to a lobby of Marriot and you're fine, you
>got, the peanuts and the piano.
>
>Kevin: Exactly!
>
>Paul: That's nice!
>
>Kevin: Hahaha
>
>Paul: Any New Year's Eve plans Kevin from the Backstreet Boys?
>
>Kevin: Um, well, Michael Jackson just cancelled 2 dates that he had. He was
>gonna play in Hawaii and Austrailia and there's
>been, uh, there's a possible offer for to pick those shows.
>
>Paul: Now, are you afraid of this Y2K thing? Do you wanna be flying?
>
>Kevin: I'm a little leery.
>
>Paul: Right
>
>Kevin: We would have to do all kinda of double checking and everything and
>make sure everything is safe. I don't know, we'll
>see what happens if they're handling the business on that end. If everything
>is okay, it's just really expensive to take our stage
>from one place to another and there's no way we can do that in 1 night so
>we're gonna have to duplicate our stage in 2 places
>and we don't know if we can do that so we'll see what happens if we can do
>that.
>
>Paul: "Larger Than Life" is far, far from being over, as a matter of fact,
>that record is still building here are z100!
>
>Kevin: Is it?
>
>Paul: It's still huge, we have to look ahead, cause you know we do kinda
>want to get an idea.
>
>Kevin: I'm ready for another one myself.
>
>Paul: Okay, what is the next single?
>
>Kevin: The next single is going to be "Show Me The Meaning..."
>
>Paul: Oh! I love that song! That got a big reaction back in May when we
>played it off the album.
>
>Kevin: Yeah, that's one of my favorites. That one and "Don't Wanna Lose You
>Now" are my favorites but "Show Me The
>Meaning..." is gonna be the next single. We excited about that one.
>
>Paul: By the way, you probably have no clue about this but I want to say
>thank you. You know you made me a part of your
>video.
>
>Kevin: (Long pause) Oh, we did?
>
>Paul: In the very beginning of "Larger Than Life" where the spaceship is
>coming in.
>
>Kevin: Uh huh
>
>Paul: And all those voices are coming through
>
>Kevin: Uh huh
>
>Paul: That's my voice and you used it and I haven't seen a check coming
>through!
>
>Kevin: Excellent! Oh, well we'll have to get a residual check back to you
>then, huh?
>
>Paul: Just kidding.
>
>Kevin: Hahahaha
>
>Paul: A couple more questions and we'll let you go. We had Roseanne from
>Cliffside Park, New Jeresy, she was wondering,
>you have a home video coming out and what does that consist of? Concert
>footage or what?
>
>Kevin: We do have a homevideo coming out??
>
>Paul: Is it like behind the scenes stuff or is it like concert footage or
>tell me.
>
>Kevin: That's news to me.
>
>Paul: Really?
>
>Kevin: That's news to my ears.
>
>Paul: Somebody said that in November you have a homevideo coming out.
>
>Kevin: Well, you know our record company, they like to make, they like to
>think they are gonna do things all the time without
>talking to us so I'm gona have to call up Jive and see what's going on with
>that.
>
>Paul: Okay, well do you know this? You're a nominee for the Sexiest Man
>Alive, People Magazine!
>
>Kevin: What?!
>
>Paul: Yea, good old Anne Marie from Staten Island, a big fan of yours said
>that, you're supposedly a nominee for sexiest man
>alive from People Magazine.
>
>Kevin: Actually, I had heard about that, very flattered!
>
>Paul: And finally before I let you go, World Series, did you watch it?
>
>Kevin: Yes I did.
>
>Paul: C'mon! Give some props to the New York Yankees.
>
>Kevin: Heck yea! Man, go yankees! They're the untouchables!
>
>Paul: Kevin, from the Baclstreet Boys, thank you for calling! I know you
>just came but is there gonna be another tour?
>
>Kevin: Um, in the spring time, we're probably gonna do another leg cause
>there still a lot of areas that we didn't get to on this
>tour, so we're definitely gonna swing by New York and some spots in Canada
>that we didn't hit and some places like
>Arkanasas and some places in Texas.
>
>Paul: You don't go to Arkanasa for a reason.
>
>Kevin: Oh, sure you do! It's not that bad down there!
>
>Paul: Yeeeeeeeeeeeha!!!!! (like a cowboy!)
>
>Kevin: Yeeeeeehaaa!!!!!(like a cowboy but so so cute!!!)
>
>("Larger Than Life" comes on)
>
>Paul: You gotta do different versions of "Larger Than Life" right? You gotta
>be like all country.
>
>Kevin: We're gonna do the country western version!
>
>Paul: Hey Kevin, thank you for calling.
>
>Kevin: Thank you Cubby
>
>Paul: Kevin of the Backstreet Boys, Live on Z100!
>
>fades out to "Larger Than Life"

Brian on 106.1 KISS FM

Hollywood: Man, we couldn't believe that Texas wan't on the first leg of the
>tour, we were kind of upset...
>
>Brian: Oh.. Man, I am too. Because I was looking to come there actually.
>
>Domino: I know you guys have like huge love for Dallas cause Dallas has
>given you nothin' but big time support, so we see the
>little list come out and we go.."Oh My God" because you know I heard it was
>supposed to be like November 17th or
>something like that...
>
>Brian: Yeah, I know it got changed like several times, and you all came up
>on the original list a couple times, and I honestly
>don't know what happened, but umm....
>
>Domino: Lets just cut to the chase is it gonna happen in the next leg...
>
>Hollywood: Yeah, we wanna know..
>
>Brian: Oh definitely, definitely
>
>Domino: we talking like February, March somewhere in there...
>
>Brian: yeah, yeah, Like uh.. probably a couple weeks into February or the
>first week of March.
>
>Domino: Wow, awesome..
>
>Domino: well, ya heard it right here, Brian Littrell saying their gonna come
>so Chill OUT Y'all.
>
>Hollywood: now, you must be somewhere between like Tacoma and Salt Lake City
>right?
>
>Brian: I am in Salt lake City actually
>
>Hollywood: Delta Center that would be tommorrow night
>
>Brian: Yeah, tonight and tommorrow night
>
>Domino: Hey speaking of that you guys are gonna be singing pretty soon up at
>uh... Auburn Hills when the Pistons play
>
>Brian: Yeah, we're singing the National Anthem I guess for one of the
>Pistons games
>
>Domino: So how huge is that I heard your a big hoop fan?
>
>Brian: Aww man, I just got invited by the Utah Jazz to go to a shoot around
>tommorrow...
>
>Domino: So your gonna be hanging out with Stockton, Malone, etc. poppin a
>few J's huh?
>
>Brian: Yeah, tryin, I'm a small little white boy...
>
>Hollywood: Domino is a huge Basketball fan too.
>
>Domino: So how's the tour been goin so far?
>
>Brian: The tour has been going really really good, umm... it's been really
>exciting, we're getting great turn outs the audiences
>the Crowds are enjoying themselves.
>
>Hollywood: Tell us about the time that Howie D's Pants fell off on the
>tour...
>
>Brian: Aww man, ya'll heard about that?
>
>Hollywood & Domino: Oh yeah man! That's been on continuously for like 24
>hours.
>
>Brian: hehehe..
>
>Hollywood: what would he be doing that that would actually happen?
>
>Brian: we actually have flying rigs, that we fly in over the audience, to
>the star wars soundtrack, that's how we get to the stage
>cause we're performing in the round, so we're in the middle, but uh.. we
>have these outfits that aren't a very giving material
>apparently (laughs), I think one of Howie's zippers came down and he got
>caught on the little flying rig the next thing ya know
>he was mooning everybody.
>
>Domino: That was probably one of the bigger applauses y'all got...
>
>Brian: oh yeah
>
>Domino: Howie D's butt...
>
>Hollywood: then someone breaks out, lets do that every show Howie...
>
>Brian: that happened to Kevin as well too..
>
>Domino: oh really
>
>Domino: so when's your turn Bri??
>
>Brian: Ah... I'm not gonna lose my drawers.
>
>Domino: HA HA HA!!!
>
>Hollywood: Hey, Let's talk about that CD Millennium it's doin great!!
>
>Brian: that's what we were just talking about a couple of weeks ago amongst
>the fellas, about how we were kind of nervous
>and scared about the sophmore slump, but we knew some of the strong tracks
>on the album that we were looking forward to
>releasing to the public, once it hit, we owe a lot of credit to our
>management as well, our new management, The Firm our new
>management based out of Los Angeles.
>
>Domino: I promise you this the sound is definitely different, if everybody
>was just a fan of the old backstreet boys when they
>got to hear some ot the new stuff, I guaruntee they were impressed ya know
>what I mean...
>
>Brian: We hope so, we just try to make credible music, to us as well as
>everybody else.
>
>Domino: well, listen we have nothing but love for you guys and we've been so
>lookin' for you guys to come out here cuz we
>get calls everyday, hey are you giving away the tickets yet. We have
>personally just had to spend just multitudes of money
>sending people all over the country to see you guys, because you haven't
>been here yet..
>
>Brian: Aw, man
>
>Domino: Get here and uh, looking forward to see y'all and the CD is just
>kicking butt, I get to play the perfect fan now and
>then.. For some people who want to hear a song for their mom, it's just one
>of those kinds of songs that just makes the hair on
>your arms stand up,
>
>Brian: Well, thank ya man that's a big complement
>
>Domino: That's your baby right there isn't it..
>
>Brian: Yeah Yeah, that's the one I wrote and produced.
>
>Domino: I get to slide that in, people do call for it, as soon as they got
>the CD they were all over it, they were like hey man I
>wanna dedicate a song to my mom, I'm like "Let me guess", The Perfect Fan
>and their like yeah, hey that's a big part of it...
>
>Brian: yeah, that's awesome... How many tickets are you guys giving away
>actually?
>
>Domino: I have no idea, we've been giving away tickets to shows like out of
>town, so we haven't had a chance to give away a
>lot of tickets , it's been more like the airfare the hotel, etc.
>
>Hollywood: Give away like the CD and Tour T-Shirt and then qualify them for
>the Grand Prize which would be their choice of
>cities they want to see you guys...
>
>Brian: I was gonna say is um.. since you all have been really nice to us,
>we've got an alotted number of tickets individually for
>us guys, and I would be willing to break you all off a couple if you wanted
>to do some giveaways.... or something to the station
>
>Domino: That would be awesome cause some of the tickets they get for the
>fellas are kinda good,like kinda close you know
>what I mean...
>
>Brian: Kind of like premeire seats,
>
>Domino: like hey there he is right there, he just sweat on me...
>
>Domino: hey man have fun tonight and blow that place up...
>
>Brian: Thanks man, I appreciate it,
>
>Domino: I can feel that zipper comin down.. hahaha