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Stick: It's Howie D. What's up man?
Howie: Hey, how's everybody out there?
Stick: Hey, welcome to Atlanta.
Howie: Well thank you Hotlanta. I'm glad to be here, very glad to be here. Can't wait to come back again on tour.
Stick: Yeah, again, no doubt. When's that gonna get kicked off?
Howie: We're actually kicking off our next tour, our first date is February 11, and actually I think it's in Pennsylvania. Actually, I can't wait to get back down here, down south a little bit.
Stick: This is you first time at The Beat, right?
Howie: Yeah, sure is. I want to say thank you to all your support. Actually, as I was coming in to town yesterday from the airport, I heard your big advertisement for our concert and everything. I wanna say thanks for all the support and much props to you guys. Congratulations on the new radio station here and I wish you guys all the best of luck on everything.
Stick: In town for the Super Bowl, huh?
Howie: Yeah, oh yeah, definitely in town here with my brother. What an awesome game it was, and, like, I just decided to stick around for an extra day here. Heart that you were kicking off your first show here, so I wanted to come down and give you lots of support.
Stick: I appreciate it, definitely, as I am a big Backstreet Boys supporter as you already know, right?
Howie: Why thank you, thank you very much. We appreciate all your support here.
Stick: Millennium Tour. I, I've seen it a couple times. I saw it up in New York, I saw it there and a couple different places. Great show, great choreography. Everything is excellent.
Howie: Thank you, thank you. We're proud of this show. It's been a, you know, something we started back in last year of April and had a lot of rehearsals for it, about a month's worth, and then took the tour over to Europe first, kind of tweaked out all the little ends and outs of it and brought it back home to America, and now we're actually on our second leg. So, very excited about this lsat leg here. We'll probably retire this tour after this and come up with a whole new tour in summertime.
Stick: Good deal. Next album...any ideas?
Howie: Yeah, actually I just did some reproduction on some of the stuff for potentials for the next album, a couple of tracks that I wrote with some different producers out in LA, um, not too long ago. And, um, after this tour finishes here, we're all gonna sit down adn kind of like start writing for the next album, possible collaborate together as well as with other producers and writers, and hopefully, probably, you'll see a single out maybe, like, around October. I think the album's probably gonna be down by the end of August, so probably October will be the first single.
Stick: Well, we all know the ladies are waiting for it, so you guys hurry up in that studio, you know what I'm saying?
Howie: Well, thank you, we can't wait to put out a new album. I mean, once we go on tour, sometimes sining the same song every night, we're just constantly trying to flip it up a little bit. So everytime we get a new album we're very excited to go back on tour again cause it's all new material.
Stick: Now, I know, like, some artists get upset about singing the same song over and over again, their hits or whatever, however you might put it. Do you guys, like, dislike that, do you?
Howie: Well, it's actually, it's kind of funn because we've only had two albums and I look back at the legnends like Michael Jackson and the Eagles and Aerosmith, who you know I go to their concerts and they're still singing songs from, like, their first album, you know, fifteen albums ago. And it's weird for us, just only having two albums and after doing, you know, the same show every night for, you know, three or four months, it does get a little bit, you know, OK. We try to spic it up a little bit, we'll maybe once in a while, we'll do a little something different, like a musical breakdown or somebody might fall on stage. It just adds a little excitement to the whole song, but we're always trying to keep it fresh, you know. Everytime we go to there's, you know, the new people there, so that always, you know, helps us keep the whole show fresh and, you know, the vibe of each song new again.
Stick: Most embarrassing moment on stage. You gotta have one.
Howie: Ugh, I have too many of em. I think, ugh, probably I'd say the most embarassing one was when I was in Europe, one time in Germany and it was on a song called "Get Down". We used to have this little catwalk runway that we had on the out in front of the stage and AJ was hyping the crowd and everything and me and Nicky decided to get back behind him and the crowd as well, and Nicky didn't know that I was right behind him, and he swung his arm out and next you know, I flew off the stage.
Stick: (laughs)
Howie: And luckily there was a security guard that caught me, but it was like, i was praying for a little pillow to be there, but I've had...
Stick: He wasn't as soft as a pillow.
Howie: Yeah. No, no, but it was, it was probably a little bit better though. It was a little bit closer to the, to where I was then probably the pillow on the floor, so it's definitely memories, we have lots of them on this tour.
Stick: Good deal. Howie, thanks again for stopping by in Hotlanta to my show. I appreciate the, all your support beat only music. The Backstreet Boys all the time!
Howie: Well, thank you. Thank you all everybody out there in Atlanta. Can't wait to see you guys and, a, show all your support with us with 95.5 The Beat!!
Stick: Thank you Howie for stopping by. Again, I appreciate...how many other radio stations in Atlanta, probably, oh yeah, none, will hook you up with Howie D. in studio right here in Hotlanta supporting us, 95.5 THE BEAT!!
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