Check out Lavender Ice Promotions new interview with Tyler from 3/12!
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freewebs is mean...it NEVER lets me view any of the pages

This sux.i quess i'm not the only one that can get this page either.can someone just post the article

sweeeeet! thanks

just a warning to let you know this copy and pasting is really long:

LIP: Thank you first of all so much for doing this.
Tyler Hilton: "You got it. What’s this for, by the way?"
LIP: It’s for a website called Lavender Ice Promotions. Basically we started it two years- we’ve been working our way up and now we’re getting to big people like you.
TH: "Aww."
LIP: Yeah. Alright- can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
TH: "Well, my name’s Tyler Hilton, I’m from Palm Springs, California and I dig good music and good songs. That’s just the kind of business that I wanted to get into so that’s what I do. I write songs I dig."
LIP: Alright, cool. So how did you originally get started?
TH: "Well, there’s a couple different steps of discovery. The first time I really consider myself really breaking through is when I was doing this open mic several times in Palm Dessert. The owner asked me to do my own show there- and that’s golden because once you get your own show, then you can get another show there- if you don’t ruin it. And then once you get more shows at one place, you can tell another place, hey I’ve been playing shows over here. Then all of a sudden-"
LIP: It’s a chain effect.
TH: "Yeah. And then you’re there. Then you’re all set to go. And then I got a good portion of my fan base when I called up this radio station randomly to get Johnny Lang tickets when I was younger and played a song of his. They dug my sound so they’re like, go to the concert and call us afterwards and play us more of your music. So I played them some songs I wrote and they really dug it- and this was a national radio show that just happened to be based in LA, so a whole bunch of people started coming to my shows which got me bigger and better shows. Then probably another big milestone would be getting signed to Maverick Records years later and putting out a record. And then shortly after the record coming out, probably the last thing would be would be auditioning for this musician on One Tree Hill and then getting that. That’s become much bigger than I ever thought it would be."
LIP: Yeah!
TH: "I just thought it would be like a fun little novelty thing, like, oh look at me- I was on TV on a TV show once. I didn’t think it would be like this- it’s crazy, you know?"
LIP: So how was the Johnny Lang concert? Did you get to meet him?
TH: "Oh, it was great! No, I’ve never met him."
LIP: Really?
TH: "I’ve never got to thank him, no."
LIP: One day, one day.
TH: "One day."
LIP: You can thank him for helping you get discovered.
TH: "You know it."
LIP: So thinking back to your first performance, how would you say your show has changed or evolved?
TH: "That was 7 years ago- it seems like so long ago, I can’t even remember. I think just generally it’s about reading a crowd. I think like a surfer has to have his finger on the pulse of nature and you just have to have an instinct. That’s true with any business, with stock trading, with baseball, with teaching- you just have to an instinct. I think my instinct for the audience has grown a lot. That’s the hardest thing as a performer- you can’t just stick to your same list sometimes and you have to have elements on stage, like band members that can adjust anything because you as band leader, have got the instinct of the crowd, how the crowd’s feeling- oh they’re not digging this, they’re not digging this- everything changes, you know? It’s all about the crowd. It’s all about entertainment. So I think I’ve gotten a little bit better about gauging a crowd, but by no means, I don’t think, am I good at it. It’s so tough to do, but I think I’ve got a lot better. I’ve become a better musician. I’ve been more comfortable with myself, so I’m more myself on stage and I’m not an awkward 14 year old anymore, which is good."
LIP: So what do you do if a crowd’s not digging it?
TH: "Well, usually I have to ask what I don’t think they’re digging or if it is that they’re just not digging something or they’re just listening and they’re just being quiet about it. Like, last night we played a show where nobody was really rowdy and so I kept trying to get them to clap their hands and they were, but then they’d stop after a while and they’d get into it and then they’d stop, and I was like, I wonder what’s up with this crowd. Then I realized the vibe of the crowd was they were just kind of calm. Maybe they didn’t want to hear rock and roll songs and I should have been cool enough to know I should have played some slow songs for them. I shouldn’t have been trying to get them awake if they just wanted to be chill, you know what I mean?"
LIP: Yeah.
TH: "So you just analyze it and just try to think what it is that you did wrong or you could do better."
LIP: So what artists do you get compared to most and which artists would you like to be compared to?
TH: "I’m probably compared to John Mayer and Ryan Cabrera the most- because of the hair."
LIP: The hair *laughs*
TH: "And because of the singer-songwriter thing. Being compared to John Mayer is flattering because he’s great. I can see what people are saying, but its two different types of things. I mean, there’s definitely room for both CDs in the collection. I think it would be cool to get compared to some great singer-songwriter like Billy Joel or Jackson Brown or...."
LIP: Johnny Lang?
TH: "*laughs* Johnny Lang. Or like James Taylor or Bob Dillon. I think that would be really cool."
LIP: So why did you choose "When It Comes" as the first single?
TH: "Well, I didn’t really choose it. It was a song I played in my meeting with Maverick Records when I first got signed that the A & R guys I was meeting with liked the most. He was like, that is a single- that’s a smash hit- I got to record that with you. And so just right from the get-go, just because it was his favorite song, he thought he could sell that song, so we kind of went with that one as the single. Which is cool because it was a nice introduction song for me. Whether or not it ever becomes huge or not, being my probably most famous song to date- which isn’t that famous- but still, my most famous one yet, it’s a nice little introduction I think. So hopefully for people who hear it and the people who haven’t heard it, I’m going to be playing music for a long time, so hopefully I’ll be sticking around for a while, but that’s a nice first song for them to hear."
LIP: So you made two different versions for the video, right?
TH: "Yeah."
LIP: So which one did you prefer?
TH: "The first one."
LIP: The first one?
TH: "Yeah. Because it was me and Scott, the A & R guy- who’s a young guy, Nick- he just does technology stuff at Maverick- it’s a small company- he does the photography, shoots film. I don’t know- just a whole bunch stuff like that, imaging type of stuff. But it was him with the video camera and Scott came and had a mirror so we could position the sunlight and a boom box so we could play "When It Comes," and me and my guitar. We got in Nick’s car and we just went everywhere. We went all the way down to Mexico almost, we were at Palm Springs and in the Palm Desert area for a while, we were in LA- we drove around. Then while I was in New York, Nick flew out to New York and did some stuff in New York, so it was just random. We would just walk around and be like, we should put the Naked Cowboy in it. Or hey, look that car’s all blown up- let’s do some of "When It Comes" next to that. And the hotel we stayed at that night- we were really wide awake, so we were like, hey- let’s film some video in here. So there’s some video of him walking in the hotel room. I just liked that. The other one- I thought it was cool. It looked good, but there was nothing really special. We had to do that one because MTV didn’t want to play the other one because it was not slick enough. We filmed it on DVR. We just filmed it real cheap because it was supposed to be a marketing tool."
LIP: Yeah.
TH: "And then everyone really liked it, but MTV wanted something with slicker quality or something like that. It needed to look good between a 50 Cent video and something else, so like, as long as it’s got shots of me performing, we’re good."
LIP: Ok. So how did it feel to see your video on there? You know, on the wildcard and stuff?
TH: "Actually, I haven’t seen it, but I did see it when I was on TRL a couple of times. They’d come in from a commercial and you’d see part of the video and you’d be like, wow- that’s crazy. Pretty weird."
LIP: Were you nervous performing on there?
TH: "Yeah. *laughs* I was really nervous, but I had a good time."
LIP: So as a musician who writes all of your own songs, do you prefer singers who write their own music but aren’t as good performers or singers who don’t write their own music but are good performers?
TH: "Good question. Wow. That’s a good question. I think if I had to pick- it’s such a situation-by-situation basis, but there are probably more in one category, like I probably like more of the songwriters that are not good performers."
LIP: Mmm-hmm.
TH: "But that’s so tough because like, I think Justin Timberlake is so great in concert. I saw him live in concert and Christina Aguilera was opening or whatever."
LIP: Yeah.
TH: "And she was like....meh, it was a good show. When he came out on stage, it was like, woah. It was amazing! And then I’ve seen- Alicia Keys- another one who’s just like, a star. She just really busts right out. Someone like Queen, you know- oh, but they write their own stuff. I think what I prefer is people that write their own stuff. Oh, but then there’s Sammy Davis Jr. who didn’t write any of his own stuff, but like, freaking rocks!"
LIP: Yeah!
TH: "You know? Elvis didn’t write any of own stuff. So it’s so tough, but I’d say generally, because I don’t get to go to many shows, I’d rather them right."
LIP: Because you know how hard it is, I guess.
TH: "Yeah. Which is just me, someone who doesn’t go to concerts that often- all I get is records. You don’t have to perform to be on a record, you just have to write good songs, so...."
LIP: Ok. So on "The Tracks of...," you included "Up Late Again" as a bonus track. Why did you decide to include this song from your first CD?
TH: "Everyone seemed to really like it. Everyone really liked it and they wanted me to re-record on this album and I was like, no, you know- if that’s the gem from the first album, let’s keep it intact with that album. You can go back and buy that one, but there was a lot of people that thought should hear that song that wouldn’t even know about my first album. So we comprised and said we’ll put it on and they have to stick it in their computer and then get a little taste of some."
LIP: Good stuff. So where’s the weirdest place inspiration has ever struck you for a song?
TH: "Well, always in the shower. Because then if you say, oh I’ll remember by the time I get out of the shower, then you forget it. And if you know you’ll forget it, you have to get out and get a pen and paper and then just wet everywhere. You’re probably not even going to write that song, but you have to do it in case that’s the one song, you know. Probably the shower."
LIP: You’re scribbling it on the towel. *laughs*
TH: "Yeah. Or writing it in the fog."
LIP: *laughs*
TH: "Please stay...."
LIP: So "Rolling Home" is a song you wrote about travels you made.
TH: "Uh huh."
LIP: So what would you say are essentials for a good road trip?
TH: "I think the essentials for a good trip is the knowledge that the less stuff you bring, the more fun you’re going to have. I think if you bring a whole bunch of stuff, you’re going to end up knowing you have a lot of stuff, using that lot of stuff, and maybe taking away the focus from the road trip. When I went on the trip I was talking about to Europe, a roommate and I just had two kind of suitcase/backpacks and we had about 5 CDs between us. We really had to choose carefully and see what CDs we want for different occasions. And I think, maybe a book each, maybe not even that because we were like, we can buy books there. A couple clothes, our guitars, stuff that we really absolutely need. I think that’s essential because if you say, if I need that, I’ll just buy that on the road, then you realize you won’t buy or if you need it, you’ll buy it. And then you’ll be like, oh I bought this book in...... or whatever, you know what I mean?"
LIP: Yeah.
TH: "So I think a road trip essential is to keep in mind that you don’t need everything."
LIP: So what was the best road trip?
TH: "That one. I went to Europe backpacking, around there, and just rode on the trains. Just rode on the trains and walked around, got rides from people, had a good time."
LIP: Hitchhiking?
TH: "Yeah, we did. But no one ever picked us up."
LIP: Aww.
TH: "Yeah, but we did hitchhike. I guess in Italy they don’t pick up people, or hitchhikers. That’s what I hear, but we tried."
LIP: Maybe you just looked kind of funny and they were like....
TH: "Maybe they were like, no- not him- I don’t like his hair."
LIP: Yeah *laughs* they got scared by the hair. So "The Letter Song" is written about writing a letter to win a girl back. What’s the most romantic thing you’ve ever done for a girl?
TH: "I think there’s a lot of romantic things I’ve done for girls, but I think the thing that means a lot to girls would be whenever I’ve had gigs near LA, like within a few hours, or wherever they’re at, I’ll always try to drive back and see them. I’ve been finding more and more that romantic ideas I can come up with and execute them, but that’s fun. The not fun stuff that I think that ends up being really romantic is the call before I go to bed every night and trying to get the girl to visit you on the road or try to get home. I think that’s the most romantic stuff because that’s so not fun. It’s just work- it’s something that makes you have to remember it, and then the only fun part is when you’re actually talking to them, when you’re seeing them. Everything else is just a hassle. So I think it makes it the most selfless, romantic thing that I’ve done."
LIP: Taking time out of your schedule.
TH: "Yeah. Making the time."
LIP: So both acting roles you’ve done, "One Tree Hill" and "Walk the Line," are music related. Would you ever take a role of just straight-on acting?
TH: "I would rather. And now Elvis said that too before he started acting and look what happened to him. He did everything music. But I didn’t want to do any roles with music in it because if I was going to do any acting at all, completely differentiate the two. I liked acting in high school, so I said if I ever did it, I wouldn’t do musical, I wouldn’t do any kind of musical role- I wanted them to be completely separate things. However, the first role I happened to get, which is a sick joke from fate, had to be Elvis, so of course I was like, aww."
LIP: Can’t turn that down!
TH: "Well, that’s not fair, so I was like, alright I’ll do that one. And then for "One Tree Hill," I wasn’t going to do that either because I had never seen the show and I was like, that’s a musician. Then I saw the script and I was like, this show sounds so good and this character is so funny. I really, really, really wanted to be Chris Keller- I really did. And I was like, I’ll cancel touring for a month- I really just want to be this guy. I really think I can do this guy- I really, really, really want to play Chris Keller. There was originally a lot more singing, but they cut it down for me and they’ve made a lot of changes for me, which has been really great, but I just loved the part so much that I was like, I’ve got to do it! But yeah, I would definitely consider it."
LIP: Is it hard being on "One Tree Hill" because I think, you play such a jerk on there?
TH: "The only thing is when Chris sings Tyler songs?"
LIP: Mmm hmm.
TH: "That’s the weird thing. Because I’m like, I’m not doing a very good job being Tyler and I’m not doing a very good job being Chris because I’m singing Tyler songs. That’s the only awkward part for me- that singing part because I didn’t know what to do. But everything else was totally easy because I know guys like that and I hate guys like that, so I feel I can do guys like that."
LIP: Ok. So on your website, you create videos called "Tyler TV" for your fans- how did you come up with that idea?
TH: "It actually might have been someone that I work with on my website because I always do skits with my video camera or we like to come up with a lot of stuff like that. Or maybe I thought of it because we made a lot of home movies just growing up, skits like that and I was trying to think of a way to incorporate it in. I was making it and showing it to the girl that does my website and saying, we should do something like this or she was like, hey, you should put those videos on your website that you make. But either way, it’s just something that I love doing and it keeps me entertained on the road. I’ll see something and I’ll be like, aww man- I think that would be such a funny "Tyler TV" if I do this and this, and it’s been really fun, you know? It’s a really fun thing for me."
LIP: How do you come up with ideas because I was watching them and one of them you’re just chasing around ducks?
TH: "Oh, I’ve heard about that one so much! I hear about that one a lot! Well, my friend and I were backstage at Rock the Vote and there were all these geese out there. I was like, oh do you have your video camera? You should just film me chasing ducks or something. There was another one that he did when we were together on the road and there was an empty field with this tree and I just ran by the screen."
LIP: Yeah!
TH: "And then I ran back. And it was just like that- it doesn’t make any sense, but we were like, maybe it’ll look funny on the camera. We film a million of those things and then Emily, the girl who runs the website, picks which one. Every time there’s a new one on there, I don’t know which one it’s going to be. My dad’s like, oh you’ve got to see it! And what’s the new one? Oh, the new one is where I think I’m talking to this guy who’s completely stoned out of his mind. I’m always curious to see of the whole videotape what she’s going to pick to put on there and it’s pretty amusing to me the stuff that she comes up with because I forget about all the stuff."
LIP: So thanks again for the interview. We just have two more questions. Um, so this is a funny one we like to ask everyone. If you were born female, what would you like to have been named?
TH: "Charlotte!"
LIP: Charlotte?
TH: "Yeah!"
LIP: Just outright?
TH: "Yeah- I like the name Charlotte."
LIP: *laughs* No other contenders. And so lastly, do you have a message you want to give to all of your fans out there?
TH: "Someone just asked me this the other day and....help- I’m stuck in a bus! No, just kidding! I think the main thing that I really want to say and the only thing I can say in my position as just the entertainer. I’m just an entertainer. I mean, as a person, there’s a million things I’d like to talk about, but as who I am on a platform, getting interviewed, I would feel bad if I talked about anything other than my job which is an entertainer. So I think my main message, my main credo, the main reason I’m doing this and the main reason I care so much about the audience is because there’s really, really nothing like it when an entertainer gives me goose bumps and I’m having a great time. Whether I’m crying in a movie theater or I’m laughing out loud at a comedy DVD or I’ve just got goose bumps all over the place from a song, that’s all I want to do. So I think my message would be for just people to have fun and let go a bit and hopefully my style of entertaining a chance because I dig what I do so much and I’m hoping that other people will dig it, you know, but I think that would be my message."
LIP: Ok, that’s it!

cool

That's a great interview!

And to set things straight - I was the one who came up with the idea of creating Tyler TV. Originally it was just supposed to be road clips of Tyler "here I am checking in from Tuscon, Arizona! here's a cactus, etc..." - basically road journals live on video. Then suddenly Tyler/Bob started sending us tapes from on the road - and we decided to put only the hilarious stuff on Tyler TV because we thought that's what you guys would like to see the most. I also choose all the new episodes for Tyler TV.. and there's some great ones coming up! Including part 2 and part 3 of the co-anchor Jill Dobson.

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Originally posted by taylor:
That's a great interview!

And to set things straight - I was the one who came up with the idea of creating Tyler TV. Originally it was just supposed to be road clips of Tyler "here I am checking in from Tuscon, Arizona! here's a cactus, etc..." - basically road journals live on video. Then suddenly Tyler/Bob started sending us tapes from on the road - and we decided to put only the hilarious stuff on Tyler TV because we thought that's what you guys would like to see the most. I also choose all the new episodes for Tyler TV.. and there's some great ones coming up! Including part 2 and part 3 of the co-anchor Jill Dobson.

Yeah, I was going to ask if it was you actually. And...hm are you Emily?

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that's a great interview...thank you for copying it for all of us that freewebs hates....

my fav quote: "Which is cool because it was a nice introduction song for me. Whether or not it ever becomes huge or not, being my probably most famous song to date- which isn’t that famous- but still, my most famous one yet, it’s a nice little introduction I think."

I'm glad you guys liked it!
There's a little sound clip of Tyler up now welcoming everyone to our site- it wasn't working before, but it's fine now!

I love hoe he answers some questions! He gets so into it, you can just tell. Whats a cutie! hehe

awesome ... thanx

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Originally posted by Canadian Jenn:

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Originally posted by taylor:
That's a great interview!

And to set things straight - I was the one who came up with the idea of creating Tyler TV. Originally it was just supposed to be road clips of Tyler "here I am checking in from Tuscon, Arizona! here's a cactus, etc..." - basically road journals live on video. Then suddenly Tyler/Bob started sending us tapes from on the road - and we decided to put only the hilarious stuff on Tyler TV because we thought that's what you guys would like to see the most. I also choose all the new episodes for Tyler TV.. and there's some great ones coming up! Including part 2 and part 3 of the co-anchor Jill Dobson.

Yeah, I was going to ask if it was you actually. And...hm are you Emily?

Haha no I'm not Emily.