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Beacon Journal pop music writer Malcolm X Abram was invited to spend Friday afternoon with the Jonas Brothers as they toured Northeast Ohio before their sold-out Blossom concert. Here's how the third part of the day unfolded.
Back to the tour bus
The Jonas Brothers — Nick, Kevin and Joe — have been a busy trio during their one day in Cleveland.
Disney's current teen dream team took a special tour of the rock hall, presented clothes from the group's latest album to the collection, held two news conferences and performed a three song set ''sound-check party'' for Verizon, one of its sponsors. And the boys met and greeted some 350 fans, all before going on stage and performing a 90-minute set of songs at Blossom.
Through it all, the trio — with parents, security and little brother Frankie in tow — smiled on cue, answered the same questions they've been asked hundreds of times before and made fans lucky enough to get a few seconds of their attention feel as if they had just made a new friend.
The group took some time on the bus trip down Interstate 77 to talk, once again, with the reporters.
The inside of the wood-paneled bus is immaculate. (The boys' mother straightened things up before the boys returned from the rear of the bus and back into the media spotlight.)
The boys sit through a barrage of questions.
''How do you stay so normal?'' one reporter asks.
''We have a great family, and we're teenagers, so we do teenage stuff all the time,'' Joe Jonas answers.
''We have each other and our family keeps us together and grounded,'' Kevin adds.
The next question, a familiar one for the band, asks how they got their start.
Nick launches into his relatively brief history of gaining early attention and eventually bringing in his brothers to form a band.
The boys perk up when asked what exhibits they liked at the rock hall.
They talk about seeing Janis Joplin's psychedelic painted Porsche and one of the many Cadillacs that Elvis Presley would give to friends, family and even strangers.
The three, who occasionally looked a bit bored during the tour, rattle off facts about early recording devices, MTV's first broadcast video (Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star) and marvel at the mechanical mind of guitar legend Les Paul.
''He made a guitar out of a train track, but he didn't stop there; he invented a P.A. system out of a telephone,'' offers Joe. ''I mean that's amazing. Not only was he a great guitar player, but he was a genius.''
A reporter asks for the best advice their parents have given them.
''Live at the bottom even when you're at the top,'' Kevin says.
Nick Jonas explains that they try to stay humble.
When told they will be eligible for rock hall induction in 2030, the three seem unsure of what to make of that fact.
''That seems like such a long time from now,'' Kevin says.
''That would be such an honor, but we'll just keep going and see what happens,'' Joe adds.
The boys say they already have seven songs written for their next album and spend a lot of their downtime on the bus playing guitar and writing songs.
''We're always looking to make the next thing, the next song,'' Joe says. ''It's what we do. We love to play. We love to write. Music is our heart.''
The bus stops at Szalay's farm and market in Peninsula so the boys can get some preshow ice cream.
As they stand in line for their cones, a few girls who have been following the bus in the hope that it was the Jonas Brothers bus are in luck.
For a few minutes, they stare as the boys wait for ice cream.
''Girl, I'm two feet away from the Jonas Brothers,'' one whispers loudly into her cell.
The trio greets the girls and asks the all-important question: ''Are we going to see you guys at the show?''
Beacon Journal pop music writer Malcolm X Abram was invited to spend Friday afternoon with the Jonas Brothers as they toured Northeast Ohio before their sold-out Blossom concert. Here's how the third part of the day unfolded.
Back to the tour bus
The Jonas Brothers — Nick, Kevin and Joe — have been a busy trio during their one day in Cleveland.
Disney's current teen dream team took a special tour of the rock hall, presented clothes from the group's latest album to the collection, held two news conferences and performed a three song set ''sound-check party'' for Verizon, one of its sponsors. And the boys met and greeted some 350 fans, all before going on stage and performing a 90-minute set of songs at Blossom.
Through it all, the trio — with parents, security and little brother Frankie in tow — smiled on cue, answered the same questions they've been asked hundreds of times before and made fans lucky enough to get a few seconds of their attention feel as if they had just made a new friend.
The group took some time on the bus trip down Interstate 77 to talk, once again, with the reporters.
The inside of the wood-paneled bus is immaculate. (The boys' mother straightened things up before the boys returned from the rear of the bus and back into the media spotlight.)
The boys sit through a barrage of questions.
''How do you stay so normal?'' one reporter asks.
''We have a great family, and we're teenagers, so we do teenage stuff all the time,'' Joe Jonas answers.
''We have each other and our family keeps us together and grounded,'' Kevin adds.
The next question, a familiar one for the band, asks how they got their start.
Nick launches into his relatively brief history of gaining early attention and eventually bringing in his brothers to form a band.
The boys perk up when asked what exhibits they liked at the rock hall.
They talk about seeing Janis Joplin's psychedelic painted Porsche and one of the many Cadillacs that Elvis Presley would give to friends, family and even strangers.
The three, who occasionally looked a bit bored during the tour, rattle off facts about early recording devices, MTV's first broadcast video (Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star) and marvel at the mechanical mind of guitar legend Les Paul.
''He made a guitar out of a train track, but he didn't stop there; he invented a P.A. system out of a telephone,'' offers Joe. ''I mean that's amazing. Not only was he a great guitar player, but he was a genius.''
A reporter asks for the best advice their parents have given them.
''Live at the bottom even when you're at the top,'' Kevin says.
Nick Jonas explains that they try to stay humble.
When told they will be eligible for rock hall induction in 2030, the three seem unsure of what to make of that fact.
''That seems like such a long time from now,'' Kevin says.
''That would be such an honor, but we'll just keep going and see what happens,'' Joe adds.
The boys say they already have seven songs written for their next album and spend a lot of their downtime on the bus playing guitar and writing songs.
''We're always looking to make the next thing, the next song,'' Joe says. ''It's what we do. We love to play. We love to write. Music is our heart.''
The bus stops at Szalay's farm and market in Peninsula so the boys can get some preshow ice cream.
As they stand in line for their cones, a few girls who have been following the bus in the hope that it was the Jonas Brothers bus are in luck.
For a few minutes, they stare as the boys wait for ice cream.
''Girl, I'm two feet away from the Jonas Brothers,'' one whispers loudly into her cell.
The trio greets the girls and asks the all-important question: ''Are we going to see you guys at the show?''
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