Troy Duffy
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Before we were actually signed.
We played for five years.
We, at some point along the way, it was about four years into being a band, we met a young attorney who said, I want to be your manager.
Busking on the streets of Austin.
At South by Southwest.
At South by Southwest.
The music festival.
He was actually Dave Matthews, one of Dave Matthews' attorneys.
Originally.
And he was there.
He was just like a young, kind of bright-eyed guy from Richmond.
And was basically the only guys that didn't just look at us and be like, you're freaks.
What are you doing here?
He was like, what are these little kids doing here singing harmonies with the little backing?
And so we just kind of, in our self-confidence, blind self-confidence, said, we're Hanson.
We're a band.
We write some songs.
We sang them for him.