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January 30, 2002
(Message from Dan)
Wassup? This is Dan. No, I'm not kidding. The real Dan. This letter
comes from my heart and I hope you will take it in the spirit in which
it was written.
First of all, I want to thank you all again for your amazing support.
Your response to our shows has been overwhelming. Thanks to you, We Fit
Together is about to retire on TRL. Thank you for faithfully watching
Making the Band and for continuing to support us while we are so far
from home for so long. All that means so much to me.
I don't get to visit O-Town sites very often, but I recently visited
some and was shocked and appalled by the comments made at SOME sites
about my girlfriend Erin.
Due to circumstances, Erin hasn't been seen on MTB, and I tend to keep
my personal life private, so I realize you don't know much about her.
I'd like to tell you some things about her now.
Erin was my high school sweetheart. We feel blessed to be together
again. She is beautiful, inside and out. She is completely supportive of
me in all I do. She can't be with me as much as we'd like right now
because she is in her final semester of pre-med at a very competitive
university.
The false and unkind things said on some of these sites make me very sad
because Erin is an incredibly nice person who has done nothing to
deserve this. I am madly in love with her, and what hurts her hurts me
as well.
The O-Town fans I know are some of the kindest, most supportive people
ever. The people who say these thoughtless things are not the fans I
know. But they give everyone a bad name.
I'm writing this to ask the O-Town fans I know and love to continue your
amazing support of us. I'm also asking that you treat Erin, as well as
the other guys' girlfriends, with the same kindness and consideration
that you've always shown to me. If you're saying these things, please
stop. Even if you aren't saying these things, you can help me by doing
all you can to put a stop to it. Please remember that the things posted
on these sites are seen by many people; and the untrue and unkind ones
really hurt.
Thanks very much for your understanding and, once again, for all of the
incredible support you continue to give us. We love you all.
January 28, 2002
(Message from O-Town)
We are so far away from home...and yes we are home sick!!!!..but being
on tour in EUROPE has been something we wish everyone could experience.
As you know the 1st episode of MAKING THE BAND aired on MTV and we
weren't in America to see it....what did you think??...did you see
Trevor embarassed in front of Britney?
The best is yet to come...We wanted to write you all the way from
LONDON, ENGLAND to tell you that "WE FIT TOGETHER" could be
our 1st video to be retired from TRL!!! No one else can take credit for
that except all of you who have been VOTING every single day...its so
close to being retired....KEEP KICKING SERIOUS BOO-TAAAYYY...YEAH BABY
YEAH....
Ashley is perfecting his AUSTIN POWERS impression, Erik is buying plenty
of souvenirs, Trevor just got over being sick (just in time for the
first night of the tour), Jacob has been sleeping every free minute
cause of the jet lag and as for Dan...he is playing the guitar now every
second. We are all writing and recording for the new album and we just
recorded a track with NELLY right before we left for EUROPE. We miss
everybody back home and we send our love from London tonight.
We'll be sending you a letter (and hopefully more -- but we will
leave that to Andrea to tell you all) again soon.....
Love Ash, Trev, Dan, Erik, Jacob
January 22, 2002
(Messages from Dan, Ashley, and Erik)
Message from Dan:
hey hey hey, wuz up guys this is Dan. We are definitely enjoying our
stay in London so far and you guys have made us feel very welcome as
always. Today we're doing a bunch of interviews and the Pepsi Chart tv
show. From what Lady M tells us....you guys sent so many emails to the
message board that you made it crash yesterday....so again thank you for
all the support. Love ya'll....Dan
Message from Ashley:
DEAR RESIDENTS, First of all, we are so AMPED to finally be touring here
in Europe!!! At last, we will be in concert in a town near you so BE ON
THE LOOKOUT DARLINGS!!! I need everyones help on perfecting my
accent....I want to convince people in AMERICA that I am totally
EUROPEAN.....I need a private tutor Our stage show is going to be almost
an hour and a half (our songs plus some cover songs you'll recognize)
and we are packing the house so hurry and get your tix....we love
you....can't wait to see you all in the audience......Love Ashley
Message from Erik:
Can't begin to tell u how excited I am to be here to see all of our UK
fans again! I wish I could live here - I just love it here!!! I'm not
going to talk too long but I just wanna say thank you for being you and
being so supportive of the thing that brings us all together - our
music. You guys are truly precious to us and you're definitely one of
our priorities. The guys and myself are constantly in heavy debate on
whether or not you're gonna like our new material, but we're sure that
you'll find it just as fun as the last album - or , most likely, even
MORE! We're putting a lot of our thoughts and emotions into the next
record. We wanna make u dance, we wanna make u cry but we also wanna
make u think! Okay- I am beginning to ramble - so I'll log off now..
Love Erik Michael XXX
January 1, 2002
(Message from Dan's mom)
Dear O-Town fans,
As the new year begins, it seems like a good time for me to be the next
O-Town Mom to chime in with my thanks. With someone special's very kind
assistance, I'm posting this at Destination O-Town, but please know it
is most definitely meant for ALL of the O-Town fans, fansites, and clubs
who have been so incredibly supportive to the boys and their loved ones
this year. I have so enjoyed meeting many of you this year and getting
to know some of you as well.
I hope you all know how very important you are. As the boys have said so
many times, they don't make music for the critics. They do it because
they love it, of course, but most importantly, they do it for YOU.
They've been working really hard to bring that music to you on their
first (and soon to be second!) album, on the radio, in TV appearances,
and in concert. And you've never let them down. Wherever they were, you
were there! You are without a doubt the most dedicated fans in the world
and they are blessed to have you.
As blessed as they are to have you, we their families are just as
blessed. The past two years have been so much fun for all of us, but
they haven't been without challenges. When faced with one of those
challenges, one of the things that always picks us up and makes us smile
is YOU. Your love for our sons is heart-warming and your faith in them
is inspiring.
So, on behalf of O-Town and their families, I'd like to say thank you
for your support, dedication, hard work, and love. I hope that the new
year brings you all many blessings, as well as many happy O-Town
memories!
God bless you all,
Angela Miller
December 14, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
NUMBER TWO ON TRL!!!...let us say that one more time....NUMBER TWO
ON TRL!!!! Is this an early Christmas present? Did you guys recruit
Santa and his elves to the OTOWN street team? Because the voting has
gone off the hook...We heard today we were # 2 as we landed in NYC to
perform at the Z100 Jingle Ball and in between checking in to our hotel
and being followed by the cameras for Making The Band we had to write in
again.
All of us were talking about ya'll (the accent from Missouri just
stuck....maybe it's the jet lag) and we had some ideas that we wanted to
share with you for making the OTOWN STREET TEAM even better...(as if you
all haven't already made it the best street team out there).....What we
mean by "better" is... you know our fans mean everything to us
so we wanted to create even more opportunities to get closer to you
guys. We want the OTOWN STREET TEAM to be the closest and most informed
group of fans out there...a connection that we can use to talk back and
forth, share information that is not available to anyone else and answer
your personal questions directly. We look at everything you have done
PERSONALLY
for this street team and we ARE SO IMPRESSED we are moved to work with
you to create THE BEST STREET TEAM in the inter-galactic universe..(ok
that last part was a stretch but you get the point)
This is a team so if you have ideas please email them to Andrea...we
want to hear them. Meanwhile all Erik wants for Christmas is the
Batmobile....Ashley wants a real live TIGER and Trevor wants to
skydive....naked...(just kidding)
Love, us....Trev, Ash, Jacob, Erik, and Dan
December 13, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
DEAREST O-TOWN STREET TEAM MEMBERS,
Long time no talk-to....HOW YA'll BEEN?? (the accent is because we are
in Missouri right now) We can't believe that the BRITNEY SPEARS tour is
already over for us and we apologize to those fans that we didn't get to
see on the rest of her tour. On Making The Band this season you will see
us telling Britney a pretty embarassing (and hilarious) story about
Trevor....(you'll see what we mean soon).
Alright now this is Ashley taking over the keyboard to write that the
tour was incredible....and we will be out on tour again sooner than you
may think.
We actually get to go home for CHRISTMAS!! We want to wish all of you a
merry christmas and a happy new year. (Whenever we got asked what we
wanted for Christmas we all just said "Time off to go home!")
This time of year is really important to spend time with family and
those you love and we hope you get what you wanted for Christmas too.
(Dan has his fingers-crossed that he'll get a Super-Soaker 9000 or
something)
We are going overseas in January and we will be writing you from
countries where we can't speak the language and hopefully sending
pictures too. We will miss all of you but we will be back soon enough.
EVERYONE IS DOING AN AMAZING JOB OF VOTING ON TRL ....KEEP VOTING we are
almost retired!!
With that said...we send our love from MISSOURI and we will write again
very soon.
Love ERIK, JACOB, DAN, ASHLEY and TREVOR
November 20, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
Dear OTOWN STREET TEAM,
PHEW! We have been so busy! UTAH, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA...its all a BLUR!
We are writing you from our hotel here in Los Angeles. Really we have
been sooooooooooo busy. Thats why we haven't been able to write
recently!!
BRITNEY has been really cool and just the other night STEVEN SPIELBERG
told our keyboard player CLYDE to tell us that we rocked....we love his
movies so that was a HUGE compliment for us.
We will be flying to NYC on Thanksgiving for the MACYS DAY PARADE and
the next morning we will be on GOOD MORNING AMERICA...make sure to
watch!
Everyone keeps asking us when our DVD concert-special will be coming
out...we don't know exactly (somewhere around Christmas) but we just
watched it and it came out incredible.
Everyone keeps voting for WE FIT TOGETHER on TRL and you can tell
because thousands of people are singing along with us on tour every
night! We send our love and appreciation for your never-ending support
and since its 1:30 a.m......we got to go to bed....just a quick note
because we have been thinking of all of you and we will write again very
soon ....
Love...Ash, Trev, Dan, Jacob and Erik
November 8, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
DEAR MEMBERS OF THE OTOWN STREET TEAM:
We hope all of you had a chance to catch us on TRL! WE SITLL CANT
BELIEVE that we were that close to Michael Jackson (were all such big
fans...especially Ashley and Jacob) Carson Daly was really cool and
backstage a lot of people that work at MTV kept congratulating us on how
well WE FIT TOGETHER was doing on TRL. We left straight from the MTV
studios and drove out to the BRITNEY SPEARS show in just enough time to
walk right out to the stage!!!
We have seen so many of you come to the MEET AND GREETS and tell us you
have been voting everyday and while we are excited to meet everybody
.... WE LOVE SEEING MEMBERS OF THE STREET TEAM!!! One member told me she
voted 37 times in one day!! ...and for those people who keep voting
every single chance you get...MUCH LOVE.
Britney stoped by our dressing room a couple of days ago and said whats
up...she is really sweet and her show is amazing! We are in PENNSYLVANIA
right now writting you from Ashleys hotel room... WE CANT WAIT FOR
TONIGHT... this tour is so much fun...
SINCERELY WITH LOVE,
Ashley, Dan, Jacob, Trevor and Erik
October 31, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
Dear O-Town Street Team Members,
We have been SOOOOO BUSY in rehearsal!!!! We're finally on the road and
heading towards our first show in Columbus/OH tomorrow. It's hard to
watch TRL because the satellite doesn't always come in but we know
you're voting for us (#2 yesterday!!!). WE just wanted you to
know that you guys are making us SO PROUD, and again, we feel VERY
GRATEFUL to have you out there voting for us!!
IN OTHER NEWS.....Ashley has a new hair color. Jacob has 2 new tattoos.
Erik is taking his personal taste in style to a whole new level in MTB 3
(that's a hint, you'll have to wait and see what I mean). TREVOR has a
HUGE new suitcase that's the size of a small U- Haul and DAN can't wait
to get to Ohio and hang with his friends and family.
Happy HALLOWEEN. Be SAFE. In case you're interested???? DAN is dressing
like a human potato, TREVOR is going to be the INCREDIBLE HULK and 10
points for anyone who can guess what ASHLEY is going to be??????? (maybe
a S-uper hero)???
Also, you all remember ANDREW from J Records from MTB 2? We just want to
thank him for taking time out of his BUSY day to type this all down and
email it for us as we read it to him from our cell phones on the bus!
Sincerely,
Ashley, Dan, Erik, Jacob, Trevor - OTOWN
October 24, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
DEAR WARRIORS OF THE OTOWN STREET TEAM ARMY,
YOU HAVE PROVEN YOUR POINT! :) NOT ONLY ARE YOU KICKING SERIOUS PLUMPY
REAR END (like that? we thought it was so funny we have been saying it
all day in rehearsals and we had to write it again:) ....BUT YOU ARE NOW
THE MOST ROFESSIONAL AND DEDICATED STREET TEAM EXISTING.....OTHER MUSIC
GROUPS ARE BEGGING US TO HAVE YOU AS THEIR STREET TEAM!...THEIR KNOCKING
DOWN OUR DOOR!...BUT YOU KNOW WHAT WE TOLD THEM?........WE SAID, "
SORRY, THIS STREET TEAM IS TAKEN....AND SO IS THE #1 POSITION ON TRL>>>ALL
BECAUSE OF THEM."
The truth of the matter is...we are so proud to have all of you, we have
been bragging about you to our families who have been calling our cell
phones constantly (in the middle of rehearsal :)..to make sure we knew
that we were #1 again! We just told them that our STREET TEAM was the
reason we were kicking such serious plumpy rear end (THERE WE SAID IT
AGAIN :)
With that said, all of us aren't too superstitious (except for
Ashley...he believes in always knocking on wood)....but every time we
write you a letter....AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN....you all have been amazing
to us....
It is 1:00 a.m. now so we gotta get some nappy time before
tomorrow......goodnight from each of us.
Sincerely with love,
OTOWN (Ash, Trev, Jacob, Dan, and Erik)
November 23, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
DEAR OTOWN STREET TEAM,
H-TO-THE-IZZO...We wanted to thank you for yet another #1 ON TRL. It was
such a great beggining to our week. We have had time recently to watch
TRL together and we are writting you YET AGAIN, because it is obvious
that you are all out there KICKING SERIOUS PLUMPY REAR END :) Basically
you guys are the best ever and we cant wait to thank you in person! So
heres the deal... you come up to us and tell us your a member of the
OTOWN STREET TEAM and we'll definently give you a big thank you and much
love (maybe even a kiss on the cheak... who knows?) So thanks again and
please keep voting.
We love ya'll ... love peace and chicken grease.....
SINCERELY FROM ORLANDO, FLORIDA
- OTOWN
October 18, 2001
(Message from Dan)
Dear OTOWN STREET TEAM,
WHAT??? TWO DAYS IN A ROW AT # ONE ON TRL!!!!! We honestly cannot
believe it and we definitely owe our recent success on TRL to the street
team. We wanted to write you all a second letter so you would know that
we are as dedicated to you as you are as dedicated to us. So Trevor,
Ashley, and I (Dan) wanted to sit down and write a letter on behalf of
the group and everybody affilliated with OTOWN in general and say thank
you very much. As you all surely know, we'll be out on tour with Britney
Spears in a couple weeks and we're rehearsing real hard for it. We hope
to see you real soon. Much love and thank you for your continued
support.
Sincerely,
Ashley, Dan, Jacob, Erik and Trevor
October 17, 2001
(Message from O-Town)
Dear OTOWN Street Team Members,
OTOWN FANS KICK SERIOUS BOO-TAAAYYYY!!!
Whats up OTOWN Street Team Professionals...Ashley, Erik, Dan, Trevor and
Jacob here.....When we heard that we might be # 1 on TRL we couldn't
believe it until we could see it....so all of us sat in the living room
on the same couch that we got picked on and watched....AS ALL OF YOU
VOTED WE FIT TOGETHER TO THE # 1 SPOT!! All of you are so dedicated that
we had to write a letter telling you how much we appreciate having THE
BEST FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD....# 1 FANS.
We are in ORLANDO right now rehearsing for the Britney Spears Tour and
can't wait to get back out on the road...in front of all you up on
stage. We are also filming the 3rd season of MAKING THE BAND as we
speak...in fact this might make it onto MTV's Making The Band...you
never know.
Much love and respect,
Sincerely OTOWN
August 20, 2001
(Message from Erik)
DEAREST OTOWN STREET TEAM MEMBERS,
WHATS THE DEAL- - - - - -IN THE BATTLEFIELD!!?? THIS IS ERIK CHECKING
IN. RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT LET'S BEGIN! WE HAVE ALL OTOWN MEMBERS
PRESENT BUT THIS IS ERIK WRITING.....STOP WITH THE RHYME!
WHATS UP EVERYBODY SO HAPPY TO FINALLY HAVE A CHANCE TO TOUCH BASE WITH
YOU. WELL, LETS GO DOWN THE LINE AND UPDATE YOU ON EVERYBODY'S STATUS.
FOR ALL OF YOU DREAD-LOCK LOVING JACOB LOVERS YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW HE
IS WELL ON HIS WAY TO BEING HIS OLD-ROCK-THE-DANCE-FLOOR SELF!!!!
AS FOR TREVOR...I GUESS HE HAS BEEN TAKING SOME "LEGEND OF BAGGER
VANCE" PILLS BECAUSE HE IS PLAYING GOLF LIKE EVERYDAY!
COMING IN AT A STRONG THIRD....DAN HAS BLESSED US WITH THE COMPANY OF
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WHO WE LIKE TO CALL EVIL-DAN (because he is exactly
the opposite of Dan...he has a tattoo people!!!)..JUST- PLAYING, HIS
NAME IS ADAM AND THATS WHAT WE CALL HIM. HE HAS BEEN TRAVELING WITH US
ON THE ROAD AND HE HAD A BLAST...UNFORTUNATELY DAN'S PARENTS
"RECALLED" HIM BACK HOME.
AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, ASHLEY TURNED 20 YEARS OLD! HE ASKED ME TO SEND
HIS GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE GIFTS AND ALL OF THE SUPERMAN STUFF...HE NOW
HAS MORE SUPERMAN ITEMS THAN DC COMICS AND WARNER BROS. HAVE EVER MADE
COMBINED! INSTEAD OF COLLECTING SUPERMAN HE HAS NOW SWITCHED HIS
ATTENTION TO VERY EXPENSIVE SPORTS CARS...JUST KIDDING....ACTUALLY THE
KID HAS RECENTLY FILLED OUR TOUR BUS WITH DVD'S CAUSE HE IS SO EXCITED
ABOUT HIS NEW DVD PLAYER THAT HIS BEST FRIEND GOT FOR HIS B-DAY.
AS FOR ME, I AM JUST A SIMPLE MAN, A DILIGENT MAN, A MAN WHO LOVES TO
SLEEP WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN AND ENJOYS THE BRISK BREEZE FLOWING GENTLY
THROUGH THE WHITE CURTAINS ON A COOL SUMMERS DAY. I ENJOY SPORTS, JET-
SKIING AND AN OCCASIONAL TRIP TO THE CINEMA. I LOVE PETS, SINGING IN THE
SHOWER, AND I AM LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL SOMEBODY WHO WOULD ENJOY EVERY
ONCE IN A WHILE JUST ENJOYING A NICE PICNIC IN THE PARK OVER ONE WARM
CUP OF TOP RAMEN NOODLES ......AT LEAST THATS WHAT IT SAYS ON MY ONLINE
DATING BIO....YOU KNOW I AM STILL SINGLE RIGHT? J/K (it was way more
funny before i actually wrote it)
ON THE SERIOUS TIP, WE ARE ALL DOING WELL INCLUDING MYSELF. WE JUST
FILMED A REALLY COOL VIDEO FOR "WE FIT TOGETHER"...AT LEAST WE
THINK SO....IT CAPTURES US IN OUR MOST NATURAL WAYS...JUST HAVING A
BLAST...IT WAS FILMED ON A YACHT...ON A BEACH...AND ITS GOING TO MTV'S
TRL IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS. WE HAD A CHANCE TO WORK WITH VERY MANY
BEAUTIFUL MODEL/ACTRESSES ON THE SET AND WANT TO SEND A SHOUT OUT TO
THEM FOR HELPING US GET THROUGH THE DAY ON THAT CRAZY, CRAZY
BOAT RIDE.
YOU GUYS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR FIRST #1 VIDEO ON TRL...LETS DO IT
AGAIN, THE FIRST TIME WAS JUST THE FIRST OF MANY MORE TO COME!!!!!
I WANT TO SEND A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THE OTOWN ADVOCATES, AND
ONLINE WEBSITES, WHO HAVE SHARED OUR MUSIC WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
THROUGH DOING THAT YOU ARE THE BLOODLINE THAT KEEPS OTOWNS HEART PUMPING
FASTER AND STRONGER EVERYDAY. AGAIN THANK YOU.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WONDERING HOW MIKE AND MIKE ARE DOING...THEY
ARE GREAT. WE ARE JUST WORKING OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A THIRD SEASON OF
MAKING THE BAND ON MTV!!!!! ..AND WE ARE ALSO CONCENTRATING ON OUR
EUROPEAN VISIT COMING UP IN THESE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
TO WRAP IT UP....I CANNOT GO WITHOUT SAYING WHATS UP TO THE MANY ONLINE
CLUBS WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR TIME TO NOT ONLY ME..BUT EACH OF US
INDIVIDUALLY...YOUR WORK DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED BY ALL OF US.
ONE MORE QUICK REMINDER TO THOSE FEW FANS WHO HAVE FOLLOWED OUR BUS OUT
ON THE ROAD PLEASE KNOW THAT YOUR ACTIONS ARE APPRECIATED BECAUSE WE
KNOW WHERE THEY STEM FROM...YOUR LOVE OF OTOWN....BUT WHEN ROAD WARS AND
THE CUTTING OFF OF THE BUS OCCURS ITS NOT ONLY ENDANGERING YOUR LIFE BUT
OURS TOO. PLEASE DON'T DO THAT.
YOU GUYS ARE GREAT....CAN'T WAIT TO SEE ALL OF YOU AT THE SHOW.
ERIK-MICHAEL
May 29, 2001 (Message from Ashley)
Dear Members of the OTOWN Street Team,
HEY MEMBERS it's ASHLEY from OTOWN! The guys are all with me right now
in our hotel room and WE had to personally write you all a letter
because of how amazing your support has been. Because of everyone voting
on TRL you made history by giving us our very first NUMBER ONE video
with ALL OR NOTHING! We will never forget that and that is why we wanted
to tell you that if you belong to the OTOWN street team and we meet you,
you have to tell us you are part of the team. That way, we can
personally show you how much it has meant to us that you have been doing
everything you can to show your SUPPORT OF OTOWN from the very
BEGINNING!! As you might know we just got back to America from traveling
all over the world. No matter where we were, all we would hear about was
how much the street team was growing and that ALL OR NOTHING was
becoming the most requested song on RADIO STATIONS EVERYWHERE and MTV!
There are those of you who watched every episode of MAKING THE BAND and
there are those of you who might just know us for our MUSIC...EITHER
WAY..the OTOWN STREET TEAM is now one of the BIGGEST!! AND THATS BECAUSE
OF YOU GUYS!! We appreciate you all so much and it feels so good to
finally be home again. SO, no matter what we will always go out of our
way for our STREET TEAM members and WE WILL SEE YOU ON TOUR THIS SUMMER!
Love, Ashley, Erik, Dan, Trevor and Jacob
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