tour vinyl copies. I would like it to be released on CD really bad because there are always kids asking for them but that stuff is really expensive, so hopefully we can find someone to put it out soon.
then it just becomes funny and turns into a good story. Definitely my favorite summer so far.
With Summer coming to an end, how did your first few seasons of touring treat you?
Sometimes I don’t realize how weird something is until we are all talking about it later or I’m telling someone about tour so there may be some great stuff that I can’t think of, so I will just say a couple of my personal favorites (besides getting that ill ass burrito at Breakfast King with you guys). Most recently when we toured California with Alarm, we stayed at a kid’s house who lived with his parents. We just got back from Denny’s and had to go to bed soon since it was so late and the kid’s dad was waking up soon. In the living room, Jake (the bass player in Alarm) and I found something that looked like a gigantic pile of pillows. He picked it up and it turned out to be this HUGE stuffed camel from the Aladdin movie I think since it was wearing a little hat. He was holding it up in front of me and I was just freaking out laughing but still trying to be quiet. Then he asked me to hold it and point it toward him so he could look since it was so big that he couldn’t even see what it was. While we
It was kind of shitty sometimes. Not shitty in the way how people in bands complain about being on tour and missing home or whatever, because I love it and I hate being at home. But we just had so many shows cancelled or venues shut down, and on tour a day off feels like a week off. This past tour we had four days off in a row because a couple shows got cancelled and then we didn’t have enough money to make it all the way to the ones that weren’t cancelled, and that bummed everyone out pretty hard. It was still lots of fun though and I’d rather be there than at home. East Coast was awesome and Die Young tour was great even though a couple dates fell through. California is pretty tough though so we might have to wait until we know more people to go back for the third time. There were a definitely times when we ate shit pretty hard on tour but you always wake up the next day and it gets better, and
Care to share a memorable story from the road?
are both laughing like a bunch of goons, I looked down the hall behind Jake and saw the kid’s dad come out of his bedroom in only his underwear and just stare at us. I froze up and we just looked at each other for a quite some time while Jake was laughing being completely oblivious. I told him to turn around and then we ran away like two little kids at a sleepover. I am sure he knew we were staying there but probably didn’t remember since he just woke up. Then I could only think about how weird it would be to be a successful family man with a nice house and just one day to wake up and see two idiots playing with a giant camel in your house. Then he kept walking through where we were sleeping and each time he would have one more article of clothing on, it was weird. There were so many times on that tour when someone would say something to us and start off with, “I don’t mean to be a dick, but...”, and those times were the most memorable for me. We borrowed a van from another band so everyone could fit and it ran out of gas while I was driving because I never looked at the gas gauge, and later we knocked off the rails on the top of the van by driving it through a tiny parking garage.
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