Blog#3 Summer Tour

It has BEGUN! And with some class I may add. Haha, not really at all to be honest, just the usual deal.

If you haven’t been on tour it pretty much goes like this; packing, waiting for people, re packing, driving, listening to Foo Fighters and Foster the People, unpacking, setting up, playing, selling CD’s, getting rained out, packing, driving, listening to Incubus, and so on and so forth in a repetitive cycle. Some people say repetition is the key to memorization and discipline but really repetition is the key to insanity. Ask anyone who types at a computer for 8 hours a day or works in a factory folding chocolate boxes together or cleaning toilets in motels. There is really nothing glamorous about being on tour… other than high pay rate, travelling around the country, playing epic gigs with a sweet sound system and awesome lighting rig and maybe the odd other thing, BUT you do get some good stories. ie. organizing last minute gigs, sleeping in a barn, swimming in the rain, busking in a summer storm. 

What I am trying to say is if you aren’t on tour this summer you’re playing it safe, which is fine, seriously…but we are having fun and as Tom so aptly quoted before we left, “we were born to be on tour” and so to all who are reading this while having to push through the daily grind, we salute you and hope that in reading my blogs over the next fours weeks you can escape with us somewhat…and if that is not enough you can always join us along the way somewhere