I, The Breather - TOUR TIPS (Top 5) Ep. 1031

Yo, what's up everybody? It's Logan. I'm here with five tour tips for you. The number one is the most obvious. Drink as much water as possible. I always bring around this bad boy. You can always get a gallon too but the most important thing is to stay hydrated. I've had several summer tours where I've been dehydrated and it gets absolutely miserable and it's tough when you're traveling to want to drink water because you don't want to have to stop and pee all the time but if you don't you're going to be in a lot of trouble and you're going to feel really sick. So drink as much water as you possibly can. Tip number two might seem a little weird but try not to drink as much as you can alcohol wise because I've also done that where I was drinking, you know, in my earlier tours I was drinking every night and after like a week of doing that you're just completely exhausted, totally toast. So there's nothing wrong with drinking and there's nothing wrong with drinking every night but try to cut it back especially if you're doing a longer tour to maybe one or two beers a night. Something like that's going to make it a lot easier to make it through the road. Tip three would be trying to get food from not fast food places. Try to go to like Walmart, Whole Foods, anything like that where you can pick up like a packaged salad or they have like a open like food bar where it's already like cooked chicken and stuff like that because that's going to be way better for energy, you know, if you're just eating like McDonald's every day which I have done that for an entire month. After like a week of that you are not going to feel good at all. So getting your fruits, vegetables, going to a grocery store, picking up stuff like that is going to make a world of difference. Okay, tip number four is also kind of obvious. It's to sleep as much as you possibly can. So what I do is I try to take power naps because I like to be driving at night because I'm much more of a night person. So I hate getting up in the morning and having to drive. I just can't do it. So after the show I'll either co-pilot or drive with somebody. Usually stop around 5 and then I'll go to sleep, get up around 9 or 10 and then throughout the day after load in, something like that, I'll try to take like an hour power nap, something like that. So periodically throughout the day try to just get in like, you know, a little nap here and there as much as possible and that's going to really help versus, you know, only getting like three hours of sleep and then trying to make it through the whole day and then repeating that process. After a little bit it's just going to be, you're going to be completely tanked. Last one, okay, tip number five is the most important tip and that is to live in the moment. And what I mean by that is a lot of times in my past, you know, I've been on the road and I've been really concerned about, you know, other things going on in my life at going on in the future that, you know, made me not appreciate and enjoy what was going on on the road and it made me miss out on a lot of fun things that I was doing on the road and playing shows. I just didn't appreciate it as much as I should have. So my biggest tip is to try to let all the stressors in your life kind of sit on a back burner and obviously you can worry about things, but try to appreciate what you're doing tonight. Like tonight I'm playing a show and try to make the best of it. Try to meet people, talk to people, just make the best of every encounter and show and day that you have and it's going to make, it's going to make it a lot better. It's going to make you a lot happier. So those are my five tips.