Hot Chelle Rae - CRAZY TOUR STORIES Ep. 933

What's good? I'm Ryan. I'm Nash. We are Hotshell Ray. Coming at you with a crazy tour story. Now this one, this one is a little rough around the edges a little fuzzy at times because when you hear it it's gonna make sense but it's I mean if you took us into separate rooms and asked us to vote on the favorite tour story we would all say this one but if you said vote on your drunkest personal story I would also vote on this one. So we were driving in a van a trailer I'll never forget this we were we were in Oklahoma we were in the bus waiting to play we were on a tour that did not have very many people we had two vans show up two didn't have a lot didn't have a lot and we're kind of like in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma what's it called rock bottom observatory or rock bottom one of the two. It wasn't good. It wasn't good. Rock bottom for this story is probably where we were. Oh no that was San Antonio. Yeah same tour. We had no fans we had no fans we're driving out to LA in a van and trailer and meanwhile Ian our bass player at the time was editing our music video by himself while we basically split the drive between three people. For bleed. For bleed and we are just kind of getting kind of blackout every night because there's just like no fans and we're just not feeling really great about music. Anyway we go play this show and there's a guy that's that came to see us that is buying us drinks like it's the end of the world. This dude is like six to three hundred something pounds probably big boy. Made of 80% Jaeger. And the drinks there the beer was free the Patron was six bucks anything else was like two or three dollars. We got a $300 tab somehow. So we were absolutely Nash was hammered before we even took the stage. I remember this is one of my very last memories he's drinking like vodka Red Bulls and stuff like on stage basically like we end the show and he's like basically falls off the stage. The last thing I remember was stepping off the stage. At this time we're doing our own merch right so we go straight from there to like see the 11 people that came to the show and sell a couple t-shirts if we're lucky and it was we were so drunk that I'm standing there at the merch table and Ian has a glass of whiskey or had it's empty and goes no more drink smash and just throws it down on the ground like a lunatic and I'm like oh man we're gonna get kicked out of here for sure and I look over at Nash and Nash and I don't even know how to illustrate this to you'd have to be there but Nash is doing this thing at the bar where he's just like he's like holding the bar. I'll be the bar right here. Like he's literally like holding the bar like it's like it's the only thing keeping him up right and I see him and I start walking over to him and he just goes just throws up all underneath the bar and the bartender goes hey did you just throw up? He goes nope. Like a liar. Like a liar and so I'm like I'm freaking out and then I go into like full angry mode because I all of a sudden decide that Ian who's now asleep in the van because he passed out. He was crying first. He went to the van to cry for a while. So he falls asleep crying and then I am thinking everybody's goofing off and if this happens to me if I if I get drunk or like I get I start thinking people aren't working hard enough for something I get real mad so I was like Ian. Ian. Wake the fuck up and edit this video right now. You've been sitting in the back of the van for two days. Can you imagine what the video would have looked like if he had edited it? And this whole time this whole time Jamie is just like I think Jamie was scared to death. He was in the van because he wasn't allowed. He was scared to death of us. He was too young. Dying constantly because he'd never really gotten drunk so he didn't know how good we were at throwing up under bars. So we Jamie's like Jamie's young enough at this point when we play a show he's allowed in to play the show and then he's immediately has to go sit in the van if it's a 21 and up show. So we're all absolutely trashed. Our tour manager is probably second-guessing every decision he's made in his life. He had to load the whole trailer by himself. And we get back to the hotel and is this when you decided to? Yeah I do this thing when I'm drunk I want to prove that I'm not drunk so I do something that you wouldn't ever do sober to show you how with it I am and I saw the stairs the hotel instead of the elevator like everyone else. I was like yeah yeah I'm not drunk I got this and I just run up the elevator the stairs instead of the elevator. They find me trying my key card in every door on the wrong floor wrong floor. So finally I get Nash back with Jamie and Jamie's now on throw-up watch. Jamie's like just hanging out with Nash he's just like smoking out his own hotel room just like paranoidly watching Nash. And I'm like where's Ian? So I go looking for Ian and I find Ian sleeping on the floor outside of somebody else's hotel room. And honestly I think I was the only one that night that like kind of made it out with like a little bit of a memory. I just know that if I'm drunk enough where I don't want to go into IHOP something is really really wrong. Really really wrong. But we survived. But that night that night will live in infamy because I remember right before we played that show it was it was around Christmas time because we're sitting in the van we don't get any channels except what's locally on and we just hear Bruce Springsteen going Santa Claus is coming to town. Best vocal performance ever. I was looking at Nash like this is a terrible career choice for us. What are we doing here? And the rest of it we don't remember but that we do. Do you throw up? Nope.