Yonder Mountain String Band - TOUR TIPS (Top 5) Ep. 952

Hey everybody, we're Yonder Mountain. I'm Ben. I'm Allie. I'm Dave. My name's Jacob. Adam, here. Welcome to the bus. These are our tour tips, and we're going to start down there because I can't think of one yet. Oh, okay. Well, I have a good tip. You always want to bring enough boxers for underwear, whatever you wear, for one week of shows. The maximum number of shows in any given week of the length of tour, you want to bring that number, and you want to bring quick-dry ones, so if you've got to wash them, you can wash them in the sink, and then they dry quick. What? I don't do that, but you could. When do you do that? This is new. Alright. No matter who you are, I think it's important to find a good mandolin luthier before you go out on the road to get your mandolins set up, you know, get the action adjusted, maybe even a refret. I recommend stocking up on the Ronnie McCurry J75 set of strings. No matter who you are, bring plenty of those. I like spicy food, and I really like hot chicken, but you really need to be by a toilet after you eat that stuff. We already went over the rules, Dave. You know the rules of the bus. I know nothing of your rules. There are no rules. What's your tip, Dave? Like, if you shit liquid, it's not considered solid, and therefore it's legal, or something. Good tip, Allie's turn. The tip is, there are no tips. This just blasts. No. My tip is, I'm always really tired right after a show, and I don't feel like taking all this off and washing my face, so I use these makeup remover wipes, and honestly, they get me through the nighttime routine without having to go to bed with all this makeup on my face and stuff like that, and feeling bad. So, I don't know. I think dudes could use them too. You know, make yourself nice and fresh before you have to rest your head. I like, let's see, quality earplugs. You don't want to go in for the, even actually the molded earplugs don't work, because they're hard, and when you sleep, like a hard earplug will kind of wear, it wears me out. Anyway, so Max Pillow Soft earplugs. Silicone earplugs are, I think it's like minus 25 dB or something like that. They're awesome. They're awesome, and I need to sleep with earplugs, or else I'm not getting any sleep. So, I like them. What's another good tip? That's it. You get a tip. Well, I didn't feel like Dave really had a tip, so I could borrow his. It was more of an existential remark. What I was going for. And other tips, this is because, I mean Jake's not, and Allie's not, but the rest of us are getting older. Really try not to drink anything, maybe like water or even anything, like 30 to 45 minutes before the show, because otherwise you're going to find yourself about halfway through the first jam, and all you're thinking about is how bad you've got to pee. Totally. And that sucks, man. It's the worst. And you feel bad too, because people paid money to see it, and it's not like a good dance that you do either. Out of time. Is that when you have the furrowed brow on stage? That's possible. Oh man. That's possible. I don't know what I look like when I'm in that moment. And the max earplugs don't help for shit in that situation. Your second tip is sort of like related to my remarks. Yeah, or I guess no hot chicken 35 minutes before the show either. There's a tip involved. Yeah, and you know the bust that we were supposed to have? Yeah, seriously. You want to make sure you get the radius on the mandolin bridge to match the radius on the mandolin neck. That's huge actually. Sorry I didn't mention that before.