On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the power pop band, Artist Vs Poet, while on tour with Jeffree Star, Watchout! There's Ghosts, and Let's Get It, back in 2009.
Information about this video: Film Date - August 10, 2009 Location - Reggies in Chicago, IL
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I'm Tarcy. I'm the band Artist Vs. Poe out of Sing and this is America.
That's what our band's name is. Yeah, it's America.
Being in a band does not mean being clean, and we're not.
So it's kind of dirty right now, but for that we have a trash can up front and center.
So that's good. We've got some hand sanitizer.
Because we are dirty bastards.
It's really random ranch.
That was him. That was Joe.
This right here, this is actually very important to us.
In Ohio there are black squirrels, and there's a black squirrel museum.
So we've got a bunch of those stickers.
We've got one of the pet. He died though.
But anyway, clothes. We've got boobies.
Road trip.
This is basically Joe's space, our drummer.
He holds all his crap up here.
We've got Q-tips, the essentials.
Driver's seat. Co-pilot. We've got our walkie-talkies.
Let's go to the next row. Let's go check it out.
This is... yeah.
It's pretty dirty right now, like I said.
When you're on tour, stuff happens. You don't really have time to clean your van.
Tell us what happens.
We've got a trash bag to clean up, which we never do.
Shaving cream.
Gillette series.
This is the first row. This is usually Joe's row.
Either shotgun or dish row.
Right down there we've got an inverter for our computers, cell phone chargers.
Just pretty much anything we want to hook up.
Second row. This is our tech's row, pretty much.
He got a gift of tiger blankets.
It's really awkward. I don't know.
I don't really want to touch those because they're probably disgusting.
But there's Miltina. That's Milton's wife.
And everybody that knows our band knows who Milton is.
That's his wife.
We've got this row. We've got my...
I've got to take these in.
My inner system. My inner monitors.
It's what I use live.
So I can hear myself.
Fantastic.
Gatorade, which doesn't look good at all.
Let's just go ahead and look at that.
Okay, that's disgusting, Jason.
Back in here, this is Jason.
This is my row. I always get my own row.
He's a liar.
This is the van, pretty much.
And I just found some change.
So whoever lost that, I'm sorry.
I found some earlier.
My change.
That's pretty much it.
We all take turns on whoever gets a row.
Sometimes we'll have to sleep right here.
This little section, we call it purgatory.
Thanks, Pat Brown from Sing It Loud, for coming up with that name.
That's basically it.
That's the van.
That is America right there.
We're going to take you to the trailer now.
Here's the trailer.
This is where we keep everything
from acoustic guitars to luggage
to our extra merch that we don't bring in.
We have tons of shirts back here.
This is actually Milton.
He's getting old.
And he's about to be killed off soon.
This is our traditional possum.
We keep in the trailer.
Every van that we tour with has the Kiss the Possum.
They have no idea what we've done to the possum
when they kiss the possum.
So any vans that are going to see this that we tour with
are not going to want to kiss the possum.
We do terrible things to the possum.
It's bad.
They'll kiss the possum.
That's all I'm saying.
Luggage, spare tire.
We built these shelves.
We do our own oil changes.
We don't like to pay for that crap.
So that's all our oil changing stuff.
We built this wall right here
so we can separate all of our equipment
from our merch and our luggage
and the oil stuff so nothing gets messed up.
I don't have a key to the back
so we can't open the back door.
But that's where we keep all of our crap.
All of our other stuff.
So that's pretty much the tour
of this Artist vs. Copilot vehicle.
He's Jason. I'm Tarcy.
And that's it.