Royal Canoe - TOUR TIPS (Top 5) Ep. 875

Hey there. We're Royal Canoe, and here are our five tour tips. Okay, number one would be get a really awesome water bottle like this one here so that you're not a loser drinking all sorts of gross, environment-destroying plastic water bottles all tour. That's the first one. We're not like super high and mighty, occasionally we'll roll into a venue and you've got to drink a bottle of water, but this definitely prevents you from doing that as much. Plus in the van, then you can fill it up at a gas station. Stay hydrated. Hydration is important. Yeah, hydration is very important. Okay, number two is, as someone who's getting deeper and deeper into his 30s and is suffering just a bit of hearing issues, I would highly recommend that if you are, especially at the beginning of your career, that you invest in getting some musicians earplugs. So these look kind of gnarly, so don't be afraid. That's just natural oils. But you really need those, because I honestly did the first 10 or 15 years of my touring life without them, and now I regret it, and I don't want you to be one of those people who regrets it. So get earplugs. So that's number two. Number three. Oh, you got one, Bucky? Yeah. Okay. Try to not eat just ---- all the time. That's a really good idea. Because it's really fast to get a burger, and oftentimes if you're in a rush, that's your only option. But something that we do on the road to try to combat that is we bring a Tupperware with a cutting board and some knives and some plates and stuff so that we could go to a grocery store, buy sandwich things, and make sandwiches. We have a pretty competitive ... We have an Instagram account called RC Vanwich, and we make sandwiches. It's a bit of a competition. You grade them. It kind of takes over. So it's kind of just become a thing that we do, but it really helps you to not eat quite as much garbage on the road. Okay. Number four. This is a very small thing, but one thing I like ... You know you have your suitcase. It's completely full of your clothes, and it's really hard to distinguish between the dirty clothes and the clean clothes. So if you get into a hotel, you go into the closet, and they always have a little laundry bag, and I always steal the laundry bag on the first day of tour, and I stuff in all my socks and underwear into there, and then I always know which are my clean underwear and my dirty underwear. I mean, packing-wise, just to go down my rabbit hole ... Right. We've all adopted the system by this guy. I think Marie Kondo has sort of taken this over at this point, but there's this guy that wrote a book for Vancouver Wolf's ... You know that guy called Rococo that we toured with? And he wrote a book called How to Pack Like a Rockstar, which is basically like you fold your stuff in like a filing cabinet sort of way, so all the shirts are in a line. And you just drop your shirts into your ... So you don't have to take out everything out of your bag to find a shirt. You can see them all lined out, and you actually can fit way more in your suitcase, and you can see stuff. Plus, add a bounce sheet into your suitcase for extra freshness. I don't do that. I should do that. Yeah, that's good to see. You always learn new things. Number five would be ... Okay, number five. Fifth touring tour. Okay. I have one. Okay. Do it. Try not to just look at your phone the whole time, which is the hardest thing to do when you're mindlessly killing time in the van. I'm going to talk like I'm good at not doing it, but I look at my phone all the time. It's really hard, though, because you're staring at the same terrain. You're on these big interstates or a large highway, and you're just seeing the same thing constantly go by. And you have to just try to find a way to keep your mind engaged, because you're just going to Swiss cheese that thing. I feel it. I keep feeling it. Every single day, the more I spend time on my phone, it's ... I don't know. They need to investigate this. There's something dark going on there, Tim Cook. We're on to you. So you have books. I don't know. Crossword puzzles. Chatting. Chatting is good. Chatting with your bandmates. It actually just devolves into really dark, twisted jokes, but that's even better than just staring at sports cars for four hours.