The Convalescence - BUS INVADERS Ep. 1401

welcome your boss hi my name is Katie McCrimmon I'm the keyboardist and backing vocalist I'm Keith I'm the vocalist we call it doom wagon that's got a few that's kind of the burden machine that's I do about 95% of the driving up here it's not too different than of you like a car or truck but you definitely have to like pay attention what you're doing because it's way bigger you have to watch out for blind spots because idiots become up next to you and try and literally go underneath you we actually had that happen all the way here but it's not too bad the night driving kind of sucks just because the lights are bright enough so you kind of got to pay attention what's going on that but it's not too bad we just have a lot more schematics and we'll do delays up here [Applause] [Music] so being close we actually have the stop sign actually it's actually a sausage so it's not a bussing it's a full-fledged sausage I mean for a little while we just kind of started letting people just write whatever in the bus like some of our friends from Memphis over here and just you know weird [ __ ] everywhere we try to collect posters from events shows yeah cool things we find at venues you know that our friends play that me play or whatever we got this for Canada this was like cuz I got birthday card or I don't know what kind of card is supposed to be but uh it was how we got our guarantee from a promoter earlier this year this one right here is actually super cool it's made out of metal that's some of our fan offended of us so material basically she does those and she doesn't for bands that she likes she comes out to our show and of michigan and gives those to us it was a straight up school bus and actually these guys ripped all the seats out built the bunks and like redid this within 24 hours well about total of 48 hours with the paperwork getting it registered getting the bunks in there making sure that it was a legal to drive as a motor home that's how its registered and this is actually not our first bus we had an old bus but the transmission was going so we trade for trade got this one in in Ohio and this is what we're touring in now right here is like my office I'm usually tour managing for us and you know if it's a headlining tour the other bands on the tour making sure everything's running smoothly I'm also a booking agent in the off time so I'm usually laptop here working here whatever we also got like so uh you know makeup here baby powder is kind of essential on tour stuff to make you not smell like [ __ ] toms rolling papers you know stuff like that the essentials this area usually will pull out these folding chairs and like sit on the cooler or whatever and this is kind of I guess our makeshift a little front lounge area we'll get ready where if we're gonna have friends up on the bus and you know a party a little bit or hang out or whatever this is where we do it that way people are back in our if you like this is my [ __ ] it's probably should go with you if not this is a little weird creep it has paint magazines tools whatever in it it's kind of a free-for-all in there well since we had to get the bus ready within 48 hours it was a pretty quick process but we had to take out all these type chairs they were all the way on bow sides in the back they were actually attached to these made it a little bit difficult to get them out because they were really in there once we cleared out the back of the bus we ended up doing measurements and building the bunks we had to make sure that we had enough space for all the members to have someplace to rest also too recently we lifted them up so you can have storage space underneath we sometimes put gear luggage underneath them as well everyone has their own individual space where they put all their personal items their gear this is our guitarists bunk area and all their stuff we have a little storage area for all the instruments and some of the drum hardware in this spot we tie it in and it fits nicely right there basically we just kind of like made our equipment kind of like a living space as well you know just kind of like mix the two we got our merch up front or mic stand with all of our dead animal bones and all the stuff that's not good for you and then we just pretty much mix it with our living area we usually kind of like mix it up like you know sometimes someone will pick up the slack for somebody else if they're having a rough night or you know we just but besides that we kind of have like a Tetris system you know other than that this right here is our rich guy icers bunk this is Ron's mug this is usually kind of empty because Ron's usually driving all the time so but seeing them do some weird [ __ ] in here this is Chuck smoke with squawker taxes Ranger that's the overseer of the space buddy of ours that uh you know some drives up here flyer with us and stay dog back there ya know it's an interesting show he apparently didn't know he was booked for it and then I guess the festival and so we did that playing with like hinder disappointed I wanted open for Snoop Dogg that would be pretty cool to say this bottom one is my bunk I sleep on my luggage back there I sleep surrounded by the dead [ __ ] pretty much and uh I load my gear back that way using laundry this is actually a pretty cool bag we got from Testament when we toured at them and then the whole bottom under here is all the like a lot of the stains props and stuff and people's shoes and stuff that shouldn't be out in the middle of the Iowa and this is my bunk back here I know it looks like a crazy twelve year old girl decorated in here but it's really comfortable and I don't actually have a mattress I sleep on some foam padding and a lawn chair cushion but it's really comfortable and it's it's been suitable for me over the past few years that I've had it my friend gave me the little Hellraiser guy over there and was my friend carry he's been my little tour buddy for about three years now and then I love steampunk so I saw that little dragon at a gas station also gonna have to have it no I mean our fans have always brought us some really cool stuff whether it's like food sodas fan I don't have it here with me because it was really delicate but a fan brought me a little dried gecko and a nice little floral frame also - some of the animal bones that we use in our stage props those have been gifts from our fans as well so that's that's pretty cool when you can say oh yeah you know our fan brought us a you know a pronghorn Skol or my cousin gave me a buck skull so but they're hiding way down back there my band's pretty boring so I'll keep a whole lot in the bus I kind of packed super light for tour so I have less stuff to keep track of and lose and damage I guess bring it on tour it's pretty much history so kind of touring the minimalists as much as possible I like to keep my stuff that's all I know right now they're using a transnational so where the convalescence this is where we live seven to nine months out of the year catches on tour we're on tour all year every year pretty much we had a big shot on the bloodletting North Americans who are coming up in Detroit soon sold out hometown show in Toledo and we're gonna be hitting the studio again soon so look out for a new record in early 2019 you