The Faim - TOUR TIPS (Top 5) Ep. 700

hello I'm Josh Ravin from the fame and my five tips to surviving tour of basically being on the road as a band basically get as much sleep as you possibly can you're gonna be out every single night and make the most of each night you're going to be out there like meeting people have merch basically creating connections and creating relationships as much as possible it's very important they're the people that support you and the people who are going to be there in 80 years time and my second one is to drink lots of water you know it sounds ridiculous but honestly it's actually been my saving grace on this entire - if I didn't drink water I think you know I'd be in struggle town every single day another thing is trying to eat healthy you know you it's gonna be hard because you're gonna be like trying to get quick in the easy meals all the time like we're outside McDonald's right now I shouldn't actually I feel bad because I literally got McDonald's today but um honestly keeping your health up to scratch is really important especially as a singer because we don't take those things into account you know you could get sick before a show and then that really affects you for the next week because you're using your voice and then when you're damaging your voice it really just kind of becomes this stepping stones for just getting worse and worse really my go-to is are you know if I can I'll get lemon ginger tea and gummi bears and it's weird because you think only because I'm going to eat them no I actually I learned this from Chrissy from against the car I melt them I melt them in bowling boiling water and you what you do is you sip them because there's something in them called glycerin which is really good for your throat and it does it basically coats it because your vocal cords are the last thing they get hydrated so drinking water actually does nothing when you're on stage so yeah fun facts with Josh a fourth tip is everyone's got to have a sense of humor you know if you can't have a joke you can't make fun of yourself or laugh at each other yeah you're in for a really unhappy tour you know sometimes you gotta you know just you know get naked and jump on someone or just do something weird you know it's it it sounds ridiculous but it's fun it's it's not you know sometimes people get so trapped in their own head and you get stuck in a routine and you're waking up early and you're on these long drives and you you're not really experiencing anything as much as you can so sometimes just living on impulse and doing something that you wouldn't normally do will open up doors that you couldn't possibly imagine and it's about you know getting a deeper relationship with your friends because sometimes you don't know the people you're with until you're living with them 24 hours a day seven days a week and I really mean that like more than you could possibly imagine and my fifth tip would have to be to love the music that you're playing really I mean honestly if you're on tour and you cuz I mean if being in a band was easy and if cheering was easy everyone would do it you know that's the reality because it is a great thing to be traveling the world the same people who appreciate your music in place as well at the same time it's you're away from home sometimes 15 hours a day you don't sleep sometimes you won't eat the whole day and then you play a show and then you're meeting people for four hours and it's really tiring mentally and physically that you give to people then it's going to be a big struggle because honestly you won't you won't love it and the priority to really getting through this and developing it is to love what you're doing so those are my five tips for any boundaries starting to talk