Each episode of Crazy Tour Stories features a touring act giving you all the details about, one or more, wild things that have taken place while on tour. In this episode, the alternative rock band, the Orphan, the Poet, talks about a crazy thing that happened to them while on the road.
Hi, I'm David with The Orphan the Poet and this is my crazy tour story. So we were in I think we're
in Vegas actually yeah and we were playing a taco restaurant and as funny as that sounds that's not
the punchline of this story but yeah we were playing a taco a taco hut or something and I
was in there setting up getting our stuff kind of put together and I get this text from Ty our
guitarist and it says no actually I'm sorry it's it's from Drew our drummer about Ty and it says
David come to the parking lot Ty's bleeding bring napkins you know so instantly I know I just I just
go into into to crisis management you know I'm thinking okay you know does he need a tourniquet
how much blood you know what what finger was cut off you know I'm that's that's where my mind goes
and so you know I'm just grabbing napkins I'm out the door and you know I'm looking around I see him
I see him over on the on the on like a curb sitting there and I saw I see him so I run over
there and I happen upon them and I see there not not a crisis but I see Drew heating up a blade of
a knife over a lighter and Ty with another knife I don't know where it came from sawing his leg
cutting off a wart and so I say I said what what's going on here and very nonchalantly as if as if
this is a normal thing Ty says oh I'm cutting off a wart and then Drew's gonna cauterize me
and I'm like no no this is bad this is so bad don't do this Ty you don't want to do this
no I will have no part of this so I throw the napkins down and I storm back inside go back to
what to what I was doing very soon after I get another text and it says David from it's it's
from Drew again it says David come back out you need to hold down Ty while I burn him he asked for
only you and you know so I'm torn at that point I'm saying I don't want to encourage this type of
parking lot surgery but then again like you know he asked for me he knows that that that I'm capable
of holding him down so I'm saying all right all right I'll go hold him down so I go back out
and they've moved from the curb to the back of our van to the uh to the love nest we call it
and uh again there they've got the the uh the knife all heated up and you know I say Ty Ty
you don't you don't have to do this you don't want to do this and he's like you know you know
what I don't I don't want to do this but but we probably should and so I'm just like okay there's
there's no there's no saving it at this point so they'll say okay so I hold his legs down he bite
I think he has a pillow or a sheet he's biting onto and drew slaps this red hot blade of a knife
onto his leg and you hear that you hear it sear and he screams and he starts punching drew because
I don't know what what else you can do in that in that situation but the best part is is when
the the smoke cleared and we kind of assess the situation on his leg let's say the warts here
and he's slapping out he's trying to get there but the blade missed and so then he just has a burn
pointing at this other wart that he was supposed to burn so they didn't even accomplish anything
other than just pointing to where to where the ward is and that's my crazy toy story
