On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the alternative rock band, ALEXSUCKS, while on tour with iDKHOW's "Impending Gloom Tour." ALEXSUCKS is currently supporting their newest EP, Warm Beers.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - November 21, 2024 Location - Concord Music Hall in Chicago, IL
VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:41 Driver's Area 02:26 Middle of the Van 06:49 Back of the Van 06:59 Engine
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What up, we're Alex Sucks.
This is our bus.
This is our first tour with a tour bus, which is really nice. It's nice and spacious.
Guys,
get the **** out of here.
That's your van over there.
Great. Thanks, Ronnie. Dude, we're just joking. We're joking. Ronnie, we're joking, bro.
Sorry about that.
Okay.
What up, we're Alex Sucks, and this is our van. This is our van. This is where our TM drives us all around the country.
None of us sit here. We're not responsible enough.
Assorted Buckeyes chocolates that are never going to be open on the dash from a fan. Go Bucs.
Most of the time when we're not sleeping, our TM is playing Creed and Kodak Black.
Yeah. Over and over. One or the other. And Gucci Mane.
Don't know how to feel about that, but I'm not really sleeping or playing with my toys in the back.
I feel like everybody has their own individual headphones on playing.
Oh. Hey, get the **** out of here, Ronnie. Go back to the bus.
We're the opening band. Yeah, definitely the opening band.
We all play our own music. We all have pillows we steal from hotels.
They're actually $30. They're not free, which I didn't find out that we're not being caught with that.
Alex gets charged 30 bucks every time I take one.
So I didn't know that.
Hey, I got some really special for you over here.
This is our chip cabinet.
Me and Garrett love facing chips. We got everything over here.
He's a big Cheetos guy. He loves these things.
And also come check this out.
We're always stopping for food.
You always need sauce when you have food.
We got Starbucks Sriracha over here.
Taco Bell fire sauce.
Ken's honey mustard.
Burger King barbecue sauce.
And then we just got unlimited Taco Bell sauce everywhere.
You can't go wrong with any of that.
That's what I got up in my corner.
I never leave this spot.
Let's check out the rest of the van.
This is Garrett, our bassist.
He's got his Buc-ee's corner. I'll let him talk about it.
So welcome to my row.
You know, we got like a slight Buc-ee's vibe going, you know.
I'm the one who brings the most clothes.
So I just got a giant pile of clothes and
yeah, some Legos.
We got a tour water basketball.
I'll hit a shot for you real quick.
He always does that because I'm better than him.
This row is designed for comfortability.
The way we got it set up.
I'm short, so I could fully just lay down and go to sleep.
I have my AirPods, noise cancellation.
And yeah, this is designed for comfort.
So this is Johnny Ransom, our drummer,
aka Johnny Handsome.
He's right here.
I don't really have that much.
Some apples.
Show me your monster.
Banana. Oh, yeah.
Got to have one of these on deck at all times.
Show me your McCafe pie.
Oh, dude, I just bought this homeless lady stuff at McDonald's
and then she bought one for me with my own money.
So that's how I acquired this.
I don't even want it.
I don't even like these
sock monkey hat.
And that's really it, dude.
What's up with your pistachios over there?
Oh, yeah, pistachios.
Pistachios.
Oh, dude, no.
Oh, bro.
There goes those, dude.
Yeah, I'll just eat them out of this now.
There you go.
Pistachios.
They like click in.
No, these are fully custom.
Yeah, they're custom.
Alex sucks custom Mercedes.
Took it to pimp my ride.
Yeah, that's all he did, though.
That's all we got.
All right. Check it out.
Check it out.
This is my row over here.
We got the hotel pillows.
Thirty dollars a pop.
Over here, I got my super important shelf.
Come check. Get a closer look at this.
These are all the Lego guys I've been getting
all super rare.
If you know, you know.
Very important.
I'm spending top dollar on these across the country as we go.
Show me your most expensive one.
Price drop.
Maybe.
I don't know if you can see it's lighting up.
Super rare. 2006.
Price drop. How much did that cost?
I don't feel comfortable disclosing that.
Now, if you come check this out, this is my half pipe.
This is where I do super sick tricks.
You know,
shout out Black River Ramps, Chicago.
New store.
Shout out Knife Fingerboards.
Those are my dudes over there.
This is my basketball hoop.
This is where I practice my dunks.
No, you can't dunk.
You can't dunk, Will.
I can dunk.
Over here, I got
this is my robe.
I got a Heineken Zero because I don't drink.
Can't drink.
Can't get pulled over for drinking Zero.
Yeah.
Retired.
I got skinny popcorn because I can't poop.
It's my girlfriend's coloring book.
She's been doing pretty good.
She's been cranking along.
Pretty fierce.
One thing he's not showing you is the usual seven bottles
of full piss that he has stashed behind his seats.
I like to hydrate while we're on tour.
And not pull over too much.
Yeah, we don't pull over that much.
So normally there's a lot of piss bottles back here.
Oh, yeah.
You ******* broke the net, you dipwad.
Johnny, bro, they fooled.
Johnny, relax, bro.
You're always trying to do some extra shit.
Drummers.
Yeah, we can. Check this out.
We got some seasonal designs.
Clap on, clap on.
Yeah, these are 2006 Nordstrom.
Seasonal designs. Yeah.
We like to ride in style.
Yeah, it is late November now.
Should we pop the hood?
And in here, we keep all our gear.
Look at that. Another time.
Hey, relax, relax, relax.
You know, I'll take it from you.
I'll show you.
This is Harrison, our tour manager.
Yeah, got a turbo diesel Mercedes engine here.
A lot of people don't know this, but you want to check your death levels.
Death is urea, which is also piss.
So when we run out, we just use Alex's piss stash and keep the van running.
Things got, I don't know, 200, 300,000 miles on it.
And this is the engine.
And you can tell it's the engine because of the way it is.
They'll make it a little faster.
So what the **** is that?
I think it might be an empanada or a quesadilla or something.
We'll save that for later.
Yeah, honestly, we might as well just keep that thing in there.
Let's keep it toasty.
Thanks so much for checking out the van.
We're Alex Sucks.
We're a band.
Yeah. So check us out.
Listen to the music everywhere.
Album next year. Come see us live next year.
Yeah, I'm coming to a city near you.
I do do the loot, do do do.
Oh, it's on now.
It's got it's got a whole playlist on here.
Bring it up.
Play some.
It just keeps going.
I don't know how many songs this thing holds.
This is mine, the TM.
I literally don't know how many songs this thing has,
but it's pretty amazing.
That one didn't age well.
Get back to work.
We have a show.
Get back. Dude, we got to load out.
Oh, that's very nice.