On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders (Revisited)”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the pop rock band, The Maine, while on The Pioneer Tour, back in 2011. The Maine is currently supporting their newest album, Dyed.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - December 21, 2011 Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:21 Outside of the Van 01:26 Driver's Area 02:10 Middle of the Van 02:58 Back of the Van
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Hello, I'm Pat and I play drums in the main.
This is LeBron, our loved van that we've had for four or five years now.
As you can see, there's writing all over it.
That kind of spans from, I guess, probably three and a half years ago up until now.
We were on tour and someone decided to write on the van.
Before we knew it, it kind of became this.
So it just kind of happened.
At first we tried to stop it and then after a while we encouraged it now.
We're at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago right now.
It's the last show that we have for 2011 and it's the Pioneer Tour, our new record.
We're playing the record from front to back and playing at a little bit smaller venues than we usually would.
We just wanted to make an intimate vibe to play the record for our fans for the first time.
So we decided to go back in the van and do that.
I'll kind of show you guys around a little bit.
This is the passenger seat and front area.
Jared built a cube that we keep random stuff in.
Paper towels and a bunch of random crap.
We've got stuff for the fans.
It's a little bit of a mess.
We just kind of treat the whole thing like a trash can.
But that's alright.
At the end of the tour we'll take care of it.
So John, our singer, does most of the driving.
Except now our sound guy Gary does a lot of it as well.
But besides that we all just kind of go in a random spot in the van.
This is the back bench area.
A case of water up here and random drinks and stuff.
Sometimes on an overnight drive I'll fit in right in the crack here.
And kind of go to bed.
It's kind of tight.
Sleep like this for six hours or so.
But I'm the smallest so I can fit down here.
And that way one of the other guys will have an entire bench to himself.
Besides that we just kind of rotate.
Come around back.
We have what we call the super bed.
Take out the back bench and have all the blankets.
Usually two of the guys will be here.
And you can actually get some freaking rest.
And lots of blankets because it's been really cold.
And yeah, that's about it.
This is our trailer.
Actually it's not ours.
We are renting this.
There's nothing in it right now.
But thankfully there isn't any writing on the trailer.
Because then we'd be in trouble.
But yeah, thanks for checking out our van.
And our new record Pioneer is out now.
So check that out.
Again, I'm Pat from The Main.
And thank you very much for checking out our van.
And we'll talk to you guys soon.
