On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders (Revisited)”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the rock band, The Dead Daisies, while Uproar Festival 2013 with Alice In Chains, Jane's Addiction, Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive, and more. The Dead Daisies is currently supporting their newest album, Light 'Em Up.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - August 22, 2013 Location - Credit Union 1 Amphitheater in Tinley Park, IL
VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:33 Front Lounge 03:11 Bunks 04:21 Back Lounge
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This is Bus Invaders.
Welcome, welcome, welcome, man.
This is a tour for those of you
that's never had a chance to be on a tour bus.
This is it.
Welcome, welcome to the Dead Daisies Tour Bus.
This is, of course, where you drive.
You get from point to point A to point B.
We have a little lounge here.
Absolutely.
Flat screen.
Staple food.
Pretty cool staple food right here.
And I'm eating pretzels.
This is where a lot of work gets done, as you can tell.
We hang out.
Sometimes we cook.
There's microwaves.
Pretty cool stuff.
And we have a blast, you know.
We have, look, paper towels.
You know what we need those for, you know?
Anyway, yeah, let's keep going.
Say hello to Alex.
How's it going?
Say hello to David.
And this is Cat over here doing a lot of work.
And just having a blast.
We just got here in Chicago.
We're coming from New York.
Cups.
We got cups.
We need that.
What else do we have?
We have our coffees and teas over here.
What else do we have?
Don't open that one.
Don't open that one?
Do not?
Don't open that one.
Oh my God.
Pretzels.
And Fritos.
Our favorite.
What else do we have?
We have peanuts, Nutella.
Healthy stuff.
And so on and so forth.
As you can tell, we try to eat right,
but sometimes we can't.
Long drives, a lot of time available.
This is very important for those of you
that have never been on a tour bus.
This is a very important feature right here.
Number one, yes.
Number two, never.
For a lot of reasons.
So, and here we go.
Say hello to this.
Howdy.
Listen to the man.
And here we go.
We continue.
We got a nice fridge over here,
nicely stocked with drinks, et cetera, et cetera.
It's pretty comfortable, you know,
considering that we're moving so much
and we're covering a lot of miles.
On the bulletin board, we pretty much have the set list.
As you can tell, the Daisies, we're gonna,
it's a free song, Take Time, Evil, Washington,
Fly, Lock and Load, Miles in Front of Me,
and Hell to a Skelter.
That's how we close the show.
And it's a great set, man.
It's very powerful.
In Your Face, Rock and Roll.
We have our dailies here.
And then it gives you a plan
of what's happening after the show
so everybody kind of knows what's going on.
What's happening after the show?
Say hello to Richard.
Hello, hello.
We are driving to Indianapolis, I believe.
Yes.
And so it gives you the hotel info,
three hour drive, et cetera, et cetera.
We usually get off stage, clean up a little bit,
and go do some signing.
But today, it's raining.
It's gonna be a wet one, so we still don't know.
Nevertheless, we hit catering.
We have a little dinner, and then we hit the road
for three hours, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, we have Bunks over here,
and we have the baddest singer on the planet right here,
Mr. John Stevens.
Say hello to John.
Hey, how you going?
The Dead Daisies right here, man.
Yeah.
Killing it.
We are killing it.
We have, this is our second week, actually.
We're gonna finish up in the West Coast,
LA, San Diego, Phoenix.
Looking forward to that one.
Deaddaisies.com, check out the,
there's some free downloads and a lot of stuff going on, so.
This is where we sleep, bro.
This is where we sleep.
Bunks.
Action Jackson here.
Broken leg.
Broken thumbs, but down the middle here.
Came over from Australia to America,
straight out of hospital, got out of hospital at 8 a.m.
Was on a one o'clock flight, Sydney to New York,
22 hours later.
It's like, damn, it's been a tough couple of weeks,
but it's been a lot of fun.
Performing for all the crowds and playing in America
for the very first time with the Dead Daisies.
What a blast it's been,
and I should be good by the end of it.
I mean, physically.
You see my dance steps.
Having a blast, man, kicking it.
Mr. Man over here, over here.
And then, in addition to some of the buses
don't carry this feature, this is a shower.
For those of you that, for those of us
that would decide to take a shower after,
usually we have hotel rooms that we go there and clean up.
We have another bathroom here, again.
Pretty comfortable, as you can tell.
Number one, yes, number two, never.
You get in trouble.
And then there's a back lounge.
This is where some of the quiet folks come out
and hang and sometimes doze off.
Have a drink, have a talk and read and all that stuff.
So it's comfortable, as you can tell.
There's another flat screen.
There's all the audio stuff that you can imagine.
It's having a blast.
We're having a blast, you know.
They try to make it as comfortable as they can
for us to be on the road.
Some of us have been on the road for a long, long time
and it's part of our life, you know.
It's pretty cool.
And then we get to do the best thing,
the best job in the world, right?
Playing music for a living, it's like, wow.
So, yeah, bus invaders, you are the guys, right?
Thank you so much for your time.
Go to deaddaisies.com, check out all the tracks.
There's some beautiful stuff there
and we'll be looking forward
to coming across you somewhere, sometime.
God bless.
Stay strong and focused.
