Saltwound - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2172

Obviously we enjoy Hidden Texas because we got a lot of Bucky stuff. I think there's Bucky stickers all over the van. We do have seatbelts in these bunks, but we don't use them. You can't run out of water on tour because you'll be miserable and hate your life. What's up? My name is Spencer Timmons. I'm the vocalist of Salt Wounds. We're currently on tour right now with Great American Ghosts, Grist Me Razor, and Downswing. We just released our new single, Apparition, featuring Ethan from Great American Ghosts. Check that out. I'm going to take you on a tour of our van today, so let's hop in. We have our ice chest right here where we keep all of our drinks, food, anything we need to keep cool or refrigerated. We have our little charging block right here, which we've had since our first tour. Somehow it's still working. We just plug it up here into the cigarette holders and run the cables back, usually to my bench right here. We have our phone clip holder for when we're driving so we don't have to stare at our phones down there. We have our emergency pairs of sunglasses for when people don't have theirs. We all kind of take turns driving. Usually the main night drivers are me, Sean, and Sam. We sort of rotate out throughout the night, depending on whoever drove last night. If someone needs to get more rest the next night, then someone else usually will drive or try to do at least most of it to kind of let the other people get some rest back in the back. Generally, we all kind of listen to our own things. We listen to a lot of throwback, like 90s stuff and old school, like 2000s and everything. That's kind of, I think, the main commonality between what we listen to. But for the most part, whoever is in the driver's seat is picking their own music or just putting their own playlist on shuffle. Obviously, we enjoy Hidden Texas because we have a lot of Bucky stuff. I think this Bucky sticker is kind of all over the van. I'm wearing Bucky's merch right now. We also have this sticker from the Poodle Poodle in Denver, Colorado. A buddy of ours, Grant, works there. And obviously our own sticker. This is from Miss Mayi's stagehand, his brand that he's got. So that's the sticker and the hook. And then down here, we have a bunch of tools that are kind of just thrown in here, but stuff that at any given point you might need quickly. These are our trash bags, so we hang our trash bags on the side of this seat right here for whenever we're driving and we don't want to just leave trash everywhere. We keep it all in one of these bags, and then once we get somewhere at the venue, we stop and throw it all out. Alright, so this is where I sleep. This is kind of my bunk. I have this fold-out mattress, so it rolls up and clips together so that we can kind of save space and people can sit up here when I'm not sleeping. It rolls all the way out and it is like gel foam, so it's really comfortable for sleeping on here. A lot more comfortable than the one I had before. We're also not using it too much right now because it's pretty cold, but we have these fans set up here that also plug into the cigarette lighters up there. When we're driving, the Fords like to do a thing where the back vents don't really work when you accelerate, so the back back here gets really, really hot in the summer and really, really cold in the winter. So when we're in the summer and we're driving, we usually run these so that people get some airflow back here if they're not up in the front where the vents are. Thanks to our bassist, Marty, I have this nice little cubby drawer bag, whatever you want to call this thing, I guess. But it's been helpful for keeping a lot of my crap from kind of spilling all over the place, which is sort of what I did before, but now everything is kind of, maybe not organized, but at least it's all in reach and able to be grabbed. We've got a bunch of hooks kind of set up in here for like cables and my sleep mask and stuff like that. Blanket, pillow. I kind of tend to tuck my backpack and some of my other stuff in the corner over here because it's just the most out of the way that it can be besides everything that I sort of shove underneath the bench down here, which kind of is a mess right now. But yeah, just basically trying to maximize storage space and be able to have everyone sitting up comfortably at any given moment. In the back, we have the rest of the bunks set up, and at the top ones here, we have Marty and Sam. You can't run out of water on tour because you'll be miserable and hate your life, so I keep stashes of water all the time. This is where my phone lives at night. Unless I want to watch a movie, I actually put it up here, and then I just lie on my back and watch a movie through this little pencil holder divider thing. Marty put in these super cool charging ports for our phones, so even if the van's off, we can charge our phone. But overnight, this is where our electronics live. Then for me, Marty put in another one of these little cubby holder things. So, you know, we obviously have the switch, the snacks, our drink pouch stuff, other water bottles, trash bags, assortment of things. Real just quality of life stuff, you know what I mean? Well, I can't fit on the bottom bunk because I have a wide load sticker, but I have a little three-inch foam pad thing. It does pretty decent, all things considered. It takes about a week or two to really get adjusted to sleeping not in your own bed, but once you get there, I think we do okay. We do alright. Yeah, we do great. So, yeah, same thing. These are cot beds, like twin size, like for RVs, so they fit perfectly in here. Yeah, I got all these little cub holders installed. Got my glasses, my charger. It's all my crap. Got a USB that I put in on both sides, so in case the bottom bunk wants some juice, they could get it. And then I got more, same thing like his side, my iPad, just lotion, stuff like that. Gotta have that cocaine. Yeah. Yep, that's about it though, right? We do have seatbelts in these bunks, but we don't use them, but we do have them to shove us in. But, yeah, it's a bunk. Your light's up there, too. Oh, yeah, I got my little Christmas lights, gotta, you know, get festive. Touring on the holidays has got to be festive right now. So, something I didn't mention with Star Wars, we actually bought this band from Distinguisher. Their singer is our music video director, their old guitarist is our producer and mixing engineer. So, we bought this from them when they broke up. So, a lot of these stickers kind of came with it. I could probably point out a few that didn't. I think this one, obviously, we added. This is our guitarist's clothing brand. He had that. I think, no, we added that. The Salt Wind ones we added, for sure. The Revenge one we added. Yeah, a lot of these kind of came with the van for us. Obviously, they like Bucky's, too. But, yeah, most of it came with it since we bought it. And then we have our trailer here that this was a new addition. I think this is the red paint, but Marty spray-painted this with a stencil on the last one. So, yeah, let's open it up and look at the bunks from this angle. So, more cubbies, more storage space. I think this one we've kind of had for most of the tours we've done. They always store their shoes up here to keep it out of the walkway. It's pretty narrow as is. So, you know, they try to keep this clear so people can get in and out. Then, just kind of general cleaning stuff like Febreze and Lysol and stuff like that just to, you know, store. You've got to kind of try to stay still and fresh. Back here, just kind of random stuff, I think. Mostly some, like, medical stuff like Saniderm and lotion, body warmers. Just general kind of storage, more stuff up here. I think this is Marty's, the way she has it. So, she's got some more supplements, her Switch. Yeah, and then down here is where our guitarist, Sean, sleeps. So, you can kind of see, like, in the bunk, he sort of just crawls in through here, usually. Or he'll go in through the side and kind of shimmy his way in. This bunk, if we have crew with us, they'll sleep here. Otherwise, we tend to use it as storage. Again, trying to keep sort of the bottom area clear. But when we built this, we put in an added space at the bottom. You can see we kind of have stuff stored down here. So that way there's, again, like, a better walkway for us to get in and out. And then we're also not having to sleep cuddled next to all of our crap. We can sort of shove it down under here and keep our sleeping areas as comfortable as we possibly can. We have these carpet things. You added these, right, Marty? Yeah, we have these, like, this carpeting that we added here so that when we're getting in, we're not, like, scratching ourselves off the wood and everything like that. Smart idea. Yeah, and all this was, like, 400 bucks, I think, at Home Depot. Screwed everything in ourselves. Took the benches out that were in here and then screwed all of these in ourselves. Kind of see, like, underneath here, like, the supports that are on it so that these don't really move or shake when we're driving. Like, they're pretty well, like, screwed in. So, if we're driving or taking a turn, like, the bunks themselves at least don't shift or move so that it keeps people safe and at least semi-comfortable when we're going 75 miles an hour. Thanks for checking out our van. Once again, this is Spencer from Salt Loon. Check us out at saltloonca on Instagram. Come watch the show. You can see us on Twitter at Green American Ghosts.