What's a rock tour like?!


Question: also how does money work on tour?


Answers: also how does money work on tour?

Sleeping on a bus in a bunk trying to keep from spilling out into the floor. Driving all night with no windows to look out of, only the front. Checking into ONE motel room at 1 PM for Five bandmembers, and five crew to use ONE room to shower/make phone calls/watch weather channel/make cheap coffee maker coffee, etc. (read that: Poop) and then check out before soundcheck at 4 PM. The management gives you $20.00 per diem (Per Day) to live on. You save yours up, eating only the cheapest, free-est food. You get to the gig and eat with the roadcrew so you don't have to use your Per Diem. You wander around the nearest couple of blocks of the venue. You spend NO money when you shop; just look.... Don't buy! The best part of the day is actually getting to PLAY. You get back on the bus, change into something not soaked in sweat and go back out to sign some autographs. When the tour manager says it's time to go, IT'S TIME TO GO! You get back on the bus, watch TV, read, eat some leftovers you smuggled from the backstage area. You think about those you love. You see other people around you making what you think are unwise choices and you may even make some yourself. You go up and talk to the bus driver and he tells you how many tours he has worked. He tells you how many bands he has driven for. You yawn. You then climb back up into the front cabin, use your "Bus Legs" and bounce like a pinball into the bathroom, try to pee standing up while the bus rocks back and forth without peeing on yourself... By the way, NO POOPING on the bus! NO! NO! NOBODY EVER POOPS ON THE BUS! RULE ONE! You then crawl up in your bunk, zip yourself in and cocoon yourself down into a swaying black night of bus fumes. The rest is very unglamorous, but sometimes very funny, irritating , invigorating and tiring. You lose all concept of the day of the week. Every day is like a the day before except you're in a different place. The stages all look relatively the same. The people look relatively the same. Among the way are very small things that stand out like little kids in wheelchairs or old guys with a bunch of keys on his belt who is the last one to lock up the venue, who has more stories to tell than you have time for, but you want to stay and listen...

really crazy



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