The Daily Grind of Life on Tour 

Im stuck in 2016 Casey neistat style vlogging

And we love it! Storytelling!

Also setting up the camera by the shower, filming yourself getting in and out naked, and then making sure the naked bits are available to Patrons only.

lmao neistat immediately came to mind

The run!

Me too, most songs have them!

None of the ones I play do. I mean, they originally did...

​@@AdamNeelyno way they do? Wow you learn something new every day. The idea that most of them do is just crazy.

I also like songs with a tempo!

I'm more of a fan of songs with chords.

@davidfoster6236 I think they are hiding them to protect their honor

Coffee is a drug. Just sayin'.

No time lol

These bands are the living definition of scaring the hoes.

True

Gotta be passionate to acquire that amount of knowledge,application and experience

Come to brasil 🎉

> for a period of time

Glad I got to see you with Bent Knee while you were playing with them but I'm also glad you're taking care of yourself man!

We love you Ben

I couldn't do it two days

Agree. Could not do that day after day for the sake of 45 minutes on stage each time.

I thank the God of heaven that I'm not a touring musician. If you haven't seen RJ Ronquillo's vids of his tours, it only confirms this sentiment. It's certainly a young man's game.

It's tough enough to travel for work when you're staying in the same place for a week. Different bed, different time zone, different food, packing on both ends. Doing that out of a bus for a month straight means that you'd better start out loving your bandmates, because you're liable to get real tired of each other, real quick. As for being a non-touring musician, it's still crazy enough being an independent contractor, trying to manage healthcare for yourself and your family, balance time between teaching, practice, and gigs, plus have time for yourself. I too fall into the category of weekend performer, and given some recent health events, it's hard to imagine myself as a full-time pro right now.

Tbh the drugs and alcohol "helps" at first, but there's a reason people develop addictions frequently in the music business. Because at first the schedules are grueling and so people take those things to ease the tension and to make themselves able to do more than they normally can - whether it be for extra energy, to take the edge off, or to make themselves feel less pressured so they can be more charismatic on stage. It's very easy to become destructive during touring because of how grueling it becomes. The drugs and alcohol tends to be used at first for the possible short term benefits but in the long run they tend to have very very bad negatives. There's the off chance people can keep it as a part of a regimen for its medical purposes so they don't develop full-on problems where it negatively impacts their lives but it's not very common or easy to do so it's usually best to just stay away from it.

As part of (maybe the last) drugs and alcohol generation, it broke me. It was good until maybe 23 when ibs showed up and the lack of sleep and constant hangovers destroyed my immune system. I still gig now, but real touring has been a no go for a long time.

To be fair, those rock bands of bygone eras just had to walk on stage, play, and then go back to the tour bus (or hotel) and chill. They had crews that ran their merch booths, they had roadies that set up and tore down all the gear, and they had guitar techs to take care of their guitars on keep them in tune. They didn't have to do their own sound checks (their techs took care of that). They didn't even have to remember which guitar they played on which song. The tech would just hand them the correct guitar between each song. All they had to do was play each night. Everything else was taken care of for them. You have to reach a very high level of financial success to get to that point, obviously, but that's the level of success that most of the cliche "sex, drugs, and rock n' roll" stars were at.

Instead of going for a run they did some drugs 😂

Nick was the best!!

@@AdamNeely He’s a good boy. ;-)

An additional thank you to all those that keep a show on the road. Literally. They put in the long hours and deal with so much so people can enjoy live music.

How did you write that 11h ago while the vid was made 2 mins ago?

​@@augustsanchezdunn628 Videos are available earlier for patreons

@@augustsanchezdunn628 Patrion.

listen to Disperse "Journey Through the Hidden Gardens" -- Jakub in 2010...

saw you guys at Gramercy Theatre in NYC! loved the show and also +1 for Jakub; i've heard him once on a polyphia track but that 3 man show was really awesome. thanks for the BTS look adam

@@t3hgir Consider it done!

I love discovering killer bands opening for already killer bands. Agreed, Jakub and his crew are incredible and I can't believe I didn't hear of them before!

@@t3hgir man, nice shout, that's a deep cut hahaha

Me and a partner were arguing about the true time signature of that after the Glasgow show 😅 and discussing how people in the crowd were dancing to like, 3 different time signatures at least. Glad to see it’s a fixture!

@@kaitlyn__L adam commented on the dancing as well! It was hilarious. Something about Shawn (drummer) making it difficult to know when to headbang.

@@stephenhumphries9419 haha that’s great. I think he just said the drumming was misleading in Glasgow, so I was doing my best to ignore it (while a lot of the dancers aligned to the drums). But I also had it in my head that maybe that was a psych and everyone else was screwy _but_ the drums! Did he lead with “this is an experiment” for you too? Clearly his observations have been noted and are informing the repeats! My discussion on the way home was about whether it was a polyrhythm with one part in 4/4 (my position), or whether it was all 4/4 with tuplets, heavy swing etc (hers). If the underlying reasoning is ever revealed and we turn out to be both wrong that’ll sure be interesting (I guess pointing to the effect of the lyrics on people’s perception)! Anyway sorry if that’s a bit much haha, it’s just neat to discuss the same thing with someone from a different show! Especially because it’s hard to explain exactly what was going on to a third person without leading them to a conclusion yk?

@@kaitlyn__L no it's totally fine! Its fun to hear about your experience too. I think he did open with "this is an experiment" his crowd work was really great. I'm psyched for their 4th album to come out. The "4/4" song will hopefully be on there and we can analyze to our hearts content ☺️

@@stephenhumphries9419 it occurred to me in the meantime that we might’ve all experienced different tracks to go with the lyrics, that’d be next level lmao

Quality of life was much higher, and honestly, when you break it down for a month across the US, living out of a van isn’t much less expensive. You could sleep in the van, and then it’s cheap, but then you physically fall apart

@@AdamNeely Thanks for the response! I'm guessing with feeling more refreshed, it means you can put more into your shows too!

As a band that tours 130 dates a year, roadies are a luxury lol

@@ApolloSuns good on you. Youthful enthusiasm can take you a long way down the road. Keep it up 👍

@@lavatar3562 absolutely. Looking forward to a crew member when we can afford it

Adam doesn't want to bust into that RU-vid money to spend $20K a week to tour bars.

That is not Eisenhower's fault. I've never heard "the interstate system is actually bad" as a take before but -- as someone who fervently wishes we had better commuter rail here -- I disagree with it. It was a massive national project that provided a lot of jobs for people at the time, and by the time it was started America had already been pushed down the "cars over rail" path for a few decades. Not by Eisenhower, whose whole idea was to ensure military logistics networks were able to extend across the country, but instead by the car companies themselves.

@@tz4601 I mean, it's not that he stood in the way of the auto industry essentially monopolizing transportation across your vast nation, he actively served in helping them. Maybe rail would have provided fewer jobs, but that means there could be more room to create other innovative and exciting jobs, using our limited resources more rationally. However, unfortunately the function of the government in our current economy is to serve those who own everything rather than us vast majorities who do all the work, whether it be literal construction or innovation through mental labor. Paraphrasing Carlin: "It's one big club, and you ain't in it!".

Not that freaky. Just a coincidence. It would be more freaky if Adam said he missed you and uploaded a video just for you.

Totally agree. My favourite part has to be catching a glimpse of a bandmember coming-in by an unusual entrance and asking the venue staff something (best way backstage?) True mirror-image of the pre-show prep part of the vlogs.