TOT tour.....a recap of sorts.


friends. Ten Out of Tenn tour has come to an end. 15 days in a row, 16 shows....12 people on a bus....


I wanted to make a youtube video from the TOT tour....there was definitely tons and tons of video-able things happening....but I didn't. Basically, to work on editing a video would mean that I'd have to miss out on the fun.....and since the fun was nonstop, there was no time for editing.

Fun such as:
-passing out glowing mouthpieces after the NYC show and having a makeshift rave in the front lounge of the bus, blasting any upbeat Dylan songs we could find.

-trying to insert the phrase "TOT" into any sentence. (For example: "My TOT feels funny today." or "Uh oh....Tyler got some TOT last night!!" or "GO TOT yourself!" None of which make any sense.)

-watching certain non-female TOT tour members get pedicures at a random Walmart

-bribing the owner of a duckpin bowling alley in Indianapolis to stay open late so we could have the place to ourselves (This might be one of the top 3 memories). Duckpin bowling is like bowling from the 20s or something with small pins and bowling balls just bigger than softballs. Kinda like we were in the first Back to the Future, only with beer from 2008, and no clock tower to save.

-ongoing late night billiards tournaments (i owe all success to my billiards partner, butterfly boucher, who may be the best pool shark I've ever seen.)

-late night installments of the BBC series "North and South" during what I like to call TOTea Time. This is where myself, Katie Herzig, Butterfly, and drummer Will Sayles liked to retreat to the back lounge of the tour bus to remind ourselves that we are high-brow, classy individuals, with a taste for the finer things in life.....stories of propriety, historical fiction....and unrequited love. (Granted, we couldn't understand their accents and had to watch it in subtitles....and also I fell asleep a lot.) (Side note, Griffin House also joined TOTea Time occasionally, once being lulled to sleep by the rocking of the bus, his head landing gently on my shoulder for the remainder of the evening. Erm, the memories.)

-playing slide guitar on K.S. Rhoads' "Bayonet". This was probably the highlight of the set list for me every night. That's why people probably saw me dancing like a thug rapper with sunglasses on during that song. I was feelin it.



There are tons of other memories that I'm sure will hit me later.....but these were definitely worth mentioning.

LUCKILY, the entire tour was filmed, from morning til night. Literally 8 hours of footage a day. Special thanks to Jeff Wilson, for carrying around that camera all day long and capturing every embarrassing thing we did during the tour. You will be the richest man in Nashville based on blackmail footage.


So yes, there will be some videos coming out here and there from the tour.....plus eventually a concert documentary, a la The Last Waltz.....or perhaps we'll just save the footage til we're all superstars, and then title the movie, "Before The Were Legends."



Oh, and next time you get a rash on your TOT, don't scratch it.

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