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BUS MAINTENANCE 101, BY THE OCEAN

 Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 11:00am by

The #1 Rule of Touring: bus/van breakdowns will occur.

The #2 Rule of Touring: duct-tape fixes everything. I know bands that bring rolls and rolls of  the stuff every time they go on the road, just in case.

Both rules held true for The Ocean on their recent MS-sponsored trek with Between the Buried and Me, on which pretty much every thing that could’ve gone wrong did go wrong, sometimes comically so. In the first video blog hosted by our bro-ceans at The Deciblog, Rule #2 — along with some critical thinking and problem solving — proves a great fix for Rule #1, but I have a feeling shit’s about to hit the fan in the next episode (knowing what we do about the events of the rest of the tour).

The Ocean Tour Vlog, Part I from Chris dB on Vimeo.

The #3 Rule of Touring, from the looks of things, didn’t apply to The Ocean in this case: no pooping on the bus. Probably a good thing; had someone been unable to hold in a dookie that old rickety wagon might’ve exploded.

-VN

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marcel-Siewert/1396071711 Marcel Siewert

    well i didnt know they had brian eschbachs twin brother as their drummer

  • HUMANCENTiPAD

    altar bar is a cool venue. on the other side of town theres another church turned into a venue called mr. smallls. guess pittsburgh knows how to make best use out of a church. i want to turn one into a stip club.

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

    When I interviewed Robin, he told me how badly the bus company fucked them over. Glad I got to see them before the shit really hit the fan.

  • Elston_Gunn

    Well, shit. I’m really, really sorry to hear that these guys had such a rough go of things here in the States. That sucks. I’m also really, really sorry that I didn’t make it out to see them when they were here in California. I was busy, and strapped for cash… but I regret not going. I hope they keep making music and are brave (or masochistic) enough to come back over here sometime.

  • mabub

    Ahaha every band that comes through Canada gets so much love because we get so few big tours that go to places other than Toronto or Montreal. Any band that comes to Ottawa gets absolutely showered with praise and the crowd goes crazy.

  • Bobby DeNiro

    Boring…..

  • ZapBranigan

    Awesome, awesome, awesome show in Pitt at the Altar Bar. Glad I got a chance to see them.
    Hopefully they’ll come back and do a proper headlining tour in the States and not get fucked by the bus company.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Anderson/1583225469 Mark Anderson

    these guys are awesome, people are always pussies at the Altar Bar, it’s good to see they don’t lose their sense of humor after a bunch of dumb shit happens to them, good guys, awesome riffs

  • http://Dormicile Pat

    I meant every word of what i said in that vid! LONG LIVE THE OCEAN.