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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | wheelchairs |
| Location | oakland, ca |
| Introduction | I was going to use this as a "story of the bus escapades" however, i often like other peoples version of what happened more that how i saw it. these are only my versions from where i saw it. i do lots of other things besides the bus - so ill stray. |
| Favorite movies | the bus is a big empty show space. inside the bus is a stage, p.a., lights and room for an audience inside aswell as on the roof. its powered by veggie oil, solar panels and batteries. we take the venue on tour and have local stuff happen inside. as of 08 we have done 191 shows, over 600 bands have played inside. -on our way back westward after our second time around the country the bus engine quietly ate one of its own pistons. we were leaving detroit with somewhere around 18 people. on this leg of the tour we had done shows with bands in the bus from florida to maine. from maine to niagra falls, around the great lakes and did an all night show with a bunch of picked up audience members around detroit (that show is a book unto itself) i drove about two hours out of detroit on our way to chicago when we had to coast to a stop in a town called " albion " about an hour after the bus spewed all its liquids onto the albion exit another white bus pulled up just to say "howdie! i just bought this bus 45 minutes ago..." all the passengers from my bus and some music equipment got loaded into his bus, while he was explaining where he was going. just happened to be the very same block in chicago we were headded. dave kloot and i stayed in albion. the rest hopped trains into a storm in Iowa where they got flooded in. we stuck around getting the bus into a yard and trying to figgure out what next. last weekend we bought a house on ebay for four thousand dollars in albion mi. hopefully we can get a crew together to go back out and revamp the bus - fix up the house - do art spread some love around albion. |