Imperial Triumphant - TOUR TIPS (Top 5) Ep. 1057

This is Zachary Ezrin with Steve Blanco. We're from Imperial Triumphant and these are the top five tour tips. One tour tip is you know finding a good place to eat is obviously a challenge on tour so we always like to navigate and do some recon when we're in a beautiful area like let's say we're in driving through the state of Vermont which is very beautiful and we'll look for some kind of like farm-to-table steak place. Make sure you will make a reservation. Yeah and we'll actually make a reservation and we'll just go with like full luxury because like a lot of times touring is the opposite of luxury. It's certainly not the most glamorous and most comfortable lifestyle and then we treat ourselves to this super luxe steak meal and we feel like real yeah man morale is number one for me like no matter how the tour is doing morale is high everyone's good so whatever you got to do to maintain the high morale within the crew that's like super important and that could be as simple as hooking everyone up with a ******* shower. Yeah that's right yeah just getting a ******* shower that can be enough take a shower that's a great tour tip take a shower take a shower especially if you want a tour package with other bands that also shower because you might not think you smell like ---- but you do brush your teeth that's a good one brush your teeth take care of your body and like try to like just don't be gross yeah you know what I mean yeah that's definitely a huge like like unless you're selling out arenas nobody's impressed that you broke something on stage or you made a gross like green room like it's not rock and roll if you then go sleep in your van or sleep on the floor and start inhaling like laundry detergent because you're sleeping in the laundry which happened to me one time you're not a rock star if you're sleeping on floors yeah so just be respectful don't be gross be clean and you might make it to the next tour throw throw the garbage out of the van that's a huge one like just make sure the garbage yeah and that's because if you keep the garbage in that's to say to yourself I am garbage and this is where garbage lives yeah exactly and like even though even though we're programmed or many of us are programmed to believe that we are garbage it's good to like try to unprogram that as you go through life and you're trying to build a career or whatever it is you're doing and you know you just throw the garbage out it's good yeah it's all about morale you treat yourself with a little bit of respect and you might just throw the garbage out yeah exactly but work within your means you know like we take a small van no trailer small crew because there's really nothing better than coming off a tour and being able to pay your rent and not having to go back to your shitty job like that feels really good and if you can make the steps to work towards becoming a professional musician you're going to feel a lot better about yourself and the tour and the morale and everything just gets better in your life yeah I agree I mean as much as I love the idea of Rammstein's show which huge fan you can only do that when you have the resources to do it so you keep it small and efficient you're going to go over yeah just do the best you can on the budget you have it's hard it's hard work because you got to wear a million hats but life's hard work yeah you work hard and then you I don't know you and then you throw the garbage out you throw the ******* garbage