Ethan Tasch - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2177

0:00The gear gets a little cold and lonely because we're all up in the front. This is Christopher for some reason. On this part we just got this new switch mount that it's not really where it's supposed to be. What's up? My name's Ethan Tash. I'm on tour opening for the van Camino and almost Monday and this is our van. It's a 2014 Chevy Express. Some call it the beast. Others call it Dumber and let's take a look. All right so this right here is Wyatt Moran. He's actually the owner

1:00of the van. This is his car that he drives around Nashville and up here I mean he actually it's not really a rule but he kind of does take most of the driving I think maybe naturally. I usually start I start in the morning most of the time and do like three or four hours and then other people will usually tap in when I'm kind of when I'm hurt. Yeah and since this tour started in New York and ends in Nashville him and Ethan back there actually drove to meet us and they just drove for themselves all the way and there was another version of the car but she's not here. Usually we're listening to music. Long drive days will maybe sprinkle in a podcast if we're feeling crazy. What are we listening to? So we've done how long gone? Two classics. Music music kind of depends on who's driving usually the person that's driving will be in control of the

2:06music. So we go we go back and forth a lot on that over the snow. But it's a lot of everything. What about that nice love speaker? Oh yeah that's actually a great point. The driver's side speakers don't work. So driving in the van and listening to music is kind of like when you were on the bus in like elementary school and like you've got a headphone and the person next to you has a headphone and you're like only hearing like the claps or like the background vocals on one side instead of the whole picture. So that's super fun and it's something that I need to get fixed in also you want to talk about all these guys? Yeah and so we obviously have some co-captains up here. This is peel and banana. We've got leaf, the eggplant and broccoli and then this is Christopher for some reason. I don't know why all Dutchman's have names that are apt. Yeah Christopher's new

3:14so he's still kind of we're still kind of figuring out his bottom. All right so in the middle see we've got bass player and sometimes synth player and oftentimes harmony extraordinaire Michael Acerse and in the back we've got the other Ethan Ethan standard. This is his first tour with us and he's playing drums. I've kind of started taking this spot the most because on this tour we just got this new switch mount that it's not really where it's supposed to be but we figured out a way to make work. We've been playing a lot of Mario Kart World usually in the cars with two players but we've got some intense four player green room battles too. Some Mikey this is usually what I am you know you wake up in the morning you try to get to the first spot that you want and this is usually this is my this is my doja this is what I do. Usually Ethan will sit right here this Ethan and we'll be viciously going at Mario Kart. I think I've actually won one of the big

4:19tournaments in the car. You know you get pretty dizzy so if you have Advil, Tylenol around it's kind of nice to pop one of those before you play. Yeah we're just drinking water you know I'm trying not to take too many p-stops but yeah so it's kind of what we do. Okay so why it kind of has this nice little setup that I have dipped my fingers into because I like coffee but he's got Grindr, OXO, OXO, some people call it. We stopped at this place in Philly. Let's shout out percent and they were so fire. I can't remember their names but they were really fire. Coffee's amazing it apparently gets better with age. Pour over set. You know we don't like to do it in the van but if we have to we'll get risky. Ethan likes his decaf I don't know what that's about but anyways coffee fun and then see baby. Great bag dude. It's super cool bag. Shout out to

5:26TJ's you know. Ethan number two in the back. We've got what's this guy's name? Conrad. Conrad we've got Conrad back here. I find that he has a lot of separation anxiety so he likes to snuggle up to in the back here. I like the let's see I just finished a book called Ordinary Monsters. That was cool. I finished that. Well it might have been in the front seat. I'm usually in like the coke abs and seat. The second seat out there but sometimes I'll like take an abs or read back here too. Yeah it really depends if someone's trying to sleep. I think they'll probably go back there and then we'll get two people sleeping at the same time maybe. Or even three if someone could fall asleep sitting up. Not me but this guy's gonna. Yeah I can somehow do it. But if we're both playing Switch we'll probably be in the middle secret there and yeah I think that's kind of how it goes. All right it's kind of what we're working with. This fits just about we're gonna kind of just

6:30fit everything that we have. We have three guitars full drum kit, a pedal steel, a couple pedal boards, four suitcases and a couple box of merch. Got my double guitar case usually goes right along here. Yeah so you see this blanket here. Sometimes the gear gets a little cold and lonely because we're all up in the front and whatnot and so I like to tuck it in with the gear gets some rest too. I'm along gloves. This is a quilt that my grandparents gave to me when I graduated from high school and so it's got a bunch of different t-shirts from my life up until that point which was a long time ago now but it's all the shirts on the front and then there's a cute little embroidery on the back. I'm not I'm blanking on exactly what it says right now but it's very sweet and I love my grandparents and they're very supportive of me and us. My name's Ethan Tash. Anywhere you can find music or find anyone. You spell it T-A-S-C-H.

7:36Got an album and a mixed tape that came out this year. album came out a couple years ago and we're gonna be on this tour for a couple more days but I'm sure this will come out after that so next time we're on tour just looking me up anywhere and hopefully you'll find us and uh yeah thanks for your hanging.