Come Back Alice Makes an Unscheduled Stop on the Way to Richmond
So, you’ve just played the Soulshine Farm Music Festival and are heading to The Camel in Richmond for a show with Trae Pierce and the T-Stones. But your tour bus has a flat. It’s going to take a while to get a service truck out there to do the heavy lifting. So what do you do?
If you’re Yral ‘datdudeondrums’ Morris, you haul your drum kit from the trailer into the shade, set ’em up, and starting practicing. And it snowballed from there. This happened to Come Back Alice, the St. Petersburg-based band with a large regional following. Rather than let the flat tire spoil the mood, they made it fun. Taylor Gilchrist pulled out his bass rig, and Mark Mayea set up some of his keyboards. Finally, Tony Tyler, the band’s leader, joined them on guitar.
“There’s one of two ways you can look at things,” Tyler said. “Either really, really good or really, really bad. We try to keep on the bright side. We could be stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire, or we could just have an excuse to rehearse a little.”
CBA posted:
What do you do when you blow a tire on tour? JAM! We even had a visit from the local paper and the NC Highway Patrol who called in a box of @subway!
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Mark Mayea posted this:
When you’re traveling between gigs and suddenly a RV tire blows out, you gotta set up on the side of the road and jam out until help arrives! We had a reporter show up with a sheriff, greeting us and filming us! Then shortly after, a guy came from Subway and brought us some food, snacks and drinks too. Life is crazy and beautiful at the same time.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Come Back Alice rolls!