Hi everybody! Welcome to our bus.
I'm Frank Iero, and I sing and play guitar in Frnkiero andthe Cellabration.
And this is where we've lived for the past month. Come on in.
Well, the... We're constantly watching something or listening to something.
Uh, basically, there's like a satellite thing that sometimes works, usually not.
Uh, the XBox is completely broken.
Um, the Playstation does work and we really just use it for DVDs,
which, let's see, we were watching some kind of monster last night which is always a good watch.
Departed is always on. The Shining is always on.
Full Metal Jacket kinda gives me the motts. I don't know if I like watching that very much.
Uh, Rushmore is always on. Um, and then, just recently a very nice young lady gave us Twilight Zone: Season 1,
and we've been watching that religiously.
Um, last tour it was Seinfeld.
And Seinfeld, something about having the full series on at all times just makes you feel really good.
Like you could walk in at any moment and be like, "Oh, George is on! That's great."
So, uh, this is some of our artwork.
I started to do this thing, uh, I'm very lucky. Like, a lot of the people that come to see us play, uh,
are very talented artists, and um, and they show their inspiration through the things that I've done musically
through art that they create. And so like, you know, I can only hold onto it for so long,
I can only keep so much of it. So I decided, like, a cool way to maybe, like,
prolong the life of the art would be to do these things called "surprise collaborations,"
and so, I just take like a few of them that I think are, like,
just, I don't know, somehow just inspire me like on the spot. And those I take and then I add on to,
and then we post them on Instagram and stuff like that, and it becomes like an art project between the two of us.
I think what I might do is, maybe at the end of, you know, I don't know, this tour maybe?
Or maybe a month after this tour, maybe what we'll do an auction. Like an Ebay auction,
and then see if we can donate that money to a good cause or something like that.
Depending on the artist. We'll contact the artist and see if, uh, what charity they wanna donate to.
But these are some of the things. This is, uh, by a wonderful artist from, I believe she's from Russia.
Her name's Kristen. And uh, she did that one, too.
She did the Sweet Pea. That's uh, Notorious P.E.A.
This bus is old to say the least. So there's no storage whatsoever, but you can lift these up,
and sometimes you find weird things underneath.
Like there's some Monster in there, but we don't drink Monster. I don't know who put the Monster in there.
Some kind of monster.
Uh, we have a little bit of bread left, some Froot Loops. There's always Cup O' Noodle.
I don't really eat this though, it makes me sick. Um, I do however eat those Scooby snacks. I love these.
And then, oh! This is my favorite, over here, is this one
because it's just full of cereal. Count Chocula and all the good stuff, Frankenberry.
Normally, outside of cereal, marshmallows make me gag. But I like cereal marshmallows.
This is our tea collection and all other stuff. Um, Emergen-C's, and Throat Coat is a must.
I bring this with me at all times, it's my kettle. It's the only reason I can have somewhat of a voice.
This kind of gives us our schedule. Um, when we can get into the venue, uh, load in, and sounchecks for
us, um, Jared Hart who's a singer-songwriter who's on tour with us right now.
Roger Harvey, they get a soundcheck, too. That's him and his band. He has a full band out.
And we're all living on this bus, we're all together on the same bus for the tour.
And then stage times basically. You know, doors open, and then tonight, Jared goes on 45 minutes after doors,
Uh, after that will be Roger, and then the 25 minute change over so we can strike drums and things like that.
And then we go on at 8:20. It's an early show tonight because it's a, I think it's a city-wide curfew
in Chicago for all-age shows. See, "Hard all-age curfew," right here, at 10P.M.
Uh, and then our bus call's like 4. And that's when we putter out and we go to, uh,
I think we're on our way to Michigan tomorrow.
And this will tell us all the, you know, information. Like, what the front of house desk is,
uh, what the monitors are, if there's a production office, no runner, no shower,
private bathrooms: one, we share with the staff. That's okay.
And that's the address and the number and all that stuff, so whatever you need.
Usually the basket is just for any kind of community candy that we have out.
Right now we have these IBC Root Beer Barrels which are pretty darn good.
These are, these... I don't like these. I think they give me agita. I don't know.
Something about anise is a little weird, I think.
Let's see what else. We got some tissues, a flask, there's a candle here, and some marshmallows
for hot cocoa. And uh, Twizzlers always on hand. This is a mini-me that we have hanging out sometimes.
He just hangs out with the Twizzlers. He guards them.
And a koozie is always a good thing to have around.
This is usually like a breakfast table. Any time anybody has food that you can't stand eating,
you try to give it up to the other person. Um, we're usually on an angle, I don't know if you can see that
on the screen. Uh, whenever we're parked on the bus we tend to just always be like this.
Again, the bus is not the newest state of the art bus, but it's a bus and we're very thankful for it.
There's also like, the ice box, and that's usually just the beer and soda and, you know.
What do we have? Uh, alright. I bought this last night. I love this.
Pretty excited about that. I also got this which I'll probably have tonight for dinner.
And then, um, we have... This is really good. Some horse radish mustard.
And then there's uh, cheeses and weird meats that seem to be kinda old.
Some old take-out. Uh, I think that's Barbecue Clem.
Um, yep, some almond milk. We got cranberry juice. And then uh, oh!
This stuff's great, man. This Ginger Sooth stuff, I put this in my tea. And uh, it helps with the phlegm.
That's about it for that. We keep this velcroed so it doesn't open on us.
Uh, let's see. This is our bathroom. There's a shower in there but no one will ever use that, it's a little bit weird.
But uh, we have a sink and we have a toilet. It's nice to pee whenever you want to.
But I learned long ago that uh, don't think just because you have a sink that you can do like,
normal things that you would do with a sink. Like, don't brush your teeth, don't shave,
because you will get a staph infection. It is bus water, it's kept in a weird tank under the bus.
It's very gross. You can wash your hands but after you wash your hands you wanna sanitize.
Alright, this is where we sleep.
Alright. Twelve bunks and uh, we are a full bus.
This is my bunk. It's not the cleanliest.
I tend to uh, put this up here, and then I push it in, and then I sleep like that.
That's probably why they call me "mouse" behind my back.
But I have a fan, and I have a dream catcher, and um, I have some reading material,
Entertainment Weekly with the new Star Wars thing.
I was actually just reading "Horns" by Joe Hill, so I have that in here.
There it is. My phone charger, there's a heating pad back there, too.
Uh, let's see what else we got. My camera, my duffel.
Um, let's see. Records from a record store that I purchased.
What's this little box? These are my box of treasures. Oh, the other night, we played the Rose Music Hall
in uh, in Columbia, Missouri and we sold it out and they gave us a trophy. That was kinda cool. I'll keep that.
Got this honey that looks really good but I don't wanna crack it open until I get home.
Um, little moleskine with some stickers in it. Jared Hart CD, fantastic CD.
Got a bottle opener. Oh, check this out. Somebody made me this. That's kinda awesome, right? She's a welder.
Um, this is important because sometimes you might go to a venue and they don't have any
so you wanna always have it.
Let's see. Oh! Also, gaff tape. You can never not go wrong with having gaff tape with you.
This is a mug from the Waffle Spot which is a diner I went to in San Diego, and it was uh,
it's my favorite diner in the entire world. It was like a magical place. I can't believe it.
I feel so lucky that I found it.
Little treasures. Those are my treasures.
And there's a cable in here, too.
Uh, let's see. What else? Oh, the back lounge. You can see my t-shirt station.
Last night in Missouri, we sold out of merch and I have no t-shirts or hoodies or anything left, and uh,
which is great, it's a great problem to have, but it was also just Thanksgiving so our supplier isn't open,
so we can't get t-shirts until uh, Cleveland which is the last show. So uh, I was like, "Alright, well,"
we went to Walmart last night and I got a bunch of t-shirts and now I'm just making them in the back lounge.
So I stayed up all night last night uh, with fabric markers, and made two different t-shirts.
This is the Sweet Pea design. These are the youth sizes, by the way.
And then uh, and then there's a Boozy design, too, which is this ghost that I like to draw.
And they'll be available tonight for as long as they're available, basically. And uh, this is my station.
So yeah, this is the other art piece. His name is Frank, that made it. And then uh, I added to it.
It's just like paint, markers, and Sharpies. I like it.
It livens up the joint. This is a great one I got last night. That's Sweet Pea, that's my dog.
That's who's on the other shirts. And those are Boozy's so there you go. See, it became a thing.
This is like the room that's not spoken of. This is where everybody kinda puts their sweaty clothes after a show,
like those are my show underwear.
So you come back here, you get dressed, and then you just leave immediately. No one wants to hang out back here.
It's not the greatest smelling joint. But uh, this is the place that I had the most room to set up stuff.
So I've been hanging out back here all last night and I'm not happy about it.
But uh, yeah, that's what this is. It's the community junk room basically.
Throw all your junk back here, um, that you don't have room for either in your bunk or underneath
which is where the bags are, or luggage kind of thing.
The trailer's pretty much packed because we have so many people on the bus and so many bands, like
it's just full with like, merch and- well, not any merch right now but, merch and equipment and stuff so
this is uh, this is the junk room.
Thank you guys so much for invading the bus. I hope you had a good time.
Um, I hope I didn't embarrass myself too much with showing you all the things that we have here.
Uh, if you wanna check out more of our stuff you can go to frank-iero.com
I'm also on Twitter I guess, @FrankIero and frankieromustdie on the Grammies, on the Instagram.
Um, I think at this point we're gonna be off for the holidays but we're gonna be in Australia for Soundwave
and then we're gonna take some time off and write a record. So uh, see you guys soon. Thank you very much.