{"id":8195,"date":"2013-01-29T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2013-01-29T06:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:44:27","slug":"greg-kihns-10-commandments-of-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/greg-kihns-10-commandments-of-touring\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Kihn&#039;s 10 Commandments of Touring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/10-commandments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8196\" alt=\"10 commandments of touring\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/10-commandments-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>My client <a title=\"Greg Kihn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkihn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Kihn<\/a> recently released his\u00a0 \u201cTen Commandments of Touring\u201d, coming from years of experience touring the world.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never get separated from the band in a foreign country.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never leave the hotel with a chick who says she\u2019ll take you to the airport in the morning.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never drink in the hotel bar alone, nothing good can happen.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019re better off smoking a joint alone in your room and watching reruns of Gilligan\u2019s Island than going to a local club with some chicks you just met.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When singing the National Anthem, start low and sing fast.<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never drink from the mini-bar in your room.<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never poop in the lavatory on the tour bus, peeing is OK, but defecation is not welcome.<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never drink the other band\u2019s beer, steal their women, or smoke their stash, it\u2019s bad karma.<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Always treat the roadies with respect; they can really make you look bad if they want.\u00a0 Remember, they have their own secret credo from which they never vary- (I\u2019ll tell you but don\u2019t say you heard it from me.)\u00a0 The Roadie\u2019s Credo- \u201cIf it\u2019s wet, drink it, if it\u2019s dry, smoke it, if it moves fuck it, if it doesn\u2019t move, put it in the truck.\u201d<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Pace yourself, it\u2019s a long tour.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any commandments for touring you would add to this list? Leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My client Greg Kihn recently released his\u00a0 \u201cTen Commandments of Touring\u201d, coming from years of experience touring the world. 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never get separated from the band in a foreign country. 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never leave the hotel with a chick who says she\u2019ll take you to the airport in the morning. 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Never drink in the hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2100,736],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-marketing-2","tag-10-commandments-of-touring","tag-greg-kihn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}