Yesterday Was Everything Page #3

our merch guy.

Maybe it just seems commonplace

cause through working

with Misery Signals I've

made so many friends that

do tour, so it seems pretty

normal, but when you really

think about it it's kind of not.

(Ryan) Watch out for my urine.

(Jesse) Huh?

(Ryan) Watch out for my urine.

There's a cup full

of it by your feet.

(Ball) Five to ten people pile

into a van where you have to put

your gear and where you have to

sleep and where it smells awful

and you drive a thousand miles

to play a show in front of

twenty people, but you don't

care cause you're playing music

you love to people that

also hopefully love it.

You don't know where you're

gonna sleep that night maybe,

but you're probably gonna end

up on like some weirdo's floor

breathing in asbestos

or something.

But it doesn't matter.

Cause you're there with

your friends. And you're there

doing what you love, and

you're experiencing something.

My foot is ruined.

Let's go to the hospital.

Here's the normal foot.

Normal foot, fat foot.

Nothing starts out great.

You have to be willing to go

through some sh*t and put up

with less than ideal conditions

and if you have a lot of love

for something it's not going

to matter how shitty those

conditions are.

(Stu) How'd we do

in merch buddy?

(B Best) Not that good.

Horribly?

Maybe like 160 bucks.

Most of these bands

don't make a sh*t

ton of money doing it.

It's just kind of like all they

know at this point, right?

They started doing it when they

were young so they just keep at

at cause what else

are they gonna do?

In the lean years these guys

didn't even have a trailer, we

were touring with a van with one

of those tiny cargo things on

the top of it, and all and the

merch and personal luggage was

crammed up in there and like

amps and drums and everything

were just crammed

under the back.

So our van stopped working

a little while ago and

we're gonna get it

fixed or, hopefully... but we're

sitting in San Diego, probably

missing the show. Awesome.

(Ball) It's a different world.

You're moving so much.

You play one city one night and

then you move to the next city.

You don't leave any

time for anything.

You're with this traveling

group of people and it's like

your own separate universe.

You know you guys create your

own memories together but you

don't have enough time to create

relationships necessarily with

the people that live in

the city you're playing.

(Stu) When you spend that much

time with your band, those

become like your family.

Those guys for almost eight

years were like my family, the

dudes that you see every day

I feel it's partly love of

the music and partly these

guys are getting to an age

where it's like really what

else do they do?

A lot of them didn't go to

school, I was kind of lucky in

the sense I guess that before

I started touring I went to

college so I had something to

fall back on when I decided

to quit. But a lot of

these guys don't, right?

So this is what they keep doing.

(Camera Person) You

guys seen Jesse Yet?

(Kyle) Nope

- No he's not here yet.

- Should be here soon.

Did he drive here separately?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

He's doing the tour

separately, in his own car.

- What?

- Yeah.

(Kyle) They drove out to the

wedding from Saskatchewan and

they're driving back at least

to that point, and then maybe

hopping in the van or

possibly just driving a car

on the whole tour.

It's yet to be determined.

Hopefully he

doesn't miss any shows.

Is it pretty

packed in there?

Uh, a bunch of people are

hanging out out front, it'll

be pretty packed when we play.

Doesn't seem that crowded

but it'll probably be nuts.

How could I

justify this

I can make anything alright

But what do you know

about sacrifice

You are no lamb

Any man a creep

Any man deserving

Any man

A victim,

a target

[cheering]

(Kyle) Do you know the

plate number on that guy?

I have no f***ing

clue what it is.

Got a text this morning, our

van and trailer were towed.

405 right?

(Ry) Yep.

[knocks on door]

(Adam) Two blocks down and it

says it's good from nine to

eleven, and then on the right

next to it it says "no parking

Monday through Wednesday"

and then next to it says from

seven to eight and we didn't

see that. I already called them

they said they have it,

it's 200 for the impoundment.

(Kyle) Sick.

(Ryan) Okay straight back,

straight back.

This way a little.

Keep coming, you're

on track, keep coming.

Slow, slow, little more,

this much more, Stop!

We're okay.

It'll pop in.

That sucks cause that was

actually in there that time.

The last time it happened

I don't think we had

it on there correctly.

Well, what else

could go wrong boys?

(GPS) Turn left onto

15 Avenue south east.

Then turn left onto

Macleod trail south east.

(Ryan) We disagreed on a lot

of things back in the day.

The specifics escape me right

now which leads me to believe

they maybe weren't as

important as we thought

they were at the time.

Being in a band is

like a marriage you know?

You all have to work together

and decide on things together

and do everything together and

it always sort of seemed like

the four of us against him.

(Jesse) I was just sick

of losing every vote.

Whether it was as simple as

where we are going to go eat

tonight or where we're

gonna sleep tonight.

Those guys at that point

were so like party...

it's funny, straightedge guys,

but party mode, like "we're

gonna stay at these girls' house

tonight " " we're gonna eat at

this vegan restaurant today".

I just got sick of

losing everything.

We would often refer to

Kyle and Ryan as "The Bosses",

cause they would deal with the

money and the promoters and...

(Jesse) I think Ryan was

the leader in that band.

I think his brother would

always just basically do

whatever Ry said back then.

And Ryan and Kyle were

childhood friends.

I was this outsider.

(Stu) There's these

expectations that he would have

for other people but

sort of not for himself.

In a sense of like,

he would want...

he would expect the band

to have their strings changed

for every 2nd show, but then

then he would cut a set short,

at four songs because

he's tired. But then he would

justify that with "Oh I don't

want to do a bad performance"

(Ryan) He would often say that

he wanted to leave the band or

he thought that he's not

coming back after this tour.

And he would say that

over the course of a

number of different tours.

"Oh I'm gonna quit the

band if this doesn't happen"

I think he was saying

that he quit cause he wanted

someone to talk him back into

staying but it was just too hard

on us to have all these tensions

and then on top of that have him

being like "Well I'm just gonna

quit, well I'm just gonna quit".

And eventually one of the

times that he said that I put

my foot down and said

"Okay, don't come back."

(Jesse) Milwaukee.

That's the guy's hometown.

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