Michael Marcagi - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2037 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the singer-songwriter, Michael Marcagi, while on his spring 2025 tour. Michael Marcagi is currently supporting his newest EP, Midwest Kid.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - February 28, 2025 Location - Thalia Hall in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH MICHAEL MARCAGI: Facebook - https://facebook.com/michaelmarcagimusic Instagram - https://instagram.com/michaelmarcagimusic Twitter - https://twitter.com/Michaelmarcagi  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:46 Front Lounge 05:18 Kitchen 10:59 Bathroom 11:36 Bunks 12:59 Back Lounge  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.

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00:00Welcome to the tour bus. Hi, I'm Michael Markeji, and I'm in Chicago tonight, and I'm going to give

00:20you a tour of where I'm living for the next four weeks and where I've lived for the past three

00:27weeks, so here it is. Playing a show tonight at Talia Hall, which is going to be amazing. Never

00:33been here before. Just had a song come out. It is called Flyover State, and got more music on the

00:38way, so keep an eye out. Keep your ears to the ground. There is an Xbox. There's a Nintendo Switch,

00:45which has a paper towel inside of it, which doesn't seem good. I don't know what happened there,

00:50but it does work. A lot of FIFA. A lot of FIFA goes on and on the bus between me and the sound guy,

00:55Matt. I usually win. I'm just going to throw it out there, but I have lost the past two,

01:00so I'm going to do some coaching changes, I think. Some formation switch-ups, but usually a lot of

01:05FIFA, Mario Kart. A lot of guys in the band play a lot of Fortnite, which I have not gotten into,

01:11but it is fun to watch and root on. Over here, we have a hand massager, which looks very creepy,

01:18but that's the basis, and when you're up there, shred and base, you've got to come in,

01:25ice the hands afterwards, after the show. When I play FIFA, I'm Chelsea. Chelsea FC, baby.

01:32They're the best, even though they're having a bad year, so, but we have a, like, a three-year-old

01:38version of FIFA. Well, actually, when they're even worse, so, um, win some, we lose some, I guess.

01:43We are not watching any TV right now. We've watched a couple movies. Um, I keep getting yelled

01:51at to watch Severance, but I have not, I have not tuned in yet. I'm, I think, well, I'm probably

01:57like three seasons behind at this point, but our, uh, our bassist in the band, Ryan, his sister is

02:02one of the lead act, actresses in Severance, and which makes it even worse that I have not watched

02:07it, so don't yell at me in the comments. I will get there. I'm busy out here playing shows. I have no

02:14free time, so, that's my excuse. Honestly, I don't even know what, what is in any of these

02:22cabinets, um, but I know one. I know one. Your water drawer. I gotta stay hydrated. That's

02:31about it. That's about all I know. We can start little tiny baby shoes. Um, those, whose

02:37are those? It must be five. There's no way. Oh, wait, maybe they're Annalise. Yeah, these

02:42are shoes from someone I don't even know. These are the, look at this, that's the smallest

02:46shoe I've ever seen. Um, so yeah, again, I don't know even know what's going on in half

02:51these drawers. More shoes. Maybe this is just all shoes. We had a king cake in here at one

02:57point, which are, are the piano players from Louisiana, so he ordered a Mardi Gras king cake

03:05that was in one of these, in one of these, and we just ate it for like two straight weeks. I

03:09think it's gone, but we do have the, we have the baby left over from the king

03:14cake. Cause if you like get the baby in your thing, it's like good luck or

03:17something. You have to buy the next king. Oh Jesus Lord. Baby's gone. This is a, we

03:24had a joke that since we're on here for so long that we need to make, is that the

03:27baby again? Good Lord. Alright, baby's going over here. Baby's going in the, in the

03:32Keurig machine. Um, we had a joke that since we're on here for so long that we

03:37needed to like, start hanging up like those really cliche things like, we made

03:41this house a home. Like we wanted to like, you know, have those really cheesy sayings

03:46like, I don't even know, like cook and gather and this is the family or something

03:51like that. So we're going to start adding posters and pictures and this is the

03:56band. This is the five handsome gentlemen that will be on stage. And this was a

04:00picture of us at CBS Saturday morning, which airs tomorrow. So watch that if you

04:10have some free time. Um, and then over here we have another poster. I think this

04:14is from a show earlier in the, uh, in the, uh, in the tour, but we're going to get

04:19more. I want, you know, like eat, pray, love kind of vibes on the bus. I think

04:25that's, that's our vibe as a band. This is, this is, uh, this was a gift.

04:30From our buddy who owns Rockbridge guitars out of Charlottesville, Virginia. And he

04:37gave this to me cause he knew I liked the Cincinnati Bengals, but he like

04:40invented this toy. It's like sold in Walmart. It's just like a one string

04:42guitar. So it really annoys everyone in the band, but it's really, really fun to

04:48play. I've been playing some strokes on it. Oh fuck. I forget how to play it when I was

04:54playing reptilian out of strokes. I am too much pressure to play it on camera. Um, so

04:59that is the one string guitar. Go Bengals, who day, Joe Burrow. I love you. Um, we're

05:04going to win the Superbowl next year for sure. And if we don't, I'm probably going

05:07to give up music cause I love them so much. Yeah. Let's take it to the kitchen.

05:11It's we're pretty clean. I'm like for being a touring band, we are surprisingly clean. I don't

05:17know what's going on. We're, I don't know what's happening, but everyone's doing a good job

05:22of, of keeping, keeping things clean. We got the Keurig, hot water, the old throat

05:27coat tea before I sing. Um, yeah. Fancy coffee. We love fancy coffee. I drink anything. Honestly,

05:37I love a good lobby coffee. Like bringing out of like a shitty hotel and they just have

05:40coffee sitting around for 14 hours. That's my favorite, but our tour manager loves the fancy

05:47stuff. Um, bread, a lot of hot sauce. We have, we have a couple of hot sauce nerds in the

05:54band and I think they have weaseled their way into the control of the rider. And so on our

06:01rider every night we get like a bottle of hot sauce, which no human can consume that amount

06:05of hot sauce. By the end of the tour, we have like 30 bottles of hot sauce. Um, yeah, that's

06:09it. Look at, and then a bottle of unopened tequila back here. No, it's opened. Where'd we get

06:15that? I don't even, I don't even know. I don't even know what's happening, but yeah, pretty

06:22clean. We do a good job. Unless someone like makes something crazy in the, in the

06:28microwave. Someone like heated up a ramen the other day and it smelled horrible. So, you

06:32know, you gotta be aware of other people on the, on the bus. And then, um, I don't know

06:39what that is. That's not, that's not exciting at all. Oh, a guitar amp is in there because he

06:44put it under the bus and somehow it got wet. I don't know what happened. I think some

06:49Topo Chico's fell out of the fridge, leaked under the bus into his guitar amp. And he

06:54made a big deal about it. He's a baby, but it's all good now. Honestly, I've only really,

07:00I've only, this is like the first real bus. We did like a bus tour in Canada, but this

07:04is like the first time spending a lot of time on a bus. And I love this setup. This is like

07:09the best setup. The seats are so comfy. We have a lot of room, but yeah, this is the,

07:14this is the table. Usually, honestly, after a show, I feel like there's, there might be

07:21some chips, some snackage going on, but it usually just fills up with like light beer. People are

07:25just like drinking coarse light and PBRs after a show and it just becomes like a little pyramid

07:31of cans. So honestly, there's no work that gets done here. Anybody, just whoever claims this

07:36spot, because if you're right here, you get a good shot at the TV, which is important. And you

07:41get kind of like a good look at the room. You know, there's no, no rhyme or reason, but every

07:47spot on this bus is a good spot. It's a, it's a well, well planned out vehicle. Whoever designed

07:52this 10 out of 10, they deserve a raise. Let's see what is in our fridge. It's probably nothing

07:57exciting. Oh, first of all, our fridge doesn't stay closed. It's just like when we're driving,

08:02it just like opens up first night, like 30 Topo Chico's fell out of the fridge, um, and

08:11explode all over the ground, which was a horrifying, horrifying noise to wake up to. Let's look at

08:16it. Let's open this bad boy up. All right. So we'll start here. We, uh, on the rider is

08:25lunch meat supplies. So we always have sandwiched, sandwich supplies, which is important. You know,

08:33you gotta, you gotta stay fueled up on the road, but that also means that we just have like

08:41pounds and pounds of really bad slice of turkey that just kind of goes bad in our fridge. Um,

08:47Budweiser, Coors Light, lots of cheap beer. Honestly, give me a sponsorship because I have

08:56to sing every night. So I don't really drink on tour. I know I'm boring. Athletic N.A. Beer.

09:01Sponsor me. It's a bad day to be an N.A. Beer around these parts because we throw these back

09:06like nothing. We're a couple of wild kids here. So athletic brewing. If you want to send us more,

09:13that would be great because that's what I live off of on the road. N.A. for life. Um,

09:20we're fancy boys. We got kombucha, kombucha drawer, which kombucha always comes in glass,

09:29which is terrifying when those fall out of the fridge. Um, yeah, what else we got? Oh,

09:36then we got the, the healthy drawer up top, you know, fruits, salads, vegetables. We try to keep it,

09:43keep it, you know, try to, it's a, it's a marathon, not a sprint out here on the road. So you can't be

09:50eating, you know, garbage every night. You got to keep it somewhat reasonable or else I would probably

09:57die. Biggest game changer for me in my life. Learned this from our tour manager, the old immunity shot.

10:05Just, I don't know what's in here. It just is like pure ginger and cayenne pepper and it feels like

10:12you drink gasoline, but I haven't gotten sick yet. Knock on wood. So I recommend these. It could be

10:20almost, it's probably all mental. It's honestly all in my head. It's placebo, but I honestly don't think

10:25there's anything in the freezer. We're going to find out though. Oh, I don't know what that is.

10:32That looks like, oh, those are the cookies, cookies from, I, I forgot about those. I forgot we had

10:39cookies. Uncrustables. Oh, taquitos and Ben and Jerry's ice cream. That is like a third grader's

10:52dream right there. So that's crazy. I didn't even know we had stuff in the freezer, but

10:58PB&J and ice cream and taquitos is wild. So that's that. Here's our bathroom.

11:06Pretty clean. Gosh, we are, we are so clean. We are good guys.

11:13Oh, it's dark in here, but nice bathroom. Everything's good. Just can't poop. No pooping

11:20on tour buses, but you guys probably know that. Number ones only. And again, we are clean.

11:27We are good, good young men here on this bus.

11:33God bless. Let's go back to where we are sleeping. So we got 12 bunks, right? 12, 12 bunks.

11:43Um, yeah, I think people don't realize that you sleep on a tour bus. I think a lot of people

11:50are freaked out by that. I brought, I showed like my family the sleeping quarters and my sister was

11:55like horrified by the fact that like we sleep in little coffins essentially. Like this is my bunk,

12:03pretty standard water bottle graveyard in there. But I mean, not a lot of room. So when you're

12:11laying down, it's like right here, but you know, it's, it's kind of cozy. It's like if you like

12:18white noise, the bus gives you kind of like a, a white noise on its own from the engine, but it's

12:26pretty rough. I'm not going to lie. Like you're rolling down the highway, like shaking and stuff. So

12:30you get used to it though. It's not too bad. It's a four out of 10 sleep, which sounds bad. And it's

12:36bad, but it's our life. You get used to it. Junk bunk. We don't have anybody sleeping in this. So

12:42that just holds guitars and yeah, that's a, that's the vibe. And now we are entering the back lounge.

12:52Oh, what do we have? Oh, we have Fortnite on the screen. I guess somebody was playing Fortnite,

12:59but yeah, back here's the back lounge. This is the, I guess you would say more of the quiet vibe.

13:07People back here playing Fortnite, hanging out. It's pretty small. Yeah. We got Fortnite on TV.

13:13Still never played. It is fun to watch and cheer on. Yeah. We got it. We have a shower that no one

13:19uses, just has one single, one single hat box that it looks wet. I don't even know. The shower

13:27should never be on. So the fact that that's wet is a concern for sure. Um, bathroom, another bathroom,

13:34another clean bathroom. Gosh, I hope we win the competition for cleanest group of dudes because

13:39I'm impressed with us. And then, um, emergency exit in case shit hits the fan. And, um, yeah,

13:48that's the, that's the, the back, the, the vibe back here. Kind of like a, a little lounge,

13:53you know, little, you got this like nice ergonomic backrest kind of thing. It's great. Great vibes on

14:00the, on the tour bus. I want to, I honestly, I don't own a home or even an apartment. I, all my stuff

14:07is in Home Depot boxes in my mom's garage because I'm on tour so much, which yeah, that being,

14:14yeah, being a single guy without a home or really any possessions doesn't sound like the best, but

14:19it is great. And I love the tour bus life. This is my life. This is what I was made to do. It's just

14:26a big road trip and it's so fun. And I do it with great people and yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing.

14:33This is my home. This is my, this is my home. And yeah, if you are wanting to follow along,

14:40my name is Michael Markeji. Follow me on Instagram and TikTok and come to a show. My recent single

14:46is called Fly Over State. I hope you guys like it. Um, and yeah, come to a show. It's a very

14:52fun time and I hope to, uh, see you out there on the road. I love you guys.

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