Kyle Gordon (feat. Mojohand) - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2069 - 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 comedian and musician, Kyle Gordon, and the rock band, Mojohand, during their spring North American tour. Kyle Gordon is currently supporting his newest album, Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful, while is currently supporting their newest album, Dungarees.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 15, 2025 Location - Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH KYLE GORDON: Facebook - https://facebook.com/kylegordonisgreat Instagram - https://instagram.com/kylegordonisgreat Twitter - https://twitter.com/kylegordon101  KEEP UP WITH MOJOHAND: Facebook - https://facebook.com/Mojohandjamband Instagram - https://instagram.com/mojohand.music  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 00:58 Driver's Area 05:37 Middle of the Van 09:59 Back of the Van  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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00:00Hey, I'm Kyle Gordon. I'm Joe DiNardo from the band Mojo Hand. And we're on tour right now.

00:14We're finishing up. We're here in Chicago. We've been all around the country and Canada. World

00:18tour. And I'm promoting my new album, Kyle Gordon is Wonderful. I'm a really down-to-earth and

00:23humble guy. And we're gonna show off our van and how we've been traveling around. So yeah,

00:28as you can see, there's like a bit of a bug holocaust happening right here on the front

00:32of the van. We've been traveling. When was the last time you washed this van? Because this is Mojo Hand's

00:37van. Yeah, it's our van, but we've been on the road for about a month now. And it's probably been about

00:40a year since we washed this van. Fair enough. Yeah, yeah. The inside is spotless, but sometimes we

00:45miss the front. We were kind of hoping that all the dead bug bodies would scare off more bugs to

00:50come and it would even out. Yeah, it's like a scarecrow. It's like a vehicular scarecrow.

00:54Well, so I do most of the driving. This week, I'm actually not driving too much because I lost my

00:59license. But for the most part, I do the driving. He's literally picking up his license in Columbus

01:04at my friend's place. So Ian, our keyboard player, has been doing most of the driving

01:08of the last few days. Yeah. Yeah. But it is mostly assigned seats. I am the king. So I sit in the

01:18king's chair and the king sits in the front. And then the plebeians, they sit in the back. So Joe

01:24will be up here driving. And then the rest of the van will be back there. The van is pretty full. So

01:31I don't know. What's it like sitting back there? You've sat back there a few times.

01:35It's very hot because only the front air conditioning works. But, you know, the sweat,

01:40you know, helps you stay focused and it helps you, you know, pass the time. Up here, though,

01:45it's great. I mean, it's quite comfortable. These are really, yeah. Yeah, I got this. This kind of

01:50doesn't work, but you can, you can kind of, I get these, these were actually do work pretty well.

01:54So I've been quite comfortable. We have our phone holder for all of our informational needs. We

01:59have our cigarette layer that also doesn't really work, but none of us smoke anyway. So I guess it's

02:04fine. Exactly. Got to take care of your instrument. Usually I would say the music is mostly switching

02:10off between me and Jasper, our drummer. And we sort of do listen to a mix. We don't, we haven't really

02:15listened to any podcasts. There was one. So, I mean, I don't know. We've, we genuinely have

02:21listened to everything. So sometimes we'll be listening to like weird, obscure, like blue stuff

02:27that I haven't heard that Jasper put on. And then right before we pulled up, we were listening

02:31to Mambo number five. And there is, I feel like there does need to be a combination of like

02:36vibey zone out ambient music. And then especially when we need to focus, like putting on pop songs,

02:41we, when we, we had our, the worst drive was driving across North Dakota. And when we just

02:47had to get to the hotel, um, we put on the jerky boys just to like literally just like,

02:53ha ha ha. We're laughing. We're laughing. Ha ha ha. Everyone stay awake. Ha ha ha. Keep

02:56your mind nimble. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah. So I'd say, right. That's a pretty

03:01good night. It's really a mix of a lot of stuff. I mean, we all like a lot of stuff, but we also

03:06like pushing the limits to see what we can put on to make other guys like, all right,

03:11we got to turn this off. Yeah. What was the Jasper put on the like, who was the vocal, um,

03:17like scat guy you put on? Oh my gosh. This is a deep cut. Uh, uh, let me look him up. It's

03:24starts with an L shout out to Lauren Benedict, L O R I N Benedict. He's the most original jazz

03:31singer probably alive today and we love him. Yeah. So this is usually, I'll have my backpack

03:36kind of down here because there's literally no room for it. I scream a lot during my show right

03:42now. I'm like sort of recovering a little bit. So I've got Paul's cough drops here, cough drops here.

03:49I've got my steamer. Yeah. So I've like, it's mostly like my dorkified setup. Uh, I don't have it

03:56here. I'll have like a big jug of water down here. Here are my dirty shirts that after each show I

04:01like sweat profusely and then I don't want to put it in with the other stuff. So my black show shirts

04:07kind of build up here. Um, this is, uh, my, like, I have a lot of different costumes and props. This

04:14is the only one I can't really like shove in the bag with everything. So I have my cowboy hat and then

04:18that's their cowboy hats. Cause they also do a lot of different costume changes. Um, and then sort of

04:23just like weird shit we've accumulated. This is fun. Uh, someone in Atlanta gave me this. This is,

04:29uh, his name is Mr. Dr. Simi or Mr. Simi. This is like a Mexican pharmacy mascot. And, uh, I've come

04:39to learn, I think it's, it's a great honor if you receive one. So, uh, they gave it to me as a

04:44compliment. So Mr. Simi has sort of been guiding us. Um, this is when we went into Canada and didn't

04:49want to declare anything. I spray painted a bunch of shirts like Kyle Gordon loves

04:53Canada. Um, so I got spray paint up here. Um, yeah. And then we have set lists. This is a book

05:01that Joe bought. It should be good. Uh, yeah. That's sort of my area. And then I've, I've gone,

05:09I've, you know, the fun, I've been record shopping a lot. Um, that's sort of like anytime we have

05:16downtime, I'll try to go find a record store. So, um, kind of been, been loading up and it's nice when

05:22you don't have to fly. Cause I can just, you know, I'll, I'll drop it off when I get home.

05:27All right. God. Fuck it. Yeah. So the outside handle doesn't, you know, work. We kind of think

05:35of it as a feature because we can't open it. No one else can. We have to reach in the inside

05:39and you got a good push security system. And then ta-da. This is a crucial element. Oh yeah.

05:47Um, our best trash can. Uh, so usually this'll live right here in, uh, the trough. We call

05:53this the trough down here. Yeah. Which you learn from, I think it was one of your videos. Maybe

05:57it was someone else's video. Someone called that area the trough. Yeah. And it fits perfectly. So

06:01there's five of us on this tour and we fit two of us up front, but then usually two guys will be

06:06sitting on this bench seat and whoever's lucky enough to get the back, they get to lay down and they

06:10get to take a nap while the rest of us are all sitting up. We have no AC, so it's a trade-off. I mean,

06:14some people are more tired than they are hot and some people are more hot than they're tired.

06:18So if you're hot, you move forward. If you're tired, you move back. Yeah. The, the back kind

06:22of shuffling happens throughout day to day. You know, there's a lot of shuffling that happens

06:27going on in the back. So it works. So we've got all of these. We have actually a bunch more. They're,

06:31uh, there are bubble guns. It took a, well, they're not working right now, but no, they'll go.

06:35They'll go. It took a few iterations of, uh, yeah, there we go. Yeah. Of decision-making to find these.

06:41Yeah. We've gone through a few, but so we use these in the show, um, for one song and, uh, we've

06:46actually gone through a bunch of different iterations. So we've settled on the bubble blast.

06:51That's our preferred brand. Um, but, uh, we had a bigger one that kind of started shitting out.

06:57And so we've, we've really done shopped around and this is also more nimble, easier for the band to

07:02kind of hold and navigate. They're playing their instruments, blah, blah, blah with the bubble gun.

07:06So it's, uh, we have one did shit out, but we have three left that work. Uh, well, maybe we have

07:13two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At least one works. Yeah. Wait, maybe this is the, oh yeah, we have

07:19three. That's the shitty one. I think that was originally. Um, all right. So the refill, we have the,

07:24the. Oh yeah. So we never run low. Industrial bubbles. Yeah. This is something crucial for,

07:31for Kyle Gordon show. We need to make sure we're stocked up plenty of bubbles. Other bands won't tell you,

07:35but the whole touring industry is, uh, relying on this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I mean,

07:40you're not a real musician until you are traveling with a full thing of, uh, bubbles. Um, yeah. Then

07:46we've got, this is a box of, I think Ian's random shit. Uh, oh yeah. Let's see what's in here. I don't

07:51know. Yeah. I don't even know. He's got fruit. Oh no, no. This is the t-shirts, the black t-shirts,

07:57the Canadian t-shirts. So these are the ones we bought for, um, when we spread, when we didn't want to

08:03bring up the official merch. So we've got a few of these left. I do have a Toronto. We're ending

08:06the tour in Toronto. So, um, these may get put to good use. Um, this is, we, it's good. We've,

08:15we've really gone through. It's nice. We started the tour at our guitar player, Elijah's house,

08:21and his mom loaded us with a, up with a bunch of snacks. And then our drummers from San Francisco,

08:25which is about halfway through the tour. And we got loaded up with more chips and snacks.

08:29So we've kind of done pretty well of like having two big re-ups of snacks. Um, and, uh, yeah,

08:38so this is what we have left. We've gone through a bunch of different things. Uh, yeah, you, you

08:43guys coined the term good food. Um, so like with the Dunkaroos, uh, any sort of like cereal bar

08:49or like candy granola bar. It, uh, keeps moving. It keeps you full. It's good food. Good food.

08:55Yeah. So, uh, most of the time when we're touring independently from Kyle, we're sleeping in here.

09:01Like this is our home away from home. And, uh, because of that, we have no shortage of sleeping

09:05supplies. Just random sleeping bags kind of everywhere in here. And, uh, it's great. I mean,

09:13in the winter, it keeps us really warm. Uh, in the summer, it keeps us even hotter than we normally

09:17are, but you know, we can't really do anything about that. Uh, and then yeah, some of the,

09:21some of the times, even this tour, we'll have a guy come out here. Our, our keyboardist Ian,

09:25a lot of the times he likes sleeping out here, even still, even when there's a hotel. Yeah.

09:28Yeah. So, uh, it's real comfy. We've got a good feng shui thing going on here. We've kind of,

09:33you know, I don't know, we made it, uh, we made it good for us. Yeah. So the sleeping situation on

09:38this tour is mostly I'll get one room with two queen beds and then we have an air mattress. I'll show you

09:44that eventually, but an air mattress back there and then someone will sleep in here. So that's how we're,

09:49um, distributing the sleeping situation at night. So someone most nights is sleeping in here.

09:54So these are our stickers, you know, like any good van, we need a good sticker collection.

09:58And, uh, I think we've done pretty good so far. I mean, this is where it all goes back to. This

10:02was actually my high school band and we found one of our stickers left over. So we had to slap it on

10:07and then right above it is our current band. Uh, but like right here, honestly, would be a great

10:12spot for a new sticker and we don't really have anything. Oh, wait, what's this? Boom. Perfect.

10:17Perfect. Perfect. That's coming with us everywhere, huh? Yep. Glad to say we sold out of these on our

10:29tour, but somehow, um, I only made them pay like 20, 30 bucks, but I allowed them to have one of

10:34these stickers, um, for themselves. Uh, this is, I think one of the first things we bonded over me

10:39in the band was that our, we both had, uh, not only had been to South of the Border, but these

10:45stickers are very, uh, I remember like being at my uncle's house, like that my grandparents, like,

10:51you know, where he grew up and like, he had a door covered in stickers. And like, I remember seeing

10:55the OG, these stickers haven't changed for 70 years or whatever, since the seventies. So yeah,

11:02very cool sticker. Uh, here's some of our favorite places. Like the blue pig in Moab. It's like this

11:07blues bar in the middle of the desert that we played a few times. And it's just so much fun.

11:11It's a great barbecue. This one is a new one. It's one of our favorites. A great fan of Kyle's

11:15and ours out in San Diego. Marv made it for us. And the second we saw it, we all started freaking

11:20out because that's our, our newest album cover. Uh, so it's great to see us in like a digital form.

11:25All right. This is the inside. So this is our bed. It's, uh, barely holding on, but it's still working

11:32for now. Uh, all of our friends that we meet and like anyone we see on the road, we, uh, we have

11:37sign it. So we got to sign it. Yeah. We have our collection of autographs here. Yeah. Do you have

11:41a Sharpie? We'll get a Sharpie. We'll get a Sharpie. But, uh, yeah. So two of us will sleep up here

11:46when we're on the road and like, we'll take all of our stuff, our guitars and stuff. We'll put it in

11:51the front seat and we'll just park at a truck stop. And it's pretty comfy. I thought it was going to be

11:55way more miserable than it is, but it's nice. It's a cozy, but you know, we're all friends. So

12:00it works. And then down here is where, you know, all of our other stuff goes, our amps, our drum set,

12:06uh, different various stands and merchandise and everything. And then when, when they're touring

12:11with me, there's also costumes that also need to be transported. So this thing is like literally

12:16packed to the gills. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Joe. I'm the packing guy. I, uh, you know, there's a few

12:23key big items that you have to get into the right spot first and foremost. Once you get that,

12:29you have some leeway with some other stuff, but like if the base amp doesn't get where it needs

12:32to be, or the keyboard stand doesn't get where it needs to be, everything else is jammed up because

12:36it won't fit in without these few big things. So every night it's like a new challenge depending on

12:41what we have to figure out how to get down the road basically. All right. Thanks for checking out the

12:45van. Uh, my name is Kyle Gordon and I'm Joe DiNardo from Mojo Hand. And, uh, yeah, you can check me out.

12:51Kyle Gordon is great on everything. Again, check out my new album. Kyle Gordon is wonderful. Check

12:55out my first album. Kyle Gordon is great. Um, and yeah, by the time you see this, the tour will

13:00probably be wrapped up, but keep an eye out. Kyle Gordon is great.com. Um, sure I'll be back out

13:05on the road soon. So, uh, come check, check me out at a city near you. And, uh, we have a new album

13:11out, Dungarees by Mojo Hand. We'd love it if you listened to it. We're on the road all the time.

13:15We're going to be probably coming to your city sooner than you would expect. So, uh, give

13:19us a follow and, uh, listen to our stuff.

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