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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the country pop rock artist, Fancy Hagood, while on The American Spirit Tour. Fancy Hagood is currently supporting his newest album, American Spirit: The Last Drag.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 2, 2025 Location - Carol's Pub in Chicago, IL
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VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:27 Driver's Area 01:49 Middle of the Van 06:30 Back of the Van
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00:00hey I'm fancy hey good we are on the American spirit tour in Chicago and this is my ride so
00:17up here the cockpit we all take turns driving I've driven a bit my dude Jack drives a bit
00:25everyone kind of takes a turn when they can but me and Jack we've been like locking in
00:29up here learn about music like stuff that I hadn't necessarily heard before I was familiar with
00:34the artists but not their whole catalog and when you're out here you have so much time to just dive
00:38in on people so I've really gotten a big schooling on Neil Young Don Williams I mean I've really gone
00:46hard with Waxahachie this run her album Tiger's Blood is kind of always on repeat in here so
00:54yeah it's this is really school as well it's it's like where I'm learning about music I wasn't quite
01:01familiar with and the aux cord you know it gets shared so we're learning a lot about a lot so
01:06it's really fun all right so I'm a tchotchkes girly so we were just in North Carolina at Merle Fest
01:14and I got this little bird I collect stained glass little tchotchkes from my sunroom so
01:19I got her for my sunroom so this is where she sits so I don't break her and then also I always
01:25have some ketchup on hand because I'm a chicken tendies girly and nothing is worse than when you
01:31go through the drive-thru and they don't give you sauce so I always have my own yeah and then you
01:37know got some cash when you got to stop and get the Red Bull the Celsius the coffee and we keep that
01:43stocked in the back as well so yeah not much going on up here but um the essentials you know
01:49so we got me and the band which is like four other guys we're a five piece and then my opener Abby Cone
01:56who's incredible if you're not familiar you got to go check Abby out she uh she kind of like
02:01piles in the back and like takes that bench row and then my guitar player Greg and my bass player
02:07James share this bench seat and then my drummer Chris he has some back issues so he has to like
02:13lay out right here and like kind of keep his whole thing going down up here he has a whole rig with him
02:19of like things to sit on and like back braces and everything so this is his and then me and Jack
02:26are usually up here so up here we have a tv and there's a ps4 in here um so the guys can play games
02:33and ball out back here while you know other people are driving I'm not much of a gamer if they had
02:39fortnight in here I'd be popping off but they don't so yeah I forget what games they actually
02:44have there's a sports game and a racing game so they kind of pop off on that but I also have this
02:49guy this is Merle he's become our mascot I got him at Merle Fest as well I have an owl in my backyard
02:57at home so I just figured I could take this home and learn how to communicate with the animals
03:01in my backyard yeah it's it's getting wild out here so snackage is you know you gotta have tic tacs
03:13to keep the breath fresh for the fans and the meet and greets um some I mean to be honest I've not
03:22eaten this I bought it it looks like healthy I don't know that it is but there was a cookie dough
03:28one as well and that got eaten and this is still here and then I'm real big on the breakfast bar so
03:35but what the real treat
03:38meat sticks can't leave the house without them gotta have the protein and then I'm actually glad we're
03:47doing this because I just found extra merch so gotta sell these bad boys tonight I need gas money
03:53these are just leftover things from little cold brew action from Costco shout out Costco Red Bull
04:01oh this is a Pacifico good thing this is in the backseat am I right yeah I'm not sure how that got
04:10there but yeah we're pretty much green room bandits we stock up on green room everything so especially if
04:19you're at a bar like we're at tonight Carol's Pub where they're feeding you and you can get drinks at the bar a lot of stuff is just
04:24left in the green room I myself am a diet coke fanatic so there's usually a large amount of diet coke in the vicinity of this van so and then also I just stole this box from
04:37Carol's Pub because I like I said earlier I'm a tchotchkes girly so there's an antique store here in Chicago that I have to hit tomorrow so I stole this to put things in it so I can get it home
04:48always on the writer for us I love a veggie tray has to have ranch I won't eat a vegetable without ranch
04:56um diet coke is an essential I'm I have found out that diet coke is a hot commodity every guitar player
05:05I've ever had has also been obsessed with diet coke so we have to have a lot because there has to be at
05:11least six or seven like set aside for me and then everyone else can help themselves whatever we usually
05:17have vodka like Tito's tequila Miller Lite is it we're pretty easy we're a we're an easy crew so it doesn't
05:27take a lot I need fruit usually grapes is what I prefer doesn't matter what kind that's because it's
05:35nature's candy and I'm I can't have candy every night although I want it I keep it off the writer
05:41so we have fruit on there to replace that yeah we're pretty simple so my drummer has like back
05:48issues and traveling in a van is not even if you don't have back issues you can sometimes leave with
05:55them so he has this whole setup there's like that cushion he has this guy you know you put this there
06:01and then he's brilliant and carries this which you attach to the back of the seat so he can watch
06:06anything whenever however um which makes me very jealous because I was riding back here I'd be doing
06:13this pretty much the whole time catching up on my housewives so and then oh he also has this
06:19he has this whole rig it's like this whole thing that keeps him in pretty good shape so you make do
06:29so this is where we keep all of the gear all the merch everything and um it gets filled to the brim
06:37there's no space left in here by the time we get everything from the show in the in the back and
06:45greg my electric guitar player he is the tetris master he can move everything to make it fit and
06:51it's wild and he's just getting better and better at it which is not a talent I possess so I'm really
06:57grateful for greg and yeah just everything goes back here and it's pretty crazy to see it because
07:02there is not much room I wish it was where I could ride because this feels very nice and private and
07:08quiet but there's no room for me once we put everything in so yeah I'm fancy hey good thanks
07:15for checking out my ride you can catch me on tour you can see where I'm going on fancy hey good.com
07:20or on instagram come hang with me thanks for checking it out
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