Commoner - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2175 - 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 rock band, Commoner, while on Greyhaven’s “Keep It Quiet Tour” with Fox Lake. Commoner is currently supporting their newest single, Breach.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - December 2, 2025 Location -The Vic Theatre in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH COMMONER: Instagram - https://instagram.com/commonerdreams TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@commonerdreams Twitter - https://twitter.com/Commonerdreams  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 00:39 Skip Intro 00:57 Driver's Area 05:07 Middle of the Van 10:27 Storage  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, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, 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, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00Everyone in the band including our crew is

00:02They're big dorks. So a lot of the time we're either sleeping with gear or on top of gear. Two

00:07blowouts on this tour

00:08Battery die. We've been stranded three times. I've maxed out my triple-A account

00:39All right, what's up y'all? My name is Tyler. This is Roman. We play in a band called commoner

00:44We've been on the keep it quiet tour for the past month now. We're in Chicago playing

00:50the Cobra lounge and

00:53We'd love to show you our van. So let's hop in. This is the driver's seat. This is where

00:58Basically, Tyler Beto and myself do some driving

01:03It's pretty awesome. We got the the co-pilot situation right here

01:08Rules are if you're in this seat you got to stay awake

01:13I've fallen asleep a few times. I get yelled at for it. So stay awake

01:16No per diem if you fall asleep exactly as a copilot. Yes, so if you want to get paid you

01:21stay awake

01:23We don't have a driver. We don't really have a crew aside from our photo guys, Sonny

01:27So outside of the band members, you know, we're not going anywhere

01:30So when we're driving at night, you know from we just did I think Kansas City to

01:36Yeah, where was I? Columbus

01:38Yeah, we do that overnight. So we're doing those

01:41You've got to have someone locked in I mean right now you can see outside. It's snowing hail

01:47Sleeks everything

01:48So if we've got one person up here at three in the morning, you know, it's just generally unsafe

01:52So we're big on music podcasts or big soft boy underbelly band

01:57Yeah, we listen a lot of those interviews on the road just because it feels like there's people other than

02:01us for talking

02:03To each other and I don't know lately. It's been a lot of

02:10Anthony green hardware podcast. Yep. Yeah, anything off of a rebirth records from philadelphia all the new straight edge stuff

02:18has been a repeat shout-out start today

02:21I don't know and the other guys listen to whatever but I usually have my headphones in

02:25So a couple different accessories we've got accompanying us believe this was purchased about 30 minutes ago inside of an

02:31outlet mall

02:32Here in Chicago. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but he is inside

02:37Aside from him. We've got this very sweet gift given to us by

02:42Caroline she was a three-year-old. She obviously didn't write this but she did make this. It's like a

02:46little terrarium

02:47We stayed at their place my buddy Tim

02:50Shout out Tim from Richmond, Virginia. This is his little sister or no. It's his brother's daughter

02:56Brother's daughter. Yes gave us this little terrarium and we treasure it and keep it in here for good luck

03:01as this band has already seen two blowouts on this tour

03:05Battery die. We've been stranded three times. I've maxed out my triple-a account

03:10So aside from that we need some good luck. Thank you to Caroline for that

03:13We've got a lot of cards. I'll let you speak on that. I play a lot of magic as you

03:17can see

03:18These are all bulk cards that we don't really care for because we didn't hit on

03:23So yeah, it's pretty awesome. Yeah, we've been trying to play as much magic on tour as possible

03:29We've had some smaller green rooms, so it's been a little hard, but

03:33The chance we get an actual full table. It's been pretty good

03:36So yeah running that we stop at LGS is a lot along the way to a local game store for

03:43those who don't play cards

03:44But everyone in the band including our crew is

03:47They're big dorks, so we typically do try and open as many cards as we can on the road see

03:52the new stores

03:54Our manager tuck he plays in a bank called fit for a king and he is also very much into

03:59cards

03:59Opens cards on the road. We've been into LGS is in which we'll talk to them about it

04:04They know we're on tour and they've already met tuck and no tuck and tell them to say what's up,

04:09so

04:10Everyone here is a big fan. We usually try and play like

04:13We'll show you in a moment, but actually some of these seats spin around. We've got actual table setups in

04:19the back of the band

04:19We've got our snack bin full of awesome treats. However, most of them are either bad or half eaten

04:28We've been trying to experiment a little bit got these beer cheese pretzel sticks not very good didn't like them

04:37We got

04:39pistachios

04:41This is showing how healthy we've been eating

04:45For my mom. My mom's gonna watch this. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we got these at the beginning of tour one

04:50of the whole foods

04:52Can LaCroix. Can LaCroix. You know how it is

04:55Stays cold. We got toys. We just went shopping

04:59Hit us up brand deal not a plug not a sponsor, but it would like to be

05:03Welcome to our event. This is where all the magic happens. You can see Roman chillin'. This is typically 90

05:09% of the time

05:09We've got at least three in the van at all times behind driver and passenger

05:15These are all captain's chairs, and I'll give you a little bit of breakdown here on this van so

05:20Typical e250 from the outside

05:21We'll give you a little walk around there

05:23But as far as the interior goes it's been completely redone not by us

05:28We purchased this van on auction. It was previously a nascar staging car

05:33So it actually towed some of the vehicles and in here was their crew. They would run diagnostics

05:39Outside of the track. So we saw this online. I had been looking for a van. I'm a very big

05:45car guy

05:46I've always been that way. I've actually used this site to purchase personal cars myself

05:50We've been looking non-stop

05:52This van came up and it made a lot of sense like as you know a couple of the livability

05:57things

05:57It came with the TV that was huge just given the HDMI setup. We are a big movie band

06:04Especially on some of these long drives if you are not front or passenger

06:08We have a hard split through the roof and we can run audio into the back of the van

06:12So a lot of what we do throughout is like I'll show you right here in the door. We've actually

06:18got an Xbox

06:19It's a little dirty

06:21Sorry about that

06:22We got a couple older right over the Xbox so a lot of coffee. We run that straight up to

06:27the TV Diablo 3 a lot of halo

06:30We play parked a lot of the time

06:33But when it comes to some of those like 10 12 14

06:37Unholy hour drives some of the people back here will run that just to make it feel a little bit

06:41more normal

06:42But some highlights here before I pass it over to Roman. We always keep water in the van

06:46Aside from the snack bin. That's essential. You don't always know if you're gonna get your rider

06:51So when you do and you don't finish it, I strongly recommend any bands that are starting to tour

06:57Bring that with them bring any of the rider

07:00You don't finish with you because there are stints of three four or five days where you're on your own

07:04and a lot of the time

07:06You know depending on the band set up you're sleeping in the van and not a hotel. We are a

07:11van band

07:12Unless circumstances

07:14Suggest otherwise as in it's below freezing so they're below zero

07:19We've got a mini fridge and it's usually full of zero sugar monster and whatever rider stuff

07:25We don't go ahead and give them a little pilot. It's currently some

07:29zero sugars in here. There's a

07:33Bag of chips not exactly sure why that's in there

07:38And then we got orange juice. Oh

07:40And some Reese's got some Reese's in there electric

07:44You know keeping it slim yeah, keeping it you know keeping it healthy

07:47Lightweight healthy healthy vitamin band big elderberry band

07:51Yeah

07:52Trinket band let's uh let's highlight some of these here

07:55We've got a McLaren f1 car that I believe Matthew built our bassist while driving

08:01He wasn't driving

08:03He was passenger. He went and built this. I think we did lose about half of the pieces. Yeah, this

08:07guy doesn't have arms nothing's really

08:09complete here, but um

08:10You know typical airborne everyone is uh fighting getting sick

08:15Yeah, so we have been very focused on making sure we get our vitamins in this is our first full

08:21u.s tour

08:23And especially the time we left. I think there's been a bunch of articles being posted about how

08:28This is like the coldest winter start or the earliest start to a cold winter

08:33I don't know typical unlucky situation for a band like us out of arizona

08:37Um, so we have all been sick and got better and got sick again in the last month

08:42Um, but we're holding out pretty strong. Everyone's been good. We run a vitamin check every day for the band

08:48Um when we wake up and get in

08:51But yeah, I'll let you uh, you know explain the situation for sleep

08:54Let's check it out. This is the this is the back here. We got the dead seat

08:59This is where nobody is because we only have five people

09:02Um, so we keep our bags here, and it gets kind of crazy. I'm not gonna lie

09:06Um, however these seats fold all the way down so flat like a bed

09:12Um, and then so does this

09:15Like that kind of so you can sleep like this

09:18It's very nice

09:21But yeah, but the I guess the main thing is in the back there is where our gear is

09:27So we can't really lay this flat, so we have to move all of our gear onto this table

09:32Which if you play in a band, you know, it's almost impossible to do that

09:37Um, so a lot of the time we're either sleeping with gear or on top of gear

09:41Um, he was sleeping with one of these the other day. It's pretty dope

09:46Um

09:46Cuts with the picture of me

09:48Yeah

09:50Uh, but yeah, that's the situation we got little little like airplane cubbies up here

09:55It's where we keep more magic by the way

09:58Um, and probably more magic up here

10:02No, I don't know what that is

10:04Clothes and sleeping bags

10:05Let's take a look at more things

10:08More magic and candy

10:11Uh

10:14More magic and vitamins

10:19And uh, more magic so we play a lot of magic

10:22It's pretty awesome

10:25But yeah, that's the sleeping situation the magic situation

10:29All right, so I would say a really big focal point of this van and this band thus far

10:35We are not running a trailer set up as you can see our buddies in Fox Lake and our buddies

10:39in Greyhaven are both running a trailer

10:41They have been kind in us kind enough to let us a gear share throughout this entire month

10:46Very sweet lads for that helps us with the drive

10:49And to be honest with you we are about to kind of venture into that trailer world ourselves

10:53But up until now, um, we kind of got lucky with some of the backline opportunities

10:58So we've got a kind of makeshift storage situation for us here

11:03This van

11:04Has about four feet of depth in the trunk for storage that fits all of our music related gear

11:11Um, so all guitars, basses, my snare, uh, pedals, cymbals, all that fit in the back of the van

11:17However, you have a lot of supplementary items such as your own personal bags

11:22Then your own personal luggage and merch

11:25Merch is the big one

11:26So when we are fully stocked this is this is a shameless plug for you to buy our merch

11:32When we are fully stocked

11:34We sleep pretty much with the boxes of merch

11:37So someone figures out a way to make it semi-livable

11:41For me, I find that letting my feet go numb is better than letting my hands go numb

11:46So I'll just let my feet get crushed by whatever if I need to when I'm sleeping in the van

11:52When we sell our merch and we reduce the amount of boxes we're carrying in the van

11:57We sleep better

11:58We play better for you

11:59We do our job better

12:02Yes

12:03Buy our merch

12:05We've got this box to store all our personal belongings

12:08This is basically an all-purpose situation for us

12:12We've got anywhere from two of these massive duffels

12:18This looks like our photo

12:20photo guy Sonny and Matthew's bag right now

12:24However, a lot of time we will store crates

12:26So like merch boxes from home depot or our buddy travis at relentless sent us some

12:31And his boxes compared to some of the other companies actually fit perfectly

12:36So we can fit two full boxes of what I would believe to be as a decent amount of merch

12:41into this little guy

12:42It locks it has not been broken into yet

12:46I'm not trying to put that out in the world, but it has been tried

12:50Already we've found some

12:52Jarring uh, you know, whatever happening. There's just malicious shit going on all the time. Sorry. I don't know if

12:57I can curse

12:58But people are you know interested and when this is hanging off the back of the van

13:01It's kind of screaming to be opened. It's like a little chest

13:06So for us we try to keep our least valuable stuff in there and to be 100% honest

13:10A lot of people don't want clothes that say our band's name

13:12So when it comes to that or like our laptop, we're going to put our merch in there. Yes

13:17Because we'll open that up. We'll see 200 shirts and say commoner. What the hell am I doing?

13:21I'm not going to do that. Yeah, you can't sell that for nothing

13:23But it does it works really well. It actually has like a pivot

13:27And I will show you how it operates

13:29It swings out. So when we load in I'm not going to do it's very heavy, but

13:34When we load in these will fully extend

13:37So it's very easy for us to set up

13:42Like a great examples. We just played a show in Mobile, Alabama for free at a skate park

13:47And obviously there's not a ton of amenities. So kids were asking about merch and they wanted to buy some

13:52some clothes

13:53And we're able to set up like a makeshift little store here

13:56Just open the crate up throw some hangers in the back of these doors

14:00And we were able to like play that show without any sort of hiccups because it's a very self-sufficient

14:05van

14:07For a little bit of context. We did buy this van

14:10Almost immediately before this tour. This is our first run out with it

14:15And before that we bought a van that was owned by a band called portrayal of guilt

14:19They've been on this show

14:20And I'm not sure what I think our van's been on the show our old van and their even older

14:26van has been on the show

14:27300,000 miles the brakes lock up all the time

14:31Uh, we took that out when we were on tour with split chain

14:33We've taken that out to everything we've done before the keep it quiet tour

14:37So this is a very do upgrade very

14:41We love it. We're very happy to be in it

14:43It is a lot of yeah, it's wonderful compared

14:45And uh, we've got a lot of buddies of ours that are bus touring or we know them

14:50They're out with uh wage war chelsea grand stuff like that. They've got their own bunks

14:53I'm happy to have my feet go numb from the merch if it means we can get some uh, you

14:58know

14:59It's all good next steps for our fans. Yes, exactly. It's dope. We love this van. We do love this

15:05van

15:05It's a it's got a lot of character man. It has a uh

15:08It has a story a lot of fans don't have a story they came from enterprise or whatever, but we've

15:14got uh

15:14We've got really lucky with our setups thus far, and we're pretty happy about uh how it's treated us

15:20So knock on wood we've got five more shows left with the keep it quiet tour, and then we've got

15:24a comically large drive home

15:27and uh

15:28Once we get back to arizona, we'll send you a note and we'll let you know if it if it

15:32stayed as strong as it turned out to be

15:33It turned out as reliable as we say. Yeah

15:36Yeah, 140,000 on it still kicking. Well, thank you so much for coming through a tour of our van

15:41Uh, hopefully we covered it to the best of our ability. I would say uh a lot of the

15:46Fun that's had on tour is with your your friends on the road

15:50Um obviously love playing the shows love meeting the the folks that enjoy our music and will soon you know

15:57become

15:58New fans of ours, and we appreciate that

16:00Um, but you know having a home away from home is really important, and I would say that this uh

16:05this van has done

16:06It's a great job of doing that for us

16:08Um, but yeah, I would say uh

16:11Do it doesn't matter what kind of van you have we did it before with 300 000 miles on that

16:17odometer

16:17And uh it's scary and you'll sit in a shop for eight hours when you need the fix, but

16:23I wouldn't trade it for the world, and I know that none of these other guys would so

16:26We've been commoner. Um, you can find us on instagram at commonerdreams. We just recently signed to pure noise records

16:32We put out a single. It's called breach

16:34We play that first every single night

16:36And if you've seen us on this tour or you're going to see us on this tour, please learn the

16:39words

16:39We appreciate it when you come up take the mic

16:42It's been dope. Thanks again, man

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