Sean Bones: Tour Diary Part One

This month marks the beginning of a tour cycle to promote my new record Buzzards Boy. My band was picked to support the fabulous Mynabirds of Omaha and so far sunshine and female energy have played a big part of the trip. As have camera phones!

1 of 9 I love the colors and character of this sign for Modern Times cafe in Minneapolis. I tried to take some of this cape wearing panache on with me on to Des Moines.

2 of 9 Stretching out by the highway. The rest stops on I-80 in Ohio kinda look like nice high schools, so we fake tailgate when someone goes in to pee.

3 of 9 Some new faces on this tour! This is us about to embark on a four hundred hour drive to 7th St Entry in Minneapolis. Nbd. (band L-R Professor Ben, Ryan, Saara, Me) We look a lot more bath salty now.

4 of 9 Saara Untracht Oakner came down from Boston, learned all my brother's bass parts and has been amazing this tour. I'm hoping she reads this and sees the line where I say I don't want to stop playing music with her for a while.

5 of 9 Backstage in Chicago. The accessorizing has started to escalate on this tour. Once Saara figured out she could play bass with this snake on her hand, it's just gotten nuts. My hat has since been destroyed.

6 of 9 There was an incident after the show in Chicago where someone stole Mama Myna Laura Burhenn's fox hat. There was a full-on chase scene--cops, blood and tears. Everyone ended up blowing off steam in the photo booth. Here's me getting low with it.

7 of 9 Chicago rockers White Mystery kindly invited the whole band to stay over one night and made us chicken dinner. Their apartment was dope. Singer Alex White kills it with their art direction, including having these dolls made for their video "Rapid Overdriv

8 of 9 First day of Summer. No soundcheck, no problem. Before rocking Cleveland, friends of ours took us waterskiing on Lake Erie which is a great way to prep for a show.

9 of 9 We crossed Illinois four times and will cross Pennsylvania three times before this tour wraps up. Painting nails and fake tattoos is one way to make the time pass. This is one of my favorite pictures from tour so far.