What are two or three things essential things you need to bring with you on the road?
Yeah, I'm all about Green Juice from Trader Joe's. I figure there's a Trader Joe's in almost every city in America.p> Do you like it for the taste or the vitamins or both?
It's all about the vitamins. Gives you an energy boost. I also love Pirate's Booty - that's a weakness of mine. I'm not that evil when it comes to my rider any more; I just tell people to get what they want.
Jonathan Davis of
Korn:
My laptop for sure. My vitamins -- gotta have those. It's the
worst thing on the road when you're sick. What else? Porn. Pictures
of my kids. I think that's it. That's the essentials. Oh I'm sorry
my portable studio -- I take with me everywhere.
Amy Lee of
Evanescence:
Oh, the PSP for sure. We all live by it and each of us has had to
buy a new one or get it fixed or get something replaced. What else?
Baby wipes. You can't always take a shower.
Sharon
Osbourne:
For our shows, comfortable shoes, sun block and earplugs. I've got
my own earplugs that I had custom-made.
Steve
Miller
A pillow; a blanket; sheets; a bottle of bleach to detox the hotel
room; a good guitar, of course; a good computer; a camera; my wife.
Actually start with my wife and add those other things. That's
about it.
When I go to a hotel room, I spray the remote-control, I hose down the bathroom, I hose down the telephones and I hose down the doors. Then I change the bedding, and then I'm ready to stay there for a long time. My father was a pathologist -- anybody that stays in a hotel room has no idea who's been in the hotel room or what they've been doing in it 10 minutes before you got there. If you don't hose it down, you get what you get.
Lucinda
Williams:
Definitely your iPod. And I would suggest Vans -- the ones you
just flip on, not the kind you tie. You have to have a comfortable
pair of shoes you can just slip on on the bus when you get up and
you're walking around the bus. Your laptop. And healthy stuff on
the bus to nosh on. My favorite lately has been healthy popcorn --
not the junk food, like the kind from Whole Foods. It's all about
being comfortable. And having your own bus helps if you can afford
it. I have my own bus with my co-manager Jim, and the guys [in the
band] are on their own bus. That's been a big shift for me. No
stinky guys! No toilet seats left up.
The other thing that's good is lots of good videos. I've just been watching these junky horror flicks. Somebody found out I've been into horror films and gave me this big box of them. Those horrible, like, '70s, cheap, low-budget exploitation films. I guess now Quentin Tarantino is jumping on that bandwagon. Some of those films, oh, they were so bad -- some are so bad they're good, and some are just bad. I don't like all the zombie ones too much. I bought a bunch of stuff from a truck stop one time and that was kind of hit and miss.
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