Adam Jensen – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the singer-songwriter, Adam Jensen, talks about some of his crazy moments from touring. You can check out the feature, after the break.

I was on a tour that went all over the east coast and mid-west. I had a huge knee brace on because I had just recently had major knee surgery so this story has an extra element because you need to picture me hobbling around with a cane and no shirt. Why no shirt you ask? Because if you’re walking around with a cane why the fuck would you wear a shirt? Exactly. Anyways I forget where we were, I think it was somewhere in Virginia, but there weren’t many people at this particular show so needless to say the band and I were a little restless. My cousin was working at a hotel chain so he could get us discounts on hotels and we basically had the whole tour booked through this one particular hotel.

By the time we got to the hotel all the bars were closed. Literally in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do. For an ADD kid like me, that shit is no good. My guitar player Alex and I decided to go swimming. The only problem with that was the pool was closed. And so were the packies. But as my Irish luck would have it, the front desk girl was a fan of my music (and Alex’s chest hair) so she let us into the pool area. We swam and sat in the hot tub for a while until we got bored (which was about 3 minutes) and we decided we needed some beers. But, again, the liquor stores were closed and the hotel’s room service was long closed for the night. So…I picked the lock to the beer fridge behind the counter and we headed back to the pool with arms full of beer. Basically, giggling like fuckin high school kids who just stole their dad’s booze.

We drank all the beers real quick but then we decided we wanted to have the last beers at the bottom of the pool and take a picture for Instagram. No, we NEEDED to have the last beers at the bottom of the pool. So we did the only natural thing one could do when found in this scenario: we grabbed all the furniture from the lobby – I’m talking ALL of it, including the potted plants and the chairs and the tables – and put them in the pool. Then we sat on the sofa at the bottom of the pool, each of us holding down a potted plant with one hand, and drank a beer. It was awesome. Remember kids, anything is possible. ANYTHING.

Then I had pocketknife throwing practice on the wall, but that story is for another time.

Needless to say, I am life-banned from this particular hotel chain. It’s a shame cuz I really liked their rooms…I wonder if they forgot about me by now?

Shout out to Steve Okeefe and Nick Webster AKA Nicky 4 Fingaz.

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