Set It Off – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

This new Crazy Tour Stories segment was written by the vocalist, Cody Carson, for the pop rock band, Set It Off. You can check out his wild story from the road, after the break.

We just arrived back in the United States after our flight from Japan. We’re completely jet lagged and deliriously sleepy. We are about to start a short tour with our friends in We Came As Romans before the start of Warped Tour and we just got on our brand new Band Wagon.

Met our brand new driver who was a total sweetheart and we were ready to go! Road to Warped Tour! Who wouldn’t be excited? We’re pulling up to our first show of the three day run and have to park directly in front of We Came As Romans’ brand new custom-wrapped, beautiful tour bus on the side of the road. So as our driver is turning to pull in front, I initiate my sentence about their new bus, which began and finished as such, “Wow! They have SUCH a nice bu…..” Our driver had crashed into their bus while attempting to park, completely severing off their left rear view mirror, creating a hefty scratch in the side and a big scratch on ours and a hole in our vehicle.

We were all in shock. Nobody wanted to look outside or exit the vehicle. We peaked outside the window and noticed almost all of We Came As Romans staring at the damage, just smiling and laughing, which was a relief since we felt terrible haha.

Luckily, everything got patched up on both ends within a week or so. Ours was a self-repair, we covered the holes with duct tape and put hello kitty band aids on it, that way you KNOW it’s in working condition again. Though I will say, in true Set It Off fashion, it didn’t take long until we were cracking jokes to help make light of the situation. We were coming up with the WORST possible scenarios in which we should and would never have approached what happened. Such as, walking out immediately after the incident and saying, “Yo dude, what happened to your bus? That mirror looks pretty terrible.” Or immediately walking off and taking Instagram selfies with the broken mirror with peace signs and duck face. All things we’d never do, but it at least made us laugh in such an awkward moment.

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