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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 folk pop band, Raynes, while on their spring 2025 tour. Raynes is currently supporting their newest album, Bloom.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 23, 2025 Location - Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH RAYNES: Facebook - https://facebook.com/raynesmusic Instagram - https://instagram.com/raynesmusic Twitter - https://twitter.com/raynesmusic  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 00:54 Driver's Area 05:51 Backseat 08:41 Trunk  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, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, 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, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.

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00:00Hi, I am Jill Berger from Rains. This is our vehicle. We are on tour right now. Tonight,

00:15we're actually playing at Hainani in Arlington Heights. Tomorrow, Hobart, Indiana. We're playing

00:20at the music box. You name it. The art theater in wherever. Anyways. So, yeah. How about

00:30these bugs, huh? So, I drove this from North Dakota. And yeah, we came down through Minnesota,

00:41Wisconsin, and stuff like that. And I feel bad for all the little guys, but get out of

00:46the way. All right. So, let's show you the Yukon. This is called the Rainsmobile. Um, you

00:53know, we spent... Hey, Mark. What up? That's the lead singer of Rains. Um, yeah, we spent

00:59a lot of time in close quarters in this thing, but man, we got a 5.8 liter V8 up in here.

01:04Flex fuel. So, we put ethanol in when we can. Um, oh, Mark, this, I was supposed to give this

01:10to you and Danny nine months ago. So, that's your wedding present. Thank you. From my mom.

01:16There better be money in it. So, typically, we do shifts for driving. So, if we got to

01:21do a six-hour drive, we'll, like, split it into two hours. Or sometimes, you know, Mark

01:26might be eager and drive the whole way, or myself. We don't really have rules. The only

01:31rule is the person that's driving makes the decision for what's going to be played on the

01:35radio. And sometimes, none of us are listening to anything. We're just listening to stuff in

01:41our AirPods. Not talking the whole time. So, in the car, and this is not always a popular

01:48choice, but I'm a big musical theater guy. So, we got Wicked playing. Okay, you know

01:53what? For me, that's always a popular choice. I'm always on board. You're right. It's just

01:56Joe. This is me. Matt and I will be blasting it, singing Joe's just headphones. Not fitting

02:02it at all. Or sometimes, if we're feeling a little bit self-indulgent, we'll listen to our

02:07own stuff and just... Yeah, you know what? Yeah. What I listen to, this is terrible.

02:12What I listen to is basically work tapes and demos of our own stuff. Yeah. That's all it

02:19is. Literally. I'm just working. We have a trusty Bluetooth thing, because this is a 2014. We

02:26don't got a lot of technology in here. So, we have a Bluetooth FM transmitter that we use.

02:31So, you'll be driving through cities, and out of nowhere, it'll just go...

02:33This is picking up another radio station. But, you know, it works out. Honestly, it changes every

02:43day. I kind of catch a different vibe every day. Sometimes it's podcasts. Sometimes I'm

02:47listening to a podcast about, you know, what do they call that? Quantum mechanics. I don't know

02:53anything about it, but that's the type of stuff I do. Yeah. Clearly, we don't really care about

03:01the cleanliness of the vehicle right here. I got a bunch of files and bills. So, you know,

03:08we take the office on the road with us. A bunch of unopened mail. Don't tell our manager.

03:13Well, we have a breathalyzer. Not that any of us have ever been naughty enough to do anything

03:19wrong. Yes, that's true. But this just... We make sure. We make sure. Yeah. Yeah.

03:24We got some unbranded hydration sticks. Yeah. I have no idea what's in here.

03:31Talk about this. Oh, yeah. You know what? This is my favorite feature of the vehicle.

03:35It's a ring that says MVP, and I got it for Joe. When... What was... I forget completely.

03:42January 1st. Why did I do that? Because you were just doing such a great job?

03:45Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. I think I was just really like... No big deal. I was really like...

03:49Well, you know, we... There were three of us, and so sometimes somebody's slacking. You know,

03:56sometimes someone's sick or whatever. No, no. No, no. Literally not you. That's why you got the

04:00MVP ring. And I don't think it really fits... Well, does it fit you? I don't know. It fits this finger.

04:07There you go. Yeah. It doesn't fit any of ours. Yeah. So, that's why I judge the MVP.

04:11We pass it around as like a little reins heirloom. Whoever does the best job. Yeah. Whoever does

04:16the best job. I've never had it once. I'm going to adorn you with this. It depends on how well

04:21you do with this interview. Thanks. Yeah. That's pretty good. So, right here, we got a trusty

04:25charger. So, you can charge a laptop in it. You know, charge phones. You name it. There's some

04:31tires. Right? What is... I don't know what that is. That doesn't work. I really don't know what that is.

04:37You got to check the pressure of the tires. You know? So, we got that. I will say this,

04:42just for the record. Thank God Joe is in this band for many reasons. But, if Matt and I were

04:47driving around their vehicle, it would have exploded by now. If you were doing this interview

04:51with just Mark and me, we would not... It would be five seconds long. We'd just be like,

04:56yep. This is it. This is the car. Full wheels. It moves. It goes when you press down the gas pedal.

05:04We got this if any of us has a toothache. Sometimes you got to rewire the trailer wires. So,

05:10we got a little whatever them things are called. See, I didn't know any of this stuff was in here.

05:15Yeah, I just... We try to like have something for everything. Well, you do. Mark and I don't know

05:20about it. Whoever wants to be the coolest. Yeah, I don't know. It's really fun being in a car,

05:28not talking for 12 hours at a time. Because sometimes we do that, but honestly... Oh,

05:33little belt buckle right here. We got belt buckles laying all over the place. I got that for a

05:39festival that I hosted a few years ago. Um, what else? All right. On to the back seat. So here,

05:47it's super clean, if you can't tell. Um, we have some electrolyte drinks down here. We have, uh,

05:55Cliff bars. Just the box. Nothing in it, you know. Throw that back there. Good to have. Good to have.

06:02We got some boots. See, one thing I like about the back seat is this vehicle was built to have a lot

06:09of beverages. And in this band, we drink a lot of beverages. Electrolytes, energy drinks, you name it.

06:16And right back there, if you zoom in, it's the little things in this world that really count.

06:22I mean, but Matt somehow manages to spill every dang time. I've never, I've literally never spilled.

06:28Why are you saying that in public? Okay. I'm going to actually show you something.

06:31This is all from Matt. Wait, no. It's on the other side. What am I spilling? I got it. I got it.

06:37Uh, detailed because, you know, you got to feel good in a clean car. Am I really spilling that

06:43many drinks? I'm making this up. Uh, I don't know why, but I, I'm sorry, Matt, for throwing you

06:50into the bus. That's fine. I mean, I guess it's not a moral failing. Oh, speaking of driving,

06:54I've been looking for these for a year. These are night driving glasses. For some reason,

07:00it just makes it a lot easier to drive in the nighttime, but you know, I kind of got bad eyes.

07:05So what I do is this.

07:12So yeah. So we, uh, for much of our career, we've been traveling just the three of us.

07:18And what I like doing is sit in the back and I feel like I, I developed my love for the back seat.

07:25Once I read this interview with Freddie Mercury, where he just like, he just got chauffeured around

07:29and I'm like, that's sick. I just want to get chauffeured around. And obviously that's not

07:33really what's happening, but it kind of feels like it, but I get a lot done back here when it's just

07:37me. I got my little iPad. I draw my little, you know, pictures, whatever for, uh, band graphics,

07:42whatever we need. But lately we, uh, fortunately, thank God, have a drummer we're traveling with.

07:48Sometimes we got merge people. Sometimes we have our manager. So this has, this is no longer my safe space,

07:53really. It's more of a, it's more of a sardine situation.

07:58Did this plane fly somewhere else?

08:01Um, this is something we no longer use anymore because we were driving in California and I almost

08:10got arrested for driving way too fast. The police officer was very kind and let us off free still to

08:16pay a $350 ticket. But back in the day, we used to speed because when you're putting on 12 hour drives,

08:22you go faster, you get there quicker. No more doing that. But it's like a, once again,

08:27it's like an heirloom. We're not going to get rid of it. We're not going to use it.

08:29We're not going to throw anything away. We don't throw stuff away. You wait three days,

08:34there's going to be bottles up to here. You name it.

08:39All right. So we got the back of this big rig, a little drop hitch for our trailer, which isn't here

08:45right now. Um, this, this comes in clutch when you're traveling with the bigger crew, which we

08:52are right now. And it's not like we have the infrastructure to have a huge van and stuff.

08:59Air vets, you gotta have them. They're very, they're very affordable. You can get them at your local,

09:05you know, super store. Um, there's that. Oh, another thing. You never know when you're going

09:11to have to do some work. Got a little screwdriver. Um, once again, more buckles, like I said earlier,

09:20belts, you never know when you're going to need a belt. I want to change the tire. Got this trusty

09:29thing, changing the tires. I mean, what else? Here's a nice, another buckle. Check that bad boy

09:36out. This ended up being a belt buckle freaking tour. Um, yeah. Um, by the way, guys, we have to

09:43ship this vinyl out. So I'm going to put this up here. Forgot about that. Yeah. Um, a bunch of hats.

09:52Uh, where's my new wave hat? Your new wave hat's back here. I gotta find it. Found it. This is

09:58Matt's new wave hat. Matt has a large head and, uh, somehow this fits him. It barely fits me. Yeah,

10:04we'll do this so that it'll fit him. There you go, big boy. Another belt without a buckle on it. Um,

10:16I mean, Brooks, dude, you can't listen to Garth on streaming platforms. So I got this

10:23big cassette. It's not even mine. I got to return it to the rifle owner.

10:26Uh, what else? Edit this out, but I got a can of chew back here.

10:37Okay. So we do have a cargo trailer. We're about to upgrade to a tandem axle, but it's a single axle.

10:43Everything is packed super neatly and tightly. We do the same thing every single time. We've got

10:49shelves in the front. I mean, we got rack cases, amplifiers, a drum set, a whole, we basically carry

10:56a whole back line with us minus the speakers because every venue has their own speakers.

11:02And, uh, typically what we'll do is there's, you know, extra seats in the back. So we have that

11:07and we just throw all our luggage as well in this, uh, cargo trailer. So it's really handy to have got it like

11:15three years ago, probably. And, uh, I think we put a hundred thousand miles on it. Um,

11:20we put a hundred thousand miles on this in the last three years and we didn't tour for one of those

11:24years. So really it was about 50,000 miles per year. Um, so yeah, it's really good. Got the drop hitch.

11:31Sometimes, uh, I like to stand on it and do like bounce moves like this stuff. Anyways.

11:42So we have loads of music out and we're, we're putting out a project right now. Um, you can find

11:47our music on any DSP, all the streaming platforms. If you want to come out to a show, go to reignsmusic.com,

11:54click on our tour dates and you'll be able to find us there. We have bands in town, you name it.

11:58Follow us on all social media at reignsmusic, r-a-y-n-e-s. Check it out and listen,

12:05listen to our songs. We've got some bangers out. Thank you guys.

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