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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the rock band, Eagles of Death Metal, while on the Celebrating 20 Years of "Death by Sexy..." North American Tour 2026 with Headsend, Mountain Head, and Paradise Vultures.
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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Skip Intro
01:21 Front Lounge
10:20 Bathroom
10:46 Bunks
11:59 Jesse's Bedroom
16:26 Front Lounge
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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the rock band, Eagles of Death Metal, while on the Celebrating 20 Years of "Death by Sexy..." North American Tour 2026 with Headsend, Mountain Head, and Paradise Vultures.
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - August 21, 2026
Location - Metro in Chicago, IL
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Skip Intro
01:21 Front Lounge
10:20 Bathroom
10:46 Bunks
11:59 Jesse's Bedroom
16:26 Front Lounge
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, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, 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, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.
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00:00So to prevent him from drinking the iced tea, I will stick one of my appendages in the iced tea.
00:04I love baby three. Look at her eyes. They're devilish.
00:39Awesome. Come on in. I've been waiting for you. Welcome. Entrenou.
00:44Hi, I'm Boots Electric from the Eagles of Death Metal, and this is our tour bus.
00:48This is our home away from home when we're not on the road.
00:52It's both a boring and fascinating place, so I'm going to try to bore the crap out of you as
00:58much as I can
00:58with all the mundane, normal weirdness that we get along to in a bus.
01:03Like any home, it's a bit messy, so come on in.
01:08This is my wife, Phoenix. Hi.
01:11And also a member of the band with her doll.
01:13This is Luke, one of the up-and-coming rock-and-rollers of the world that I like to hang
01:16out with.
01:18I'll give you some quick little bits of information.
01:21We always have phenomenal stereo systems on a bus.
01:25So this stereo system is no exception.
01:28It's an incredible sound system where we can blast the ears off of everything.
01:32We normally have satellite television, which is pretty amazing, but not in the city of Chicago because of all the
01:39buildings.
01:40Now, you're also going to notice a little accoutrement that we decorated with.
01:44These are like, you know, scent cakes.
01:48Interestingly enough, one of our crew dudes, Eric, thought it was a cookie.
01:52And actually, the Bigfoot one.
01:54I bought him the Bigfoot one, which he thought was a cookie.
01:56And I watched him take it into his bunk.
01:58And I'm like, dude, you think that's a cookie, don't you?
02:00And he goes, yeah, it is.
02:02And I'm like, it's not a cookie.
02:03It's not a cookie.
02:05See, just this is his band, Hondo.
02:07So, who puts out cassette tapes?
02:09He puts out cassette tapes.
02:11It's pretty epic.
02:13I collect hats everywhere I go.
02:15So you're going to see hats everywhere.
02:16You're going to see.
02:17And then also, like, weird things like, who doesn't need a crocodile or alligator head on their tour bus?
02:23It's real.
02:23And, one more time, it's real.
02:27It'll get you.
02:29And then this is a big hat, because I don't know if you've noticed, but everyone in the world seems
02:33to be having something called a big hat contest.
02:36Like, everyone's got, like, a big hat.
02:38So I was like, dude, I want to be in on the big hat contest.
02:41So I got a big hat.
02:43And then we stopped at a truck stop.
02:45Here's another hat.
02:45This is what I love.
02:46It's adjusted, and I reshaped it, so it would, like, look like I just got off a horse.
02:51Now, here's something you might not see at every tour bus, but we have throwing axes on our tour bus.
02:57I got this at a Buc-ee's, which I was very proud of.
03:01My friend, my best friend Joshua loves Bass Pro Shops.
03:04I love Buc-ee's, because you can buy literally a throwing axe with a cool rubber top.
03:10And then you can just put the rubber topper back on if you don't want to, like, cut people.
03:15It's good for throwing at trees and other wooden objects, you know.
03:21Now, we're touring with a band called Mountainhead.
03:23So we typically, you know, when we love the band that we're touring with, we will have the merch.
03:30Now, David Lee Roth famously calls these things disco submarines.
03:36That's really what it is.
03:38It's a submarine.
03:38Normally, this side slides out, but we can't slide it out because of the traffic.
03:42Oh, oh, oh.
03:44Oh, yeah.
03:48I love these.
03:50How could you forget?
03:50Okay, so you may have heard of LaBuboos.
03:52They're not LaBuboos.
03:53But these are not LaBuboos.
03:55And these were purchased on an auction.
03:57This is Mexican Loco.
04:02And this is Senorita Jones.
04:06Crazy Money is around here somewhere.
04:08Yeah, my other one is around here somewhere.
04:10That one's named Crazy Money.
04:14And we had a wonderful fireman.
04:16Oh, here's, like, like I said, like, we've got ant ears going on.
04:20And then, oh, what's this?
04:21A knife.
04:22Whoops.
04:23And then, oh, what's this?
04:26Another knife.
04:27But look at this.
04:28It's like a spatula, which I love.
04:29And then a fan of ours made us these really awesome leather wallets.
04:34So, whenever there's a fire, my favorite thing to do is to pretend like I'm a fireman.
04:39So, I can, no, I'm just kidding.
04:40But it would be great.
04:45It's real.
04:45It's a real one.
04:46See, now it won't come off my head.
04:48Show the side.
04:49Yeah.
04:52And back, and back.
04:54Head back, yeah.
04:56Rod.
04:57Our firefighter.
04:58A firefighter gave this to me in San Diego from Orange, California.
05:01And he will be at the LA show.
05:02And this was a, this is an out-of-service helmet because it took a, it got a chip.
05:07It took a hit.
05:07Yeah.
05:08We love our first responders like something fierce.
05:11Which, also, interestingly, when we were in New Orleans, see, this is the kind of thing
05:15you'll find on tour bus.
05:16They're everywhere.
05:17One of the police officers that came to our show gave me his unit coin, which is a great
05:22honor.
05:23And then, from when my wife and I got married, we have a book of matches.
05:30Yeah!
05:31That's right.
05:31And then, that's her sock puppet doll.
05:34I have a lot of little friends of them.
05:39My son is on tour.
05:40So, here.
05:41Also, I'm going to stop, I want to stop at the microwave section because, like on any good
05:45tour bus, this is the area where the second you fire it up, it shuts the power down everywhere
05:49else.
05:50Which is a fascinating and interesting part.
05:52So, we like crustless apple or peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches.
05:58We do?
05:59Yeah.
05:59So, we got a freezer filled with them and ice because I love ice.
06:03And then, in here is a hodgepodge of weird, like, muscle building things.
06:08Orange juice, iced tea, beer.
06:10Oh, explain the sweet tea epidemic.
06:14Okay, so.
06:15It's important on this tour bus.
06:17I love sweet tea.
06:18So does Eric.
06:19And so does Eric, who's our stage manager.
06:22So, to prevent him from drinking the iced tea, I will stick one of my appendages in the
06:25iced tea.
06:27And because my wife recently tattooed my appendage at the base of it, I don't know if I can talk
06:32about this, but I'm going to, maybe you can edit it out.
06:34So, I'll tell them, I'm going to stick it in up to the tattoo.
06:37Do not drink.
06:37Which is pretty far.
06:39Which is pretty far.
06:42So, yeah.
06:44So, that's, you know, these are things that happen on a tour bus.
06:46These are the actions that one will take in order to.
06:49Preserve the sweet tea.
06:50Preserve.
06:51The sanctity of the sweet tea.
06:53So, if you open it up, it's pretty typical.
06:55Oh, there's my tahini and my soup.
06:58My wife loves Pokemon, so we get these.
07:00And then, I don't know if anyone's seen this, but this is a new Campbell's grilled cheese
07:04and tomato.
07:04And I'm just a sucker for the packaging.
07:06I mean, look how awesome that looks.
07:08And then, of course, we like our spicy tapatio bowls.
07:12And then, she likes, of course, she likes her tahini.
07:15I think everything's spicy, spicy, spicy.
07:19And then, really good things like, where's my chocolate peanut?
07:21I mean, I have chocolate peanut butter somewhere and it's so good to eat with Ritz crackers.
07:24You do?
07:24Yeah.
07:25I bought chocolate peanut butter.
07:26You did?
07:26Yeah, I did.
07:28I bought it before we went on tour, babe.
07:29Oh, God.
07:31I brought that from the house.
07:32Ew.
07:32With chips.
07:33See, but then, that's not the only way to sit there is snacks.
07:36Then, you can, like, get down with, like, oh, what?
07:39Oh, what?
07:41Where we have our clothes.
07:42These are more spicy candies.
07:43Spicy candies, seaweed Pringles.
07:47My favorite, the smoky bacon Pringles, which are kind of, like, unusually really, really good.
07:52Um, and then you can get into the bottom and then what?
07:56Oh, no, wait, we got Kit Kats.
07:57Yeah, we got Kit Kats and we got Tutti Frutti's.
08:00A whole big bag of Malt-O-Meal made.
08:02Malt-O-Meal makes a variety of cereals, including Malt-O-Meal, but they make Tutti Frutti's.
08:07That brown bag right there, that was from, um, someone in Toronto gave us that, and he has a farm,
08:13and there's, like, homemade meat tallow and, and, and...
08:20Homemade, uh...
08:21Maple syrup.
08:22Maple syrup.
08:24Premium quality tattoo bomb.
08:26Two of those, because I'm a tattooist.
08:28Because my wife is an incredible tattoo artist.
08:30Don't sell yourself short.
08:31And this stuff, it's so good.
08:34Okay, don't, oh, I can't watch this.
08:36Why won't it open?
08:37I don't know.
08:38Who resealed it?
08:39I, I, I, I don't know.
08:41I literally can't open this, babe.
08:42Good, good, good, good, good.
08:43Well, I'm gonna pound it when I do.
08:45This is something I brought myself.
08:47You know what I mean?
08:48The spicy stuff is meat.
08:49This is something I brought myself.
08:51Just to make sure my wife has it.
08:53The Pokemon chicken soup is definitely something I brought myself.
08:57Um, this is...
08:59Senna Rita Jones and Mexican Loco.
09:00I brought myself.
09:01This, a fan gave us.
09:03Yeah.
09:04The axe, I bought at Buc-ee's.
09:07Um, you made this, didn't you?
09:08My friend did.
09:09His friend made this amazing poster.
09:11Oh, right.
09:12I mean, it's amazing.
09:15And, which to me is what the spirit of rock and roll is all about anyway.
09:19I also like to have some of my capes handy.
09:21Because I wear a lot of capes.
09:24Because nothing says, a touch of class, like a cape.
09:30Oh, awesome.
09:31Oh, that's for you, babe.
09:32Thanks.
09:34I drink Dr. Pepper.
09:36So, this bus is filled with Dr. Pepper.
09:39Because I can pound about 30 Dr. Peppers a day.
09:42Easily.
09:43Every time we get one of these, it's always a venue.
09:46Oh, crazy, uh, crazy money.
09:48That's crazy money.
09:49Yeah.
09:50Crazy money's from home, too.
09:51This is called a baby three.
09:55That's crazy money.
09:56I love baby three.
09:58Look at her eyes.
10:00They're devilish.
10:01It's weird, babe.
10:01She's up to no good.
10:03Weird.
10:03She's up to no good, and you gotta watch her, because she'll get you.
10:06Getting weirder.
10:08Okay, those are clothes I gotta watch.
10:10See, there's no end to what you're gonna find.
10:12Basically, the whole tour bus is Jesse's SHIT in every corner.
10:17Which you're gonna see.
10:18And everyone else has to deal with it.
10:19So, the bathroom has got a shower.
10:28But we keep beer in here.
10:31And it can come out if you need to take a shower.
10:33It's a very nice shower.
10:35There's a rule about the bus.
10:37There's no number two on a bus, and there's no toilet paper on a bus.
10:41And if you follow those rules, you'll pretty much be okay.
10:46Because everyone will know if you do anything else.
10:49So, this is a bunk area.
10:51It's got 12 bunks.
10:52Let's see if I can turn them.
10:53There we go.
10:57This is my son's bunk.
10:59You can see all of his stuff in it.
11:00Okay, so there's a few things about bunks.
11:02There's A, there's the hierarchy of the bunk.
11:04Which is, who gets what bunk where.
11:07The premium bunks are always going to be the middle bunks.
11:11And that's where the band is.
11:13So, Lee is here.
11:14Scott's here.
11:15Dustin's here.
11:17Our sound man is here.
11:18Because he's a very important part of the process.
11:20This is our junk bunk.
11:21And a junk bunk is a bunk where just all luggage, extra luggage can go.
11:26The upper bunks are the ones that are like, kind of tedious.
11:31Because you can fall out of them.
11:33You can, just getting, you know, like when you're tired.
11:35And you just want to like, get up.
11:37You know, it's like, just going to the bathroom in the morning.
11:40So, imagine getting out of the third bunk.
11:43It's tedious.
11:45It's tedious.
11:46My wife likes the floor bunk.
11:48Because she just gets to roll out of the bunk.
11:52And because I'm a super dick, I take the whole back lounge.
11:57So, now you're about to see a real fun mess.
12:00Let me get the lights on.
12:05So, my bunk is right here.
12:06And if you get the camera on it, you'll see that it.
12:13Of course, my blanket is the Shining blanket.
12:17From the Shining.
12:19And of course, I have my Michael Buble pillow.
12:23Because I love him.
12:25That normally sleeps right there with me.
12:28And then, you know, other accoutrement.
12:29Other assorted dolls.
12:31And some makeup.
12:33And shoes.
12:34And then I got this.
12:35If you can see this amazing Elvis thing I just got.
12:37That's got it's own seatbelt now.
12:39Because I don't want it to go anywhere.
12:43Shoes.
12:43Lots of shoes.
12:44Lots of boots.
12:45Lots of clothes here.
12:47And then, you know, they decorate rock and roll buses.
12:50Interestingly, like, there's this cool backstage pass thing.
12:54I normally keep it very dark.
12:55There's two TVs in case you need to watch the same thing.
12:58And two different sides of the bus.
13:01Some people find that very important.
13:02Like, I really want to watch this twice at the same time.
13:06And then, from outside, you can people watch.
13:08Now, interesting.
13:09An interesting detail.
13:10I don't know if it's interesting.
13:11But all rock and roll buses had back windows that would open.
13:17And they just this year started to seal them.
13:21Probably because people like me would shoot fireworks outside of the bus.
13:25Because we were in Detroit a few years back.
13:27And I literally had a ground war with mortar-style fireworks.
13:32And you can't escape the bus as quickly now without the back.
13:36You know, in case something weird is going on.
13:39You're just like, I think I'm over this.
13:41I think I'm going to leave.
13:43Now, little hidden things.
13:45We have little drawers back here.
13:46And little things are hidden.
13:47And one little thing that I like to hide is every episode of The Office.
13:55I always have it hidden on me in case I need to watch it.
14:00Because I love this show.
14:01I think like most Americans and people around the world, we love this show.
14:05I also like to make sure my wife's slippers are back here.
14:08Because, A, she's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in my life.
14:11And the things that she loves, I love.
14:13So, even if she's sleeping in another bunk, I know it's corny.
14:19But I like to see her slippers.
14:20It makes me feel better.
14:22Just in general.
14:26She calls it the rat place, my wife.
14:28She's like, I want to go to the rat place.
14:31And I'm always like, what the is the rat place?
14:34You know.
14:35And I'm like, that's not a rat.
14:37It's a beaver.
14:38She's like, it's a rat.
14:39I'm like, no.
14:40It's a beaver.
14:41Is that a rat?
14:42And then we have, I don't know if you noticed, the high-tech touch panel.
14:47So all the lights go out.
14:50Or on, as it were.
14:52Whatever the case may be.
14:53Gear that's hanging in here.
14:54More shoes.
14:55My very offensive leather bags.
14:58I do have very offensive leather bags.
15:00Let's see what's in here.
15:02Oh, yeah.
15:03Phoenix went to the Harry Potter store yesterday.
15:06And discovered that she's in Slytherin.
15:08She did the sorting process.
15:12So she's in Slytherin.
15:13And then there's just other assorted, you know.
15:16I have a lot of clothes on to her because I'm very vain.
15:19And I like to change a lot.
15:23And, ooh, I'm going to wear these pants later.
15:26And then if you look at this side, it's filled with tattoo equipment.
15:29That's all tattoo equipment.
15:31More of my wife's adorable slippers, which she got at Bucky's.
15:35They're really big.
15:36They make her feet look insanely big.
15:39And we love the Shoes Company Tux.
15:41Everyone on this bus, everyone on this bus wears tux.
15:45I also got a new pair of Tacovas yesterday cowboy boots, which I love.
15:50And I also have a thing for handbags.
15:52So you'll see a lot of duffel bags on an Eagles of Death Metal Tour.
15:55Because I like duffel bags.
15:56You never know when you need to fill a duffel bag and hit the road.
16:00So, and then everything closes, too.
16:03So everything, as I said, a disco submarine is certainly what this is.
16:08So once you close it in, then the bunk area becomes sealed off from the rest of the area.
16:13I mean, just look.
16:14You can just see, like, how hard it would be to get in there.
16:20I don't want to have to do it.
16:21But I didn't have any problem with my son having to do it.
16:24See, and once you...
16:29See, then you got the nice runner lights.
16:31Everything looks very...
16:32Fancy.
16:33Tron-y.
16:34Like the movie Tron.
16:36Which I love that movie.
16:39Do you like the movie?
16:40This is my son, by the way.
16:42He's been on the road.
16:44He just got a tattoo.
16:45My wife just gave a tattoo.
16:47Show him the tattoo.
16:52Which is another cool thing that happens on a rock bus.
16:55You know, there's a lot of, like, myth or stereotypes about what goes on a tour bus.
17:02Yeah?
17:03Like what?
17:05Allegedly.
17:07Allegedly.
17:08But we're one big happy family.
17:12So the tour bus is really genuinely our home.
17:17And in a minute, I'll walk you.
17:18So most rock and rollers, most people that tour, their whole world is the tour bus to the back of
17:23the club.
17:24That's how the whole world can look.
17:26You know what I mean?
17:27And if you're going to come on a tour bus every day, you want it to be as messy as
17:32possible.
17:33You want it to have as much random food everywhere.
17:36Like, you can literally eat off the floor on our bus just because there's food everywhere.
17:40On the floor.
17:42Right?
17:43What?
17:43Just kidding.
17:45No.
17:46Sure.
17:47If you need to get into a knife fight at any given moment, you can pull the blade.
17:52You're done.
17:53Like, what if you're like...
17:55If you need a firefighter, we're okay.
17:56If you need to fight a fire with a blade, if you need to be like, dude, I'm going to
18:00throw an axe at you.
18:01Cool.
18:01Because I got it right here.
18:04You can also make coffee.
18:06Wow.
18:07Yeah, with a Keurig.
18:08You're just covering everything, right?
18:09Yeah, I'm covering all the bases.
18:10Here's a hair clip from Bucky's.
18:13That's mine from the rat store.
18:15From the rat store.
18:16The rat store.
18:17As I pointed out earlier, the rat store.
18:19It's not a rat store, babe.
18:21It's a rat store.
18:22See?
18:22It's not a rat store.
18:24But it's not.
18:25It's a rat store.
18:25But see, it's really done.
18:27Rat store.
18:29These are my new...
18:31Like, I'll also tell you something just as a side note.
18:34I just switched to in-ear monitors, which is a game changer.
18:38You switched like a year and a half.
18:40Yeah, but I just got my professional in-ear monitors today.
18:45Not today, but this week.
18:49And it's a game changer.
18:50I don't know if most people are aware of it, but when you're on stage, you have monitors
18:53on the floor so you can hear what you're doing.
18:55It eliminates all those and they go directly into the ear so that you can't hear anything
18:59else but what you're doing, which has got some benefits and it's also got some negatives to
19:05it.
19:05Not being able to hear the audience really will affect.
19:07I always will pull one out so I can hear the audience.
19:10Yeah, that's what I'm starting to do.
19:12Yeah.
19:12We also went to Third Band Records in Detroit and all I got was this lousy lighter.
19:19No, I'm just kidding.
19:20It's an awesome lighter.
19:21I'll light many cigarettes with it.
19:25Okay, that was...
19:27This is a wrap-up of our bus.
19:28I hope you enjoyed it.
19:30I hope it wasn't too boring or too mundane because we just live regular lives.
19:35We're just regular people who roll around in a big disco submarine.
19:39If you're interested in our band, you can go to eaglesofdeathmetal.com.
19:43You can go to our Instagram, EODM Official, our Facebook, EODM.
19:48You can go to my Instagram, which is atfatherbadass.
19:50I would love to see you.
19:52I'm very welcoming.
19:54My son's is called Beef Holiday.
19:58He takes these often.
20:00It's not an ironic name.
20:01He literally takes Beef Holidays all the time and it's part of his work contract.
20:07I don't even know how we got that worked out, but however you did that, that was amazing.
20:12But you're always welcome with Eagles of Death Metal and every night is ladies' night.
20:17So, thank you.
20:18Oh, and also, I love Chicago.
20:47Oh, I love Chicago.
20:52You
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