Doghouse

→ May 2013 $sicksickpeople: Interview: Riley Gale // Power Trip Riley and I had talked about doing an interview when Power Trip played an after show at the Acheron a few weeks back. After watching him fall off the stage to land on his head during their set, I suggested that we reschedule it for another time. We wound up speaking on the phone for about an hour and a half a week later. Check out the following transcription and read all about life on the road, the new record, fine art and everything else. Last time I saw you was a couple weeks ago in New York. You guys had just done some long drive and then you fell off the stage and landed on your head. Yeah, the day before that show was in Buffalo. It wasn’t too bad, but yeah I’m still fucked up from that man. I hurt myself real bad on that fall. I definitely screwed up my sciatic nerve and I may have fractured a vertebrae too. I’m pretty jacked up, that was not a fun fall by any means. I was half expecting to just piss blood and die. I could taste iron in my mouth, that can’t be good, it was pretty brutal. We played with you guys at that fest in St. Louis in the fall. You guys drove like 15 hours to get there and then I remember some story about it taking you like two days to get back. Yeah we drove straight to St. Louis and back. It’s only like 12 to 14 hours from Dallas so it wasn’t that bad of a drive. United Blood this year was way worse. We did the biggest U-turn across America, it took about 22 hours to get to Richmond. Then we were so tired that when we had to go back everyone would go to sleep in the van and whoever was driving would pull over and go to sleep without telling anybody. So like 6 hours would pass but we were only two hours outside of the city or whatever. It took us forever to get home. I think the trip to St. Louis while it should have only taken 12 or 14 hours it took like 18. But the drive home from Richmond ended up being like 30 hours. I hated it, it was crazy. Plus it seems like you guys always have the van packed with so many people. Yeah we try and just fill the van with people who want to go and have fun. I’ll sacrifice some comfort if it means a good friend of mine can get in the van and hang out with us for the weekend or whatever. When we did UB I think we put 10 people in the van, so it was pretty packed. On that tour we just did, we had Sherwin, Hood and RJ for most of the time. We like to roll with a crew. I think it works as a buffer between the rest of us, you have somebody outside of the band to chill with in case everyone is kind of pissed at each other. It really helps lighten the mood when you have Hood and Sherwin in the van to kind of mess with or telling jokes with or whatever. Read the full interview here.$