We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.
When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'
Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.
I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.
And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.