Welcome to Tour Van Bingo!!!
You can also
play this game on roadtrips, but you will have to frequent bars and nightclubs
in order to fill your BINGO card!
How
to Play:
Simply “cut and paste” the cards out
onto heavy stock paper, or cut them out and glue them onto cardboard. Make your
roadie carry yours for you.
When you spot an item on your card, make an “X” through that
square. Gleefully point out your victory to the others. You can choose to helpfully point out things
to help the others, choose to play “every person for him/or/herself “ or form
evil alliances.
The activities spotted (such as vomiting
and crying) do not count if they are performed by fellow band members, although
everyone is perfectly free to do these activities of their own accord.
When you get five “X”s in a row, vertically, horizontally,
or diagonally, yell, “ Ha! Ha! BINGO, you Motherfuckers!!! BINGO!!!” because by
this time you will probably be a little stir crazy from being in the van with
all these other guys, some of whom you have slowly begun to hate. Waving the
BINGO card in their faces victoriously is optional.
If they dare take you on again, you can play “BLACKOUT”
where you have to “X” out every single square on the card.
This game is based on a typical “Global” tour, from Los
Angeles through the South, up the East Coast, across the top and down the West
coast. If you are on a smaller local tour, you may all agree to all “X” out one
thing on each of your cards that is regional, like for example “Logging Trucks”
or “Brahma Bull Bumper Stickers”.
I have made six cards, because that is usually the most
people that are ever in a van at one time. If you have more than six members in
your band, you could probably afford to lose one, like maybe the rhythm
guitarist or the keyboard player. I’m sorry to have to be the one to say it,
but you know that it ‘s true.
These cards were created with the assistance of Bob Lee. You
can probably pick out the ones that come from his many years of experience
touring in vans.
(The van photo on the previous page is of Steve Housden,
taken by Dave Childs as they prepared for a Lawndale van tour in Mexico.)