If I were an Entertainer like Bob Seger, this is the kind of Tour Bus I would have. I would purchase a second hand Prevost "Eagle Design" on the weak market with intentions of remodeling the inside. I would strip the old floor plan, and go with a Master Bedroom, Living Room, Bathroom, Mini Kitchen Design, designed for the "Solo Star". I would design the floor plan myself, then customize the furniture. Machined Nickle or Aluminum Coffee Table Mounted with glass top. Expensive rugged indoor outdoor carperting with a soft finish. I would have the furniture reappolstered, real black leather, with matching living room furniture. I would put a new diesel Cummins ISX engine with quit turbo and exhaust, with the new automatic transmission, with new drive train componets, and hub bearings etc., new suspension with top of the line springs, and new expensive tires. I would go with a solid color paint job, with high exterior gloss finsih, gloss black. I would by new exterior light trims and molding, like machined dipped aluminum, with all new LED blinker lights etc. I would nickname the bus Bob's Personal Night Mover.

well.... i hate to break it to ya ace but..the man has his OWN plane..no tour bus for bob and the boys'
he flys home in between gigs and to see his family!!

cowpote

Well actually he doesn't have his own plane. He did charter a biz jet for the last tour he did so that he could be home with his family in between venues. Some nights he did not go home, like when way out west. But it did cut travel time to something more tolerable.
A bus as described above would have gone over well with Bob, probably, back in the days when he wrote "Turn The Page."
Mark D.

ok ok..i was close wayyyy back that's how they got around..lot's of time to b.s. and think of new songs..like "turn the page"..and many others

cowpote

Here are some photos from Prevost Bus Company of a Brandnew VIP Tour Bus without the group package.
http://www.prevostcar.com/cgi-bin/pages.cg...e=h345vip_photo
http://www.prevostcar.com/cgi-bin/pages.cg...arket_motorhome
http://www.prevostcar.com/cgi-bin/pages.cg...ket_entertainer

Busses have sure come a long way from back in the days when Buddy Holley was touring. I just read an article about his bus ride from Superior WI to (I think it was) Green Bay and Milwaukee. Except they never made it on that bus. They left Duluth / Superior late one Januray night after a concert. Temprature was a typical 25 or 30 below zero. The bus made it about as far as a hill not too far from Durand WI. The engine quit, the bus coasted to a stop and all the heat was off. To make things worse, the battery was dead and they had no light. People who have studied Buddy Holley in those days would know who all was with him, but it was a couple or three big rock 'n roll names from the time and their bands.
Some of them lit newspapers on fire to make warmth enough to thaw frozen fingers. This was a little used 2 lane highway out in the middle of nowhere, and no cars came by until a cop happened by and stopped to check out what the bus was doing there. he arranged for transport for the nearly frozen people. Buddy's drummer had to be hospitalized for frozen feet. he was out of the tour. They missed their next gig from that. I think that was Green Bay. Not sure.
A few days later, they played at Clear Lake IA. Their next gig after that was Moorhead, MN, 350 some odd miles away. Again, by old school bus as the original bus that broke down. That is said to have been a big factor in Buddy's decision to charter a plane to get to Moorhead. Too bad he wound with a pilot who didn't know how to fly under IFR. That pilot should have known better than to have taken that job.
By the time of the bus breakdown, the entire group was totally exhausted. They had been sleeping on the bus, and the comment from one of them later was that they "all smelled like goats." They would hang their clothes down the center isle of the bus to try to get wrinkles out of them. They ate when and where they could, or missed meals.
It makes the Turn The Page story from Bob Seger seem tame by comparison.
Maybe that's another reason why Bob didn't use a bus? You can bet he's been there, done that. And that he knows all about the Buddy Holly story. (What is the correct spelling of his last name, anyway?)

Mark D.

Mark,

Google shows Buddy Holly as the spelling used by reporting sites.

However, it looks like he was born Charles Hardin Holley.

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/buddy-holly

Ken