Life as a Cruise Ship Drummer — Transcript

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1. 0:01So, I've been on this ship for about a
2. 0:03week now, and I might have already been
3. 0:06fired.
4. 0:08Uh, and it's not for the reason that I
5. 0:10thought I would get fired.
6. 0:12>> So, we're having a problem.
7. 0:14>> A [ __ ] weak kid.
8. 0:22[music]
9. 0:28>> [music]
10. 0:40[music]
11. 0:44>> Barcelona. [music] Uh, this is the first
12. 0:47stop of the contract. I joined the new
13. 0:48ship tomorrow morning, so today [music]
14. 0:51was just a me day. Uh, I decided to walk
15. 0:54around with my new camera sticking out
16. 0:55of me. Uh, and I think it works pretty
17. 0:57well. Like I look like I'm in GTA
18. 0:58[music] a little bit. I'm not really
19. 1:00used to straight large sticks swaying
20. 1:02behind me. I'm only really used to it
21. 1:04from the front side. So, I managed to
22. 1:05get it stuck in the bus door when I was
23. 1:07trying to get into town.
24. 1:10The bus driver was not having any of it.
25. 1:12So, I spent [music] the day walking
26. 1:13around, did a little shopping for some
27. 1:15supplies,
28. 1:18[music] and we headed to the ship.
29. 1:22Uh hello. So I'm on the ship. So
30. 1:24basically how it's going to go is it's
31. 1:27seeming like we have because I you never
32. 1:29really know what you're going to be
33. 1:30doing on the ship until you get on the
34. 1:32ship. So um it seems like we we play a
35. 1:36set like kind of like before the show.
36. 1:38We'll play
37. 1:40shows with both the cast. So there's a
38. 1:43there's a cast on board like a group of
39. 1:45dancers and singers. They have their own
40. 1:47show and we play a couple of those.
41. 1:49Those are the shows that I won't be
42. 1:50filming.
43. 1:52um because the company technically owns
44. 1:55those shows and I can get in trouble. I
45. 1:56could actually get fired. Um
46. 2:00I don't actually want to get fired. Then
47. 2:02we have the guest entertainer shows
48. 2:04which are basically like random
49. 2:07entertainment acts, random people. You
50. 2:09get a lot of like people from Broadway,
51. 2:11singers, people from The Voice, I guess,
52. 2:14and they have their own show and they're
53. 2:16the ones that I'm going to be filming.
54. 2:18Um and then we have like a late night
55. 2:19set. So, it's it's pretty typical. The
56. 2:21band, we have
57. 2:24an an old Italian guy on the bass and he
58. 2:27cracks me up. You'll see him eventually.
59. 2:29I I'll introduce you. I'm rooming with
60. 2:31the the sax player. So, we share rooms.
61. 2:33If you didn't know already, we share
62. 2:35rooms on cruise ships. The crew, at
63. 2:37least the musicians share rooms.
64. 2:40Um, and the rooms, man, that
65. 2:44I I won't be spending much time in
66. 2:45there. Uh, you really just kind of stay
67. 2:47there to get changed and sleep. So
68. 2:49today, I don't know what I'm going to
69. 2:50do. Uh, this is the point where you go
70. 2:53like, "What the [ __ ] What the [ __ ] am I
71. 2:54doing?"
72. 2:54>> All right, so this is the itinerary for
73. 2:57the next month. We hit [music] Yeah.
74. 2:58Laspio, Rome, down through Italy. Uh,
75. 3:01damn through Sicily. Wow. And then we
76. 3:03hit Greece, a bit of Croatia, [music]
77. 3:05Couture, down into the Greek islands,
78. 3:08bam, Athens, Santorini. Wow. Roads.
79. 3:09[music] And now we're into Turkey. We're
80. 3:11hitting Cyprus. Uh, back up through
81. 3:14Greece. And then we're really hitting
82. 3:15Turkey now. [music] All the way up to
83. 3:17Istanbul. Uh, wow. Uh, Cavella, back
84. 3:20through Turkey. Now we're hitting the
85. 3:21Greek islands again. Back up to [music]
86. 3:23Croatia, hitting some new ports to
87. 3:26Brovnik. Wow, what a nice place. Into
88. 3:28Venice. So, right when you join the
89. 3:30[music] contract, uh, usually you don't
90. 3:32really like know many people, so I like
91. 3:34to just kind of get off the ship uh, by
92. 3:37myself. So, in Sanrope, uh, that's what
93. 3:40I did. Went off and got some food. Um,
94. 3:43and then I saw Ed Sheeran playing a
95. 3:45local French guy in chess. And that was
96. 3:47not an opportunity I was going to miss
97. 3:49out.
98. 3:49>> Bonjour.
99. 3:51>> Do you mind if I play you?
100. 3:52>> Yes.
101. 3:52>> It's okay.
102. 3:54>> Did you win?
103. 3:55>> I lo,
104. 3:56>> it's €10 for winner.
105. 3:58>> €10?
106. 4:00>> Thank you very much.
107. 4:02>> Thank you. Have a good day.
108. 4:03>> Yes, you too. Be brave.
109. 4:05>> How long have you been playing?
110. 4:08>> I I made I stop. I play. I stop.
111. 4:12>> You must meet some interesting people.
112. 4:15Uh, I played with Jeff Bessos three
113. 4:17years ago.
114. 4:17>> Are you serious?
115. 4:18>> Yeah, he with bodyguards and wife.
116. 4:20>> Wow.
117. 4:21>> Did you beat him?
118. 4:22>> Yes. [laughter]
119. 4:25>> [ __ ]
120. 4:33>> No. If you if you love chess, which I
121. 4:35see, and you have talent, I could give
122. 4:38you one lesson if you want. I will show
123. 4:41you what is the secret of chess. You
124. 4:44have the secret of chess.
125. 4:45>> Secret.
126. 4:45>> I know secret. [laughter]
127. 4:47>> What is the secret of chess?
128. 4:49>> Uh, you have to pay if you want.
129. 4:51>> No. But no, please.
130. 4:54>> Grandmaster did not have to eat with
131. 4:56this attitude.
132. 4:58>> Let's play.
133. 4:58>> I don't want to be a GM though.
134. 5:00>> You don't know. I don't know. This is
135. 5:02your [laughter]
136. 5:04play with talent.
137. 5:06>> That's very That's very kind of you.
138. 5:07>> This is
139. 5:09[laughter]
140. 5:15Yeah, good game.
141. 5:17>> I know secret of the chess. I
142. 5:20>> Grandmaster died from hunger. I
143. 5:23understood that only marriage is between
144. 5:26capitalism and the chess because this is
145. 5:28kingdom. If you don't penetrate into
146. 5:30this, you stay genuine.
147. 5:33You must enter into secret of the
148. 5:36powerful game. I have goosebumps
149. 5:38everywhere. And uh and I approved.
150. 5:41>> I'll go get you $20.
151. 5:42>> Okay.
152. 5:44>> You want a coffee?
153. 5:45>> Yes.
154. 5:46>> Cappuccino.
155. 5:50>> Thank you, sir. It's been a pleasure.
156. 5:51>> Thank you. How long will you be staying
157. 5:52here?
158. 5:53>> Uh I work on the cruise ship.
159. 5:55>> Why you don't take one chess lesson?
160. 5:58>> Because how much?
161. 5:59>> $200.
162. 6:00>> I don't care that much about chess.
163. 6:02>> Yes, but start to care.
164. 6:06It's only friend you will have in your
165. 6:07life. Think about
166. 6:09>> All right.
167. 6:09>> Come back.
168. 6:10>> Okay. Now, I'm going to show you what
169. 6:12the ship looks like down in the crew
170. 6:13area. Okay. So, this is like our main
171. 6:16kind of hallway. So, like all of the
172. 6:18important things like where you eat,
173. 6:19where you drink, uh laundry kind of
174. 6:22branches up this hallway. Uh so, I'm
175. 6:25[music] going to take you to the most
176. 6:26important one. This is the crew bar.
177. 6:29>> Most nights [music] I'm in here. I'm not
178. 6:31going to lie. You pay using your your
179. 6:33ship card. My card [music] statement is
180. 6:36rough. It is all crew. It's not like
181. 6:39this every [music] contract, but I'm
182. 6:40really enjoying Kruear. It's quite nice.
183. 6:42You can buy like supplies, uh, shaving
184. 6:45stuff, some snacks, but, uh, mainly
185. 6:49occur Diet Coke for me. Uh, moving on.
186. 6:53This is the
187. 6:55crew mess. Most of the crew will be
188. 6:56eating here. Um, not the entire crew.
189. 6:59So, we don't eat in here. There's kind
190. 7:00of like two messes. Uh depending on your
191. 7:04rank, uh the [music] smaller one is
192. 7:06where we eat. Uh there's like a coffee
193. 7:09machine and the cereal. I quite like the
194. 7:11cereal. Um you can never really go wrong
195. 7:13with [music] the cereal uh when it
196. 7:14works.
197. 7:16Um
198. 7:18and it's nice. Yeah, it's a [music] it's
199. 7:20enough. Moving on. Uh through here we've
200. 7:23got the crew gym. Uh if you thought all
201. 7:27of that was depressing, [music] wait
202. 7:28until you see this. Um, I'll usually go
203. 7:32use the guest gym for leg day, but in
204. 7:34here is I mean the guest gym is [ __ ] as
205. 7:36well. It's [music] just it just is what
206. 7:38it is. Uh, but yeah, I would usually
207. 7:40work out in here most days.
208. 7:43Uh, and that's [music] that's they're
209. 7:44the important bits of this ship. So,
210. 7:46this is the Horizon's Lounge. Uh, this
211. 7:49is where we play all of the sets that
212. 7:51are not shows. We're playing them in
213. 7:53here. Uh, and it's depressing as [ __ ] I
214. 7:56[ __ ] hate it in here. The kit is a
215. 7:58complete piece of ass, by the way. Uh,
216. 8:00so bad that I needed to grab some
217. 8:02weights from the gym and put them on the
218. 8:04snare drum just to make it sound as dead
219. 8:06as possible. Now, I'm going to pass you
220. 8:07on to Locky in the theater.
221. 8:10So, this is the um this is the theater
222. 8:12drum kit. The curtains are closed right
223. 8:15now at the moment. I'm It's [ __ ]
224. 8:16pitch black. This kit is a lot nicer
225. 8:18than the the one in this in the um
226. 8:20lounge. This kit's actually like fun to
227. 8:22play. Um, we've got like the acrylic
228. 8:26screen. I don't know if any drummers
229. 8:28have used that before, but you just
230. 8:30constantly you constantly stare at your
231. 8:32own reflection. It's It's kind of like
232. 8:34scuffed. There's like tons of scratches
233. 8:36and it's all kind of blurry, so you
234. 8:38can't even see through it. And none of
235. 8:39the guests know what I look like and all
236. 8:41I look at is like a reflection of
237. 8:43myself. Uh, these are my symbols. We got
238. 8:47Istanbul me jazz legend. This is extra
239. 8:52dry bison 17 inch and then the same but
240. 8:5519.
241. 8:57Um, and it's a good kit. It's a pretty
242. 8:59good kit. We use this AVM system. So,
243. 9:04the inears come through here. Uh, for
244. 9:06the shows we get usually we get click
245. 9:09and tracks that comes through here. For
246. 9:12any of the videos where it looks like
247. 9:13I'm like fiddling with some like
248. 9:14[ __ ] right under underneath my music
249. 9:16stand, it's usually this. This has been
250. 9:18coming like the power has been coming
251. 9:20out in some of the shows. So when the
252. 9:23power cuts out then I lose the click and
253. 9:26when I lose the click like I can't I
254. 9:29can't really play so I just stop playing
255. 9:31and I try and fix it. [music]
256. 9:38>> It's just so scuffed. Well this is
257. 9:42literally exactly 1 month since I joined
258. 9:44the ship and a lot has happened. This
259. 9:47has probably been like one of the most
260. 9:48chaotic starts to a contract I've had.
261. 9:50I've been pretty lazy with recording.
262. 9:53There's been like two weeks kind of in
263. 9:55the middle that I just kind of
264. 9:58>> Bro, are you good?
265. 10:01>> There were two weeks in the middle that
266. 10:03I was like super slack. Oh [ __ ] Here we
267. 10:05go.
268. 10:07>> I was going to slap your ass.
269. 10:09>> And that's for a reason that I'll get
270. 10:12to. But [ __ ] what's happened is I'll
271. 10:14tell you about the people. I can already
272. 10:16tell that this cast is going to be one
273. 10:17of the closest. This just is such a
274. 10:19closely like knitted, closely
275. 10:22tight-knit. What am I saying?
276. 10:23Everybody's
277. 10:26very unique. Like, everybody's quite
278. 10:28different and lots of personalities, but
279. 10:30everybody seems to get along really
280. 10:32well, and I feel like I fit into it.
281. 10:34It's been a really fun cast. Like, it's
282. 10:35the worst when you get on a ship and it
283. 10:37feels like nobody really wants to do
284. 10:39anything, especially in port. Like I
285. 10:41wouldn't do ships if I couldn't like get
286. 10:43off and port and like and just go
287. 10:44experience stuff. Ah, go for it, man.
288. 10:47No, you're good. You're good. Uh, Krew
289. 10:49Bar,
290. 10:50it's probably one of the smallest
291. 10:52physically like crew bars that I've had,
292. 10:54but uh, everybody seems to always be in
293. 10:56crew bar. There's always like I've been
294. 10:57drinking like every day and I'm not I'm
295. 11:00not like a big drinker really, but I've
296. 11:03been drinking so much alcohol. You can
297. 11:06get really bored on on a cruise ship,
298. 11:08especially when you're not getting off
299. 11:09in port. It gets really boring. And
300. 11:11Kubar, like just having like a group of
301. 11:13people is like exactly what you need.
302. 11:15And I'm I'm really glad that we have
303. 11:16that here, especially because I'm here
304. 11:17for 4 months.
305. 11:19At least I think I'm here for 4 months.
306. 11:21The band, there's been a bit of a
307. 11:24there's been a bit of a
308. 11:27drama in the band. Uh which has never
309. 11:30happened to me before. This is kind of
310. 11:31like a new thing. our piano player and
311. 11:33our bass player. There's been like a bit
312. 11:35of a falling out. Basically, what ended
313. 11:37up happening is like HR got involved,
314. 11:39our bosses got involved. There was like
315. 11:41this whole thing. And so, I've ended up
316. 11:43moving out of my cabin to live with
317. 11:46Costa, the bass player. Um, the piano
318. 11:48players moved in with my old roommate.
319. 11:51Um,
320. 11:53and it's just been like kind of really
321. 11:55weird.
322. 11:58It's It's an interesting dynamic in the
323. 12:00band. Let's just say that. But the
324. 12:02playing is fun. I mean, it kind of just
325. 12:04is what it is. I'm enjoying making the
326. 12:05the videos. So, the main reason that I
327. 12:08haven't really filmed a whole lot over
328. 12:10the past two weeks, like 2 3 weeks, um
329. 12:13is because I didn't know whether I would
330. 12:16still have a job.
331. 12:18So, I still actually still don't know.
332. 12:21Um there was an incident basically.
333. 12:24Uh this [laughter]
334. 12:26this happened a week in like exactly a
335. 12:28week into when I joined. Um
336. 12:33and it was like one of the first nights
337. 12:35in Kubar
338. 12:36and when we were walking home
339. 12:40um in the uh the long corridor in what
340. 12:43we call the I95, I decided to do a
341. 12:45cartwheel.
342. 12:49We were going to to play Mario Kart
343. 12:52after KBAR. I'm like, hell yeah. And
344. 12:55then we're walking there and I do a
345. 12:57cartwheel and I've I don't have footage
346. 13:00of the actual cartwheel, but I've
347. 13:03completed the cartwheel and then I've
348. 13:04continued going and I've hit my head. I
349. 13:07think I've hit
350. 13:09the corner of like a metal box and the
351. 13:12wall. And if you if you I mean you've
352. 13:13seen like the corridor, everything is
353. 13:15made of out of metal and
354. 13:19we're all we've all had a few beers. So
355. 13:23I kind of stand up and I'm like a bit
356. 13:26actually I don't really remember this
357. 13:28bit. I think um I was a bit concussed.
358. 13:32Uh I touch my face and I'm bleeding and
359. 13:34I'm like what the [ __ ] I'm like [ __ ]
360. 13:37my face is bleeding. And thank God that
361. 13:40I had this group and I've met these guys
362. 13:42like a week ago at this point and Drew
363. 13:46uh the guy's room that we were we were
364. 13:49going to he's like come in like just get
365. 13:50in uh before anybody sees you. I had
366. 13:53some pretty bad cuts on my face.
367. 13:54>> Let's just just [ __ ]
368. 13:56>> Bro, what did I hit?
369. 13:58>> What did I hit my head on?
370. 14:03>> They were Everybody was kind of
371. 14:04panicking but I was kind of like
372. 14:07I was pretty drunk. I I didn't think
373. 14:09they were that bad, but apparently they
374. 14:10were.
375. 14:11>> So, we're having a problem where we
376. 14:14cannot go to medical because if he does,
377. 14:18>> not good.
378. 14:19>> Don't breathize me.
379. 14:20>> Don't breathize.
380. 14:22>> We're in this tricky situation because
381. 14:24there is a doctor and like a medical
382. 14:26team on board the cruise ship and
383. 14:29they're available whenever you need
384. 14:30them. Uh, which is fantastic. Uh the
385. 14:33problem was that if I did go to medical,
386. 14:36I would be breathalyzed and if you blow
387. 14:40over a certain amount at any point, even
388. 14:44at night, you will be fired. And I was
389. 14:46definitely over the limit. Uh the limit
390. 14:48is 0.05. Like it's very low. So I
391. 14:51couldn't go to medical, but I needed
392. 14:53stitches. Like my face was kind of
393. 14:54[ __ ] up. Like they they weren't just
394. 14:56like normal cuts. So,
395. 14:58uh, the dilemma was, do I go fix my face
396. 15:02and not let it scar forever or get fired
397. 15:07and get fired?
398. 15:10What? So, we decided to patch it up and
399. 15:12I waited till the next morning to go to
400. 15:14medical. I'd sobered up. Um,
401. 15:19thank God they they managed to patch my
402. 15:20face, but then it was this whole thing
403. 15:23about this late reporting. You're
404. 15:24supposed to report an incident straight
405. 15:25away. I told them that I had slipped in
406. 15:28the shower and I hit my head on the door
407. 15:31because there was like a full
408. 15:32investigation.
409. 15:34Um, everything got searched and there
410. 15:36was like this period of time where I
411. 15:37didn't know whether I was going to get
412. 15:38fired. It was like a 50/50
413. 15:41and I I still don't technically because
414. 15:43there's there's another issue with my
415. 15:46medication that I'm on that I wasn't
416. 15:48supposed to be on cuz they drug tested
417. 15:49me and apparently my med my meds were
418. 15:51setting off the drug test. It was this
419. 15:52whole [ __ ] thing. This was like one
420. 15:54of the worst weeks on the ship I've had.
421. 15:57It was just chaos. I thought I was I was
422. 15:59going home like after straight away. And
423. 16:01and I would be getting fired for [ __ ]
424. 16:05We keep joking about me getting fired
425. 16:07for all the [ __ ] that I do in the shows.
426. 16:09And then after all of that, I get fired
427. 16:10for something like stupid like this. Uh
428. 16:12so that was like a whole thing and for 2
429. 16:14weeks I was like I can't really vlog. I
430. 16:16don't know if I'm even going to be here.
431. 16:17So anyway, I guess this vlog is kind of
432. 16:20like just like overall a little like
433. 16:22kind of summary on what it's like to
434. 16:24work on ships. A bit a bit of the behind
435. 16:27the scenes, but I'd like to kind of like
436. 16:29actually film a lot of the stuff that
437. 16:31we're doing, like a lot of the
438. 16:32experiences and stuff we're doing out in
439. 16:34Port Crew. Um, that's the plan. So, I'm
440. 16:38kind of posting this just to see like
441. 16:39what the what the vibe is if if that's
442. 16:41something you guys want to see. I have a
443. 16:43lot of fun on this ship and it's been
444. 16:46kind of like a wild month.
445. 16:49Uh, a lot of up and down really. The
446. 16:51thing I love the most about ships is
447. 16:53that no matter like
448. 16:56what's kind of going on like in
449. 16:58everybody's life, like all you have is
450. 17:00like just everything on this like one
451. 17:03little boat. I don't get to choose who
452. 17:05my friends are really. you do, but like
453. 17:08the pool of people that you have in your
454. 17:09life is so small and you just kind of
455. 17:12have to like accept the people that you
456. 17:14have. And in the end, like no matter
457. 17:16what, the people that you have are going
458. 17:18to be enough. It's just a matter of like
459. 17:19perspective. And that's what I really
460. 17:20like about it. It's a really really good
461. 17:22group of people that I probably wouldn't
462. 17:24be friends with unless I was stuck on a
463. 17:27boat with them. Know that sounds [ __ ]
464. 17:29awful. I would never have met them
465. 17:31unless it was this like but it's because
466. 17:34of this situation. A lot of these people
467. 17:36I will be friends with for the rest of
468. 17:38my life. Like I know that it it you kind
469. 17:41of build this connection that is kind of
470. 17:45hard to match.
471. 17:47It's just interesting to me and I'm
472. 17:50really I'm really enjoying it. So I'd
473. 17:51love to like keep vlogging it and just
474. 17:54kind of like
475. 17:56share it. Uh I got to go do a set. So
476. 18:00thank you for watching if you're here.
477. 18:03Do you want to see my scars? You ready?