If you are at a gig of a small, unknown band then take a look around the back as nine times out of ten you will see a small van that they use to hold all of their equipment. How important is the van to the group?
Well believe it or not stars will often think back and name the van their best friend in the early days because it got them where they needed to go both on time and for an affordable price. The bigger bands are often seen in the gigantic tour buses for one reason, they have the money or sponorship deals to be able to do it. A lot of the smaller groups are not able to gain access to the big tour buses because sponsors are only interested in making a return from their investment.
Most of the time the van is actually borrowed from a family member or friend of the van but sometimes they all chip in to buy the van outright. Once again is can be very difficult to buy a van outright even if there are three or more people paying for it so more often than not bands will look into van lease because it works out cheaper.
The band then have any damages or accidents covered too so they do not have to take out any extra things they do not need like the band that took out pick up truck leasing just to cover them if the worst case scenario happened.
Although cheap van leasing is likely to be the best option for your band, it is also possible to get a van to run on vegetable oil which of course will save the band on fuel costs. There is of course one bad side to having this on your van as that is you arent going to be able to refuel so you need to take a lot of the stuff with you.
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