The Epic Proportions Tour provides a way for unsigned bands to make a living touring the country. We accomplish this with a combination of alternative fuels, great booking skills, and and lot of quick thinking and improvisation. The Epic Proportions Tour was created by headlining artist Gabe Kubanda, and Peter Sotos of Fireball Music Management to provide an eco-friendly alternative for bands to tour without breaking the bank.
Traditionally, even artists with major label support usually lose money on their first few tours. So Gabe and Peter tackled the musician’s ultimate question: “How can I make money touring instead of going bankrupt in this cash-stretched economy?” They came up with a concept to not only “NOT lose money”, but to actually make it so that the artists can profit, and do more of what they love to do: “create music”. The Epic Proportions Tour Bus runs on Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) eliminating the need for costly gas, and has solar power panels to provide electricity for the bands to run their laptops and charge their phones. The tour is also being filmed for an unscripted reality show about the crazy life of touring bands, and documents what really goes on behind the scene/stage, and the “super fun” job of collecting the Waste Vegetable Oil. The bus itself has a lot of modifications, which were built by hand.
We take bands on tour, pay them, let them keep 100% of their merch, and put them in front of lots of fans almost every day of the tour. How awesome is that?
