Drake is hip-hop's flaxen-haired knight without the flaxen hair, and this is one of his busses, presumably. There were two more busses behind the 7-11 -- not exactly fuel efficient, but when you know way too many people here right now, you've got to find a place to accommodate them.

This one, though, is the one we'll assume is the flagship vessel in the Drake fleet. It matches his aesthetic, but more than that, it affords us better fodder for unfounded bus-as-metaphor assumptions, which are after all the whole idea behind Our Van Could Be Your Life.

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Welcome back to Our Van Could Be Your Life, a semi-regular feature where we shoot photos of the tour busses stopping in Denver and draw unfounded conclusions about the bands that ride in them. This week, Phoenix, who need a separate bus just for synthesizers.

That's not actually true, but they were toting an equipment trailer. It was silver or white or something unmemorable. We can't exactly remember because we were too fixated on that bus. Usually, bands will wind up with something pretty subtle -- solid black is common. It doesn't do you any favors to advertise that you're a rock band.

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What you see above is Gomez's tour bus. Gomez was playing at the Ogden last night, which meant that their bus was more-or-less in front of a certain (ahem) Backbeat contributor's apartment. It was parked in the exact same spot as every other tour bus that chauffeurs a band to its stop at the Ogden, which inspired our latest feature Our Van Could Be Your Life (which is ironic, of course, because the Minutemen would never, ever charter a bus), in which we take a photo of these busses and make unfounded assumptions about the band.

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