Tour stories: Halloween Nashville, Florida ticks, knife and knife sets

Road anecdotes: Halloween-night crowds in Nashville, the Florida music-video trip where Critter (first ocean sighting) got ticks removed with a hot knife and a corncob streamed on Periscope, a dive-bar burger stop, and a detour into knife sets — one host's $20 set vs a $280 Amazon set, sharpening, and 'Twelve and the Scissors' as a joke band name.