Taylor Swift’s almost-two-year Eras Tour run touched fans right around the world — including her longtime bass player Amos Heller.
Heller, 47, who joined Swift’s band in 2007, took to social media on Tuesday, December 10, to reflect on the highs and lows experienced throughout the tour.
Sharing a string of photos of himself and Swift, 34, performing at various locations, Heller captioned the Instagram carousel with a long and moving tribute as he detailed “the ride of a lifetime.”
Starting with some of the tour’s toughest demands, Heller wrote, “No more early lobby calls. No more airports. No more lugging a suitcase and Mono bag up an escalator, through a line, out of baggage claim. No more warming up, no more cooling down. No more looking at my watch 20 times to make sure I don’t miss a call. No more saying goodbye to my family, no more “how many sleeps now?” No more jet lag.”
Heller’s tribute then moved into the challenges of travelling to far-flung corners of the globe as the Eras Tour, which delivered 152 shows across five continents after kicking off in March 2023, became the highest-grossing tour of all time.
“No more slipping into new languages, cultures, cuisines, accented pleasantries. No more snow in Tokyo, watch factories in Switzerland, museums in Sweden, bass shops in Australia, steaks in Rio, tattoos in Ireland, runs in Germany, flowers in Amsterdam,” Heller continued. “It’s done.”
The musician then moved into his most memorable highlights, including feeling like “a gladiator” while walking into any given stadium. “No more screaming lyrics with a perfect stranger who’s now your best friend. No more staring in awe at my family/friends who just moments ago were sharing a ridiculous joke, suddenly transformed into iconic titans, towering and thriving in the blinding lights,” he wrote. “No more being called upon to dig the deepest I can, requiring the very best I am capable of.”
Heller compared the tour’s final performance, staged in Vancouver on Sunday, December 8, to a “graduation” of sorts, before concluding his post with a message directed at Swift.
“You command so much respect and admiration from everyone who’s fortunate enough to add their effort to yours. Your blend of focus, heart, stamina and joy calls forth the best of everyone around you,” he wrote. “Thank you for trusting me with my part of your vision. It was the ride of a lifetime. I love you.”
Swift confirmed the final Eras Tour show on June 13, calling the experience, “the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life,” at the time.
During the announcement, which took place during the tour’s 100th show in Liverpool, England, she added that the tour had overtaken “everything” before thanking fans for their support.
“You have done so much to be with us, right?” Swift gushed at the time. “You’ve made plans so far in advance, you planned what you were going to wear, you memorized lyrics, you got yourselves here, you figured out parking, you figured out transportation.”
She continued, “I want to spend the 100th show just thinking about that and living in this moment with you and being here with you. Just know that I appreciate every single ounce of effort that you put in to be with us … So, thank you.”
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