I’m really surprised and somewhat impressed by the Greyhound hookup with the AND 1 Mixtape Tour.  It’s one of multiple Greyhound Unleashed promotions around the country including the VIBE Awards and Spring Break events.

Greyhound’s focus is on a bus customized by Funkmaster Flex or various underlings that "features black leather seating, flat panel televisions, Xbox 360 gaming stations, a state-of-the-art sound system."  But I guess the regular buses are still the norm.  Anybody ride one lately?  I haven’t been on a Greyhound since the 80s and it might have been Trailways or Trailhound as we used to call them.  I took 3 cross country trips, me and lots of other poor folks, and it was harsh.  Greyways was the more appropriate title in my opinion.

But I like the Greyhound Unleashed site.  There’s stuff to download related to the AND 1 tour, i.e. basketball, though the photos and videos for AND 1 are still on the way since it’s just kicking off today.  But everything’s up for earlier events so they’re on top of the site.

I’m just glad they didn’t try to turn it into a social network.  Social networks on corporate sites could play out really quickly if it gets saturated.  But I think a few will succeed if they offer something substantial.

Circuit City is one of the Unleashed Tour sponsors and it looks like Mountain Dew is an AND 1 Mixtape Tour sponsor who gets namechecked on here as well.

Official sites: Greyhound Unleashed ~ And 1 Mixtape Tour 2006