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What's the farthest you've traveled for live music

I have only traveled 6 hours for live music, although my wife has seen 124 Grateful Dead shows, so she has me beat big time. I'm not talking about seeing live music because you happened upon a live venue while traveling for work or vacation. I'm talking about finding out one of your favs is playing in L.A., and it's the closest they're playing to your home. You live in let's say Dallas. (I personally live in Rochester N.Y.). You take time off work and board a plane or hunker down for a nasty car ride.
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mwilson
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Jaybo, you've got good taste! For me, it was from Vermont to Toronto for Iron Maiden. Car, then bus, then train. I got into Iron Maiden just after their '85 tour, and always regretted missing that one. They revisited that historic tour on their latest tour, so I had to make it this time. It was worth the trip.
mst
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London to see Van Morrison and the Clash in the same week. I'm dating myself.
prcinka
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for Magdalena Kozena concert in Brno(Czech Rep) from Vancouver...
dgordonl
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I lived in N.J. all my life and in 1969 headed to Woodstock in N.Y....A time to remember...
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r_f_sayles
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Detroit to Pittsburgh to Detroit in one evening to see Richard Thompson play a solo gig on acoustic guitar at the Rosebud March 8,02. It was a great show, and the artisan pizza was nice, custom made to order, a couple of tasty micro brews on tap, and I met and enjoyed the concert with a beautiful young lady and here friends that I met before the show. The lady and I meet again the following year in Chicago, shared another evening of music by RT at the House of Blues, small world. Another fine evening, well worth the drive! Sad to hear that the Rosebud, a beautiful live music venue was no more as of 01/31/04.

But the trip that probably takes the cake, miles wise was Detroit to Alabama, with basically three days to put the trip together for Tom Waits "Glitter and Doom" tour at the Alabama Theatre in Birmingham on July 3, 08. Great seats, first row, mezzanine, just left of center, first time seeing Tom and wow what a trip! Just missed meeting him at a local record store by about ten minutes before the show that afternoon... I would have enjoyed rifling the used jazz records with Mr. Waits. ;^)

Happy (live) Listening!
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