inspired by the sports talk thread

maine
dallas via atlanta
miami

10/10/2007 10:16:02 AM

Tokyo

10/10/2007 10:20:20 AM

Hiroshima

10/10/2007 10:26:21 AM

20 minutes away

10/10/2007 10:27:28 AM

for the primary intent of a concert, 500 miles.

10/10/2007 10:29:08 AM

7 hours.

Tool in Jacksonville in July

10/10/2007 10:55:27 AM

asheville

10/10/2007 10:56:58 AM

vancouver, bc
for summersault 2000
(sp, foo fighters, deftones)

10/10/2007 10:59:47 AM

Austin

10/10/2007 11:00:10 AM

DC

10/10/2007 11:07:31 AM

Went from Wilmington to Asheville. So about 6 hours.

10/10/2007 11:22:35 AM

Raleigh, NC to Camden, NJ. Counting the concert, it was 25 hours round trip.

10/10/2007 12:11:14 PM

huntington, wv is the furthest away i've been for a concert (TOOL back in july).

about 7.5 hours one way.

never go to west virginia. i would gladly drive that distance again, but not to west virginia.



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10/10/2007 1:04:23 PM

2 hours to charlotte.

10/10/2007 1:07:53 PM

Went from Raleigh to LA this august for the Rock the Bells festival. After that we stayed and hung out in Cali for a week cause we had never been.

10/10/2007 1:11:15 PM

Drove from Raleigh to Philly to see Radiohead in June of 2006 and also from Wilmington to Columbia, Maryland (by way of Raleigh) to see them... both were pretty long trips, lol.

10/10/2007 1:14:02 PM

6 hours to Norfolk to see HIM before they sucked.

10/10/2007 1:30:20 PM

Myrtle Beach this past weekend to see Megadeth

10/10/2007 1:32:27 PM

Bala, Ontario, Canada


for Bad Company

10/10/2007 1:44:59 PM

yes, the sole purpose of the trip is a oncert

raleigh->atlanta->dallas 1193.47 miles

gastonia->miami 748.94 miles

raleigh->limestone, me 1133.75 miles

greenville, nc->baltimore, md 323.61 miles

10/10/2007 1:55:41 PM

Syracuse (Beck w/ Flaming Lips as his backing band)

10/10/2007 2:47:26 PM

los angeles for the mars volta. got off the plane, saw the concert, got drunk, flew back. had to spend some sky miles anyway...

10/10/2007 3:09:03 PM

washington D.C. Green Day Warning tour

10/10/2007 3:14:18 PM

Mars (Rush w/ Flaming lips)

'twas a long trip

10/10/2007 3:46:42 PM

greenville nc to manchester tennessee if bonnaroo counts.

if not, greenville to asheville.

10/10/2007 3:51:36 PM

Quote :

"Raleigh, NC to Camden, NJ. Counting the concert, it was 25 hours round trip."

with spookyjon

10/10/2007 3:52:19 PM

greenville nc to manchester tennessee if bonnaroo counts.

if not, greenville to asheville. (smashing pumpkins)

I pretty regularly went up to VA, that's where i saw Muse, Raconteurs,

10/10/2007 3:52:19 PM

^^was that radiohead?

I did the same trip.

ps, you should be able to make that drive in 7 hours

yeah if bonnaroo counts, philly->char->manchester. dont know how far that is

10/10/2007 3:56:12 PM

yes

and i don't remember how long it took, but it was to camden. there might have been some traffic issues or something i don't remember.

i've also been to bonnarroo a couple years ago.

10/10/2007 3:58:30 PM

steven malkmus and the jicks openend.

that was hot

10/10/2007 4:16:22 PM

indeed.

getting lost in camden afterwards was not a highlight.

10/10/2007 4:25:27 PM

all the way

10/10/2007 7:07:09 PM

Quote :

"getting lost in camden afterwards was not a highlight."

ahahah we did too

4 white kids in a vw, lost in camden

not cool

10/10/2007 8:13:08 PM

Quote :

"washington D.C. Green Day Warning tour"

didnt they come to charlotte on that tour? i think i remember going to that w/ the get up kids.

also, i went to phoenix, az from asheville, nc to see weezer play the warped tour.

10/10/2007 8:25:32 PM

Went from RDU to San Diego to see Mae (okay, it was on vacation, but still...)

Went from RDU to Cardiff, Wales, UK back in '03 -- talk about a long flight

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10/10/2007 9:22:20 PM

Quote :

"raleigh->limestone, me 1133.75 miles"

10/10/2007 9:27:47 PM

i'm going from san diego back to nc for that pumpkins show (and also to see friends)

10/10/2007 11:30:51 PM

that reminds me of the time i saw smashing pumpkins twice in two nights in asheville....

10/10/2007 11:32:31 PM

yeah one time I went down 40 east get to jones sausage rd to get better parking at walnut creek

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10/10/2007 11:42:24 PM

Charlotte

10/11/2007 12:25:00 AM

i just got back to charlotte after seein State Radio at the cat's cradle. its not impressive, but its the farthest i've gone.

10/11/2007 12:34:31 AM

Charlotte

My girlfriend MORE than makes up for my lack of concert appeal. She has gone as far as Detroit for her damn country concerts.

10/11/2007 1:21:11 AM

triangle, va to rostraver, pa

10/11/2007 1:32:59 AM

^^ Damn, I forgot all about the show in Chapel Hill.

And to answer the thread: New York City

I saw Dispatch's Zimbabwe benefit concert in Madison Square Gardens. What a great show.

10/11/2007 1:34:28 AM

Dispatch blows.

Charlotte- Manchester, TN.

10/11/2007 9:00:27 AM

oslo norway - katatonia

10/11/2007 11:28:31 AM

raleigh -> nyc for rock the bells.
well, well worth it

10/11/2007 11:31:30 AM

portsmouth, VA

10/11/2007 12:20:05 PM

winston-salem to nyc for Cream

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10/11/2007 12:40:49 PM

raleigh, nc -> baltimore, md -> philly, penn for pearl jam/sleater-kinney

10/11/2007 12:44:02 PM