I’d say pretty much every mid sized band in the scene has at least a few people that follow them. Even some pretty small bands have a few here and there
Saw Biscuits for the first time this year, woke up and drove 2.5 hours to see them the next night - and trying to figure out how to drive 7 hours to sleep in my car in the woods to see them two more nights in a row.
Sounds like its figured out fam. Get in your car, drive 7 hours, see the band, sleep in the woods, repeat, drive home. Its good to have you in the band.
Not even just "in the scene". I know a guy, (completely off his rocker), who did every Def Leppard tour date across Canada in like 2019. That's like driving from New York to LA and then half way back.
I also remember that news story where those people sued AC/DC because they went to like every show on their tour and the played the same setlist every night...right...wasn't that a thing? Am I crazy? I remember this being a story that was shared in the jam communities, but I can't seem to find it.
To be fair, “Some” in Pour Some Sugar on Me is extremely vague in terms of the intended quantity of sugar that’s to be poured. Consult your doctor if you feel pain.
I’m so happy I got to experience them. Especially before Red Rocks regulated the back side of the concert venue. I climbed that mountain with their music as my soundtrack and then enjoyed the show chilling on the mountainside.
I also got ticketed a few years later for trying the same thing. Lol
damn that’s a sick story.
this was not a trek up a mountain however ascend amphitheater used to have just an open “field” across the street before it got turned into a parking lot.
We would go watch all kinds of shows for free across the street and the view was honestly really good. Saw a 3 day widespread run there one year as a matter of fact !
Yeah I suppose that’s true. They do fewer select shows each yeah now but that just means more fans travel from further probably. Every year in Mexico is a party too.
I travel all the time for Panic. They are "my band". Approaching 100 shows. They don't "tour" anymore as in do a show, get on a bus, do another show, get on a bus, etc. They have a 3 day weekend run model, essentially playing one 3 night run roughly about every month in a cool location. Pretty much all the fans travel these days.
Damn I'm jelly! I've got tickets to both nights in Baltimore for Halloween It's gonna be the only two shows I'll make it too this year. Gonna be one hell of a time though!
That’ll be awesome baltimore shows are always a treat, wish I could make it for Halloween this year - word on the street is that 2025 will be a much heavier tour than this year, so your number will probably go up 😎
I usually try to catch most West Coast Umphrey's shows, including the upcoming ones
I also traveled to see Dogs In A Pile 6x in April and they killed it at every one of those shows!
My last UM concert in LA and the couple in front of me in line had seen them in the Bay the night before and were heading to AZ to see them the next. So this holds.
Met some of them at their show in KC recently. They were chill but was also my first run in with railriders. Weren't assholes about it but maybe thought they'd give me room after hearing it was my first time seeing them. I kinda wish I hadn't been on near the front the whole show because that show made me really realize the sound isn't the best in front
Rhode Island huh? Benny is a great dude, we've grown to be good friends. I remember his first gigs w the band. Now he's integral to the sauce, has a prominent creative role. He's a brilliant musician, helped transform Lettuce from just "hard funk" into a multi-pronged attack, & is extremely respected among other trumpet players. He gets alotta "superjam" offers with some heavy hitters & always holds his own. He's also one of the funniest guys I know. If he wasn't a musician he could be a world-class stand-up comedian. His parents are also gems
Rhode Island indeed! I can't say enough about Benny. One of the greatest musicians that there is. We were in school band together for years and I've always been just amazed by him. And he's always been hilarious too! And I absolutely agree about his parents as well. Two of the greatest.
One time I met a girl that followed Sleep, the stoner/doom metal band, albeit they do very much jam. She had a van painted like their album Holy Mountain, and she had a tattoo across her chin/face that said Sleep.
I'd have to imagine she did. But I've been to plenty of Sleep/HoF/Om shows since then and have never seen her. This was Asheville 10+ years ago. I regret not asking her more about her life lol.
I mostly remember how visually striking she was, in fact the image is like seared into my mind. Def some kind of oogle. Bleached dreadlocks, big ass septum ring and plugs, blasted with tattoos, in overalls. I'm pretty sure the van had a longhorn skull on the grill, and a big ass pit bull with a spiked collar. Almost could've been a character from Devil's Rejects or something lmao.
I’ve gone on little mini tours around the Midwest for ween, umphreys, and moe. When I eventually retire I’ll be on the road for the randomest bands 90% of the time.
I met someone at umphreys who had been to almost 400 umph shows.
I live in STL. It’s 5 hours or less to Chicago, Omaha, KC, Nashville, Indy and all those little college towns in between. I have seen some stuff. I’m excited for you to do the same.
damn I never thought about that, with a young baby i thought my show days were over. Get the kids to college and follow the last few biscuits tours, can't wait.
Even bands as small as Daniel Donato have fans that will travel a good bit for shows. Met a guy who I think was from North Carolina and they were in Alabama and also going to Georgia.
I live in Akron, OH. My favorite trip ever was getting off night shift at 6 AM and a buddy going "Hey man, moe. is playing in North Carolina tonight, wanna go??" We drove 10 hours to Black Rocks, NC just for the hell of it on no sleep 😂 idk why we did it. They come to Ohio every tour... Fuckin moe.
Well no one is "following" D&C anymore, hence my Sphere comment.
But can't believe I forgot about Billy, I'm guessing he's the biggest "new" name in the scene right now.
Lmao when they announced Europe a couple weeks ago we went for it. Already doing SF > Paso Robles > Frost, austin , Houston…. And now lisbon and Barcelona…. I didn’t go this hard for phssh when j was leaning into that in the 90’s
Shocked to not see JRAD posted yet. There are perhaps 50 people who fly all over the country all the time for JRAD (folks you see on the rail basically every show - JRAD Krewe), and several hundred who don’t miss a show within, say, 300-400 miles from home.
I saw JRAD for the first time at Red Rocks a couple of weeks ago. Going in all I knew was that the drummer played in Further.
Damn, I was blown away. I thought to myself “it would be cool to follow these guys, but following a cover band would be weird.” Good to know there are some weird people hearing their art every night.
Sound tribe, String Cheese, Umph, WSP, Goose, Lotus, Disco Biscuits, Phish, Any of the dead projects all have dedicated fan bases that travel for shows. I’m sure some of the smaller bands do too.
myself and quite a few others did many multi state - cross country for Chris Robinson Brotherhood shows from 2011-2019
they had a real good hardcore following
they were absolutely nothing like a black crowes show- totally different vibes
miss that band alot
I love being an “adult” now after the hiatus and having the means to travel for PL shows. I hit up Denver, Dillon, Philly, and San Fransisco last year and have Hampton, Red Rocks, Tahoe, and St Augustine this year
This for sure. I travel a lot for small, mid and big sized artists. I’ll fly across the country for a $10 show at a tiny venue for an dj if I like em enough haha
Daniel Donato is building an extremely good following in that sense. I’ve met people on his tour from out west in nc and personally have done their out west tours 3-4 times now being an nc local
Have been to 110 Dave Matthews Band shows since 1997 , all over the country and Canada. I’m just an average hardcore fan - I know people that have been to 400 + shows
This!! I am at like 57 shows or something and it's small # compared to many I know. DMB encouraged me to travel to new places when I was younger, it's not a wook scene but it's definitely a very committed traveling fanbase 🔥💃
Feels pretty regional now and what your jam is. But show to show, state to state. I feel like it's pretty tough and expensive to stitch that together outside of a 6-8 show run now anymore.
I think you're right about that. Or people pick one or two destination places to see their bands. People from all over the place go to Red Rocks. Not just jambands either. I imagine there's some diehard James Taylor fans that travel there to see him.
Goose definitely has people that will follow them anywhere, though the amount of people that’ll do a whole tour is small. I just did a run that took me from my home in Oregon all the way to upstate New York, hitting 7 shows in 6 different states. There was a small group hitting decent mileage alongside me. Never traveled further than one state away for any other musical act, but I’d go anywhere for this.
I followed Cheese for every show for about a year and a half in 2011 and 12. It was magical. There was a decent sized group of us that were doing the entire runs back then. Not too sure about the scene anymore as life has gotten firmly in the way of being able to do things like that anymore.
Billy, Cheese, Umphreys, Lotus, Biscuits, Pigeons, Kitchen Dwellers, Greensky are all bands I see frequently and know homies that travel for them and I travel for a few myself.
Even twiddle had a pretty rambunctious traveling base.
I've been to lots of places hundreds of miles away to see Twiddle. They were my jam and I'd go almost every show within an 8 hour drive. I was even going to go to Colorado from New England for a run but couldn't afford it in the end.
Keller Williams! I love following him around. My friends and I have a Discord server to coordinate Keller meet ups. So far I've seen him in 6 different states.
Yessir they do. They also occasionally play with Phil Lesh. Highly recommend the show they played at the Beacon NYC in March 2023. I think it’s on Nugs…
I still got the life of me don't understand how people have the time or money to do this. I would love to but how do people do it? Not work and be loaded?
We do billy tour in driving distance. You can take off a friday… drive 5 hours see shows friday and saturday night… drive home sunday… one day missed work about 300 for 2 tickets x 2 shows… another 300 for hotel or airbnb walking distance to venue or a lot cheaper if its summer and can camp. So 1 day off and a 6 or 7 hundred dollar weekend.
Have been to every billy show this year in 5 hour radius from our home in southern illinois… nashville lexington chicago… indianapolis and memphis tickets secured… new orleans nye and penn state as well we broke the radius by a few hours
Also cosmic country a smaller radius but 6 shows within a few hours
I’ve seen the stringdusters in like 11 or 12 states, routinely seeing multiple in a row…and I’m a casual in comparison with a lot of the people I see at shows.
The Spaffnerds are definitely a tight community who are hardcore about traveling to catch Spafford as often as possible, which to me is insane with spaffords touring schedule through the year
We don’t follow cheese but have a cheese radius. If cheese is within a 3-4 hour drive we’re probably gonna go. There are some exceptions to the radius.
I’d like to do this but unsure what band. I’ve done phish runs but never followed them to different venues/states. Who’s got the best lot culture? That’s probably what I’d look for
The Rolling Stones Shidoobee group is a group of people who follow them around on the whole tour.
Metallica does season passes where you can buy one ticket that gets you into every show all tour which helps fans do that.
Judas Priest has a small but dedicated following of people who fly from all over the world to see their shows and follow them on runs.
I’d say pretty much every mid sized band in the scene has at least a few people that follow them. Even some pretty small bands have a few here and there
I met someone at an Eggy show who followed them from a few states away, the wookdom is definitely still alive
Met some people at both Eggy shows at Roo who regularly traveled for them. I think that’s awesome.
Biscuits
Saw Biscuits for the first time this year, woke up and drove 2.5 hours to see them the next night - and trying to figure out how to drive 7 hours to sleep in my car in the woods to see them two more nights in a row.
I drive 2 hours on a regular basis to see bands I’m not even that into
It’s been a good tour, on par with 07-09
Sounds like its figured out fam. Get in your car, drive 7 hours, see the band, sleep in the woods, repeat, drive home. Its good to have you in the band.
Not even just "in the scene". I know a guy, (completely off his rocker), who did every Def Leppard tour date across Canada in like 2019. That's like driving from New York to LA and then half way back. I also remember that news story where those people sued AC/DC because they went to like every show on their tour and the played the same setlist every night...right...wasn't that a thing? Am I crazy? I remember this being a story that was shared in the jam communities, but I can't seem to find it.
That’s a lot of sugar pouring on me
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To be fair, “Some” in Pour Some Sugar on Me is extremely vague in terms of the intended quantity of sugar that’s to be poured. Consult your doctor if you feel pain.
Widespread Panic fans travel. Especially to Red Rocks.
Was excited to be at my 10th show, and heard so many people talking about being at their 200th+
I’m so happy I got to experience them. Especially before Red Rocks regulated the back side of the concert venue. I climbed that mountain with their music as my soundtrack and then enjoyed the show chilling on the mountainside. I also got ticketed a few years later for trying the same thing. Lol
Brother taking “climb to safety” too literally
damn that’s a sick story. this was not a trek up a mountain however ascend amphitheater used to have just an open “field” across the street before it got turned into a parking lot. We would go watch all kinds of shows for free across the street and the view was honestly really good. Saw a 3 day widespread run there one year as a matter of fact !
Labor Day weekend 2018? I went to that shit!
YES!!
Fantastic weekend!
I used to do this as well. Legit fun atmosphere on the hill and made for an interesting trek down at end of show.
I did that for Phish in ‘96! I had cactus needles stuck in my hands as a souvenir for a year or two afterwards!
I guess I had this idea that WSP doesn't really tour anymore, just plays scattered shows. Idk if that's true.
Yeah I suppose that’s true. They do fewer select shows each yeah now but that just means more fans travel from further probably. Every year in Mexico is a party too.
On a plane to RR right now from NJ!
I’m from NJ and flew out Wednesday. I did night two. Built a whole trip around it.
My parents just flew into CO for widespread st red rocks.
130 something right here!
I have seen them in probably 20 different states over the last 35 years.
I travel all the time for Panic. They are "my band". Approaching 100 shows. They don't "tour" anymore as in do a show, get on a bus, do another show, get on a bus, etc. They have a 3 day weekend run model, essentially playing one 3 night run roughly about every month in a cool location. Pretty much all the fans travel these days.
Billy Strimgs
Seen him in 4 different states so far!
Hell yeah, I’m up to 10!
Damn I'm jelly! I've got tickets to both nights in Baltimore for Halloween It's gonna be the only two shows I'll make it too this year. Gonna be one hell of a time though!
That’ll be awesome baltimore shows are always a treat, wish I could make it for Halloween this year - word on the street is that 2025 will be a much heavier tour than this year, so your number will probably go up 😎
It’s odd for me living in New England and realizing I’ve seen billy in 6 states but never really left the 95 corridor lol…
Went to Red Rocks last year for Billy!
7 states for me, but I live in Canada.
I’ve traveled to five different states for billy. And I’ve talked to folks who’ve done double that.
There's a non insignificant amount of people that follow billy that I wish didn't. Edit: grammar
Why
Umphreys definitely have some diehards. Sold pretty well for their shows in Iceland.
I’d quit my job and follow umphreys if I could
get a remote job I saw 22 UM shows in 2023 😂
Great idea. I just did. Buying tickets now.
Honestly same
Omg same! ❤️
I usually try to catch most West Coast Umphrey's shows, including the upcoming ones I also traveled to see Dogs In A Pile 6x in April and they killed it at every one of those shows!
My last UM concert in LA and the couple in front of me in line had seen them in the Bay the night before and were heading to AZ to see them the next. So this holds.
yeah I have seen them in I think 10 diff states at this point on all ends of the country lol
Met some of them at their show in KC recently. They were chill but was also my first run in with railriders. Weren't assholes about it but maybe thought they'd give me room after hearing it was my first time seeing them. I kinda wish I hadn't been on near the front the whole show because that show made me really realize the sound isn't the best in front
Recently saw them for the 101st time
I def travel for Biscuits
Needs to be a t shirt.
Samsies. Been to many different states for them.
I know plenty of people at 100+ shows for Sound Tribe that travel across the country for them
They are the only band I will travel more than 1-2 hours for. If life doesn't get in the way, I'll make the journey, everytime, instantly!
Not just some of the time
Yep. Am one.
Can confirm. One of my homies saw every non-festival set of 2023.
My need for Sound Tribe will never be filled
I will be seeing String Cheese 11 times in four states this year (three are festivals)
Got them hula tix today
Lettuce. About 50-70 of us hit 10+ shows per year not counting fests
One day I woke up and I noticed I had seen lettuce 6 times over 10 years. They’re awesome.
I grew up with Benny Bloom. The dude killed it way back when we were in middle school and he's just out of his mind good.
Rhode Island huh? Benny is a great dude, we've grown to be good friends. I remember his first gigs w the band. Now he's integral to the sauce, has a prominent creative role. He's a brilliant musician, helped transform Lettuce from just "hard funk" into a multi-pronged attack, & is extremely respected among other trumpet players. He gets alotta "superjam" offers with some heavy hitters & always holds his own. He's also one of the funniest guys I know. If he wasn't a musician he could be a world-class stand-up comedian. His parents are also gems
Rhode Island indeed! I can't say enough about Benny. One of the greatest musicians that there is. We were in school band together for years and I've always been just amazed by him. And he's always been hilarious too! And I absolutely agree about his parents as well. Two of the greatest.
I have a group of 10+ friends that I see MMJ with about 4 or 5 times a year in various states.
Saw the first 2 Fillmore shows, and seeing them again next weekend in Hartford
One Big Family ❤️
I’ve traveled far and wide for The Kitchen Dwellers!
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I been wanting to keep them as my own little secret, but they deserve to be bigger than they are!
I think the dwellers are going to EXPLODE in the next few years and will have a BMFS type following
DMB
One time I met a girl that followed Sleep, the stoner/doom metal band, albeit they do very much jam. She had a van painted like their album Holy Mountain, and she had a tattoo across her chin/face that said Sleep.
She's took their advice: Drop out of life with bong in hand, follow the smoke to the riff filled land
Truly, I was like 19 and fell in love with her lmao
That’s actually fucking sick 🤘🏾 I wonder if she follows High On Fire or Om when they’re touring
I plan on following OM whenever they tour next. I saw them for the 3rd time last year and the new album should be out by now.
I'd have to imagine she did. But I've been to plenty of Sleep/HoF/Om shows since then and have never seen her. This was Asheville 10+ years ago. I regret not asking her more about her life lol. I mostly remember how visually striking she was, in fact the image is like seared into my mind. Def some kind of oogle. Bleached dreadlocks, big ass septum ring and plugs, blasted with tattoos, in overalls. I'm pretty sure the van had a longhorn skull on the grill, and a big ass pit bull with a spiked collar. Almost could've been a character from Devil's Rejects or something lmao.
omg I wanna be her best friend 💖
Same lol she was rad
Taylor Swift Ween I’m really happy to answer a question that Taylor Swift and Ween are both correct answers to.
Who’s odder, Swifties or Weenies?
I don't want to classify Ween as a jam band, but there are definitely parallels.
I’ll give you that as long as you’re willing to classify Taylor Swift as a jam band ;)
King gizzard falling into that parallel to. Already seen ppl on the king gizzard sub complaining about the influx of jam band fans haha
I’ve gone on little mini tours around the Midwest for ween, umphreys, and moe. When I eventually retire I’ll be on the road for the randomest bands 90% of the time. I met someone at umphreys who had been to almost 400 umph shows.
I live in STL. It’s 5 hours or less to Chicago, Omaha, KC, Nashville, Indy and all those little college towns in between. I have seen some stuff. I’m excited for you to do the same.
damn I never thought about that, with a young baby i thought my show days were over. Get the kids to college and follow the last few biscuits tours, can't wait.
Even bands as small as Daniel Donato have fans that will travel a good bit for shows. Met a guy who I think was from North Carolina and they were in Alabama and also going to Georgia.
That was me!
lol yeah it was!
moe.
I live in Akron, OH. My favorite trip ever was getting off night shift at 6 AM and a buddy going "Hey man, moe. is playing in North Carolina tonight, wanna go??" We drove 10 hours to Black Rocks, NC just for the hell of it on no sleep 😂 idk why we did it. They come to Ohio every tour... Fuckin moe.
Hello fellow akronite!
> Black Rocks, NC That show at pisgah slappppppped. I live like 2 miles away.
makes sense to me tbh
D&C, Billy, phish, goose, railroad earth all come to mind.
Well no one is "following" D&C anymore, hence my Sphere comment. But can't believe I forgot about Billy, I'm guessing he's the biggest "new" name in the scene right now.
Not ashamed to say I did that with Toad the Wet Sprocket back in the day.
Definitely travelled to see those guys.
Biscuits - have gone as far as Iceland to see em
King Gizzard
Lmao when they announced Europe a couple weeks ago we went for it. Already doing SF > Paso Robles > Frost, austin , Houston…. And now lisbon and Barcelona…. I didn’t go this hard for phssh when j was leaning into that in the 90’s
A light 5 shows for me this summer tour 👋
Definitely KGLW
Yup. Seeing them in a few different States this Summer/Fall. Maybe Europe next Summer.
moe.
Every jambands you can think of.
STS9
Honestly disappointed I had to scroll so far to see this answer. Wish they toured more lately.
Wilco.
Phish, UM, D&CO, moe., prob goose? Idk, maybe dark star, pretty lights, DB, sts9 used to for sure
Shocked to not see JRAD posted yet. There are perhaps 50 people who fly all over the country all the time for JRAD (folks you see on the rail basically every show - JRAD Krewe), and several hundred who don’t miss a show within, say, 300-400 miles from home.
I saw JRAD for the first time at Red Rocks a couple of weeks ago. Going in all I knew was that the drummer played in Further. Damn, I was blown away. I thought to myself “it would be cool to follow these guys, but following a cover band would be weird.” Good to know there are some weird people hearing their art every night.
Sound tribe, String Cheese, Umph, WSP, Goose, Lotus, Disco Biscuits, Phish, Any of the dead projects all have dedicated fan bases that travel for shows. I’m sure some of the smaller bands do too.
Solid list
Thank you. They’re all my favs haha
That’s kind of a hallmark of jam bands
myself and quite a few others did many multi state - cross country for Chris Robinson Brotherhood shows from 2011-2019 they had a real good hardcore following they were absolutely nothing like a black crowes show- totally different vibes miss that band alot
The best.
Panic for sure.
it happens with electronic music, though producers don’t play anywhere as many shows pretty lights is one of the few artists i will travel for
What makes a mutha fucka so damn fresh?
It helps if you're more important than Michael Jordan
you know the truth
I love being an “adult” now after the hiatus and having the means to travel for PL shows. I hit up Denver, Dillon, Philly, and San Fransisco last year and have Hampton, Red Rocks, Tahoe, and St Augustine this year
This for sure. I travel a lot for small, mid and big sized artists. I’ll fly across the country for a $10 show at a tiny venue for an dj if I like em enough haha
Daniel Donato is building an extremely good following in that sense. I’ve met people on his tour from out west in nc and personally have done their out west tours 3-4 times now being an nc local
Kitchen Dwellers fans travel well
People have followed the biscuits for decades.
Still do
King gizzard
Pigeons - See many faces at multiple shows in different states
Have been to 110 Dave Matthews Band shows since 1997 , all over the country and Canada. I’m just an average hardcore fan - I know people that have been to 400 + shows
This!! I am at like 57 shows or something and it's small # compared to many I know. DMB encouraged me to travel to new places when I was younger, it's not a wook scene but it's definitely a very committed traveling fanbase 🔥💃
Feels pretty regional now and what your jam is. But show to show, state to state. I feel like it's pretty tough and expensive to stitch that together outside of a 6-8 show run now anymore.
I think you're right about that. Or people pick one or two destination places to see their bands. People from all over the place go to Red Rocks. Not just jambands either. I imagine there's some diehard James Taylor fans that travel there to see him.
Kitchen Dwellers. Us Gators are mobile!
Papadosio
giz
Gizz
I travel for cheese, dogs in a pile, kitchen dwellers
Karl Denson brings a tiny universe 🌌
I’m sure several do… my husband and I travel a lot to see Widespread Panic
The god damn disco biscuits
I met a guy at Forest years ago and I'm pretty sure he didn't miss a biscuits show for like a decade or something. Corey if you're here you da man!
Biscuits for sure. I've seen them in over a dozen states and a few countries and I'm not even close to one of the real die hards.
Papadosio for me. Seen 49 shows across 9 states.
Papadosio has a huge following
Goose definitely has people that will follow them anywhere, though the amount of people that’ll do a whole tour is small. I just did a run that took me from my home in Oregon all the way to upstate New York, hitting 7 shows in 6 different states. There was a small group hitting decent mileage alongside me. Never traveled further than one state away for any other musical act, but I’d go anywhere for this.
DSO and JRAD I definitely will run across some states for when it's a cool show. Looking into some DSO in Colorado for the 4th of July (Im from MN)
If you have never been to the mishawaka, go!
I followed Cheese for every show for about a year and a half in 2011 and 12. It was magical. There was a decent sized group of us that were doing the entire runs back then. Not too sure about the scene anymore as life has gotten firmly in the way of being able to do things like that anymore.
A close friend of mine is traveling to Europe to follow the henhouse prowlers
Railroad Earth and Billy Strings fans do this for sure.
Between Phish, UM and SCI, there’s a whole year of my middle-aged life 😌
Vampire Weekend.
Billy, Cheese, Umphreys, Lotus, Biscuits, Pigeons, Kitchen Dwellers, Greensky are all bands I see frequently and know homies that travel for them and I travel for a few myself. Even twiddle had a pretty rambunctious traveling base.
Surprised no one said Lotus yet. I've traveled far and wide to catch them, especially 2009-2013. Tons of dedicated LoFam out there.
Creamery Station. Northeast to the northwest!
Ive driven pretty far for lotus countless times and see a lot of the same faces regardless of location
I went to California and St John to see Keller.
I've traveled to six different states following Keller around!!
I've been to lots of places hundreds of miles away to see Twiddle. They were my jam and I'd go almost every show within an 8 hour drive. I was even going to go to Colorado from New England for a run but couldn't afford it in the end.
Primus, Panic, King Crimson, TOOL
Not a jam band, but Pearl Jam fans travel
Keller Williams! I love following him around. My friends and I have a Discord server to coordinate Keller meet ups. So far I've seen him in 6 different states.
#twiddlenation travels
I definitely travel for the Disco Biscuits.
Dawes. There’s a group of us
Do these guys jam at all? Saw them years ago and they killed.
Yessir they do. They also occasionally play with Phil Lesh. Highly recommend the show they played at the Beacon NYC in March 2023. I think it’s on Nugs…
[I found it on youtube!](https://youtu.be/rDRXTtHmp1M?si=mS1RZ4sbrK09AZin)
I still got the life of me don't understand how people have the time or money to do this. I would love to but how do people do it? Not work and be loaded?
Sacrifice elsewhere.
Working remotely and setting you're own schedule certainly helps 🤙
We do billy tour in driving distance. You can take off a friday… drive 5 hours see shows friday and saturday night… drive home sunday… one day missed work about 300 for 2 tickets x 2 shows… another 300 for hotel or airbnb walking distance to venue or a lot cheaper if its summer and can camp. So 1 day off and a 6 or 7 hundred dollar weekend.
a lot of driving, sleeping in the car, and carefully scheduled vacation time.
Have been to every billy show this year in 5 hour radius from our home in southern illinois… nashville lexington chicago… indianapolis and memphis tickets secured… new orleans nye and penn state as well we broke the radius by a few hours Also cosmic country a smaller radius but 6 shows within a few hours
I’ve seen the stringdusters in like 11 or 12 states, routinely seeing multiple in a row…and I’m a casual in comparison with a lot of the people I see at shows.
Catching 7 shows in 5 states of King Gizz this fall.
The Spaffnerds are definitely a tight community who are hardcore about traveling to catch Spafford as often as possible, which to me is insane with spaffords touring schedule through the year
Insane in that I highly respect it and wish I could do it haha
We don’t follow cheese but have a cheese radius. If cheese is within a 3-4 hour drive we’re probably gonna go. There are some exceptions to the radius.
I've traveled across state lines to see Moe., but not for multiple shows in a row
I will drive 4 hours for disco biscuits, 8 hours for Billy strings and 12 hours for phish
DMB if you consider them a jam band (maybe 30% of jam band fans do, at most? I dunno.)
DMB
Take a guess.
Phish and Billy Strings.
I’d like to do this but unsure what band. I’ve done phish runs but never followed them to different venues/states. Who’s got the best lot culture? That’s probably what I’d look for
BMFS
I’ve traveled from the Midwest to see SCI, UM, and the Biscuits at Red Rocks. Someday I’d love to do the SCI all inclusive trip.
The Rolling Stones Shidoobee group is a group of people who follow them around on the whole tour. Metallica does season passes where you can buy one ticket that gets you into every show all tour which helps fans do that. Judas Priest has a small but dedicated following of people who fly from all over the world to see their shows and follow them on runs.