"What's the largest amount (in terms of bulk/weight) of records/CDs you've traveled with by air?"

one cd case that carried 25 cd's without jewelboxes (while i was in europe two summers ago).

"If you could airdrop thousands of copies of one album that's currently rocking your summer to residents of your next destination, what would it be? Please specify "next destination" and how this may factor into your choice."

i have to give a paper in france. i airdrop pissed jeans, "hope for men".

"What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by train?"

mystery train.

"The Go-Gos' "Vacation" or Stiff Little Fingers' "Gotta Getaway"?"

gogos!

"What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by airplane?"

big ol' jet airliner.

"What's the furthest you've traveled specifically to see a concert?"

took a train from Rome to Rimni to see Dino Jr.

"Complete this song lyric: "The more one travels, _____________.""

"....the fast 'n bulbous"

I've never taken CDs in the air.

The last time I went to L.A., several good friends and fine people there refused to go with me to see Horace Tapscott play. Clearly they need to be airdropped both volumes of "The Dark Tree."

I don't say it's the best by any means, but I have an ironic fondness for Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone." A beautiful song when it doesn't make me laugh.

If many more people pick the Go-Gos over "Gotta Getaway," one of my favorite songs period, I may have to resign from this list in horror.

Driving to Wolf Trap from DC is a pointlessly long ride. Dylan wasn't even very good.

"The more one travels, the more one loves songs about being on the road."

What's the coolest music you've ever heard in an airport (what's played through your own earbuds excluded).

Too many to mention. The New Orleans airport is small and kind of outdated, but a few years ago someone got the brilliant idea to rename it Louis Armstrong International Airport, instead of honoring some irrelevant politician. Not only that, someone also had the brilliant idea to play real New Orleans music in the airport, not just jazz but R&B and funk as well. So the first thing you hear when you arrive in our city or the last thing you hear when you leave can be Armstrong or Professor Longhair or the Meters. Since it plays 24/7 you don't just hear a handful of hits over and over. When I arrived from my trip a few weeks ago I was greeted by Clarence 'Frogman' Henry singing I Ain't Got No Home.

What's the largest amount (in terms of bulk/weight) of records/CDs you've traveled with by air?

I don't really remember the CD era. Do they work with an Ipod?

If you could airdrop thousands of copies of one album that's currently rocking your summer to residents of your next destination, what would it be? Please specify "next destination" and how this may factor into your choice.

My next destination is likely to be the result of hurricane evacuation, and I might like to be personally airdropped. I'll rock if I have to.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by train?

My dad was a railroad man, and he worked for Southern Pacific, so the Neil Young song off of Reactor called Roll On, Southern Pacific has special meaning for me.

The Go-Gos' "Vacation" or Stiff Little Fingers' "Gotta Getaway"?

I don't know the SLF song, and that Go Go's song always sounds good on the radio.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by airplane?

Eno's Burning Airlines Give You So Much More

What's the furthest you've traveled specifically to see a concert?

To Atlanta to see Elvis Costello a few years ago. I guess that's 500 miles or so.

Complete this song lyric: "The more one travels, _____________."

I looked it up, so it wouldn't be fair to say.

Guess everyone's traveling this week. I'm not, so here goes:

What's the coolest music you've ever heard in an airport (what's played through your own earbuds excluded).

I answered this one already - the space-age music playing in the space-age terminal in Chicago, circa 1992.

What's the largest amount (in terms of bulk/weight) of records/CDs you've traveled with by air?

I carried home a box of 70 or so albums from college one year. The things we do for love...

If you could airdrop thousands of copies of one album that's currently rocking your summer to residents of your next destination, what would it be? Please specify "next destination" and how this may factor into your choice.

Let's see, I'm headed for Italy next. They don't need the Clash singles box that's currently playing. They don't need the krautrock I downloaded a couple of weeks ago. I'll airdrop some Parliament that I was listening to the other day.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by train?

Isn't "Click Clack" by Captain Beefheart a train song? NO - "The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains", or whatever the title of that Kinks song is!

The Go-Gos' "Vacation" or Stiff Little Fingers' "Gotta Getaway"?

Almost always "Gotta Getaway"!

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by airplane?

"Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"

What's the furthest you've traveled specifically to see a concert?

Good question. Probably some grueling Philly to NYC jaunt to see Pere Ubu. I've traveled and seen other bands, but I don't recall making a particular trip further than NYC specifically to see a band.

I thought the "real" way to complete the "more one travels" lyric was obvious, espeically in these hallowed halls. aren't we supposed to come up with an alternative completion? ya know...have "fun" with it?

truth be told, i'd pick "gotta getaway", too. it just seemed more in the spirit of summer vacation fun to say "gogos!".

i love how the mod thinks his own question is a "good question". mod, parliament is an EXCELLENT choice for italy. i can't describe exactly why, but you nailed it. they need that stuff.

I once carried a full sized suitcase of vinyl (about 60 LPs)
on a flight home from San Francisco in the early 90's where I met someone who just got a CD player. "Here dude, You can have all my Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, Foetus, Ministry, MauMaus, etc"...SCORE!

Never heard any good music at the Airport. Never had fun in an Airport bar either.

Don't care about the GoGos
Actively dislike Stiff Little Fingers.

"Train-cha cha Train" I think it's called. by King Tubby
(roots-natty Roots)

farthest travel JUST to see a concert:
NYC for lots of 'em

Bloody Red Baron is my favorite song about killing...er I mean travel by plane.

I would Airdrop "Thai Stick Dragon" by Kilroy all over Italy. I mean I have enough copies of it...

The coolest music I heard was in Chicago's airport just the other day. They played The Prisoner by The Clash.

What's the largest amount (in terms of bulk/weight) of records/CDs you've traveled with by air?

20 going out, cuz that's all the little case holds. 27 coming back because that's enough to buy on one trip to the record store out of town.

If you could airdrop thousands of copies of one album that's currently rocking your summer to residents of your next destination, what would it be? Please specify "next destination" and how this may factor into your choice.

Exile on Main St. because everyone should own multiple copies of mankind's greatest achievement.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by train?

Train Kept A Rollin' by either Yardbirds or Johnny Burnett. I don't like Aerosmith's at all.

The Go-Gos' "Vacation" or Stiff Little Fingers' "Gotta Getaway"?

SLF, but I like The Go Go's. They put on a real fun show way back when.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by airplane?

Flight 505 by The Stones.

What's the furthest you've traveled specifically to see a concert?

Pittsburgh. From Cleveland. I think it's a little under 200 miles.

Complete this song lyric: "The more one travels, _____________."

The more public bathrooms one sees.

truth be told, i'd pick "gotta getaway", too. it just seemed more in the spirit of summer vacation fun to say "gogos!".

Saturn, thanks. I can now breathe regularly again.

kilroy, you'd BETTER not hurt my countrymen with that album of yours. we need to make a trade anywayz...

mwall, glad to assuage your anxieties.

2K, speaking of Cleveland, i've been meaning to ask: Old Grog Shop or New? and How's the Euclid doin'?

Summer travel my ass. Summer is the hardest-working time of year for me. Thursday night, my girlfriend celebrates the Ph.D. she's been working on for five years. I will be listening to Vince Gill. While she is in New Orleans, I will be listening to The Police (OK, that might not be so bad) (though I haven't been cleared for a ticket yet and might instead be listening to Kenny Chesney). While she is in London, I will be listening to the Counting Crows. I have lucked out and will not be working the night of her birthday this year, but the past two years I have.

The Newport folk and jazz festivals will be cool. They will be the kind of thing people think of when they tell me I have the greatest job. For roughly $400, they could go to all those shows, not have to write about them and live the rest of their lives.

I will also be at Ozzfest for 14 hours. Last year it was 95 degrees, and not all the sweat on me was my own. I will be at the Family Values Tour, listening to Korn. And the Warped Tour, which also starts in the morning if I'm not mistaken. And the Projekt Revolution Tour, listening to Linkin Park.

Last August I worked 18 days in a row - at least 8 hours per, mostly more. I'll be lucky to avoid that this year.

Yes, I know - I "get" to see all those shows. For a little money, you would "get" to see the ones you want to see, get home about two hours before I do, and not see the ones you don't want to see.

Did I choose this? Yeah, sort of. About half the time it's better than my previous job.

Still, summer can eat my fuc.

Enviously, bitterly yours,
Rick

I'm guessing Rick is a 'gotta getaway' type.

What's the largest amount (in terms of bulk/weight) of records/CDs you've traveled with by air?

To the best of my knowledge, I've never travelled by air with more than an iPod or in terms of discs, a CD wallet that holds about 24 discs.

If you could airdrop thousands of copies of one album that's currently rocking your summer to residents of your next destination, what would it be? Please specify "next destination" and how this may factor into your choice.

I'd like to airdrop 1,000 copies of a Jello Biafra spoken word album in the lobby of Fox News's headquarters.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by train?

Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" or maybe Johnny Cash's "Hey Porter" or if I'm in the mood, Neko Case's version of The Shangri-Las' "Train from Kansas City", though that one's not really about train travel.

The Go-Gos' "Vacation" or Stiff Little Fingers' "Gotta Getaway"?

I love both and even played "Vacation" a bunch of times before our Seattle/Sasquatch trip a few months back, but I gotta go with SLF here.

What's your favorite piece of music - rock or otherwise - specifically about travel by airplane?

"Leaving on a Jet Plane". Just kidding. Actually I would have go with either "Eight Miles High" (yeah I know it's really about drugs, but officially it's still about flying) or The Kinks' "Gotta Get the First Plane Home".

What's the furthest you've traveled specifically to see a concert?

If this includes festivals, then it's when we went to Sasquatch a few months back. Oh I went to San Francisco a few years ago, ostensibly to see a few Elvis Costello shows, but really to see a friend of mine who lives out there.

If you have your vacation time in the winter, Rick, come on out to southern California. It'll still be pleasant here. But when people talk about San Diego, they always say "great weather." Nobody ever says "cool culture."