10-30-2024, 01:47 AM
(10-20-2024, 02:26 PM)ackydacky1 Wrote:(10-14-2024, 05:27 AM)admin Wrote: I always thought Greensboro was perfectly placed between Raleigh and Charlotte and it would make sense for more artists to hit it to take care of three markets in one shot...
Yes, Greensboro is about 52 miles away from my house in Virginia. Raleigh and Charlotte are both around 130 miles from my house. Me and the wife are now senior citizens and making the trip back from those 2 cities after the show and getting home around 3am are over. She would demand staying at a hotel. That gets expensive. Greensboro for most of my 10 times seeing TSO there did both afternoon and evening shows bringing around 6000 people for the afternoon show and less in the evening show. Far from a sellout. One year they only did an evening show and afterwards I noticed an autograph line. I didnt get in it. So I will content myself with seeing Mannheim Steamroller in Roanoke on Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. Those guys can put on a jammin show also. I am sure they will hit Greensboro again sometime but not this year.
I travel to Raleigh from close to the coast (Camp Lejeune) and we stay in a hotel that we can walk to. The drive back during deer season is pretty scary and like your commute its about 120-130 miles. I did the Greensboro show once and was not impressed with the acoustics at all. Been doing the drive for 21 years straight (except for the COVID year) and the drive to Greensboro for us is 3 plus hours and it was the Christmas Attic tour we saw there. Would like to see them do that show again because I thought it was one of their better presentations. Hope you can make it to Raleigh because it's a much better venue and the walk is less than a half mile from the nearest hotel.