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Our plight, ... is a true indication of the general health of the touring industry and it is across musical genres.

President Bush was on the ground all day today - you saw him there hugging the starving and touring the devastated area,

Jeans & Classics have a great reputation as one of the more highly rated national touring symphony pops program groups. The Jeans 'n' Classics band -- there are several of them -- do covers of great bands of the past. There's a Led Zeppelin band. They have a Beatles Band. And people really swear by them. They are very well rehearsed and they are very polished.

I stopped touring a year and a half ago, ... I just got dead with it.

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Ken Dobson has proven his driving expertise in a number of different series and he certainly knows the fast way around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca better than most drivers. In fact, Ken literally dominated some of the Spec Miata events held at our home track over the past few years. So, it's great to have him back and in a Mazda6 at the Speed World Challenge Touring Car finale. The Tindol Motorsports team has proven they are serious contenders this season and their strong effort has helped keep Mazda in contention for the championship. With Tindol bringing a second Mazda6 to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Ken, our arsenal is obviously stronger now.

It is a concern that citizens already are touring the Titanic and some Atlantic vent sites with deep-diving submersibles. When Yellowstone Park -- which features geothermal geysers analogous to deep-sea vents -- was established in the mid-1800s, no ordinary person could get there because it was a four-day trip by horse from the nearest rail line, but roughly 3,000,000 visited Yellowstone last year.

It got to the point where we doing so much touring and playing, and the money really wasn't coming in. All of a sudden, I'm 30 years old, and I was like holy shit, I've got a wife now, and I've got a kid coming. When we started this band, we weren't even thinking about money, and now all of a sudden everything was money, money, money. I'd hate to have to go into the studio to write a record just so I can feed my family. That would be the biggest sellout.

It became not fun for anybody involved. We were just touring all the time, hating each other more and more. Now we can be friends again and have fun.

With The Unicorns, we really got thrust into a career out of nowhere. We started touring and it was really tough for the first several months. All of a sudden, one good Pitchfork review, and we were selling out shows left, right and center. It was a real whirlwind, and I think Alden just wanted to back off somewhat.

We're working the world with a new record. We've been out touring for six months. We've got four more to go. This is great.

We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover songs, drink some vodka...' a year and a half later we were touring the world, releasing records.

We haven't gotten into touring the acoustic stuff yet,

We are back out in Japan touring in November so providing everything is going well, we want to come back here.

We are beyond excited to go out with Danzig on this tour. This will be our second time touring with them. The first time was killer as the shows were filled to the brim, so we expect nothing less this time around, especially since it's such a diverse and awesome line-up.

We are the organization on campus that brings all of the big name touring shows like Broadway shows, pop artists, comedians, ballets, and symphonies. We're the second oldest of our type that's affiliated with a university in the country so it's a really big plus for the university.

There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.

This program will be an incredible beginning in the life of the Holland Performing Arts Center. With a focus on Omaha, we've designed an evening incorporating outstanding local artists and ensembles along with national touring artists, with something for everyone to enjoy.

You don't normally see three huge acts like that out touring in the same year. McCartney and The Stones alone really helped drive up ticket prices.

Touring and writing is my life. It's who I am and what I do. And I don't see it changing any time in the near future. Hey, I get to get up every day and do what I love. Why change that?

Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show,

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

Touring is the only thing I know. I'm not a rocket scientist, what else am I going to do? Chicks, booze, drugs, rock 'n' roll - that's what I know. But the only thing I got left is the rock.

Touring is the whole experience. When you're in true wilderness, there's only one way to get there, and that's on foot. And you know there won't be a lot of people out there.

Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative.

We're kind of staggering the touring a bit at this point just to write more songs for our next record. We've got a month booked to just go write, which I think we're all excited about. And then maybe test 'em out just on tour, maybe in February, and then hopefully be in the studio for the spring.

We're kind of traveling gypsy musicians. We stopped paying rent in 1998. We love touring and we love being on the road, and to do what we're doing it would be impractical to have a home anywhere. So, we had a big garage sale, sold everything but the essentials and that allows us to do about 200 shows a year in 45 states and Ireland.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Winning my first ARCA race is my biggest accomplishment to date. We came from two laps down to win. I've been racing since I was 12 years old. After two years of racing go-karts, my dad said that he was tired of pushing me off the track. So, we moved up to Sportsman and Hobby Stocks and progressed from there. Then I took the next step and started driving Late Models. From ASA, I grew and started racing touring series. After that we did two ARCA races. Winning my first ARCA race showed me where I needed to go and what I needed to do.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

We're touring nine to 14 weeks a year and are starting to fill theaters that hold up to 2,000 people. So we are actually paying bills with this - not all our bills, you know, but at least the essential ones. We're not entirely in the dark.

We were touring and he heard some of my music and wanted to play on it and I said, 'Well, let's see, maybe we should do a brand new song for it?'

We are also trying to get a touring side here, preferably from South Africa, to come here for a few games before the tour to West Indies.

Wow, I don't even know what to say. Those final ten laps were the hardest in my life. The race reminded me a lot of 2002 when I won my second Indianapolis 500 -- to be able to win the first time in a touring car is just an amazing feeling. I'm so fortunate to have had this opportunity and to have been able to compete with three wonderful drivers. We had a great team and a fantastic car. I just consider myself lucky to have been in the right place at the right time.

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

When we heard about the Bay Street production and how wonderful it was, we knew audiences would love this musical and that it would be perfect for our first touring venture across the country.

We're fortunate that we've been able to build a fan base brick by brick. We never got the gold or platinum record. But through touring and just putting out music our fan base has gotten stronger and stronger to where it's sustaining (itself) without that big pop hit.

We're based on our friends' couches and in our old rooms at our parents' houses. What we have in common is that our parents loved to travel, so touring comes natural to us. We're a band of gypsies.

We started off making a full album with Brendan in his studio in Detroit and had nine or 10 songs done, then he got busy with his own record and we started talking to Jack and Meg about touring together. So we decided to do something for the road, and it turned out that the five completed songs made a kind of cool record, with this dreamier, darker mood than some of our other stuff.

Aside from his obvious touring expertise and success, ... Arthur is someone that has the rare combination of strategic and creative processing, which is an invaluable combination in this business and something I tap into often as we continue to evolve our global business strategy.

We fell in love with the house the first time we saw it. We hope people really enjoy touring it and appreciate that its part of Hollywood's history.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.

I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

The touring group had never seen Bermuda grass in person. This way we could see exactly what surface we were considering.

I spent a special part of my life (in Macon), ... It was my early 20s. It was the '70s. We'd signed to Capricorn and we were touring with all our heroes. I mean, I tell my kids about an almost idyllic scene that was there ... It was a fertile time.

The slowest time for touring is right after Christmas, January and February so we thought we could invite some of our Christian friends to come out with us and have a special guest or two. It grew from that to now we have six or seven artists on the show and there are plenty of acts that are a lot bigger than we are.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

We were talking about how we wished we had enjoyed the time, like when we were touring in that little van. We wished we had really taken the time to look around and be happy about where we were. I enjoyed it, but it was always hand in hand with fear and this drive to get to the next levels. I was never looking around so much.

An integral part of the mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to bring the very best in national and international touring artists to our community.

Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

The Rolling Stones are far and away the most successful touring entity in the history of mankind. The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring. The things they have brought have been pioneering, from being the first to use credit cards at merc stands to a one-promoter global tour. They are the kings.

The screenplay is not much different than the script for the touring stage play. I helped the film director to cast the roles and I made some script changes during the filming. As it turned out, the actors who performed the touring stage play in Albuquerque were also cast in the movie.

With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

We're super excited to be touring with four awesome bands, and we're all big video gamers. I couldn't think of a better way to spend this fall than on this tour, because we definitely plan to play our fans in video games each day!

Broadway now is presented in about 90 cities across the United States, and the touring business seems to continue to be very healthy.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

Fifteen years of rock 'n' roll takes a toll on the vocal chords, but I wouldn't trade a day of it for anything. Touring and making records with Will, Ben, and Tyler has truly been a gift from God, as well as worshiping night after night with the greatest fans on the planet.

Two hundred cars touring with their tops down sounded like a lot of fun. We came to check out your water since we're going to start getting it next year.

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.

Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

They're two of my buddies from touring Asia.

First, we take a look at who's touring and who has new material out there. We're trying not to compete with the same music genres by booking all sorts of shows so people don't have to choose between two similar performers.

With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

I've always dreamed of touring by myself. We're introducing reggaeton to the masses now. We've been doing this for the last 13 years, so for the Latin community this is not new. But this tour is not just for the Latin community. It's for everybody.

The university hasn't officially named us a national touring group yet. But as long as we keep getting invited to tour, hopefully we can keep fulfilling those requests.

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.

I've got one week left, and then I'm done for a year. I haven't had a sabbatical, I haven't taken a year off from touring in 15 years at least.

I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

I knew he had three days before he had to return to England and I just said 'Hey, Paul, wanna play on a tune?' and he agreed. Everyone from (McCartney's) touring band came in and we did the song together - it was very surreal.

I knew it was the right place for me. I liked the campus, the coaches, the players, and even the weather was great. The highlight of the weekend was touring the facilities and just hanging out with the players.

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

In 1993, Eleven released their second record, which was self-titled. We began a stretch of touring that included opening for Soundgarden.

I had no idea it was such a big deal. We were touring in Japan beforehand and people kept telling us they were flying from Japan to be at Coachella.

I loved theater growing up, and my mom always took us to the touring productions that would come through town. We would go to Chicago all the time and see shows. I loved it.

I'm definitely one of those who embraces life to the fullest. So there I was, I had a record and I was touring the world. I was giving in to a lot of the temptations that come with that.

Taste Washington is one of the largest wine events in the nation highlighting a single wine region, providing connoisseurs and novices alike with the opportunity to mingle with Washington winemakers, sample hundreds of award winning wines and learn from leading experts in the field. We are introducing some changes to Taste Washington this year to bring the focus back to wine and create a more relaxed, intimate tasting experience for attendees. With more than 380 wineries located in virtually every corner of the state, our 'Ultimate Wine Tour' theme shines a spotlight on the many touring regions wine enthusiasts can visit, and reinforces the message that Washington state truly is wine country.

The album has just been re-released in the US so I'll be touring for sometime.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has confirmed India will be touring Pakistan from the first week of January next year.

You talking about touring a shelter? I think as long as she doesn't cry or get emotional, she's fine.

Support for the Elite Divisions has been on the downswing for a number of years. This change will allow NASCAR to focus more attention on the Grand National and Modified touring divisions.

It's very encouraging. We're touring like crazy. We've already been around the country once. We're going to Japan in October and Europe in November.

It has cost me a small fortune but most people in the music industry have a bad habit of some sort, ... I buy everything I can get my hands on that I don't have, usually as it's released. With touring you get to visit so many stores in different towns it works out really well. At Midnight Madness this past April, I rushed to a Toys R Us and Wal-Mart straight after our show in Portland and spent a couple of grand on the new stuff. The bus is usually packed with boxes by the end of any tour and I become pretty unpopular for hoarding all the cupboards.

I lived We had moved to London and were making our first tentative steps as a touring band-as is the way with The Saints-we had changed the line up but were starting to get the live thing down.

I often go out on the road without an album, ... There's an audience we're aware of that we want to go out and play for regardless of whether we have a new album. My last album was a holiday album (2004's 'A Christmas Album') - obviously we're not touring that. Albums come along when they're ready. I'm not on any particular schedule.

In the past few years, we had reduced our performance and touring schedule while the company regained financial stability. We plan to include a much heightened touring schedule in the near future with Tucson as our No. 1 priority.

In the next year, we hope to increase our exposure, increase our concert schedule and obtain management. We plan to start touring more. And we want to make recruitment (of students) a reality, not purely a philosophy.

He's thrilled that it's doing well and I think that definitely makes him excited about the whole touring thing. But at the same time, it's just such a great buzz being on stage, and having those great vibes come back at you. It's just all positive.

By alpine I mean that the gear is viable for ski mountaineering and touring in mountains as rugged as the Alps, or Alaska, or Canada.