Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

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September 18, 2008
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Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.
Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:
https://www.barackobama.com/psu
EVENT DETAILS:
WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti
WHAT: Concert Fundraiser
WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA
WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.
Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:
https://www.barackobama.com/psu
EVENT DETAILS:
WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti
WHAT: Concert Fundraiser
WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA
WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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The Other Bunch

15 years 9 months ago

Well said, Holy Goof.
Well said, indeed. While I'll not go to emotional extremes and burn my I-Pod or rename my daughter, whom I named after my favorite Dead song, I will now have to reflect on this silly political fundraiser each time I tune in and turn on. {I will add that in a socialist-inspired police state such as Obama was groomed to lead, the Dead Heads will be among the first ones rounded up. Be careful what you wish for...} "The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer." - Ken Kesey
floppy2112

15 years 9 months ago

Hey Holy Goof...
It's ok not to agree with them politically and still enjoy them. This show, they are doing in their own names. They are not flying the 'Grateful Dead' banner of 'Deadheads for Obama' thingy. They have a right to their opinions and their expression of them, as long as then represent themselves and not the unwilling. After all nothing is more American than that. They are not dragging all deadheads along for the ride and dead heads are also entitled to their own opinions and the expression of them. They should be commended for doing that because they could easily use the name or say that all deadheads should be for Obama or be preachy and nasty like Steisand or Baldwin...I feel they are being careful and that is good enough for me.
BluesDaddy

15 years 9 months ago

There is no difference...
...in what has gone on to what Obama will do if he is elected. He is a politician. Nothing more. He has injected MORE money into a political campaign than any human ever has. Why? Because he wants POWER, nothing less. To think somehow his election versus the other guy's will make a difference demonstrates an astounding lack of understanding of the power structures of this country (or any country) and Obama's own history. He is ESTABLISHMENT as much as anyone. To have any members of the Dead, and Deadheads in general, supporting a fund raising concert for someone like this who has raised MORE MONEY already than has ever been spent on a Presidential campaign should be written up and inserted in the dictionary under the entry for "irony".

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.

Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:

https://www.barackobama.com/psu

EVENT DETAILS:

WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti

WHAT: Concert Fundraiser

WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA

WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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Live Broadcast?

Does anyone know if this show will be broadcast like the previous one was?

tickets

they just put tickets up for sale ooh by the way..........LETS GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lowers and Floor seats are available

2 co-workers just scored tickets. 1 got 2 in section 115 and the other got 2 floor tickets!

News from the Bryce Jordan Center

Lots will open on SUNDAY! This should mean there will be a serious Shakedown street! On the ticket front: "Some patrons had attempted to purchase more than the limit of two tickets. If you had created a second account and purchased another set of tickets, you should have been notified by Ticketmaster that your order was cancelled and money was credited back to your charge card. In the event that you received tickets or TicketFast emails on a cancelled order, NOTE THAT THE BARCODE HAS BEEN INVALIDATED AND WILL NOT ALLOW ENTRY INTO THE BUILDING. Patrons with cancelled tickets will be denied entry and information will be provided for the PA State Attorney General’s Office in the event they need to file a complaint regarding any tickets purchased on the secondary market (StubHub, eBay, TicketNetwork, etc)."