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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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  • marye
    16 years 3 months ago
    Um, reuben
    while I certainly agree with you that ticket scalpers are lower than pond scum, I think you must be posting from a parallel universe because I see no one scalping tickets here. Quite the contrary. As for the legality, it varies depending on where you are. In some places it's a thriving and legal industry, more's the pity.
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    reubencasidy
    16 years 3 months ago
    Ticket scalpers
    Isn't this illegal? I think it's BULL@#!@ that someone who could care less about seeing a once in a lifetime show can sit on there computer and buy up tickets and sell them at astronomical prices, stealing any chance a real fan has at obtaining tickets. Sorry but I have a job! that doesn't allow me to sit on a computer all day. What gives you people the right to do this. Get a real f@#$# job. And quit taking advantage of real working people.
  • therin
    16 years 3 months ago
    If You Don't Have Tickets Don't Go To The Show
    If you do not have tickets then please don't go to the show, I don't know if you remember the late 80's early 90's but I do. I remember there being 20,000 "fans" and I use that word loosely, outside of a venue that only holds 17,000 while the shows going on. That caused a lot of problems for us as a whole. Remember, This show "if all goes well" could possibly lead to a Spring or Fall tour and since we all know that they can pull it off the only question that remains is weather or not we can pull it off. If it's a cluster #%?! they may just decide we don't deserve it.
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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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Does anyone know if this show will be broadcast like the previous one was?
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they just put tickets up for sale ooh by the way..........LETS GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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)."
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everybody going to the "not quite the dead" show...HOPE YOU HAVE A REAL GOOD TIME. don't do anything i wouldn't do, so your pretty much open to do just about anything! ENJOY!!!! spread the word the word is love
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any news of a webcast????
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We'll see u all there!! We're so excited!! Do u think there will be a shakedown?????lol!! "It's like a mighty melody that rings down from the sky"
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Seems like some of da Headz don't have no spell Chekkers on their Computerz.... Go Figger..... DaBiggdogg--700 shows, and, yes I can spell.....
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n yer poynt iz?
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wat iz de pirt of it al, wid 1/2 a bran nyi fool kan figger it ot, duh!!john u splet pirt rong!!! pece
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nuh uh