Pearl Jam At The Beacon !!!! Robin Hood Foundation!

1vs5

Hate to break it to you...
This has been "known" for 2 weeks now.

Friends & Colleagues:

Pearl Jam is playing a private benefit concert for Robin Hood on July 1, 2008 at the Beacon Theatre – with your help we could raise $3 million to help poor New Yorkers build better lives for themselves and their families. All of the money we raise from the show will go directly to poverty-fighting schools, clinics, job centers and community groups in New York City. If you aren’t familiar with either Robin Hood or Pearl Jam, I have attached some information for your review…

I would like to send you a formal invitation to the event. Please reply with your mailing address (even if you think I already have it!) so that we will be sure to include you on the list… Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

NY PJ1 wrote:

and its a done deal

the members were notified yesterday pj was playing

of course something could happen between now and then

but as of this moment

pj at the beacon july 1st

1vs5

The actual letter that went out

Robin Hood Rocks/PEARL JAM
July 1, 2008

Pearl Jam is playing a private benefit concert for Robin Hood on July 1, 2008 at the Beacon Theatre – with your help we could raise $3 million to help poor New Yorkers build better lives for themselves and their families. All of the money we raise from the show will go directly to poverty-fighting schools, clinics, job centers and community groups in New York City.

Robin Hood fights poverty in New York City by finding, funding and partnering with over 240 of the most effective programs and schools in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Their approach to philanthropy is founded on hard-nosed investment principles that maximize the impact of your donation. First, their board of directors pays for all administrative, fundraising and evaluation costs, so that 100 percent of your donation goes directly to the organizations serving the city’s poor. Next, they provide management assistance and support services from in-house experts and pro bono consultants of top commercial firms. Finally, in an industry without a history of proven metrics, Robin Hood establishes performance indicators and hires independent evaluators to judge the results. By their estimates, every dollar you donate returns an average of $12 of benefits to New York’s poor. http://www.robinhood.org

About Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is a 5-piece American rock band that formed in Seattle in 1990. Since its inception, the band has sold 30 million records in the U.S. and an estimated 60 million albums worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential and popular bands of the decade. The band is noted for its refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices as their career progressed, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster.

Pearl Jam continues to generate hit albums, tour successfully, and garner critical acclaim into the 21st century. The band is best known for hit songs including “Alive,” “Even Flow,” “Daughter,” and “Once”. Lead singer Eddie Vedder has also contributed solo material to several soundtracks and compilations, including soundtracks for the films Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam and, most recently, Into the Wild.

NY PJ1

1vs5 wrote:

Hate to break it to you...
This has been "known" for 2 weeks now.

Friends & Colleagues:

Pearl Jam is playing a private benefit concert for Robin Hood on July 1, 2008 at the Beacon Theatre – with your help we could raise $3 million to help poor New Yorkers build better lives for themselves and their families. All of the money we raise from the show will go directly to poverty-fighting schools, clinics, job centers and community groups in New York City. If you aren’t familiar with either Robin Hood or Pearl Jam, I have attached some information for your review…

I would like to send you a formal invitation to the event. Please reply with your mailing address (even if you think I already have it!) so that we will be sure to include you on the list… Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

thanx for the earlier heads up :rolleyes:

what are u hating to break to me

my guy found out yesterday lol sorry i wasnt 2 weeks earlier??
the info want confirmed on the board...now it is x2

c u there

NY PJ1

hey mods when are we gonna know if this is happening ? lol

1vs5

Anyone that wants some info, please PM me.
There are a few ways to get into this w/o donating a few thousand dollars.
I dont want to post it directly here on the board.

Get_Right

NY PJ1 wrote:

see ya there in our best suit

suits? we dont need no stinking suits!

1vs5

ok, no more pm's.
I'll send everyone info tonight.
Thx

Get_Right

1vs5 wrote:

ok, no more pm's.
I'll send everyone info tonight.
Thx

gracias

firecrotch23

i believe what nypj has to say, hes pretty dead on with this good stuff

NY PJ1

firecrotch23 wrote:

i believe what nypj has to say, hes pretty dead on with this good stuff

1vs 5 posted the letter sent out to members

apparantly it was offical 2 weeks ago

its on the previous page of this thread

i just heard for sure this afternoon

but its def. happening

meme

I am sure they will fill the place. It's a great organization, and highly deserving. Now if they come up with one of those last minute 10c lottery thingies no one tell me please, as I'll be out of the country

NY PJ1 wrote:

THEY ARE PLAYING A SHOW FOR THE FOUNDATION !!!!!!

its big big money though

u have to be invited ,,no tickets

but like i said my coworker has a table ,,now i just have to bump someone from it

they just confirmed that it was pj

like when the stones played roseland a few years ago

nykonehead

Just spoke to my friend at Robin Hood who is a senior person there. PJ is definitely playing a show for them on July 1st at the Beacon. They are playing a full show and not some quick 5 song set. He reserved some tickets for me so psyched

meme

Man, I could walk to this show :(

*tries to focus on seeing them thrice the week before*

SVRDhand13

So they play places I CAN go to when I'll be away and places I CAN'T go to when I'm home and in the area.

Well, more and more each day I think I'll be adding a third Radiohead date to my summer calendar to make up for missing so much PJ.

UndyTaker

Blerg! I want in on this show! Ahh!

svenstephy

SVRDhand13 wrote:

So they play places I CAN go to when I'll be away and places I CAN'T go to when I'm home and in the area.

Well, more and more each day I think I'll be adding a third Radiohead date to my summer calendar to make up for missing so much PJ.

lol, that was my thought and reasoning for shelling out the $$ to go to APW.

Fahka

ive always wanted to see them there too damnit ..

vitodacat

I know people on the Robin Hood board.....time to kiss up

josevolution

i have conditioned my self to let go i know that i can't go or get into every show this band decides to play, good for the people who have the hookups and connections ,but i'm done with going nuts i'll catch the shows i have tickets to and that will be fine enjoy to the one's that will be at this show ,not for me anymore ....

sk8nshoot1

vitodacat wrote:

I know people on the Robin Hood board.....time to kiss up

Who do you know??

http://www.robinhood.org/board/directors.cfm




Robert Pittman, Chair
Partner, Pilot Group, LLC

Lee S. Ainslie III, Vice Chair
Managing Partner, Maverick Capital Management, LLC

Dirk Ziff, Vice Chair
Chairman, Ziff Brothers Investments

Victoria B. Bjorklund
Partner, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett

Scott Bommer
President, SAB Capital Management

Peter F. Borish
Director and Board Member, Pali Holdings, Inc.

Tom Brokaw
NBC News

Geoffrey Canada
President and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone

Maurice Chessa
Director, Bedford Stuyvesant–I Have a Dream Program

Richard L. Chilton, Jr.
President and CEO, Chilton Investment Company, Inc.

Steven A. Cohen
Chairman and CEO, S.A.C. Capital Advisors, LLC

Glenn Dubin
Co-Founder and Managing Member, Highbridge Capital Management

Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children`s Defense Fund

Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Chairman and CEO, Lehman Brothers

Jeffrey R. Immelt
Chairman and CEO, General Electric Co.

Paul Tudor Jones II, Founder
Chairman and CEO, Tudor Investment Corporation

Peter D. Kiernan III
President and Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners

Kenneth G. Langone
Chairman and CEO, Invemed Associates, Inc.

Mary McCormick
President, Fund for the City of New York

Doug Morris
Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Group

Daniel S. Och
Senior Managing Member, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group

Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress

David W. Puth
President, The Eriska Group

Larry Robbins
Founder and CEO, Glenview Capital Management

Alan D. Schwartz
President, The Bear Stearns Companies Inc.

John Sykes
President, Network Development, MTV Networks

Harvey Weinstein
Co-Chairman, The Weinstein Company