Vote for Change Tour

[Docta]

http://www.moveonpac.org/vfc/

very nice!

[DaysWithoutEnd]

Yay! (http://msg.woxy.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17514)

[DaysWithoutEnd]

Wait a minute... holy crap!

Dave Matthews Band / Jurassic 5 / My Morning Jacket
Saturday, Oct. 2 Dayton

[drexel dave]

Yikes, Dave Matthews? I'd rather listen to a soundtrack of Laura Bush vagina farts.

[Slar]

Toledo gets Pearl Jam and we get John Mellencamp. Nice.

[Docta]

i think we'll opt for bruce and rem in cleve

[yoshomon]

Bright Eyes? I thought Conor was a lot further to the left than that.

Oh well.

[AngelV]

From the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/opinion/05bruce.html):


Chords for Change
By BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

A nation's artists and musicians have a particular place in its social and political life. Over the years I've tried to think long and hard about what it means to be American: about the distinctive identity and position we have in the world, and how that position is best carried. I've tried to write songs that speak to our pride and criticize our failures.

These questions are at the heart of this election: who we are, what we stand for, why we fight. Personally, for the last 25 years I have always stayed one step away from partisan politics. Instead, I have been partisan about a set of ideals: economic justice, civil rights, a humane foreign policy, freedom and a decent life for all of our citizens. This year, however, for many of us the stakes have risen too high to sit this election out.

Through my work, I've always tried to ask hard questions. Why is it that the wealthiest nation in the world finds it so hard to keep its promise and faith with its weakest citizens? Why do we continue to find it so difficult to see beyond the veil of race? How do we conduct ourselves during difficult times without killing the things we hold dear? Why does the fulfillment of our promise as a people always seem to be just within grasp yet forever out of reach?

I don't think John Kerry and John Edwards have all the answers. I do believe they are sincerely interested in asking the right questions and working their way toward honest solutions. They understand that we need an administration that places a priority on fairness, curiosity, openness, humility, concern for all America's citizens, courage and faith.

People have different notions of these values, and they live them out in different ways. I've tried to sing about some of them in my songs. But I have my own ideas about what they mean, too. That is why I plan to join with many fellow artists, including the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, Jurassic 5, James Taylor and Jackson Browne, in touring the country this October. We will be performing under the umbrella of a new group called Vote for Change. Our goal is to change the direction of the government and change the current administration come November.

Like many others, in the aftermath of 9/11, I felt the country's unity. I don't remember anything quite like it. I supported the decision to enter Afghanistan and I hoped that the seriousness of the times would bring forth strength, humility and wisdom in our leaders. Instead, we dived headlong into an unnecessary war in Iraq, offering up the lives of our young men and women under circumstances that are now discredited. We ran record deficits, while simultaneously cutting and squeezing services like afterschool programs. We granted tax cuts to the richest 1 percent (corporate bigwigs, well-to-do guitar players), increasing the division of wealth that threatens to destroy our social contract with one another and render mute the promise of "one nation indivisible."

It is through the truthful exercising of the best of human qualities - respect for others, honesty about ourselves, faith in our ideals - that we come to life in God's eyes. It is how our soul, as a nation and as individuals, is revealed. Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Bruce Springsteen is a writer and performer.

[paranoidandroid]

Nightline did a good show on this topic last night.

bruce did a good job in the interview with ted koppel

[Wolverine]

AngelV, GREAT find. Bruce speaks agood many truths in his oped piece.

[matt]

Once again: it's not the music, it's the message.

Draft Bruce (http://draftbruce.com/)

[aqualou]

Originally posted by drexel dave
Yikes, Dave Matthews? I'd rather listen to a soundtrack of Laura Bush vagina farts. Come on . . . somebody has to acknowledge this. :D funny shit!

[Jeff59]

Jurassic Five is ok...and I have the old 97X to thank for turning me on to that act.

Mellencamp..ok..but I really want to hear BROOOSE.....maybe he will do "Youngstown" again....

[JSpaceman]

Originally posted by yoshomon
Bright Eyes? I thought Conor was a lot further to the left than that.

Oh well.

I don't think it's supposed to be a left-wing or right-wing kind of thing. More just an attempt to bring change, and probably to increase voter turnout, which I'm sure Conor is all for.

[drexel dave]

Thank you very much. Although I've always referred to vagina farts as "flurfs".

Originally posted by aqualou
Come on . . . somebody has to acknowledge this. :D funny shit!

[JSpaceman]

Originally posted by drexel dave
Thank you very much. Although I've always referred to vagina farts as "flurfs".


It's so much more tasteful that way. "Pardon me, I'm a bit flurfy this evening..."

[yoshomon]

Originally posted by JSpaceman
I don't think it's supposed to be a left-wing or right-wing kind of thing. More just an attempt to bring change, and probably to increase voter turnout, which I'm sure Conor is all for.

The tour looks like a pretty straightforward Pro-Kerry thing to me.

[JSpaceman]

Originally posted by yoshomon


The tour looks like a pretty straightforward Pro-Kerry thing to me.

It's a little bit difficult to be "pro-change" in the mainstream presidential race and not be pro-Kerry, though, isn't it? They've only got three candidates listed for contributions on the website, all for "progressive" candidates for Congress.

MoveOn.org formed a Political Action Committee (PAC) so that like-minded, concerned citizens can influence the outcome of congressional elections, and in turn, the balance of power in Washington, D.C. MoveOn.org's intention is to provide individuals, who normally have little political power, to aggregate their contributions with others to gain a greater voice in the political process.

I'm all for that.

[Buzzstein]

hmm I didn't know one could fart out their vagina.

[Buzzstein]

Originally posted by yoshomon


The tour looks like a pretty straightforward Pro-Kerry thing to me.

I don't know, seems like it's just anti-Bush to me

[ohmikeodd]

Originally posted by DaysWithoutEnd
Wait a minute... holy crap!

Dave Matthews Band / Jurassic 5 / My Morning Jacket
Saturday, Oct. 2 Dayton


...add Ben Harper to that

[LanneyD]

I'll be at the Dave/Ben/J5/MMJ show in State College, PA on Oct. 1.

If anyone is going to be there, let me know, and I'll buy you a drink either before or afterwards. I'll be easy to spot...most likely in some form of 97x gear.

[Jeff59]

no shit..Ben Haper and the Innocent Criminals?....great!

..woah, on edit, I see they are playing at the Nutter Center. Woah!

[Jeff59]

Does anyone know where they will be playing in Dayton? And if I can tickets here in town?

[AngelV]

From the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162004/gossip/26935.htm):


August 16, 2004 -- MARILYN O'Grady, the long-shot Conservative Party candidate challenging Sen. Charles Schumer, has launched a TV ad campaign bashing Bruce Springsteen for his upcoming concert tour to unseat President Bush, reports The Post's Kenneth Lovett. "He thinks making millions with a song-and-dance routine allows him to tell you how to vote," O'Grady says in the ad. "Here's my vote: Boycott the Boss. If you don't buy his politics, don't buy his music." The commercials are set to run on Fox News Channel.

[72valiant]

Originally posted by AngelV
From the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162004/gossip/26935.htm):



this is why i hate politics. this makes no sense. just bunch of gibberish because she doesn't have good enough platform to run on, maybe? does she think the concert promoters are gonna drag in republicans or even fencers and get them to vote democrat by singing them some happy songs?:rolleyes:

[monkey neck]

Originally posted by aqualou
Come on . . . somebody has to acknowledge this. :D funny shit!

He's a Shakespeare!

[ohmikeodd]

tickets for the Nutter thing go on sale Saturday. CREDIT CARDS ONLY.

F*** corporate America. Ticketmaster is bad enough, but places that don't take cash annoy the heck out of me. I wouldn't have a problem with it if cash were not a legal tender in the USA. Yeah, I know it has something to do with campaign finance reform and donations and all of that shit (that pisses me off too). Time for my Lithium. Bye.

[ianalex10]

Make sure you all wear your rain slickers!!!


"Dave Matthews Band dumped sewage onto the heads of boat riders as they passed under a Chicago River bridge"

[tobedawg]

Dave Matthews Band dumped sewage onto the heads of boat riders as they passed under a Chicago River bridge

Uh.. From what I heard sewage was dumped on them..

Dude, you just love your ignorance don't you?

[ianalex10]

Originally posted by tobedawg


Uh.. From what I heard sewage was dumped on them..

Dude, you just love your ignorance don't you?

Talk about ignorant!!!!


CHICAGO -- The Dave Matthews Band is being sued for dumping waste from its tour bus into the Chicago River and onto a sightseeing boat.

The Illinois Attorney General's office on Tuesday filed a civil lawsuit against the band and their tour bus driver, claiming the driver emptied the bus' waste tank down a bridge over the Chicago River and onto an architectural sightseeing boat passing by.


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Dave Matthews Band: Stefan Lessard, Carter Beauford, Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley and LeRoi Moore



A number of passengers reported seeing a long, black tour bus on the bridge when the waste drenched them, according to news reports. That waste splashed onto the approximately 109 tour boat passengers, including disabled people, senior citizens, a pregnant woman, a small child and an infant, the suit stated.

The suit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court two weeks after an incident where human waste rained down onto numerous passengers on a tour boat from the Chicago Architecture Foundation as it passed under the Kinzie Street bridge.

The suit claimed that either the band or its bus driver, Stefan A. Wohl, dumped between 80 and 100 gallons of the "foul-smelling, offensive" waste from the bus down through an open grating in the bridge on Aug 8.

The suit charges both the band and Wohl with violating state water pollution laws, as well as common law public nuisance laws.

The suit came after an attorney general's office investigation that began immediately after the incident, office spokeswoman Melissa Merz said.

A representative for the five-man band, led by South African-born singer/guitarist Dave Matthews, could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Just after the incident, a publicist for the band issued a statement saying the group's management had determined that all of the buses on the tour had been parked at the time of this incident, according to news reports.

The suit seeks a $10,000 fine for each violation, an injunction barring the defendants from "further acts constituting a public nuisance" and court costs.

The case was assigned to Presiding Chancery Judge Dorothy Kinnaird for a case management hearing in January.

[AngelV]

Concert finale to air on Sundance Channel. (http://msg.woxy.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=324251#post324251)

[Jeff59]

Well, I guess the Dayton show has sold out, becuase when I tried to order via Ticketbastard they didnt have any tickets.

[LanneyD]

doubtful, but by any chance anyone planning on going to the DMB/J5/MMJ/Ben Harper show in State College tonight?

I haven't gotten a ticket yet, but they're still available.

[slmpickens]

I’m new to the boards, but I’ve lurked somewhat in the past. Anyways, the reason I’m posting is because I have 2 extra tickets to the Vote For Change show in Dayton for tomorrow (Sat.) night. They’re decent seats, section 213, row 12. Check out the seating chart Here (http://www.gotickets.com/seating_charts/ej_nutter_center_oh_seating_chart.php). I’ll be going to the show, so getting the tickets to you shouldn’t be too hard.
I’m not looking to make any money off the deal, just hoping to cover the cost. So PM or e-mail me if you’re interested.

[Jeff59]

I did manage to get some tickets...picked them up today at the Nutters "will call" window.

So, how many other folks are going to this show?

[AngelV]

Finale show online (http://www.vfcfinale.com/)

[Shrike]

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4040
ahem

[JSpaceman]

Decent article on Conor Oberst here (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1492239/20041013/index.jhtml?headlines=true)...


"This off-the-leash American administration is no longer playing by the rules and doesn't [care] what is acceptable for the [rest of the] world."