Red Mosquito

hlniv wrote:

CopperTom wrote:

hlniv wrote:

evenslow wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this, so this seemed as good a thread as any...

http://news.yahoo.com/pearl-jam-donates ... 35398.html

They announced today that the donation comes out to $100K.

In related news, Brazil's new favorite Pearl Jam albums are S/T, Backspacer and Lightning Bolt.

The band's take for the show was only $100,000? If there were 40,000 people there, that works out to $2.50 per ticket, or something like only 3-4% of the ticket sales. Gotta be more than that, right?

It's the Vitalogy Foundation amount that's listed on every ticket.

This is going to have to be explained to me. I don't follow you

Every concert they ever play a portion of the ticket fee goes to their vitality foundation in which they donate to some local charity on the tour. I believe

basically helps make their concerts a tax writeoff

bodysnatcher wrote:basically helps make their concerts a tax writeoff

lol

tragabigzanda wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:basically helps make their concerts a tax writeoff

And good on them for doing so. Consider the US Federal Tax Receipt:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/2014-taxreceipt

That's a lot of money going to defense, which I'd wager is not at the top of PJ's priorities. Glad they have opted to give big support to very specific charities.

hell yeah. they're bucking the system. which is something we thought they stopped doing a while ago.

given2trade wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:basically helps make their concerts a tax writeoff

lol

lol haha disaster relief

While I don't necessarily like some of the band's politics and choices for charitable giving, there's no denying that it is a very charitable and concerned group of guys. And if they get a tax write-off for the concerts, so be it.

I'd love to see a list of bands in order of the total amount of charitable donations they've made. Which kind of defeats the purpose of donating to charity (it's not a competition, or should necessarily be advertised), but PJ has got to be way up there, if not near the top

bodysnatcher wrote:I'd love to see a list of bands in order of the total amount of charitable donations they've made. Which kind of defeats the purpose of donating to charity (it's not a competition, or should necessarily be advertised), but PJ has got to be way up there, if not near the top

As long as the list is sorted in regards to "percentage of wealth donated," as some bands make more than others and have more to give, but might not give more of a percentage of total profits to charity.

Coach wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:I'd love to see a list of bands in order of the total amount of charitable donations they've made. Which kind of defeats the purpose of donating to charity (it's not a competition, or should necessarily be advertised), but PJ has got to be way up there, if not near the top

As long as the list is sorted in regards to "percentage of wealth donated," as some bands make more than others and have more to give, but might not give more of a percentage of total profits to charity.

yeah good point

post-riot act moneygive

96583UP wrote:post-riot act moneygive

96583UP wrote:post-riot act moneygive

Youuuu mudda fucka

If only they cared more about their music than the starving children or whatever.

BurtReynolds wrote:If only they cared more about their music than the starving children or whatever.

They're our future days.

bodysnatcher wrote:I would probably consider Radiohead as my favorite band, but why is it that when I see articles about Thom Yorke soundtracking a runway show at Fashion Week, it doesn't bother me in the slightest? But EV plays a show for some CEO's birthday and donates the proceeds to a charity, I think he's a sellout? Is it because I attached some sort of teenage/young adult ideals to Ed that he lived by 20 years ago, but no longer?

It bugs me that that bugs me.

I would up-vote this if thats what we did here in this here forum so consider my vote up for you and this post liked...thanks for the poignant and heartfelt realization about my feelings towards a band I once loved (still do in a nostalgic hope-they-will-somehow-manage-to-make-good-music-again-someday-soon-kinda-way) but have been disillusioned since S/T like many others here, hence the lack of posting or frequenting of this board...Oh PJ where hast thou gone??

Hey Noaheb!

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Hey Noaheb!

Hey Pot O' Crack

Eddie looks like a cat.