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Warped 09′ – Half way there!

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

We have officially hit the half way mark of the tour!  This past week we have been to Boston, Virginia Beach, Charlotte, Orlando (home town of our bus mates- There For Tomorrow), West Palm Beach, and finally today we are in St. Petersburg, Fla. We experienced rain on about 3 out of those 6 dates!  The weather has been intense but it has not crippled the spirits of fan or warped worker. In Virginia Beach we saw dust that rivaled the Midwest dust bowl era and in Orlando we felt such heat that melting was inevitable.

This week has brought Rock For Health down to earth. In West Palm Beach I had a girl around the age of 16 or 17 approach the table inquiring about the company. She smiled politely and at the end of my explanation said, “Yeah I know, I kind of did a report on this company in school. I got an A, I just wanted to listen to what you had to say to make sure I didn’t screw up.” In Orlando a boy came to the table asking about what RFH is after seeing numerous shirts on stage throughout the tour.  Taryn, who is awesome and is joining us on the road for the next week, provided him with the information on the company and he replied like many kids do when they visit any merch table, “Ugh, I totally would but I have no more money.” He walked away. Within 5 minutes of his departure he returned and handed us an extremely generous donation!  You know who you are, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Yesterday in West Palm we started running raffles to win signed Rock For Health merch. Our first band was The Devil Wears Prada! The raffle was extremely successful and the winner was young Brandon. When Taryn and I met him to give him his new signed swag he looked at us with tears in his eyes and thanked us. (*The Devil Wears Prada was unable to do a signing yesterday which was a bummer, but ended up making our contest ultra special for us.) In the coming days we will be doing raffles for merch signed by bands such as The Maine, Hit the Lights, Breathe Carolina, and a few more special surprises…

Stay tuned for more words from the road!

Best,
Amanda

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Illness Forces Jane’s Addiction To Cancel Australian Tour

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Jane’s Addiction’s management has confirmed that percussionist Stephen Perkins has been admitted to the Infectious Disease Ward at Cedar’s-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for treatment of an infection in his elbow. Doctors expect to keep him there for the next few days for further diagnosis and observation while anti-biotic treatment continues.

Fans are being asked not to worry as a full recovery is expected over the next few weeks.

The reformed original line-up of Jane’s Addiction had been on their first world tour in over 17 years and had just returned to Los Angeles from a successful European leg when the mysterious infection was discovered after Perkins noticed severe swelling and pain building in his elbow.

Regretfully the group’s Australian tour, due to start on Saturday, is forced to be cancelled at this time. Says lead singer Perry Farrell – “I know how excited we were to come play in Australia, and how long the fans there have waited for this. I want everyone Down Under to know that we will come back as soon as we can.”

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Get well soon Stephen!

- kristina

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Three weeks in!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

It’s hard to believe that we are just about three weeks into tour… How quickly time has been flying! Each and every day we are greeted with curiosity and support from kids and bands. Not a day goes by that I am not taken back by the support expressed. There is nothing quite like having someone come up to the table and say, “what you’re doing is amazing…it’s inspiring!” Admittedly, I did get teary eyed a couple times! As the tour has been going on our outreach has been growing and surpassing our expectations, we have you, the readers, the admirers, to thank for it. So, thank you.

Much love to these great people we met this weekend!

Lainie!
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The girls who made a bag out of a tee shirt!

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Just to bring you up to date. The past couple days we have been conquering the east coast. Friday we were in Camden/Philadelphia, followed by NY on Saturday and Oceanport, NJ on Sunday. We would like to throw out a big thank you to Oceanport, it was the best day so far! We are continuing on to Boston tomorrow and it promises to be a great day…there are going to be some awesome surprises throughout the day so come to the tent and see what’s up!

You guys have been keeping us busy! There is little time to catch bands lately, but Kristina and I were able to catch some of Chiodos the other day (the band is an avid supporter of RFH), they were incredible! Plus, Matt (of Chiodos) was wearing our shirt on stage in Oceanport! How cool?! They sound better than ever! If you have the opportunity to check them out on a future date of the tour- we advise you do so! Rock For Health is lucky enough to be on a bus with a talented new band called There For Tomorrow, our table in Oceanport happened to be pretty close to the Smartpunk stage and we were able to see some of their set…it’s looking good!

Thank you Matt (chiodos) and Nick (guest vocals for chiodos)!

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Lil Jon came to hang out in Uniondale on Saturday!  He has been a RFH supporter since February of this year!  His shirt of preference?  The black tee.  What a great guy, we were stoked to see him!

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Please continue to come to the table. Please ask questions. Your curiosity and support are what keep us smiling throughout the day.

-Amanda & Kristina

A quick thanks to Less Than Jake, POS, A Skylit Drive and Meg & Dia – we recently spotted you supporting the cause!
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Warped Tour update from Andi!

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Hi all!
This is Andi, and I come bearing a lovely update from the road!  Let me start off by thanking everyone for the support! It feels so amazing to have kids out there who come up to us and know what were all about.  The donations are incredible and extremely generious.  For those who do know about the organization, help us spread the word!  We need to take over this world and keep all the musicians feeling wonderful so we can keep them on the road.

We’ve hit a whole bunch of west coast down to New Mexico. We’ve come over to Indiana, Pittsburgh, Canada, and now we are finishing up Connecticut.  Since I’ve been out here I’ve been able to check out some amazing artists that I had nevear heard yet, and more importantly got a bunch on that want to check us out for healthcare.

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Warped Tour Update Part Deux

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Happy fourth of July!

Let me start off with an overdue video update from Pomona, CA.  Amanda from Shore Alternative was out with us for a few days!  Be sure to check out her site!  We will be doing a lot of video blogs with them this summer.

Warped Tour has been very kind to us thus far… It’s day 10 already!  Thanks to everyone who has stopped by so far!
Doesn’t our tent look lovely?

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