From their 100 City Tour interview with CBA

Click HERE to watch the Spencer Bell Legacy Concert, going in right now in Dallas, TX!

We’ve posted about this concert for ages and it is finally here! Please watch and support Jackson Rathbone and the 100 Monkeys in this effort to raise money for the fight against cancer!

Bands playing at the concert:

100 Monkeys
The Stevedores
Drew and the Medicinal Pen
Tin Tin Can
The Kissing Club
Evro

Sponsored by Artists Supporting a Cure for Cancer Now (ASCC Now)

Jackson Rathbone directed the video which features the music, lyrics, and is sung by the late Spencer Bell ( a talented musician and friend of Jackson Rathbone who died of adrenal cancer). Jackson’s band, 100 Monkeys, will be playing at a variety of events that help fund adrenal cancer research. You can get more information at the Spencer Bell website or the 100 Monkeys website. Their next concert to help the fund is in Dallas in April.

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Hopefully you have all heard by now  about the Spencer Bell Legacy Concert in Dallas on April 24th and that Jackson Rathbone’s 100 Monkeys are a big part of the effort.  We talked to the band about it in our interview in Tucson when they were on tour here.  (If you didn’t see this crazy interview, you have to watch it!)

Well, do you also recall there was going to be an auction for some really cool things?

Here are the three items/experiences up for auction, all of which include getting to meet Jackson!

• Interview with the bands – Prior to the afternoon concert, the winner of this auction will be able to enter the venue and privately interview members of all of the attending bands. The interviews will be broadcast on live-streaming internet. This once in a life time opportunity will take place in front of the stage so the winner will be able to watch sound check and be the first person in the venue for the afternoon concert! Winner will be able to bring one friend.
• Dinner with the bands – The winner of this auction will be able to enter the venue early, or remain in the venue if attending both concerts, between the afternoon and evening concerts. Dinner will be catered to the bands and the winner by Cafe Brazil. The winner will be able to sit and eat and mingle with all the bands attending, as well as watch the soundcheck and set up for the evening concert. The winner will then be able to remain inside as the first attendee for the evening concert, if he or she is attending the show! Winner will be able to bring one friend with them.
• Meet & Greet with the bands – This auction is limited to 18+ as it will take place during the evening SBL concert. During the concerts, the bands will have access to a private VIP area where they can watch the concert and mingle privately. The winner of this auction will be granted access to the VIP area for a period of time during the concert in order to watch the show from the special balcony and speak with his or her favorite band members! Winner may bring one friend.

The auction started Monday, Feb 22, @ 10am EST and ends March 5th @ 10pm.

Here is the link:

www.sblauctions.com

In addition to the auctions, there are raffles and several contests to enter.

You can learn more about Spencer and his legacy at the Spencer Bell Memorial site.  The money raised at the event will go to The Spencer Bell Memorial Fund @ the University of Michigan’s Adrenal Cancer Clinic. Spencer Bell was a friend to several of the band members, including Jackson, who died of adrenal cancer in 2006 at the age of 20.

This is a great charity and Jackson and the band are a great people, so lets give them a lot  support in making this a success.

Because the Rob ones looks so good, I pulled out my fav Jackson Rathbone photo to change to black and white! This is an original CBA photo, taken by Kimberly Rocha at the 100 Monkey’s Concert in Allentown, PA.

CBA’s special correspondent Angelina, attended the 100 Monkey’s concert Saturday at the new Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip in Las Vegas.  Here is her account and photos of Jackson Rathbone and the band:

I went to the 21+ show.  There were 2 bands before them (100 Monkeys).  The Rooks & Imagine Dragon.  They were pretty good.  Each band was very different in their type of music.  100 Monkeys came on a little after midnight.  They put on a great show.    Kept the energy going thru out the set even when he wasn’t singing lead.  I was surprised that Jackson sang lead on so many songs.  And how multi-talented he was.  I didn’t know he played the drums-keyboard-guitar and bass. I also liked how the other guys sang too.  Each taking their turn in the spotlight.  Very cool.  They stopped playing around 1:20ish and said they would be back for an encore. But then the HRC soundboard people came and started packing I think the gear that belonged to the Hard Rock.  That caused an uproar I tell ya. I guess at some point one of the microphones broke that Jackson was using and the soundboard man started complaining to someone else which lead the girls to go nuts on him and defend the band. I almost felt sorry for the guy.  After a few minutes the guys came out and started packing up their equipment.  They were their own road crew.  They started apologizing saying that the HRC weren’t going to let them do the encore.  Apparently they had had problems with the soundboard people all day.  The guys couldn’t have been nicer about it to the fans.   One of the guys mentioned they would possibly be back in February so we’ll see how that goes.

(This is an older video but it gives you some background…)

The 100 Monkeys and Jackson Rathbone work hard  to help the Spencer Bell Legacy Project and the ASCC  raise money to fight adrenal cancer. As we have reported, on April 24th, they will be playing at the Spencer Bell Legacy Concert in Dallas along with Drew and the Medicinal Pen, The Stevedores, Evro, The Kissing Club, and tenatively Tin Tin Can.
There are so many ways you can help support this cause:

• If you can attend the concert, remember that people who purchase their Spencer Bell Legacy Concert tickets by January 31, 2010 will be entered into a drawing for balcony seats (these are the best seats at the show).  You can purchase tickets here.

• If you can’t attend, there are other raffles for great items like Punk Your Chucks sneakers and a Kelly Rathbone “one time only” designed shirt signed by the band.

• They also have added a very creative contest where you create your very own “Cancer Awareness” Hat. The contest is titled “Mad Hatters for a Cure” and details can be found here.  Rumor has it this was Jackson’s idea, by the way.

• There will also be an online aution you can participate in, for interview the bands prior to the afternoon show, dinner with the bands between the shows or meet-and-greets with the bands in VIP area during the evening shows. The link for auction forum goes live February 22nd at 9:00 AM CST. All bidding closes March 5 at 5:00 PM CST. Details here.

Portrait Magazine is running a feature article on the Spencer Bell Legacy Concert and the 100 Monkeys’ role in that concert in an upcoming issue of their magazine – and they’re asking for questions from fans. Click here to leave your question for Jackson and the band.

Here’s our highly entertaining interview with the 100 Monkeys, Ben Graupner, Ben Johnson, Jackson Rathbone, Jerad Anderson, and Uncle Larry, who were in Tucson on December 30, 2009.

The first thing the guys did was grab a fake mustache and declare it the microphone. Ben Johnson gave some details about the Spencer Bell Memorial Concert in April in Dallas. Jackson and the band explain their delayed arrival in Phoenix (Time change.). They joke about how it feels to have people pretend to be them, and about them pretending to be other people. (Those Twilighters in line outside the elderly housing high-rise in LA for the NM premier, it WAS Jackson we saw!) Pretty fun stuff.

Many, many thanks to the band and their manager for talking to us and for generally being such great guys!
Thanks, also to Anna who recorded this.

I arrived at Martini Ranch, with a girlfriend of mine, around 6:15 P.M. The doors werene’t open yet, and we were about the 6th ones in line. As we were waiting, we saw two Volvo C30’s drive by (Coincidence?) and we even got a honk from the 100 Monkeys, themselves, as they drove by. The doors opened a little bit late, but not nearly as late as the afternoon performance.

When we got into the club, we still had to wait quite a bit before the opening band, Random Karma, began playing. After their set and another twenty minutes of waiting, 100 Monkeys came on stage.

They opened with a song appropriately titled “Arizona“, which we all loved. You’ll have to forgive me for not knowing all of their song titles, but I can tell you that they put on one one of the most amazing live shows I’ve ever seen. Also, each and every band member seems truly grateful and appreciative that we all took time out of lives to see them.

Several times during the show, girls from the audience would yell out “Jerad, I love you!” To which, Jackson cleverly replied, “There’s enough Jerad to go around ladies. Oops, he’s married.”

At one point during their show, they asked the audience to suggest an idea for a song. They said they always like to improvise songs. The one they chose, came from a friend of mine.  Her suggestion was “Hyper-Color shirts from the eighties.” Lo and behold, Jackson and the boys worked it out and came up with a pretty awesome song about them.

My personal favorite moment of the night came when during a unusual quiet moment, I yelled out “I love you, Jackson!” and he replied with “I love you, too.” I was totally fangirling!

They closed their show with “Wasteland 2“, and then upon request from the crowd, performed “Keep Awake.”

All in all, I had an awesome time and would definitely see 100 Monkeys again, and highly recommend seeing them if you ever get the chance.

On a side note, i just wanted to remark on something that I certainly saw a lot of last night. Obviously, we are all fans, either of Jackson, 100 Monkeys, or The Twilight Saga. I think we should all show a little more respect toward one another. We are all there for the same reasons, and some rarely get the opportunity to get this close to the cast, so I think we should stop being so catty toward one another and trying to compete, and unite in our love and respect for these people.