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Voters For Choice Benefit-Pearl Jam, Neil Young, L7 January 14, 1995

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  Pearl Jam, Neil Young, L7- Voters for Choice benefit Constitution Hall, Washington DC 1/14/1995   https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pearl-jam/1995/dar-constitution-hall-washington-dc-13d65d99.html   https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-crazy-horse/1995/dar-constitution-hall-washington-dc-5bd35f20.html     The minute my friends and I heard about this show we knew we had to go.  During this timeframe, Pearl Jam was in an ongoing battle against service fees that ticketmaster added on to all tickets and was booking shows independent of them.  So it was not like we could go to the local mall and sleep outside to get tickets.  It was announced that they were doing a drawing where if you sent in a postcard and it was selected you would have the opportunity to purchase 2 tickets.  My friends and I sent in hundreds of postcards and you guessed it NONE of the cards were selected.  We were gutted but we went to Tower Records (RIP) and picked up an issue of the City Paper (also RIP) and wh