Report: TWISTED SISTER Wants $50,000 For Cancelled Troops Benefit Concert

December 13, 2007

Lori Basheda of The Orange County Register reports: TWISTED SISTER is not only keeping the $25,000 deposit for a cancelled benefit concert for the troops, they are demanding more money from the Newport Beach couple that organized the fundraiser.

"The group is the injured party here," TWISTED SISTER agent Steve Green said Thursday. "They're entitled the whole $50,000."

Danny Peykoff, one half of the Newport Coast couple who organized the show, said he was "shocked, surprised and upset that a band … ya know, if this were a for-profit show I would totally understand, but this was a show for the troops. They're already out here (for a House of Blues show). The injured party here is the injured soldiers coming back from Iraq. Not the rock stars. They didn't spend a dime for this. That to me is un-American."

Peykoff and his fiancée Megan Moore borrowed $100,000 to put on the concert with the intentions of paying half that to TWISTED SISTER and $40,000 to the Bren Center at UCI. The hope was that they would sell 4,500 tickets for the show, making enough to pay back the loan and generating another $100,000 for the troops.

Read more at The Orange County Register.

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