Daily Kos

Speaking of upside-down world: YearlyKos, meet "Hedgestock"

by ajsnow

Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 06:40:31 AM PDT

Passed on without comment -- well, except to say that if a year ago, you walked up to me and predicted that this weekend there'd be bankers and financiers having a Grateful Dead fest on the lawn of a mansion north of England while progressive activists met for policy debates, political strategery, poker, cigars and tequila shots in Las Vegas ... well, I'd have probably backed slowly away and called to get you a ride to the nearest rest home.

From the NYT this morning, I give you: "I Saw a Deadhead Sticker on a Bentley."

Hope everyone's having fun in LV this weekend.  Wish I could be there and meet all the fine folks whose posts and comments I've read, nodded along with, argued with, shuddered in disbelief at ...

I kid you not:

The Who, who played at Woodstock, headlined Hedgestock, and the band's guitarist, Pete Townshend, now 61 years old, did, in fact, do his trademark windmill guitar moves.

"Ringo Starr's son was the drummer, and he was fantastic," Jeremy Polturak, with Solent Capital, said.

There was little evidence that hedge fund attendees were ingesting anything stronger than Moët & Chandon champagne, which had taken out a booth.

The watch maker Breitling and the luxury car manufacturer Bentley shared a display.


Tags: YearlyKos 2006 (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

Permalink | 3 comments

  •  So for some of them (2+ / 0-)

    Recommended by:
    mytribe, kraant

    the lord did in fact buy them a Mercedes-Benz.  Man, how things have changed.

    by gmb on Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 06:46:48 AM PDT

  •  Maybe we can get.,,, (1+ / 0-)

    Recommended by:
    kraant

    what's left of the Who to play Yearlykos II. It wouldn't be Woodstock but what the hell.

    CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. A. Bierce

    by irate on Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 06:53:47 AM PDT

  •  Why don't you call up Pearl Jam or... (1+ / 0-)

    Recommended by:
    kraant

    any of the other bands that did the Move On shows in '04? Neil Young, the Dixie Chicks? I'm sure if you ask Willie Nelson he'll come and play. Dude never turns down a gig.

    This hedge fund thing is kind of sickening...seems like a bunch of rich people showing how rich they are by rolling around in a mud pit of champagne and bentleys.

    by keggers on Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 06:56:00 AM PDT

Permalink | 3 comments