Dead members SELL OUT at the highest level!!

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The Dead Play At Bohemian Grove!

Occidental resident Mickey Hart will join fellow Grateful Dead member Bob Weir. The musicians, along with rocker Steve Miller, are part of an effort to bring a younger vibe to the grove, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Powell, Rumsfeld, Grateful Dead members on exclusive club´s guest list

July 24, 2004

The summer retreat that Herbert Hoover called "the greatest men´s party on Earth" is under way in Monte Rio, and the guest list is as eclectic as ever.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the CEO of Bechtel Corp., former Grateful Dead bandmates and vintner Robert Mondavi are all scheduled to attend the Midsummer Encampment of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco.

So, too, is conservative author William F. Buckley Jr., liberal TV personality Chris Matthews and gay porn star Chad Savage.

Actually, Savage is working the event as a valet, according to the New York Post, which quoted another, unidentified employee despite confidentiality agreements that employees sign when they are hired.

The point is, Bohemians and the cast of hundreds who help put on this summer camp for grown men really are an "unconventional" lot, as the word is technically defined by Webster´s.

The 125th gathering of "Bohos" is no exception, according to an official guest list distributed to club members. More than 2,500 men are scheduled to go to the club´s 2,800-acre redwood grove just east of Monte Rio. This is the busiest weekend of the 17-day event, which means everybody who´s anybody should be there.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a perennial camper, arrived Thursday by private plane at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport. Fifty to 100 private jets have landed at the airport daily in the past two weeks, about average for this time of year, said Walt Smith, regional coordinator for the Federal Aviation Administration.

But as of Friday, the Secret Service hadn´t alerted airport officials to any special arrivals, despite the fact that Powell is on the guest list and scheduled to stay in Mandalay, the same camp as Kissinger and Riley Bechtel, the CEO of the engineering firm whose projects include the reconstruction of Iraq.

Mandalay is one of 119 separate camps that dot the floor and walls of the steep canyon and is so far up the fern-covered bank that it has an incline railway to haul firewood and supplies.

Mandalay is the traditional seat of power in Bohemian Grove. Its guest list this year includes George Schultz, a former secretary of state; David O´Reilly, chairman of ChevronTexaco; H.B. Atwater Jr., chief executive officer of General Mills; and Edgar Kaiser Jr., founder of the Kaiser Foundation.

In all, about 30 prominent businessmen and current and former government officials are scheduled to stay in Mandalay.

Rumsfeld and former President George Bush are members of the Hill Billies camp, although it´s unclear whether either is actually going.

Former President Gerald Ford, however, apparently won´t be in attendance, as his name does not appear on the guest list. Former President Ronald Reagan also appears on the list despite his June 5 death.

The associations of powerful men made possible by the Bohemian Club encampment have raised the ire of protesters, who charge that captains of industry and government officials discuss business in secret despite the grove´s official motto: "Weaving spiders come not here."

Of particular interest are the "Lakeside Talks," which this year include:

An untitled talk by David Gergen, commentator and former adviser to both Republican and Democratic presidents.

"The Landscape of American Politics," by David Brooks, a New York Times columnist.

"College Athletics: Serious Business or Toy Department?" by Ted Leland, Stanford University´s athletic director.

"Flight," by Chuck Yeager.

"The Long War of the 20th Century," by James Woolsey, a former CIA director.

"Bohemia," by author Herman Wouk.

"Exploring Mars and Searching for Life in the Universe," by Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

"The Coming Virtual Soldier," by Roger McCarthy, principal and engineer of Exponent Inc.

Local notables scheduled to attend include Victor Trione, son of financier and philanthropist Henry Trione; winemakers Jim Bundschu, Daniel Duckhorn and Wente brothers Eric and Phil; and car dealer Henry Hansel.

Occidental resident Mickey Hart will join fellow Grateful Dead member Bob Weir. The musicians, along with rocker Steve Miller, are part of an effort to bring a younger vibe to the grove, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Not everyone who attends is rich and famous, however.

Peter Phillips, a professor at Sonoma State University who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Grove, estimated one in five members actually fits that criterion, and the rest are either the ordinary rich or just plain ordinary.

"There´s associate members, maybe a high school teacher from Palo Alto, who plays tuba in the band," he said.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/24grove_a1a01_a1_mainempirea.html

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No Great Surprise

by Dean Sunday July 25, 2004 at 06:08 PM

Bob Weir and Mickey Hart playing for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, etc? I always knew those guys were schmucks.

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Shameless Sellouts

by former fan Tuesday July 27, 2004 at 12:17 PM

Disgusting.

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The Dead

by kentsmole Thursday July 29, 2004 at 04:46 AM

jack516@pacbell.net

There are still those who believe the ideals of the sixties somehow, some way, survived an ensuing three decades of moral and cultural bankcrupcy--that somehow the youthful, vibrant iconoclasm of those days long past continues to inhabit the aging music and souls of the Dead.

At this time, all such illusions harbored by fuzzy nostalgists can surely be put to rest. Your god has been put to rest. What remains on stage are ironic, uninspired capitalists. Time to move on.

[MuleMomma]

Perhaps it's their intention to infiltrate from within (often an effective strategy)

[bradm]

I was going to make a post about how certain attendees (who I won't name) should make sure they drink anything that might get handed to them, but I'd hate to attract any undue attention and foster ugly rumours that might taint the event...

Aloha,

Brad

[paisley]

what the hell are you talking about? if you wanted to affect how the world works would you be better off talking to the people who run it or picketing with a hundred people in front of your city hall

so what if they're playing it... I'll take their 35 plus years of public environmental and social involvement over attending this single "would have to be wierd and interesting no matter what" event as a representation of their characters

they also started off hanging out with bikers in the early years, maybe they're all coke dealers

if I was invited, I would go too... what better opportunity to possibly influence change for the better could you find? at the very least you could find out the mentality of what is going on

sorry, I see it as if you want to change how the company is run, talk to the boss... its an obvious ploy by the Bush camp to look 'cool', why shouldn't Bob and Mickey take advantage of it

{nice one BradM }

[Esau]

LOL

[elemeno]

the dead sold out long ago.. its just politics now.

and paisley you once again you couldnt have said it better.

[Velvet]

I'd be there in a second if I got the invite.

[zero]

At this time, all such illusions harbored by fuzzy nostalgists can surely be put to rest. Your god has been put to rest. What remains on stage are ironic, uninspired capitalists. Time to move on.

[bONES]

"the greatest men´s party on Earth"

[color:"purple"] featuring

gay porn star Chad Savage

go Bobby

At this time, all such illusions harbored by fuzzy nostalgists can surely be put to rest. Your god has been put to rest. What remains on stage are ironic, uninspired capitalists. Time to move on.

yeah...move on to DSO already ::

[Cosmic ChrisC]

I'd be there in a second if I got the invite.

Me too. I wonder if Hux is invited?

[Hux]

I'm actually carrying Weir's gear....I mean "gear"....

[Heady Epic]

They are sponsored by Viagra and Depends on this tour.

[Velvet]

Get yer phatty Depends! Who's got my heady vegan viagra! Ah, the lots on the Chamber Music Festival Tour...

[Cosmic ChrisC]

Ollie started a new job and gets free passes to the Chamber Music Festival. If I wasn't so busy in the next week, I'd probably check it out. There's gotta be some cool music being played, no?

[Del]

No

[ollie]

Ollie started a new job and gets free passes to the Chamber Music Festival. If I wasn't so busy in the next week, I'd probably check it out. There's gotta be some cool music being played, no?

Oh great. Now everybody's gonna want one.