For the past week, Denver talk radio hosts have been fissioning and steaming like a bunch of live lobsters tossed into the roil, about The Grizzly Rose, a local cowboy-motorcycle dance hall being ‘rented’ for ka-jillion dollars a night by a mysterious force which is present at The Democratic National Convention this week.
At the Democratic Convention Hall, in front of the curtain and high up in the rafters, …. if you crane your neck and “behind the curtain”… it looks like this:
The Grizzly Rose is a dance-hall the size of a city block, set out on the Interstate. And on many a night you’ll find tattooed, mustachioed and bulging-muscled bikers drinking and dancing there– and that just describes the women…. Ok, ok, without the mustaches. But, all the rest is true.
So, Aljazeera is apparently setting up their Democratic Convention soirees and headquarters at The Griz….and a hue and cry about the local businessman who owns The Grizzly Rose, ‘selling out,’ pandering to the ‘you-know-whos” is causing many feathers to fly over the mile-high city.
However, perhaps the oddest thing is a spokesperson for Aljazeera said they rented The Grizzly Rose in order to have a ‘secure’ place of operations.
I don’t know. They might have to change the name from Grizzly Rose to Grisly Rose …. I do ride, and as you know, there is a rule of the road, that no matter who rides what or how or with whom… there’s a brotherhood. Well, the Grizzly Rose has long attracted what are known as outlaw riders. For some, biking is a lifestyle. The bike in the bedroom and the babe in the driveway, instead of vice-versa, is not just a joke.
But legions of the bikers at The Griz are hard-tack war veterans, and quite a few others are nothing-left-to-lose outlaws of one kind or another. A good many bikers make far-right Evangelicals look like liberals.
But, I suppose the Intel arm of Aljazeera checked all that out for ‘security’s sake’ beforehand?
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pix: Wesley, “Eyes” fellow “Outsider” street blogger
pix crops: Dr. E