A Pain in the A$$ets

A Pain in the A$$ets, the dynamic trio of Phil Feigin, Candy Kreitlow, and Scott Bennett, provide an ideal way to break the monotony of a compliance session, conference banquet, or any other venue where financial professionals, regulators and investors gather.  Terms of service are, of course, negotiable.

Political satire through music is an entertaining way to bring out both the humor and the poignancy in historic events that impact our lives. Based on well-known songs from the past several decades, the numbers artfully performed by A Pain in the A$$ets are usually introduced with a brief background describing the financial scandals on which they are based with unique insight. Their songs are more than just funny lyrics, Phil, Candy, and Scott pride themselves on mimicking the original lyrics and duplicating the vocals, delivering many levels of fun and absurdity to their performances. Once you hear these entertaining parodies, you’ll never listen to the original songs the same way!

Congress, the SEC, state “blue sky” regulators, the SROs, investors, lawyers, brokerage firms, hedge funds, advisers, prosecutors and scammers alike—you name it, no one is safe from the recovering regulator’s satirical attack, fueled by his perspectives as both a highly placed securities regulator and a private securities law practitioner. The economic breakdown, Bernie Madoff and the new administration have supplied more material than he knows what to do with.

Phil’s satirical lyrics have been quoted in Barron’s, Business Week, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. His songs have even echoed down the halls of Congress. An incoming NASAA president paid a courtesy visit to the Chairman of a House Subcommittee considering securities legislation. The Chairman stormed into the meeting with the lyrics to one of Phil’s numbers (“Blue Sky Blues”), slammed the lyrics on the table and angrily demanded “What’s the meaning of this?!!”

In addition to Phil’s performances at NASAA conferences all over country over the years, as a solo, duet or full trio, the group’s performed to conference audiences in the Denver area, up in Keystone, in San Diego, Tucson and San Francisco