The (New & Improved) HYENA KITCHEN

  Hi gang, welcome to “old” Music Friday.   Why? Well, because today and tomorrow mark an important day in Rock and Roll History.   On March 12 th and 13 th , the Johnny Winter and Elvin Bishop bands played a show at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in New York.   The newspaper ad read: Extra added appearance - Allman Brothers. A relatively new band - two albums as Hourglass and two as The Allman Brothers Band - they were still being described as “an integrated band from the Deep South.”   The band was supporting their second album Idlewild South and new single “Midnight Rider” - not the version you know, Greg Allman would hit #19 in 1974 with his solo cover - sadly, the original would garner little radio attention.   These ground-breaking blues/“Southern Rock” pioneers recorded their four sets that weekend, that come July, would be released as The Allman Brothers at Filmore East - the best live album ever made - until of course, it was re-released as complete, then reissued again to incl

  “Alterations” by James Patrick Lockett                 The pages were brittle, as were the words - it took her breath away. She ran her fingertips across the last page, as if the ink held some final magic that she’d missed.   She closed the book and cradled it gently on her lap - it was an old thing, and she’d been taught to treat it with respect.   Sara could smell the past that the pages held.   How could it be possible? Was there really a time when people were hated just because of the color of their skin?   It was unimaginable to her.   Things had changed so much in just two generations, as soon as D’alting became offered to those who could afford it, race was no longer an issue. Nor was gender, or age. The medical alternation of DNA - first called “Clipping”- had seen to that.   It was supposed to make things better.             Sara hated that word - better .   Nothing was better , only different. Altered. So very different from the worlds that existed in her books.