The 11th Hour - June 12-26, 2015

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L 14, ISSUE #313

• VO MAY 29 - JUNE 12, 2015

KIRK WEST

Tour mystic rock n roll preservationist

PHOTOGRAPHER THE INTERVIEW NICK STURMS

Austin, TX native turned Nashville up and comer - In concert at Crazy Bull!

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STOREFRONT LIVE MUSIC Bikes and BBQ Collide

RUBY VELLE & THE SOULPHONICS GIMME HENDRIX MCKINZIE’S MILL

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Music on the Mount Concert Series Presents Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics

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Submit your photo of the week to our facebook page, #SceneinMacon. If we print your photo, you’ll win tickets or gift certificates to local restaurants, concerts and more! This is going to get really interesting!

- This week’s winner is Bucky Helms, for this moment in Macon taken outside of a local Walgreens.

Friday, June 26 at 7:00 p.m.

Zuver Center Amphitheatre, Mount de Sales

State Bank and Mount de Sales have partnered to bring Macon a unique and fun concert experience at the school’s Zuver Center Amphitheatre. June 26 marks the end of the series and will feature one of Atlanta’s hottest bands, Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics. Opening will be Tony Barham and Tom Rule. General Admission Tickets: $10 per concert ($15 at gate); add dinner for $10 each. Guests may bring picnics, blankets, and chairs (no tables), first-come, first-served seating. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. Opening act at 7 and headliner at 8 p.m. In case of rain, Concerts will be held in McAuley Hall Gym on campus.

Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics roots are embedded in the rich sound and history of Georgia soul, beginning with the early 50s and

Saturday, June 13 Summer Ice Skating at Macon Centreplex Thru June 14. It’s hot outside, but it’s super cool here at the Macon Coliseum. Plan now to lace up some skates and take a whirl on that big ol’ ice cube we call an ice floor. It’s the hottest place to chill out in Middle Georgia and the coolest way to start your summer!

Non-skating guests are admitted free.

Summer-time concessions are available and the temps are SUPER COOL! $12 per session, including skates and tickets are sold at the door.

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Wesleyan Market Farm-to-Table Dinner Join us Saturday, June 13th, at 7pm for Wesleyan Market’s 1st Annual Farm-to-Table Dinner! Catered by Grow Restuarant and highlighting all your favorite Wesleyan Market meat and produce vendors! Tickets are $50/person and include full meal and selections of Georgia made brews and wines.

For reservations, please see ticket website or call 478-757-5233. The meal will take place on Wesleyan’s Campus, next to Foster lake on back-campus. Please call 478-757-5233 if you need directions.

Sunday, June 14 Second Sunday with The Quaildogs Presented by Bragg Jam at Coleman Hill- 6-8 p.m. Every second Sunday of the month,

60s R&B that became so well known around the world. Having performed countless gigs since 2005, and with a slew of 45rpm singles already under their belts, the band has already contributed heavily to the steadily increasing awareness of genuine rhythm and blues music that exists today. They pack clubs and festivals with their original brand of soul, all of which is written and recorded in Atlanta.

Completed in 2004, The David J. Zuver Center is the “heart” of Mount de Sales. This 650-seat gathering space is home to a state-ofthe-art stage complex, including a fully-automated lighting system.

Mount de Sales Academy makes its facilities available to private and public community groups for gatherings of all sizes. Event planners interested in utliizing the performing arts center should contact John Freeman at 478-751-3240 x124.

expect one of the best community picnics in Macon featuring live music in beautiful Washington Park. The concerts are free to attend and feature a cash bar and food available for purchase. Picnics, lawn chairs and pets are welcome. Please refrain from bringing tents and grills though. “ ‘71” Screening Presented by Macon Film Guild at Douglass Theatre ’71 (UK, drama, 100 min., rated R for strong violence, disturbing images and language throughout) starring Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) “ ‘71 takes place over a single night in the life of a young British soldier (Jack O’Connell) accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, he must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape. “Swift and exciting, with no taste for the usual war movie heroics . . . [the] film belongs on a short list of immersive, rattling, authentic fictions.” – Chicago Tribune, $6.00 General Admission. Discussion after the 4:30 screening.

Hay Day at Hay House 10-4p.m.

Celebrate Flag Day this year at Hay House!

On Flag Day June 14, 2015 Hay House will be hosting Hay Day, a biannual event that is FREE and open to the public. Come see the house decorated in red white and blue, in honor of our nations flag. Take a self guided

tour of Macon’s premier National Historic Landmark, make a craft, and enjoy some light refreshments. This event is family friendly and is appropriated for people of all ages.

Tuesday, June 16

Georgia Wilderness Society Presents A slide show featuring travel to Belorussia and Russia will be the topic at thebimonthly meeting of the Georgia Wilderness Society, Tuesday, June 16, 7:30 pm at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon GA. All are welcome and admission is free. GWS Vice President Terry Ross and Membership Chairman Susan Bush will detail their 2014 visit to Minsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The Georgia Wilderness Society is a non-profit organization of outdoor recreation enthusiasts who enjoy hiking, camping, canoeing and other wilderness experiences. We’re based in Macon, Georgia, with members from several states, and travel throughout the Southeastern USA on our trips into nature. For more information, please contact Bonnie at 478-956-6973.

Friday, June 19 Mother’s Finest CD Release Party at Cox Capitol Theatre With their virtuoso vocalist Joyce Kennedy at the epicentre of their soundquake, a tight rhythm section which leaves nothing to be desired and masses of

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MACON MUSIC CD ANNOUNCES WINNERS - Macon Music CD is a compi-

lation cd of Middle Georgia musicians. The cd features ten winning artists that will be professional recorded by Shadow Sound Studio. The record will be uploaded to streaming music services, and made available to all locally owned restaurants, bars and entertainment venues in Middle Georgia for unlimited playback. Lastly, each group or performer of the winning track will receive 25 copies of the disc to give out for promotions and the group or performer may order an unlimited number of extra discs at cost. However, the artists may not directly profit from the discs.

On September 12, Macon Music will host a promotional launch party at the Cox Capitol Theatre for all of the winning musicians to perform for the community, at no cost. The winning artists are: Floco Torres - Hip Hop and Alternative from Macon.

Kim Meeks - R&B and Jazz Macon native Matt Rogers - Country and Acoustic Macon native turned rising Nashville star. In March 2015, Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and CMT selected “I Was Raised” for a songwriting achievement award.

Ray - (formerly known as Young R) R&B and Hip Hop Tash & The Boys - Southern Rock and California Surf Rock Station 13 - Rock and Grunge from Eastman.

Savannah Alday - Country, Blue and Southern Rock, Macon.

Joshua Neal - Pop and Rock, Macon.

Lisa Danielle - 34 year old singer-songwriter from Warner Robins, Ga. Stokes & The Guilty Bystanders - Alternative and Neo Soul

ON JUNE 6TH -The Bibb County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating a shooting incident

that occurred in the 2800 block of Mercer University Drive Saturday morning. It was reported that a house near the intersection of Grosso Avenue and Mercer University was being used as an illegal “shot house.” As several people were leaving the house, two men shot in the direction of the house from an abandoned Church parking lot, located on Grosso Avenue.

26 year old Quaterris Thomas of Macon was walking in front of the house when he was struck in the back by one of the bullets. Thomas was transported to the Navicent Health by ambulance and is listed to be in stable condition. No one else was injured during this incident.

Investigators and Crime Scene Investigators are continuing to speak with possible 2 witnesses and are also processing evidence from the scene in an effort to identify those involved in this incident.

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Arts + Culture + Entertainment Jazz in the Courtyard Sunday, June 28

spirited guitar fusillades to make listeners go weak at the knees, this band has long made a name for itself in the annals of rock history.

Their latest studio recording Goody Two Shoes & The Filthy Beast was released in Scandinavia on March 25th, in Germany on March 27th and in Europe on March 30th as a digipak version (incl. bonus track and poster), jewel case version, coloured red LP version (incl. bonus track and CD in paper sleeve) and download through SPV/ Steamhammer. $20 in advance and $25 day of the show. Coxcapitoltheatre.com

miss out! $10 in advance, $15 at the door. 2321 Vineville Avenue

Friday, June 26 State Bank presents Music at the Mount Music at the Mount is an outdoor concert series featuring up and coming musicians at Mount de Sales’ Academy’s Zuver Center Amphitheater. $10 per person, $10 per dinner. **Boxed dinners are available by reservation only and must be reserved at the time of admission ticket purchase.** 851 Orange Street.

Spring Movie Series Presented by Macon-Bibb County Parks and Recreation at Central City Park - Screening “Wizard of Oz” Free 8 p.m. free movies at dark in Luther Williams Stadium in Central City Park. Bring blankets & chairs to sit on the green, or take a seat in the stands. Outside food and drink is permitted, but the concessions will be available for purchase.

“Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jr.”Presented by Macon Little Theatre thru June 21 - Step into the enchanted world of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast JR. Featuring songs from the Academy Award-winning animated feature, this stage version includes music by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. Performed by young actors ages 9 - 17 and directed by Sylvia Haynie and Laura Voss, this is the perfect family event.

Tickets are $10 for adults 18 and over and $5 for children. Tickets are available at the box office on the day of the performance. The will be no reservations. Fri and Sat at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at 2:30 p.m. 4220 Forsyth Rd. Opening Artist Reception “Blue” at Middle Georgia Art Association Gallery A judged exhibit featuring the work of Middle Georgia Artists. Opening Reception, Friday, June 19, 6-8pm. Free and open to the public.

Saturday, June 20 Freddy’s Finest & Copious Jones Presented

by The Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House The Big House Museum Presents: Freddy’s Finest and Copios Jones live in the back yard. Doors 6pm, show begins 7pm.

Back for their 2nd show at The Big House, Freddy’s Finest brings their raw talent and enthusiasm for performing to Macon. Don’t

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Saturday, June 27 Totally Radical 80’s Revival Presented by The Library Ballroom - 8:30-1:30 a.m. Like totally get the hairspray out because this is going to be a righteous night! Dance the night away in your best 80’s gear with TROOPER and LEGENDERRY BIG HAIRY MONSTER. TROOPER is sure to please with your favorite metal jams from Motley Crew, Quiet Riot, Guns & Roses and more! Then get your Flashdance on with LEGENDERRY BIG HAIRY MONSTER playing like the most rad tunes from Bon Jovi, Peter Gabriel, Duran Duran and more! It’s going to be like totally gnarly!Tickets $10, on sale now. 478-957-7728.

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Drink and Ink at The 567 Center for Renewal 7:00 p.m. Bring a bottle of your favorite wine or other beverage to sip on, bring a friend, and learn to create a 9 x 12 painting using ink and watercolor. No painting experience required.

Artist Casie Trace will guide you through the steps. $25 includes all materials for the class (except the drinks).

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Arts + Culture + Entertainment ONGOING SPECIAL EVENTS Don’t miss Yappy Hour Thursday, June 18 at the Macon Dog Park.

Farmer’s Markets Wesleyan Farmer’s Market: Twice Monthly 2nd and 4th Saturdays 9a.m. - 1 p.m. The Wesleyan Market provides the Middle Georgia community with the opportunity to buy from and speak directly with local farmers, producers, and artisans. All vendors sell local, organic products from the Macon/Middle Georgia area.

Shop local!

Mulberry Market in Tattnall Square Park Mulberry Market is a producer-only farmers’s market in historic Tattnall Square Park in Macon, Every Wednesday from 3:30-6:00. We accept EBT benefits! Join the My Market Club for exclusive benefits and support 8 local farms.

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First Saturday Village Market at Mercer Village 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Designed to attract true artists who hand craft their product or grow produce locally and need an outlet. Some of the produce is organic and identified as organic by farmers.

The market is open to local artists who produce jewelry, dog clothing, hard and soft candies, melons, cucumbers and more.

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Macon’s First Friday Every first Friday of the month, downtown Macon businesses celebrate with drink and dinner specials, live entertainment and late hours. Gallery hop from Macon Arts to the Arts Exchange and much more. 5-10 p.m. Free event sponsored by NewTown Macon.

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Yappy Hour every 3rd Thursday at the Macon Dog Park 5pm – 8pm. Macon Bibb Parks and Rec received a Knight Neighborhood Challenge Grant for Yappy Hour. It is a once a month “happy hour” at the dog park for people to gather in a social setting with their pups! Dog demonstrations, live music, and give aways. Patrons will also have the opportunity to purchase beer or wine from our vendor and be entered in to drawings for door prizes!

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Storytime at Barnes & Noble Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Singing, snacks and great children’s books are the regular features of our children’s Storytime events.

Storytime at the Library Thursdays and Saturdays at Washington Library - Little Bookworms (for kids 4 and under)

10:30am. Fridays 10:30am at Riverside Library.

Story Times consist of a variety of activities including read-aloud stories, finger plays, special guests, songs and puppets.

Kool-Aid & Canvas at the 567 Center for Renewal, an artist takes children age 6-12 stepby-step through the process of creating a fun painting with acrylic paints on a real canvas. The students learn a variety of painting techniques to inspire them in their own creative endeavors.

The workshop starts at 10 am and lasts an hour and a half. $20 includes all materials for the class and a snack. To register your child online, please give us their name and click the “Pay Now” button below. Or, you can contact Melissa Macker at (478)238-6051 or melissa@the567. org.

Outdoors Sky Over Macon Every fourth Friday 8-10 p.m. at the Museum of Arts & Sciences. Explore space, the constellations and planets visible from Central Georgia in “Sky Over Macon” in the Mark Smith Planetarium. The show starts with a general tour of the heavenly sights visible each season, then a live presentation updates the current position of the planets and special events in the sky. After “Sky Over Macon” (if the sky is clear) view the real night sky through our telescopes in the Observatory. $5 to $10. 478-477-3232 Twin Oaks Fun Farm, Forsyth This summer, pick our juicy, plump and delicious golf ball sized strawberries and picnic under our cool pavilion with strawberry cider and ice cream! Enjoy Our Playscape Playground, animal feeding and “goatel”, covered pavilion and honey hut. Open Tuesday - Saturday 9am-6pm.

Sunday 12-6pm. 678-544-0756 The Rock Ranch, Thomaston It’s time for some outdoor fun. Make a day of memories as you enjoy all The Rock Ranch attractions. The Ranch is an adventure destination like none other. From a miniature locomotive train ride, to flying through the air on amazing ziplines, to exploring a complete miniature town just for kids, The Rock Ranch attractions are like no other. Other activities include; Pedal cars, petting zoo, pony rides, cane pole fishing, John Deere Gators, rope maze, paddle boats and so much more! Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm.

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FACES OF MACON Arts + Culture + Entertainment

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ISRAEL BENN PHOTO MARYANN BATES

“To be 92 years old, and to have these things, I’m a lucky man. “

IN HIS OWN WORDS

I was studying to be an accountant when I was drafted into the Army. That dream died, of course, but others didn’t.

were strafing that bridge, and our engineers were trying to put it back together as fast as it was falling apart, with us right on top of it.

I was sent to a school to learn the Morse Code, and operated a coding device all through the war.

I was required to carry that device with me everywhere, and I did, all over.

It wasn’t so much fear as it was worry. You couldn’t be afraid. You didn’t have any other choice but to be in the situation. But you did worry about what was going to happen.

Our Company was the first company to cross the Rhine in Germany. We were following a German Tank into a railroad tunnel. Once they retreated into it, we blew part of it up so that they couldn’t come back out. That was the worst situation I can ever remember being in. The Germans had this new aircraft and our boys couldn’t keep up with them. Though that didn’t stop them from chasing them. They did all they could. But those planes

Did the war hold special significance to me because I was Jewish? You bet it did. There were many of us in the Company who were Jewish, and we spent a lot of time thinking about what was happening in Germany, and what we were fighting for.

When I came back from the War, a lot of things have changed. I started a business that I learned from my father, I opened a factory and made ladies handbags. We had several factories within five years and did really well with it.

Eventually the business died down, and I moved to Macon with my wife. Our kids were already in college by this time. And started working as a realtor for Fickling and Company. This was a job that I really enjoyed. I loved the contact with people that I had during those years.

I’m a lucky man. I can still enjoy things that most young people enjoy. I exercise daily. Though my wife passed away here at Carlyle Place, I’m romantically involved again. To be 92 years old, and to have these things, I’m a lucky man.

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Bikes pose on counterops while hams and shoulders roast in the Second Street windows. Above, Allen stands proud over his establishment. Below: Nate & Tony are ready to help with all your cycling needs.

Cycling & BBQ Collide

G e t t o k n ow D a m o n A l l e n : O w n e r o f C h e r r y S t r e e t C yc l e s a n d L e e & Ed d i e ’s .

“We got fresh hot ribs, the barbeque is hot, and the chicken will be coming off in about another 15 minutes.” Those are words you never expect to hear a bike shop owner yell to a customer walking in the door, however, that is the delicious reality in downtown Macon. Damon Allen, owner of Cherry Street Cycles and Lee & Eddie’s Barbeque, took his father’s advice and brought the best of both worlds right to the heart of downtown. “My dad always said, “Damon, people don’t buy a bike every day, but they eat every day.” “ He started out watching his parents run multiple restaurants, a few nightclubs, and even a hotel while he was growing up. One of their establishments, Lee & Eddie’s Barbeque, happens to be a hometown favorite from the 60s and 70s. Many doctors and lawyers who at one time attended Mercer University, often recall their days of late night jaunts down to his parent’s restaurant at the corner of Walnut & Broadway. “We were right down from Capricorn Records,” said Allen, “Many a night, at two in the morning, many people from Mercer, Greg Allman from the Allman Brothers Band, members of Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker Band - they all came in to eat.”

Damon’s journey to becoming a bike shop and BBQ restaurant owner is something of a tangled web. He spent most of his more formative years helping his parents run their businesses, however, he never lost his passion for bikes. He started racing with the United States Cycling Federation, worked for a few years at a bike shop, and then headed west for California where he got to work for America’s first mail order bike company. There he got certified, something that is required of most bike shops, and returned home to settle down and try something different. He opened Bike Tech on Vineville Avenue, only 12 JUNE 12 - 26, 2015

One of Damon’s parents establishments, Lee & Eddie’s Barbeque, happens to be a hometown favorite from the 60s and 70s. They are pictured above.

to find himself working in banking for several years after that. He ended up with a home in North Macon and the corporate job, yet he knew he wanted something different.

After several years in the corporate world, his wife, Christy, “gave him permission” to retire and follow his dream of owning of a bike shop downtown. They sold their home, bought an apartment on Cherry Street and opened up Cherry Street Cycles in a 300 square foot store right on Cotton Ave. While there, his clientele grew, as well as his desire to honor his family’s legacy, so he moved a few streets over to Second Street and reopened his bike shop, but this time – with his family’s barbeque.

“The food is put in the window where you can see it cooking and smell it. It is brought fresh to the table and

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cut up right in front of the customer. We don’t use microwaves and the bones are still in the meat; absolutely no processing,” said Allen.

On this particular afternoon, an older woman walks in the door and greets Damon. “I was in here yesterday,” she says, “I live all the way out in Forsyth. I had to come back. I remember when your mama and daddy sold those ribs on the other side of downtown. They were so good.”

Besides fall-off-the-bone ribs & chicken, Lee & Eddies serves homemade Brunswick stew, potato salad, and according to Allen, “Some of the best real sugar sweet tea.”

According to Allen, the bike portion of his shop is top of the line. Cherry Street Cycles carries over thirteen brands of bikes, everything from Specialized, Raleigh, Cannondale, Fugi, Bianchi, and more. “When you buy a bike from us, not only is the frame guaranteed for life, you also get two years for the parts. All of the tune ups and maintenance adjustments are free for life. You can even trade in your bike after two years for half of what you paid for it, no matter how many miles you put on it.”

Allen says most people come in two to three times before they even decide to purchase a bike. “We can get you in a bike that will last you the rest of your life, for what most people pay for a smart phone.”

“Part of our service is finding out what kind of bike you need,” said Allen, “Then we find the right size for you. We know that if you buy the wrong size, it defeats the purpose. It doesn’t matter if you spend $50 or five grand, if you are not comfortable, you are not going to ride it.”

Cherry Street Cycles is opened Monday through Saturday from 10am until 6pm, while Lee & Eddies, located inside the bike shop, and is opened 11am – 6pm.

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Meat & Bread $3.99 Meat, Bread &1 $5.79 Meat, Bread & 2 $7.69 Meat, Bread & 3 $9.49 Vegetable Plate (3) $6.19 Vegetable Plate (4) $7.99 Founded in 1959 by Inez Hill and Louise Hudson, H&H Restaurant is a Macon institution. Mama Hill and Mama Louise have kept Macon’s most diverse clientele well fed with delicious, stick-to-ya-ribs soul food since Otis Redding was just an unknown band member in Johnny Jenkins’ Pinetoppers.

On one fateful day in the mid-60’s a group a long hairs pooled their money together for two plates. Mama Louise felt sorry for them and gave them all a heaping helping. A friendship between her and The Allman Brothers Band was born. A friendship that took her on quite a ride that included a seat on the tour bus in 1972 and lifelong friendships with Gregg and the rest of the band. In 2007, Mama Hill passed on, but Mama Louise kept on keepin’ on. She calls us every other day, saying “y’all ready yet! I’m ready to go back to work.” To which we reply, “We’re almost there Mama.”

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KIRK WEST

by CANDICE DYER

~ In his 50-plus years as a photographer, Kirk West has never taken a selfie.

Some friends wish he would, though, because West is undeniably picturesque. His laugh lines run deep in a mug etched indelibly by a million late nights of mischief, excess, and good times. There is the telltale, throwback ponytail, a rainbow tapestry of fading tattoos swirling around his arms, and world of knowing in his benedictory grin. On a Mount Rushmore monument of scruffy, free-wheeling partiers who have somehow survived their lifestyles in extremis, West, who is 63, belongs up there with Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, and Gregg Allman.

He just prefers to keep his lens focused outward, aimed at others in his rock ‘n’ roll tribe, and they have seldom enjoyed a more affectionate and canny documentarian.

“The gift that photography is to me is the ability to see something, feel something, and share it with someone without saying a word,” he says, “and have that other person experience those same feelings.”

From 1989 to 2010, West was tour manager for the Allman Brothers Band, a position he likens to “maitre’d for the best party in the world.” Since coming off the road, he has been taking inventory of his archive – several decades’ worth of hundreds of negatives from moments he mostly remembers. “There’ll be shit I scan that I don’t remember, but 98 percent of the time, the whole thing comes back to me,” he says.

Some of these images can be seen at Gallery West, his chic exhibition spot which opened this spring in downtown Macon, and others will appear in Les Brers: Kirk West’s Photographic Journey with The Brothers, a mammoth coffeetable book – more than 250 pages of 350+ images – scheduled for publication this autumn.

“Kirk West is one of the best photographers I’ve had the pleasure of working

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with,” says Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the Allman Brothers and the Rolling Stones. “He has a keen eye for capturing the moment as well as the personality of his subjects. We’ve worked together in several different circumstances, and it is always a joy to see him behind his camera. I’m really pleased that he now has his own gallery in Macon where visitors can enjoy his work.”

Gallery West plans to hold revolving exhibits of the music-related photography of others, along with its standing, permanent collection of West’s work, a visual “who’s who” of seemingly everyone who has commandeered a stage and galvanized a crowd in the past half-century. There’s Bob Marley levitating, his dreadlocks standing on end like ecstatic snakes, and here is Tom Waits, wreathed in cigarette smoke and rooting around in garbage cans. “I could do the whole gallery in Tom Waits,” West says. Chuck Leavell looks doe-eyed and gentle in his portraits, while Keith Richards – labeled as “Keef ” -- is all gristle and taut sinew, and Iggy Pop glowers like some feral creature. You can see the perspiration dripping off hard-working Bruce Springsteen.

Peter Tosh is smoking a blunt, and Sting is roller skating in a Mickey Mouse shirt.

Tom Waits

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And, in one shot that captures two distinctly different artists at work, James Brown and Charlie Daniels share a stage in Nashville – “The Godfather and the Fiddler.” (A visitor suggested it be titled “Ebony and Irony.”) Most of these images are shot in black-and-white rather than color.

“I have a lot of great color work, especially in my recent travel photos, but blackand-white is my passion,” West says, “For 20 years, I saw the world in textures and shades of gray. I feel that the B&W prints create a more timeless feel of the image. It also demands that you examine or embrace the subject more intimately, rather than just be dazzled by the colors.”

All of his images consistently thrum with a sense of immediacy and in-the-moment closeness; you can hear, and feel, the music in them.

“What makes his photos stand out is that it’s not just some flat image of a guy with a guitar,” says Alan Paul, author of One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. “Kirk regards his subjects with great empathy. He has the vision to see past the surface and looks inside, into the heart and soul of his subjects, to

see the whole person. Kirk is an artist himself, so he truly sees and appreciates the artist in others.”

And, as West phrases it, he has learned through long experience to “anticipate the moment of ejaculation” – the money shot, as it were.

West grew up in the town of Nevada, Iowa, of Norwegian descent, with some Pawnee Indian and “real cowboy” in his lineage. His grandmother gave him a Brownie camera when he was 10, and he began photographing cars – drag races, hot-rods, anything that moved fast. The first music act he photographed was MC5, and his first concert shoot was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. He graduated from Iowa State in 1968 and joined Students for a Democratic Society “for the reefer and girls” – an affiliation that led him to the notorious Democratic Convention in Chicago that year.

“I wanted to be in San Francisco where the revolution was going down, but Chicago was closer and therefore more strikeable for me,” he says.

West relocated to the Windy City and began honing his chops “down in the pit” at the sweaty blues clubs, where he photographed Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon and others. He also made his way to every rock club and music venue, which he breached easily enough by bribing the gatekeepers with a joint or two; security guards evidently like to toke, too. One night, at a Chicago joint called Beaver’s, he discovered an act that quickly became his favorite.

“There was this band of hippies playing loud as shit,” he recalls, “and they looked like us. Their ‘Blackhearted Woman’ knocked me upside the head. Their music changed my life.”

West had discovered the Allman Brothers Band. He made it his mission to become not just their paparazzo but also their friend. “For a long time, they didn’t know my name, but they knew my face and what I carried in my pocket,” West says, referring to the weed that functioned as a handy V.I.P. pass.

West began doing regular photography work for Capricorn Records, and he ended up touring with the band. When the members “realized I could talk loud and get people to move faster,” he says, they offered him a job.

“His official title was road manager,” Paul says, “but he was also called the ‘tour mystic’ and the ‘tour magician.’ He could make things magically appear or disappear. The empathy that makes him a great photographer also served him well as the tour mystic.”

West was an associate producer of “Dreams,” the four-CD, 20th anniversary project of the Brothers, and he handled the visuals for several projects and album covers, including “Seven Turns,” “Shades of Two Worlds,” and “An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band.” He also shot about 75 magazine covers and three dozen LP covers for artists such as Willie Nelson, Delbert McClinton, and Son Seals.

West married his wife, Kirsten, who was an insurance executive at the time, in a rocking ceremony at one of Buddy Guy’s blues clubs in Chicago. In 1993, the Midwestern couple relocated to

Just one rock ‘n roll moment of thousands captured by West. See this photo and others at Gallery West located in downtown Macon on Third Street. © KIRK WEST

Macon to move into the Big House, the Vineville Avenue mansion that was home to The Allman Brothers Band’s original members from 1970 to 1973. They restored the place; enshrined their sprawling collection of memorabilia; and established the nonprofit Big House Foundation, which assumed ownership and management of the museum in 2007, when the Wests moved to Shirley Hills.

“Renovating the place was a massive undertaking, but it was all worth it,” he says.

He directed the critically-acclaimed Please Call Home documentary, which covered the early years of the Allman Brothers Band while living at the Big House Nowadays, West is trying to get the hang of the digital revolution, but he remains a purist at heart.

“In this day and age, the photo has gotten convoluted,” says Adam Smith, a music photographer who plans to exhibit his work at Gallery West. “Kirk knows what it means to shoot film, to hold a roll in his hand to look through a loop and choose the right negative of a shot you think about long before capturing it, hoping it comes out how you imagined it would. That is real photography. He knows what shutter speed, aperture, and shooting at ISO 3200 means. To smell the chemicals. To have those chemicals soak through his artistic hands. Kirk is old-school.”

Adds Paul, “I didn’t realize just how deep his archive went, and I don’t think even Kirk realized everything that was right under his nose. Now that I’ve seen his body of work, I think it stands on par with photographers like Jim Marshall (who took the iconic photo of Johnny Cash giving the middle-finger salute) and Baron Wolman of Rolling Stone magazine.”

Before opening his exhibition space in Macon, West set up pop-up galleries around the Beacon Theater and festivals where ABB fans gather, and the response to his photographs was heartening. “Kirk is finally really getting noticed,” says Paul, “and I predict I he will really be ‘discovered’ now by a much wider audience with his gallery and this book coming out.”

Paul has written an essay for Les Brers, along with Sam Cutler, former tour manager for The Rolling Stones and The Grateful Dead, and John Lynskey, publisher of Hittin’ the Note. Guitarist Warren Haynes has contributed the foreword.

“The book will be far out,” West says, of the project that he first started mulling in the early 1980s when he was establishing himself as one of the edgiest scrapbookers around. “Fans want to see candids, of course, and I have those from all kinds of settings -- golfing, bow-hunting, eating sushi in a restaurant. And there are some bloopers and outtakes of shots people wish I hadn’t taken! That’s what I’ve been digging out recently, and it’s blowing my mind. By the time I was snapping these shots, they acted like I wasn’t even there. So there’s no self-consciousness. There’s a depth of trust and openness and intimacy. It has been a trip, reliving those times.”

West looks around his gallery and sighs with satisfaction.

“I guess I’m just a sappy, an old guy who loves his life,” he says, “then and now.”

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SEEING RED

BY BILL KNOWLES

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Will Dems Be Able to Overlook Benghazi to Hire Hillary?

The chances of Hillary Clinton getting the Democrat nomination for President in 2016 are growing slimmer and slimmer every day as the press has suddenly done a reverse on their once fair haired child.

Now I may be wrong, believe it or not I am on occasion, but I honestly feel that even though she is still the front runner of the Left, she will continue her imploding until the Dems are themselves looking for a standard bearer to run against one of the Republican hopefuls whose numbers are growing by the minutes. At the time of writing, Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky have formally announced their runs, along with former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Tea Party darling Dr. Ben Carson and Republican retreads former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Others who are expected to announce their candidacies in the next few weeks are former Governors Rick Perry of Texas and George Pataki of New York and the lunatic from the Palmetto State Senator Lindsey Graham. (Several years ago when I managed John McCain’s campaign in Middle Georgia, Senator Graham was a surrogate for McCain at a “rally” we had at Mercer. He was gracious to come and speak to the tens who showed up, and I certainly honor the fact that he is the only member of the Senate who is active military, but when I spoke to him I kinda got that feeling of talking to someone who had to force a smile as well as force a personality. Needless to say, with all of his gaffes in speaking over the past few months, he certainly is not on my short list. I doubt he’ll lose sleep over that…just saying…) Still more candidates who feel they can grab the brass ring from the trunk of the GOP elephant are former Governors Jeb Bush of Florida and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, sitting Governors Chris Christie of New Jersey, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio and the billionaire with the bad hair day that has continued for over 65 years Donald Trump. (I still say he goes Independent…) That’s sixteen in total if they all decide to run! I feel extremely sorry for the poor souls in Iowa and New Hampshire who will and have been hosting them all.

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of Hillary would have been a foregone conclusion, however, as the Teflon that protected her husband Bill is more like a coating of butter on her the more the press dogs at her heels. Not only is there the Benghazi problem where there is now proof in emails showing that while Secretary of State, Clinton knew there was a “credible threat” against the life of the late Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens six weeks before he was killed, was asked

by Stevens himself three months prior to that for more security, and on the day of his murder wrote an email with the subject “Chris Smith” not even able to get the slain Ambassador’s name correctly less than an hour after he was confirmed dead, but there is also the fact that instead of using a secure government email, she set up her own server that may have been compromised. Add those facts to her conflicts of interest while she was Secretary of State as several contributions to the Clinton Health Access Initiative were not disclosed until the media started snooping around and according to a Los Angeles Times article of May 2, “Thanks to the Washington Post, we have learned that Bill Clinton made almost $105 million giving speeches from 2001 to 2012 — and his biggest fees came from foreign hosts while his wife was secretary of State: $1.4 million from a Nigerian media firm (for two visits to Lagos); $750,000 from the Swedish telecommunication giant Ericsson; $600,000 from Dutch financial firm Achmea; and $500,000 from Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.”

(None of this is illegal….but it certainly doesn’t look good and is great fodder for attack for the Democrat candidates like Senator Bernie Sanders who will be in debate with her during the primary season.)

All that being said, Hillary certainly is not her husband. She is not likeable like former President Clinton is nor does she have the political experience that Slick Willie has.

Yes she was a carpetbagging Senator from New York for one term and yes she was Secretary of State for the first Obama term, but what are her real accomplishments in either? Yeah, I couldn’t think of any either.

Would I prefer her over President Obama?

Absolutely… But the question is, will Democrats be able to look past the rubble of Benghazi and the dead body of Christopher Stevens to nominate her?

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NICK STURMS How did you get started playing music?

My father was in the music industry. He toured as George Straits acoustic guitar player for about 13 years. I guess I just always knew it was what I was going to do. I mean even as a baby when I would start crying my grandmother would pull my high chair up to the piano and the second I touched the keys I was happy.

Who discovered you and how did that go down?

I was discovered by Lisa and Doug Johnson. (Lisa owns Sweet Renegade Music Publishing and Doug has run almost every label in town at one point or another and he has written several hit songs including 3 wooden crosses and skin) I guess I owe a lot of it to my dad... well actually to Mr. Strait. When I was about 14 George called his band for a surprise run of dates in Canada. My dad had already committed to a tour with another band back in TX. So my dad was freaking out trying to find someone who could fill his spot for that tour, and no one was available. So I said I’d do

it... he laughed at first but I ended up getting the job. Two years later I was still touring with that band when we had a show in Nashville. I had written a couple of the songs and Lisa and Doug were in the audience. They told me to just move here so I did.

Biggest show this year... It has to be either opening for Dierks Bentley at the Ryman or opening for the Band Perry in San Diego How about the Crazy Bull. I know you’ve played there before. How is it as a venue? I love it there... Ricky Hill and I go back several years and I remember the night he said he wanted to start the crazy bull... I got to watch it grow from a piece of yellow paper to the amazing club that it is today... It would be too much for me to say that the place feels like my child but I can be proud uncle Nick What’s next for you? I am gonna be on the road meeting new

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Teddy Bear - Part Four ....“What kind of safe is it?” I reached down in my pocket and fingered the two pills I had in there.

“It’s just an old T-handle safe. Me and Wayne will go in and tie the couple up, and you can just go on the back porch and open the safe. They won’t ever see you.”

I knew those two pills weren’t going to last me long. “I’ll do it.” I told him.

A couple of days later, Wayne and Skeet found me at the pool hall and told me it was time to go.

We drove my car down to Vienna, and, as promised, I waited while they went in and tied the couple up. Sitting there, half out of it on dilaudid, my heart still managed to beat in my chest like a locomotive. I thought about my life, about my wife at home, about my kid, probably asleep in her arms. But I didn’t think about anything for too long before Wayne stuck his ugly head out the door and gave me the all clear. When I got to the back porch, I saw the big black safe. It looked like it had been there forever. The first thing I did was check the handle. I never told them this, but it wasn’t even locked. I just opened the door, grabbed the money, and yelled for them to hit the road. We left that house with almost three thousand dollars.

About halfway home - Wayne and Skeet had both been pestering me to go faster - we got pulled over for going 80-plus in a 55-mile an hour zone. They told me to run, but I knew better. You can’t outrun a radio. I pulled over and told them to keep cool. The money and the tools were in the trunk, and if we didn’t give the officer a reason not to, he’d probably let us go. The cop told me since I was going over 80 it was going to be a hundred dollar fine. He said we could pay him the fine or he could take us in and book us. I didn’t have a hundred dollars and I sure wasn’t about to open that trunk.

“I’ve got a hundred right here, sir,” Wayne piped up, winking at me.

I didn’t know it, but Wayne had taken a hundred dollar bill off that old man we robbed – took it right out of his wallet. We gave the cop the hundred, he gave us a receipt, and we hauled freight back to Macon. But luck wasn’t with us for long. When the police heard about the robbery, they made the connection. As it turns out, that hundred dollar bill Wayne used to pay the officer was the first hundred the old man had ever earned. He even had a picture of himself holding it. They matched the serial numbers and had us before we even got to spend that money in our trunk. Police work at its finest, I guess.

Since it was my car, and they had my tag number from that traffic stop, I got stuck with the charges, and I didn’t rat. I got a two year sentence out of Dooly County and I was going to have to serve that time at the roughest prison our area had ever known.

Any man who broke the law in the South knew about Reidsville Prison. Georgia’s most dangerous criminals were sent there. So many prisoners got carried out of there in a wood box that it was nicknamed the Slaughterhouse of the South. Back then, that’s where the death chamber was. Why they sent me, a first time offender, there, I’ll never know. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared. The night they marched us out of the Law Enforcement Center and onto the bus to Reidsville was the worst night of my life. My wife and kid and all the things I’d done to wrong them were on my mind. The fear and the guilt overwhelmed me in a way I can’t explain. I was short of breath, sick to my stomach; nothing felt real at all. The thought that ran through my mind

on that 90-minute ride was what have I done, what have I done - over and over again. They rode us through the prison’s farm into the back gate and told us to stand up and walk out of the bus. We marched into a quarantine dormitory where everybody goes when they first get to Reidsville. It was a large room with a bunch of bunk beds and inside it stank like sweat and piss.

We wouldn’t have our own cells for weeks. They handed me my blanket and told me where to go and I just went to my bunk and sat down on a little ole stool that was beside my bed. It wasn’t 30 minutes before I had trouble. Two guys were walking around the room and I could hear them talking to each other.

When they got near me one of them boys said, “Looks like we got some fresh meat in here tonight, we’re gonna have us a good time.”

I knew they were talking about me. I’d fought enough in my life that I wasn’t scared of them. I knew they weren’t going to get the best of me. But I also couldn’t sit around and wait on them to try something, so I got up and went downstairs. There was an inmate there, a hall runner, who would go get you things from the commissary if you needed them. I asked him if he knew an old buddy of mine who’d been to jail there, Phillip Sapp.

“Yeah man, he was just here not long ago, he’s a good friend of mine.”

“Well, he’s a friend of mine too.” I told him.

“You need anything?”

“I need a bag of coffee, a carton of cigarettes, and a knife.”

“A knife? You sure about that, man? If you’ve got trouble, I can let someone know and we can take care of it.”

“I ain’t got any trouble yet, just wanna be prepared if I run into some.”

“OK then. Stay right here, and I’ll be back.”

I waited for about 20 minutes and he returned with a carton of cigarettes, a bag of coffee, and a LOOK magazine. Inside the magazine was an eight-inch blade with a handle made of tape. I kept it wrapped up, went back to my bunk, sat down, and lit a cigarette.

When the two inmates came near me they started up again. “Woo, look at that new one, son, we gonna have us some fun when the sun goes down tonight.”

I stood up, my knife tucked in the waistband of my underclothes.

“Scuse me partner, I can’t help but overhear what y’all are saying. Y’all wouldn’t be talking about me, would you?”

“What if I am?” He turned towards me.

“I’m gonna tell you something. If you’re talking about doing something sexual to me, you should know that where I come from, fucking each other is the least of our worries. So unless you want to get fucked, don’t fuck with me.”

“Oh, you one of them bullies, huh?” he said “Naw, I ain’t no bully, but I’ll do til one gets here.”

He walked off, went over to where he slept, and reached under his mattress. When he came back, he came back with an 18-inch piece of angle iron. Two bed rails taped together. I was still standing there between two bunk beds and he came in swinging with that iron. Instead of swinging straight up and down, he swung like he was trying to hit a baseball. He missed. The iron hit the bed; it sounded like a car wreck. I pulled out that knife and stuck him as hard as I could three times in the stomach. He fell back onto the ground grasping at his gut, his hands covered in blood.

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Walking into Mt. de Sales Academy’s Zuver Center, I’m greeted with a manic blast of guitar and drums from the band Failing Acts of Society. As the name might suggest, it’s beautifully angst-y pop punk wrenched out at no less than 120 decibels.

There’s no one in the audience, but these guys are putting on a show. Legs spread wide, guitars slung low, they’re on top of a table, they’re jumping off the table, they’re quite literally bouncing off the walls. As a camp coach, I should probably be concerned, but who am I to interrupt three-chord rock and roll bliss?

Further down the hall, there’s a hip hop collective dubbed Leaders of the New School (a.k.a. Rap Room) shepherded

by Floco Torres and Vinson Muhammad that rivals the Wu Tang Clan in size and – no hyperbole here – talent. They’re trading verses over a looped 808 beat in a seemingly endless cipher. You’ve probably seen Floco or Vinson perform around town. You probably even thought they but on a pretty good show. I’m here to tell you that their true talent is as camp coaches. In that role, I’ve seen them rap for eight hours straight, five days in a row and counting. Somebody call Guinness.

Somebody get those guys a Guinness.

They deserve it.

Downstairs, there’s a jazz band with no less than eight horn players learning the intricacies of improvisation from resident sax guru Matt Miller; a gospel group is tucked into a quiet corner perfecting their harmonies in preparation of recording their track in one of the camp’s three studios; A folky girl group is in the hall, eyes closed, strumming a guitar and singing like they’re soaking up the the 1967 Laurel Canyon sunshine rather than fluorescent light against white cinder block walls. I just saw Michael Suhr from Dalmatian perform the most delightfully weird falsetto version of the Carter Family’s “Wildwood Flower.” Somehow, I think Mother Maybelle might be impressed. Everywhere, there are snare pops, screeches of guitar feedback, whale songs of basses being tuned, horns farting and

pianos tinkling. It’s enough to drive any normal person nutty, but for musicians, it’s catharsis.

Early in its second week, these campers are cycling on and off the main auditorium stage, already rehearsing for what is sure to be an impressive show on Friday, June 12. Somehow the barely controlled chaos of a group of fifty exhausted campers will put on a showcase of the songs they’ve written over two weeks – they’ll also be handling sound production, light design and stage management. It’s always an impressive feat, and it’s a live music event not to be missed.

In the eight years I’ve worked Otis Music Camp camp, I’ve seen campers mature into coaches. I’ve seen campers who came in only knowing one Zeppelin riff grow into guitar virtuosos. I’ve seen campers go to college for degrees in music business and production, attend Berklee College of Music’s summer programs and intern at BMI and SESAC thanks to the continued support of the Otis Redding Foundation.

Led by Otis Redding’s daughter Karla, they’ve done an impressive job striking the delicate balance between respecting their musical past and progressively caring for its “future condition,” as Otis Redding himself put it in his “Stay in School” radio spot.

Most importantly, these campers-turned-coaches come back to Macon each year to give back to the camp that afforded them the opportunities. They mingle with stalwarts of and newcomers to Macon’s music scene. New relationships are formed and new collaborations are born. The community continues to bloom – what started humbly as a songwriting camp with a handful of counselors and about 10 campers has grown into a twoweek journey through all aspects of the music industry for over fifty campers.

And with the announcement that the Redding Foundation is working on a yearround music academy and charter school, that community will continue to develop.

I can’t wait to see what the next eight years of performances look like.

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Trivia with TylerCounty @ Locos Everyfull Other Macon-Bibb reserves freedom (in Wednesday addition to the8:30 right to reject any and all bids) in awarding bids to consider all available factors including, but not limited to Bird price,7pm reputation, Every Wednesday @ The financial responsibility, and experience. In addition, the bidder recognizes the Questionnairey Trivia from 7-8thepmright @ Elof SomOwner to reject a bid if the bidder fails to furnish brero (Gray) by BrainBlast Trivia any required submittals on the date required by the bidding documents, or if the bid is in any way incomplete or irregular. Hence, the County may award bids to other than the lowest bidder if in the judgment of the Board of Commissioners the Nightly Poker 9PM until Bj’s interest of the County will be best served by award to another.

Monday Nights @ Sticky Fingers 7pm MBE/WBE/DBE Participation: Minority, No Buy in!

Women Owned, and other Disadvantaged Business Enterprises are encouraged to particiTuesday Wed & Thrursday @ AP’s pate in the solicitation process. Additionally, respondents are encouraged to use M/W/DBE subcontractors where possible.

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