Night Hawk ~ Sunday, 6 January 2019

Frank, Frank (also known as A Little Too Frank, Frank) rankled legions of fans with harsh, unforgiving, aggressive lyrics based on Southern History. Nothing stood in the way of Southern White Lynch Mob, keeping musical tastes on the edge of hip-hop, funk, and 70s punk, though Frank hailed from Harlem, ridiculous in style, some thought they were Fishbone, although comparisons with other local bands neither inflated, nor deflated their fan base, kinship and crossover occurred with certain bands. After their first album, "Nice Day for a Picnic!" left critics all agog at the band poking fun, slyly referencing white supremacist groups overtly hateful speech rhetoric, the band gained klan based active members to follow their road shows. No one knew what to do about the men in hoods on the edge of the bar, listening intently, weirdly, to an all-black musical group, but Frank noticed something real strange in how these men were chill, a little, too chill when he sang, "Pick a *i**er." Something the fans picked up on, too, but nobody asked the men in white hoods to leave or not to stand literally on the perimeter, to add insult to injury in the centuries long, tumultuous struggle for global, civil rights. To Frank, they paid to hear the band, like everyone listening to the show did, so, no big deal, right? Exactly at that point, a huge cross burned outside. Taken in some contexts, all publicity's good, order and chaos seek each other to balance old blood feuds, but the men in hoods carried shotguns. Frank nearly freaked out, how did security let right-wing hate-filled klansmen enter clubs with weapons, answers he didn't want to hear, responsible, not just to his bandmates but to endangered fans, killjoys weren't in the plans, but Frank, Frank knew better. Frank bantered on the mic, walked around on the stage, realized he stood near the main power supply and decided to pull the switch, everything went nearly black, except light from the huge cross outside. Kiss the day goodbye, Frank knew his band would not last.