Gregg Allman 'Back To Macon, GA' !!

Hi again World's !!

It's a Friday afternoon, here in England's South-West corner & it's pretty wet & horrid outside !! Mind you - according to the BBC weather guys - the rain was meant to get to us, yesterday... sooooo - as usual, they got that wrong !! Nevermind.....

I've been away, from my ol' computer keyboard, for a couple of days...... sorry about that. The last time, that I posted anything, was on Monday - I've not been tardy, I've just haven't felt much like putting finger to keys, over the past few days. I hope I can be forgiven ?!

First tho' - before boring you all to death.... 'My Family'

As I type, B is here, upstairs, doing a bit of housework. I had great plans, on helping her - by doing the dishes, in the kitchen, but... that all fell apart !! I had to be up early, to get down the Dr's for 8am. That & feeling a bit under the weather - well, I'll just say, I fell asleep & B did everything herself !! Bless her !!

As for the other members. ME was here, for a quick visit, on Tuesday afternoon - I think she has been working pretty much everyday since then. I'm not really sure.... it was great to see her again tho'. I've not seen M, for a few days - with him working hard & your's truly, being going from here to there & back again, it's been a hectic kind of week. To explain !!

On Wednesday, I had to go into the Taunton hospital, to meet up with the Consultant - the guy who has done most of the various surgeries on my back, over the last 2+ years. For once, he was pretty much on time !!

Anyhoo - the bottom line is this. I have to have the metalwork, that he put in, back in May 2013, removed.

I think we've all agreed, that the main reason, that I've been getting all of these infections, over the last 2 & a bit years.... well, it's down to the metal, causing this, that & the other, to get infected - sooooo, it has to come out. He actually said, that as things stand, it's possible, one day - well, that an infection is likely to kill me off.......It's Ok.... we all have to die, at some point, me - I'm going a little sooner than others - but, it's not the best news I wanted... !!

Nevermind, the metalwork is coming out & that's going to happen some time, in the next few months. First of all, I have to get back to being a little healthier, than I am, at the moment & then we can get things over & done with.

It seems only a short while ago, when the Consultant said "I can fix this". That was December 2012.... I was sooooo happy, after all these years, of having my back, the way it was, it felt really brilliant, to hear those words !! Nevermind - we gave it a go & now it's all coming out !! "Such Is Life" as Mr Kelly so famously said.....

Right - that was Wednesday....

Yesterday, I had to go back to the hospital, to have another MRI !! I sent an e-mail, to a great guy, yesterday - that I might be glowing in the dark, after all the scans I've had, this year alone !! I was going to check, last night... however, I had other things on my mind !! Maybe I'll look tonight..... time will tell...

Sooooo - that's how things stand, at the moment...... 10 surgeries down & number 11 in the pipeline. I'm not going to complain - mainly as there are so many people worse off than me. "Life Is Good" & I really do mean that - besides.... there is always next year !!

Moving onto 'The Music In My Life'.....

As I type, I'm half watching & more than listening to a fantastic Gregg Allman DVD 'Back To Macon, GA' - it came this morning it's really, really great !! It was recorded on January 14th 2014 & the music tracks are:

  1) Statesboro Blues
  2) I'm No Angel
  3) Queen Of Hearts
  4) I Can't Be Satisfied
  5) These Days
  6) Ain't Wastin' Time No More
  7) Brightest Smile In Town
  8) Hot 'Lanta
  9) I've Found A Love
10) Don't Keep Me Wondering
11) Before The Bullets Fly
12) Melissa
13) Midnight Rider
14) Love Like Kerosene
15) Whipping Post
16) One Way Out

Plus as bonus tracks

1) Stormy Monday
2) Floating Bridge

There are a few "Interview tracks" - which I can skip over.... it's well, well good !! Go out & buy yourself a copy, you will not be wasting your money & that's a fact !!

Staying with music - my friend, who I mentioned above... well, he sent me 2 albums yesterday !! One of them is Gregg Allman's '74' bootleg.... a double Lp set - which I've not seen for a goodly number of years.  I know a bit of history, about this album.... how it went from America, landed up in Bermuda & eventually into the hands of my friend !!

He also sent me a boot, by The Yardbirds' - from a radio broadcast in 1965. I know nothing about this album, but - I will enjoy playing it, alongside the GA Lp's !! I'm glad I bought a new stylus, for my record deck, a little while back.... I would never have enjoyed the Lp's that I have & the ones I've bought more recently !!

I've also - if the music wasn't enough - been lucky & found 2 books, in the cheap sections of the hospital & Dr's bring & buy book stores. One, in particular, is all about the American West.... so, that's right up my alley, given how much I love reading about history !! Lots of photo's & background stories..... especially a bit about the 'Mountain Men'. Well good......

The 2nd book is an old 'encyclopedia' type thing, from 1973..... it's so far out of date, as to be funny !! I liked the bit, about the fact, that by the 1990's we would be sending people to Mars, on a regular basis & we would have whole colonies on the Moon !! As I say, really dated !! Oh well - a bit like me really !!

Right - I must go....

I thank you all, for logging in & reading my words...... as always, it's good to know you are all out there, in which ever Universe you want to live in !! Must go, so I thank you again... until next time..

Bye Bye