Street Freak by Dillian Jared

Author:Dillian, Jared [Jared, Dillian,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-12T23:00:00+00:00

I am eating lunch, a charcoal chicken panini from across the street at Majestic. It costs $9 but is worth it, in a guilty sort of way. It is as heavy as lead. I noticed recently that my pants were starting to get tight.

Frank Segal walks up to the desk. “Ya wanna go see the Allman Brothahs?”

D.C. and I look at each other. We look at Frank. “The Allman Brothers?”

“Yeah.”

“Isn’t that, like, classic rock?”

He laughs, adjusts his toothpick, and pulls up his pants. “Whaddyou—you don’t know the Allman Brothahs?”

“No, not really.”

“They’re a southern jam band.” His eyes are moving from side to side, and he is blinking. “You think you know something about music? You know how many guitars I own? I got this collection of guitars. Yeah.”

“I mean, no, it’s not really my thing.”

“Fuck that shit. It’s for a customer. The Whitworth guys. We got backstage passes. At Jones Beach.”

I look at D.C. again. He looks at me. Whitworth is by far our biggest customer, paying us, the ETF desk, millions of dollars in commissions. This is our way of saying thanks.

I despised analog music. I hated anything with a guitar. Concerts, for me, were watching someone twiddle knobs on a mixer. Frank Segal did not collect mixers. He collected guitars. So off we went to see some banged-up old guys who by this point had blown all their cash on pot and acid and were touring second-rate venues to try to make it back.

I was the opposite of thrilled.

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