A genetic experiment went awry, Lab technicians accidentally spilled some of Maceo Parker's & Mike Bloomfield's DNA on four Alcatraz escapees as they swam to the mainland. Disguised as itinerant musicians "bees deluxe" have evaded capture by the authorities for over a year, by playing in small but venerable "boite-de-nuites" for spare change, beers, and barbecue ribs. They have vowed to go down in a hail of gunfire rather than surrender to a world of transistorized, sequenced, gps enabled, and lip-synched schmaltz.