MUSIC, GOOD COMPANY AND ONLY A FEW BIRDS

MUSIC, GOOD COMPANY AND A FEW BIRDS.

TUESDAY 6th January gave both Sarasota and the legendary BEACH BOYS a chance to impress.
We had booked tickets for an evening performance at the Van Wezel auditorium of this band of boys who made major contributions to the music world. Okay some of them are dead, but the skills are still there with some original members still performing. For me it started slowly and maybe the sound was not quite right. They have recorded many and for avid fans they would have known all the numbers. This was a non stop show with eight very talented musicians and vocalists. One of the drummers, John Cowsill, who would not have disgraced any rock band had an amazing voice. I will not single anyone else out because they were great. Bearing in mind the subjects chosen for the songs I can say that the old cliché write what you know comes straight to my mind. For example The Sloop John B and how can you get the words T Bird into a song? Well they did it and with a Grammy for I write the words and with other lyrics sang it was very evident that we were in then presence of a wordsmith.

SARASOTA tried to impress but failed. I think that I would have to have another good reason to go there before making the trip. However it did inspire to make some notes that could and should become a poem. It needs work.

This was a inconsequential birding day except for a mass of Vultures, both Black and Turkey, circling over head. White Pelicans flew along the beach with Terns. Seabirds are for our last week.