More Tamborine Please!

Last night I decided to have dinner at Velvet Dawn...and to my surpise, they had a live music feature! When asked what type of music it would be, the waiter responded "you know, some western some indian"...in other words, bad cover band. Already too crowded in the covered part of the restaurant, I was forced to take a table outside...in the sand...quite nice actually. Hlaf way into dinner the band arrived and started to set up. At first glance, it looked like a trio...guitar, keyboard/drum machine/bass and one other guy. And after about a half an hour set up and a few sound checks, they started. The guitar had sort of an early day Carlos Santana sound...not bad. The keyboard key was responsible for the bas and drum track...then played his keyboard. And the "other guy"...he played tamborine...only the tamborine. He was the entertainment for the night...he was, or was trying to be the center of attention. I couldn't help but think of the Saturday Night Live skit where Will Ferrell was a cow-bell player in a band that was in the recording studio. Don't worry if you haven't seen it...just imagine this tamborine player dancing all over the restaurant...very funny. On top of it all, I saw suglass man (a regular hawker at the beach) in his street clothes (white lungi and short sleeve shirt) in the restaurant enjoying the show. I've always wondered if he works that weird voice only while he's selling sunnnnnnglasssses, or if it's his real voice. I'm her to tell you it's his real voice.

Well, it's extremely hot here...as hot as I've seen it, nothing to do but blog and, if you dare, hang out at the beach. I'm obviously blogging, then off for a nap.
Cheers!