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On the RocksDove Season
By Jay Gardener
Well, Sharkathon went off without a hitch. Heck, it basi-cally went off without a fish, at least for Roadkill Willie and I, LOL. We beat the water to a bloody froth for two and a half days with little to nothing to show for it. But as Tyler says, “it’s all about the fellowship.” Congrats (again) to Curtis, Skipjack, Mickey, Todd, one-legged Mike, Kerrianne, Sarah, Russell and the long list of vol-unteers that put on this success-ful tournament every year. I’ll have another piece down the road when Sharkathon organiz-ers donate all the proceeds to
some very worthy local causes. Great job folks.
Babes on BaffinBabes on Baffin also was a
smash hit. Candace and her crew did a bang-up job organiz-ing and running this very suc-cessful tournament. The Grand Slam winners were the Treble Hookers (they also won their division, Non-guided any bait). Other winning teams were The Bay Hookers, Ashore Bet, and Mickeys’ Hookers (the ladies have some interesting team names). Also placing in their divisions were Reel Hookers I, Finders Keepers, Team Ace Pri-mary Home Care, Reelin Rook-ies, Reel Screamers I, Mur-ry/Cone, and the Purdy Girls. Thanks to Garza Taxidermy, Total Oilfield, Premier Yama-
ha, and especially the original organizer of this event, John. My salute to you, sir, and to the rest of the organizers and win-ners of this great event. The live weigh-in produced 72 vigorous redfish, trout, and drum that are now swimming in the Kidfish tanks at the Hatchery waiting for the kids to show up Saturday morning. We will see you next year Columbus Day weekend for another Babes on Baffin La-dies Fishing Tournament (photo courtesy of Tyler Thorsen).
Red Tide risin’Well, the Big Story, unfortu-
nately is the Red Tide again this year. I was looking through my old articles from years past and was about to cut and paste my same old explanation of why it goes off when I remembered getting a link to an article back in June of this year. Here’s my excerpt of articles past; Step two has some to do with the drought and low inflows of fresh water. Actually that little bit of rain we had almost a month ago was probably one of the trig-gers. Just a little rain and cou-ple that with high tides in the fall. Enough to wash some nu-trients out of the sand and out of the bay, and voila, Karenia brevis (red tide) has the per-fect conditions to mass produce and take over the water column. Bad juju. Thankfully the wa-ter conditions are different in the bays than the beach, and the changes in gradient from salin-ities and temperatures is obvi-ously enough to change the con-ditions to less than optimal for the red tide, hence stopping its almost electro-chemical chain reaction of lysis and releasing of the aerosol.
Well, I was pretty close except for that last part. Researchers from Texas A&M-College Sta-tion did some experiments and got a lot closer to the answer. I was partially correct with many of the precursors howev-er I didn’t look closely enough at my theory. What has been bugging me about this most re-cent event was that we have had a north-to-south current for the
On the Rocks Continued on B2
Port A HappeningsDunk Your Junk
Saturday, Oct. 22, is the annu-al Dunk Your Junk Day in Port Aransas.
From 9am to noon, residents may bring junk for disposal at the City of Port Aransas trans-fer station at the end of Ross Av-enue.
Clean up, clear out, spruce up your yards and homes. This joint project with Keep Port Aransas Beautiful (KPAB), City of Port Aransas and Allied Waste is held twice a year. The October event is in conjunction with Make A Difference Day. The April one commemorates Earth Day.
No Commercial stuff, tires, chemicals, paint, accepted. All freon based appliances must have the gas recovered before the transfer station will ac-cept them. Also absolutely NO SHEET ROCK DRYWALL, and NO ROOFING SHINGLES will be accepted.
KPAB is a non-profit organiza-tion, whose mission is to pro-mote public interest to create a cleaner, more beautiful Port Aransas through volunteerism and education.
The organization focuses on lit-ter reduction, beautification and community improvement, to re-duce/reuse/ recycle/rebuy and provides environmental educa-tion.
Beach WalkOctober is the perfect time of
Port A Cont. on B 6
Training To Locate Cold Stunned Green Sea Turtles
By Donna J. Shaver, Ph.D. Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery National Park Service Padre Island National Seashore e-mail: [email protected]
A cold green sea turtle may need your help this winter. The weather is beautiful now, but it will start getting cold in upcom-ing weeks. Severe cold fronts affect the south Texas coast ev-ery few years and can be very harmful to green turtles. Below, I will tell you how you can aid with their rescue.
The green turtle was once so abundant in Texas that a turtle fishing and processing indus-try existed here. The popula-tion plummeted during the late-1800s due to overharvest and severe freezes. The green tur-tle has been listed as a Threat-ened Species in Texas since the late-1970s. After years of conservation, the population has increased. Since 2009, the most common sea turtle spe-cies found washed ashore on the Texas coast has been the green turtle, and record numbers have been found stranded during the last two years.
As during the 1800s, green turtles are still periodically im-pacted by “cold stunning”. Cold stunning occurs when severe cold fronts pass through the area and drastically drop water temperatures. At water temper-atures below about 50 degrees the turtles can become immo-bilized and float to the surface or wash ashore. If they are not located and protected quickly they typically succumb. Cold
stunning is the most significant source of mortality in the pop-ulation today, but we can re-duce the number of green turtles that are killed by searching for them during these cold weath-er events. The population is still depleted compared to former levels and legally protected, so we are required to undertake ac-tivities to try to aid them. And from a humanitarian standpoint, the cold stunned animals are un-able to warm themselves or pro-tect themselves against predator attacks, so people want to help them.
The magnitude of the challenge can be daunting. The potential search area is large and many turtles can be found over a pe-riod of days or weeks.
About 1,600 stranded green tur-tles were found “cold stunned” during early-February 2011, in the largest cold stunning event recorded since the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network was established in 1980. The second largest event was during January 2010, when about 450 cold stunned turtles were found. Most of cold stunned turtles are found on middle and south Tex-as bay and pass shorelines.
From 10:00 am to noon on Sat-urday December 3, we will hold a training session to inform peo-
Turtles Continued on B 6
Rescue and recovery of stranded green
turtles by Padre Island National Seashore staff and volunteers during
the February 2011 cold stunning event.
Photo by Miles Merwin
On The HookNautical Encounters
By Captain Arthur Helmsteadt and his dog Fred
One of the big-gest rea-
sons I love my work is I never know what’s coming next. It’s all the excitement of being a cop minus the criminals and possi-bility of getting shot at (most of the time). Every call is dif-ferent and presents its own set of challenges. Some situations, like moving a big sport fish, or salvaging a sunken boat can be technically challenging. Other calls, like those in foul weath-er can be physically or mental-ly taxing. My least favorite calls to run are those involving blow boats (sailboats for those less savvy).
The journey ends when you leave the dock
Let me start by saying I love sailing. Sarah and I have been sailing for a long time. While on vacation, we’re either fishing, diving, or sailing. Sometimes all three. Sailing is a skill and an art form that is easy to do but extremely hard to master. It ap-peals to each person for slight-ly different reasons. Many folks are drawn to sailing by the ro-mance of it all. Others love the economics of traveling across great distances without burn-ing expensive fossil fuels. Har-nessing the power of the wind and water to use at one’s lei-sure is an exciting idea. Here is the problem though; you’d bet-ter be a dang good power boat-er before you become a sailor. Why? Because sailboats are ba-sically complicated powerboats. When you want to turn left in a powerboat, you turn left. If you want to turn left in a sailboat you tack….or jibe, depending how the vessel is oriented to the wind. These maneuvers require careful timing and coordination by one or more members of the vessels crew. Toss in 25kt winds and rough water and things get sporty.
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I’m sure I’ll catch plenty of heat for my next statement but here goes. Many so-called sail-ors have no business being any-where near the water. Many people love the idea of owning and skippering a sailboat but don’t have a clue what they’re in for.
A call I ran yesterday was a prime example of this. I wound up pulling a gentleman in from CC bay in his 31’ Hunter sail-boat. This was the second time in the past month I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him. Both times were under similar cir-cumstances. Both times we were under a small craft adviso-ry. This basically meant CC bay was an angry place. It’s nothing for the bay to reach 5ft at 3 sec-onds when the wind starts blow-ing.
This time around, he was mov-ing from CC harbor to Bahia Marina in Ingleside. He tried to sail but it was physically too challenging for him. He tried to motor his way there but the en-gine soon overheated for an un-known reason. He dropped his anchor and payed out almost 200’ of rode but the anchor was still dragging. When I got to him, he was seasick, scared, and fearful of his vessel’s wellbeing. After a not-so-graceful ballet of sailboat and tow boat my crew Zack, was able to get aboard the Hunter and secure a towline to the bow. He slowly pulled in the anchor rode while I did my best to tow the boat in the direction of the anchor line. Finally the Hunter’s hook was stowed and we started the slow trek back to Bahia Marina. At 5.5kts it was a slow rough run. We finally delivered the estranged vessel with its owner to Bahia well af-ter dark. The inside of the boat looked a bomb exploded in it. The skipper looked like he’d been beaten.
On the Hook Cont. on B 4
Parade in Port A
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past several weeks and yet the bloom started in South Padre, and seemingly worked its way north against the prevailing current. This years’ condi-tions threw my theory partially in the gutter. I had the upwelling part correct; I was pretty sure it had to be part of the key and it is. But I had the rain/freshwater mostly wrong; it seems that despite a drought, salinities are still different between off-shore and nearshore conditions. No brainer there I suppose. What the researchers found was that of all the suites of conditions they tried, it was the difference in salinity that triggered the mass production of brevetoxin in the cells. They de-termined that as the cells move onshore and mix with fresher water regardless of currents, the cells use the brevetoxin in attempt to osmoregulate (balance salts within the cells) to the point where the entire cell is filled with brevetoxin to the point where it bursts. It then releases the brevetoxins which infiltrate the water column, causing a stain-ing of the water, and some toxins become an aero-sol that makes us cough.
Now there’s nothing we can do about it. Red tides are going to continue to happen as part of the natural cycle. All we can do is try to be ready for it. If you have allergies I’m sure you’ve been miserable lately. My buddy IronmanStan over in the Bluff reported some discomfort at his house. That aerosol is bad stuff. In addition, the dead fish also contain the toxins, don’t eat any fish and ESPECIALLY don’t let any of your dogs eat the fish; it has killed pets in the past.
Hopefully by the time this hits the newsstands, the red tide will be a thing of the past for this sea-son. If it isn’t, roll over to Packery Channel Park and check out the boardwalk and bird drip sta-tions. Scott Cross, Mary Ellen Vega, and the CB-BEP did a bang-up job out there with some new amenities, and they’ve had a chance to establish. The vegetation is doing very well and has filled in nicely. The shrub-trees next to the stations are coral beans, very cool plants. The pods should be about to burst, showing off their “coral beans.” And with fall migration in full swing, there’s like-ly to be some cool birds hanging out in the oak motte.
Shout out to Keri PantsI want to give a shout out to my buddy Kerianne
(aka “Keri Pants”) who sez I brighten her “every-other-Thursday” with my whimsical and some-times OCD recollections of what’s happening on the island. Hope you enjoyed another installment sister! See you all on the sand (hopefully the red tide is gone by now), its beach time!
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Fall Back Festival In Port AransasPelican’s Landing Restaurant has paired
with the new ‘C’ Café Bar and they have joined with Cinnamon Shore Resort to host a new and more spacious location for the 17th Annual Fall Back Festival. It will be held on the grassy knoll at Cin-namon Shore Resort by the ‘C’ Café Bar on Highway 361, one mile south of the Newport Dunes Golf Club golf-cart bridge over the highway.
Those attending will enjoy samples of numerous wines, tastes of delicious foods provided by lo-cal restaurants, and a wide variety of live music such as Pop, Western, Rock and Blues provided again this year by Mynd-fields, with leader Glynn Garcia. This year the following restaurants have of-fered to provide tasty treats: Pelican’s Landing Restaurant, Fins Restaurant & Icehouse, Castaways Seafood & Grill, Shell’s Pasta & Sea-food, Haydee on the Side Catering, Lisa Bella’s, Coffee Waves, Port A Pizzeria,
and Slice of Chicago Pizzeria. More may join their ranks before festival time.
The festival will be held between the hours of 7:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M. and admission for the evening is $30.00. Ad-vance admissions are available from the Gratitude Gift Shop at 316 N. Station Street or may be purchased at the gate the evening of the event.
Although the event was named for the time change from Daylight Savings Time
to Central Standard Time, the event planners prefer to hold it close to Halloween so all those wearing costumes can compete in the Best Cos-tumes Contest.
One-dollar tickets will be sold for a Chinese Auction where anyone can win exciting prizes (i.e.) 2-night stay in con-dos, Gift Certificates to stores and restaurants, jewelry; all donated by generous local mer-chants.
All profits from this event are donated to the Port Aransas Community Theatre.
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On their trip they ate many lobster rolls, steamed clams, Maine shrimp, crab rolls, whole live Maine lobsters. In Hampton Beach, New Hampshire they attended the Hampton Beach Seafood Festi-val (which is slated as one of the top 100 events in the U.S.). Here they ate lobster claws for $1.00 each. Their accommodations at Lake Shore Village Resort at Lake Horace, New Hampshire reminded them of “On Golden Pond”. They took the steam train to the top of Mt. Washington (where the Worst Weather in the World Occurs) and visited the Ob-servatory. From there they drove through many cov-ered bridges and visited Mystic, Connecticut where they attended an Irish Festival, a Wine Festival, and took a ferry to Long Island to go wine tasting at the Long Island wineries. They also visited Boston and New York as well as Padre Island Yacht Club friends, Kay & Bob Rutherford, Gil & Marie Shel-don, John & Lynne Niro along the way.
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How to Release a TurtleBy Devorah [email protected]
They don’t fetch. They don’t play Frisbee. They don’t curl up on your lap and
purr. But here in Port Aransas, we still love our sea turtles. It pains us to learn when they’ve been hurt and we’re grateful for the work of the Ani-mal Rehabilitation Keep that nurses them back to health.
When possible, they’re released back into the wild. A public turtle release is always a well-at-tended event. Scores of people report to the re-lease location, usually but not always near Mile Marker 35 on the beach. Cameras at the ready, onlookers line up along both sides of the path that volunteers have cleared for the turtles. ARK vol-unteers display the turtles so everyone can get a good look, then set them on the sand. Sometimes the turtles need a little nudge to get them head-ed toward the water. Everyone jokes that they’ve been getting such good treatment at the ARK, they don’t want to leave. But finally they do enter the surf and everyone cheers. Sometimes, volun-teers have ARK Tee-shirts to sell which not only make fine souvenirs but also raise a little money to support the rehabilitation efforts.
And those efforts are considerable. It takes many staff members and volunteers to feed the turtles and maintain their tanks. Some turtles are far too injured ever to be released and so are permanent ARK residents. For example, there are current-ly several sea turtles who are missing too many limbs to have a chance of survival in the ocean.
Whenever possible, though, the animals are re-turned to their native habitat. There was one such release at 10 a.m. on Labor Day. I suspected there was more to a turtle release than just trucking the
animals to the beach and tossing them onto the sand. ARK Director Tony Amos invited me to come watch what goes into a turtle release.
So at 8 a.m., I reported to the ARK headquar-ters at the University of Texas Marine Sciences Institute at Cotter Street and Channel View Drive. Tony had just gotten a call about an injured bird and headed off to see if he could take care of that before the release. Meanwhile volunteer John Ray arrived and set about following Tony’s instruc-tions to “move the ducks.” The ARK handles not only sea turtles, land turtles and tortoises, but also birds, especially aquatic birds. So there are not only turtle tanks but aviaries with injured laugh-ing gulls, pelicans, owls and even two gannets.
The release had originally been slated for the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, but because of high tides, got rescheduled for Labor Day it-self. Because of the rescheduling, some of the ex-pected volunteers weren’t available, but Ken Dal-ton and staffer Amanda Terry showed up to help.
Then I got a quick tour of the turtle operation, from the large outdoor tanks to the smaller in-door tanks. Most of the turtles had already been prepped for release but there were still a couple that needed attention. They were brought upstairs to be weighed, measured and tagged. Ken strug-gled a bit with one turtle that did not want to stay on the scale, but Ken gave the turtle a little neck rub and got him settled down. To see a short vid-eo, visit http://devorahfox.com/index.php/festi-vals/turtle release/ .
Tony took a biopsy and a DNA sample. Metal tags were put on the left rear and front flippers, which is protocol. That way when the turtles ar-
rive at distant shores, other scientists know where to look for the tags. One turtle was missing its left front flipper. That wasn’t going to keep it from being released but it did mean that the tag would have to go on the right flipper instead.
Information about the biopsy, DNA and tags is handwritten in a log and the information later transferred to computer databases. The National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Ocean-ic and Atmospheric Administration uses the infor-mation to track the animals’ movement. Turtles released here can really travel. The NOAA’s Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network has found them in Galveston, Florida and Mexico. The tur-tles were then photographed, top and bottom.
As we headed for the outdoor tanks, Guy Davis, another volunteer arrived. After everyone teased him about the scar on his knee from a love bite one of the turtles had given him, Amanda drained the outdoor tanks so the turtles could be moved to smaller lighter tubs for transport. Transferring the animals was no easy task as “Josh” weighed about 80 pounds and “Angel” weighed twice that.
While the gate was open so that the pickup that would take the turtles to the beach could back in, some pelicans saw their chance to escape. They made a break for it and headed toward the chan-nel. There was a little Keystone Kops-style action while everyone ran around herding the pelicans back to their outdoor pen but finally it was time to head to the beach and the dramatic part of the morning — releasing the turtles into the sea.
A few weeks later, smaller turtles were released into the channel near the ARK during the Wings Over Port Aransas Pirate Island event. This week-
end-long party was a fundraiser of the Parrot Heads of Port Aransas. The goal was $8,000 — enough to fund a cover for the outdoor tank that houses Barnacle Bill, a loggerhead sea turtle who is a permanent ARK resident because he’s miss-ing both front flippers. At this writing, proceeds were still being recorded, but at $9200 and count-ing, the club not only met but exceeded its goal.
Visit the ARK Web site at http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/outreach/animal-rehabilitation-keep.html to find out how to donate or become a volun-teer or take a virtual tour of the Marine Sciences Institute, including the ARK. I’ll see you there. —http://devorahfox.com
Unfortunately, the whole scenario could have been avoided if the owner had looked at the lo-cal weather report from NOAA. He would have known that entire week was a bad time to move his vessel to its new berth. A prudent skipper knows his/her limits and brings extra crew when weather or circumstances dictate. Sailing is much like a chess game. It takes a great deal of planning and a bit of finesse to execute properly.
For some, boating is about getting to that special fishing spot. For others it’s about wakeboards, in-ner tubes, and parties. For others like myself, it’s about being on the water. I’d be happy floating on a raft made of milk jugs with no paddle….as long as it was on saltwater (and I had an ample supply of refreshments!)
Keep the water on the outside!
P.S. The red tide stinks! Literally
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amendment does not provide authority for in-creasing ad valorem tax rates.”
Next week I will outline some more of the pro-posed constitutional amendments on this Novem-ber’s ballot. If you have questions regarding any of the proposed constitutional amendments men-tioned in this article, please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or District Office. As always, my of-fices are available at any time to assist with ques-tions, concerns or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; District Office, 361-949-4603).
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November Ballot Includes Constitutional Amendments
On November 8, voting Texans across the state will have the opportunity to support or oppose the constitutional amendments passed by the 82nd Texas Legislature. Constitutional amendments are changes to the Texas Constitution which may be proposed by the legislature in the form of a joint resolution. The joint resolution must pass both the Texas House and the Texas Senate by two-thirds. Once the joint resolution passes the legislature, it must be ap-proved by a majority of voters to become a part of our state constitution.
This year’s November constitutional ballot in-cludes ten new propositions. Below is a break-down of four of those propositions as provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
• Proposition 1 - Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 14 would amend the constitution to provide a sur-viving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran with an exemption from ad valorem taxa-tion of all or part of the market value of the sur-viving spouse’s homestead residence. In order to receive the exemption, the surviving spouse must remain unmarried, in the residence when the qual-ifying veteran passed away and the property must remain the homestead residence. The language on the ballot will read as follows, “The constitu-tional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxa-tion on all or part of the market value of the resi-dence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran.”
• Proposition 2 - SJR 4 seeks to amend the con-stitution to authorize the Texas Water Develop-ment Board to issue additional general obligation bonds on a continuing basis. The Water Develop-ment Board would be restricted to the total bonds outstanding not exceeding $6 billion dollars. The proposition will appear as follows, “The consti-tutional amendment providing for the issuance of additional general obligation bonds by the Texas Water Development Board in an amount not to ex-ceed $6 billion at anytime outstanding.”
• Proposition 3 - SJR 50 would amend the con-stitution to authorize the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board or its successors to issue and sell general obligation bonds on a continuing ba-sis. The bonds would be used for the purpose of financing educational loans for students; howev-er these bonds would be subject to certain con-stitutional restrictions and would include restric-tions on the maximum amount of bonds outstand-ing at any one time. The language will appear as follows, “The constitutional amendment provid-ing for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the State of Texas to finance educational loans to students.”
• Proposition 4 - House Joint Resolution 63 amends the constitution to authorize the legisla-ture to permit a county to issue bonds or notes to finance development or redevelopment of an unproductive, underdeveloped, or blighted area within the county. In addition, the county would
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year to participate in our free monthly guided beach walk. Meet under the purple flag near Hor-ace Caldwell Pier at the end of Beach Street.
Friday, Oct. 28, at 9am, Shirley Fischer will lead a stroll between Horace Caldwell Pier and the jet-ty. She will inform and entertain and make it an enjoyable experience for toddlers to elderly. All ages are welcome.
With the beautiful fall weather and the ocean breeze, it is guaranteed to be a great time to see what’s washed up on the beach.
This walk is held the fourth Friday of each month courtesy of the Port A Parks and Recreation De-partment.
Port A Sand Pumpkin PatchGather up friends, family and neighbors and cel-
ebrate Halloween on the beach.
Once again, the Port Aransas Parks and Recre-ation Department will create a wonderland for ev-eryone to show off their creativity.
From 11am to 2pm, the public is encouraged to come play in our pumpkin patch. Create your own pumpkin or just carve a face, your choice.
Expert sculptors and volunteers will provide help as needed.
The city will dump sand to form vines where pumpkin heads will be created. No skill required, everyone is welcome to give it a shot, and it is a judgment-free event just for fun.
Bring non-perishable goods for donation to the Helping Hands Food Pantry.
Don’t forget your sunscreen, and you are wel-come to bring any kind of utensils used to carve.
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ple how they can aid with locating green turtles if cold stunning occurs this winter. The training will be held in the Briscoe King Pavilion on North Padre Island. It will be open to people who want to volunteer with the Padre Island National Sea-shore Sea Turtle Program, as well as to the gen-eral public. You do not need to sign up in advance to attend. If you have questions about this training or our volunteer program, you can contact one of our staff members by calling 361-949-8173, ext. 266 or sending us an e-mail at [email protected]. We will announce this training date and post a reminder about it on our Face-book page entitled Padre Island NS Division of Sea Turtle Science & ecovery. In March 2012, we will hold another training session to help prepare volunteers and the public to aid with our sea tur-tle nest detection and protection efforts starting in April 2012. We will provide details about the nesting training after we complete the cold stun-ning training in December.
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It’s been another busy fortnight of music here on the Coastal Bend. The South Texas Music Festi-val and Chili Cook-off at Sharkeys was a rousing success raising $4300 for the Jody McCormick Scholarship Fund. It was a treat to see Todd Dorn and the Sea Drifters (San Antonio, TX) back in town. It was also a treat to see Carlton Pride and Mighty Zion (San Marcos, TX) back on the is-land. His over the top reggae show at the Tarpon Ice House was a hoot. The Ice House has another really great show on the horizon; Walt Wilkins and the Mistiqueros (Austin, TX) will perform on Nov. 4th. Also, Carol Elliott will play on No-vember 4th from 6-8 (and every first Friday of the month until the Winter Texans arrive) at the Ice House. Another outstanding show I caught re-cently was Uncle Lucius (Austin, TX) at the Back Porch. This band impresses more and more each time I see them. That B-3/keyboard player is incredible. Also, the Gaff Pirate Reggae Fest last weekend was super cool. I’m glad to see Gaff owner, Kip Shannon, stepping his live music pro-gram up a notch. The outside area in back of the Gaff is a really comfortable setting to watch mu-sic. There are two big festivals this weekend in Corpus. Ziegfest 2011 will feature Robert Earl King, Jack Ingram, Casey Donahew and Reck-less Kelly at Whataburger Field on Saturday and the 51st Annual Texas Jazz Fest will be going on in Heritage Park, featuring 56 jazz groups on three stages over the three day weekend. But right now time’s a wasting…let’s roll!
Dave “Bottlehead” MillerDave “Bottlehead” Miller (Rockport, TX), Ken
Barnett (Flour Bluff, TX), Cody Angel (Plain-view, TX) and L. Leon Sands (Port Aransas, TX) played Hook’s Bar-B-Q on October 8th. This was an amazing show with magic written all over it. Miller’s health continues to haunt him, but you wouldn’t know it when he’s on stage. Local wun-derkind, Cody Angel, had left the nest a couple of months ago to attend college in the Great High Plains. We all missed him and this homecoming was his first. I got to the gig early (for a change) and caught their first set before Sands arrived. The trio of Miller, Angel and Barnett was smoking, for sure, but I decided to go over to the Back Porch during the break and catch some of The Drakes, billed as “Austin’s Hottest Bar Band”. I got bored
with that after about four songs (a cover band is a cover band is a cover band) and made my way back to Hooks. I’m glad I did.
When I got back, Sands was plugged in and had upped the ante…Angel was raising the bet. Watching these two trade licks and try to “one up” each other for the next hour was a sight to behold. Throw in Miller’s seasoned voice and uncanny ability to direct a band, and the result made my jaw drop. Song after song, the energy only grew…ev-ery guitar ride got hotter. At the end, Miller called for a “big rock and roll finish” but soon regretted that call. After about fifteen minutes of non-stop shredding between Sands and Angel, and sensing that this might never stop, Miller bellowed, “Get off the stage”, only half joking. Man, this show
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was one that will stay with me for a long time. I’ll say it again; L. Leon Sands is super good and the chemistry at this show was undeniable. I’ll give it to Hook’s owner, Clyde Smith, for knowing the good stuff when it comes to music and making his place a growing live music destination in Port A. Keep it up Clyde!
TransistordaleTransistordale (San Antonio, TX) played the
Gaff on October 14th. I’ve grown quite fond of these boys. They’ve adopted Port A as their sec-ond home and the locals have more than em-
braced them. (I know from experience that the bartenders at the Salty Dog, in particular, love to see them com-ing after a gig.) Greg “Smiles” Lane (gui-tar and vocals), Spen-ce Thompson (bass and vocals) and B.J. Shuler (drums and vo-cals) have a special en-ergy going for them. The have a totally orig-inal sound that bounces between funk, country and even reggae. Their
songs are true bad boy poetry, with lyrics that tell of wild trips to Reynosa, fat girls swim-ming in the water, wondering who’s
Jesse Dayton Jesse Dayton (Austin, TX) played the Back
Porch on October 15th. I left the Chuck Pyle show during the encore and hurried over to the Porch just as Dayton was finishing his second set…which always seems to be my timing. Talk about two different worlds. Dayton had obviously worked the SRO crowd into a frenzy before I got there and I had to shift gears fast. No problem. As soon as the band re-took the stage, a bevy of single girls rushed the front and started wiggling and my toe started tapping. Dayton is the embodi-ment of George Jones (my all time hero of he-roes) and has the definitive rockabilly persona. He has a standing gig at the storied dancehall, The Broken Spoke, in Austin and you just can’t sit still while listening to his music. His stage plot is the perfect country configuration; a telecaster, pedal steel, stand-up bass and drums.
One thing I found admirable about Jesse Dayton was that he didn’t stand up there and bask in his own glory. He was sincerely appreciative of the audience and of his band and included them in ev-ery discourse. Jesse also paid homage to two more of my heroes, Buddy Holly and Clifford Antone, during his set and totally won my respect. I’m only sorry he didn’t play his song about duct tape, Arkansas Chrome. Dayton is an outlaw rockabil-ly zombie killer with a heart. I say let’s get a bus load up for a trip to the Spoke…anyone game?
DO NOT MISS LISTShelley King/ Dust Devils
This is the time of year that I start to worry about “what am I going to write about all winter?” My beloved Back Porch will close for the season on October 30th. Massive separation anxiety is sure to ensue. The good news is this weekend will be the bomb. It’s the 9th Annual Coastal Bender at the Porch and the music will be on fire. Tonight, (Fri-day, October 21st) songbird Shelley King (Aus-tin, TX) will take the stage with monster guitar-ist Michael O’Connor on sideman duties. King
has a rootsy blend of R&B, blues, country, folk, bluegrass and Louisiana swamp that showcases her “blow your hair back” powerful voice. With four magnificent CD’s under belt and a tow sack full of original songs, she stands strong with any-one, anywhere.
Tomorrow night (Saturday, October 22nd), the Cosmic Dust Devils (Austin, TX) will grace us with another edition of their yearly sabbatical known as the Coastal Bender. This is a fan ap-preciation weekend where scores of Central Tex-as fans (known as Storm Chasers) trek to Port A for a weekend of music with their favorite band and a guaranteed hangover on Sunday morning. The term “fan” is appropriate here because these maniacs are truly fanatical about this band. And for good reason, Kevin Higgins and Barbara Malteze put on one hell of a show. You’ve heard me tell you many times about the talents of these two, and given it’s a built in party with the Storm Chasers, the Shelley King and Dirt Devil shows this weekend definitely top my DO NOT MISS LIST.
And that’s the truth!
under the covers the next morning and party girls who are busting out of every seam. They have a tongue and groove three part harmony with tight instru-mentation that spreads the glory evenly amongst them. I think each one of them is a stand-out with no big ego and a healthy mission of working as a “band.” It’s obvious they know the woodshed well. Trust me, if you haven’t caught this act yet, you need to make it a prior-ity the next time they hit town.
Chuck Pyle Chuck Pyle (Boulder, CO) played
the Third Coast Theater on October 15th. There were several things that im-pressed me about this artist. The first thing was his guitar playing. Obvious-ly influenced by Chet Atkins, Pyle’s technique was amazing. He used a drop D tuning and maximized all ten fingers, keeping a bass run and chord pattern going while cleanly filling in the blanks on melody. He made it look effortless and I didn’t hear a clam all night. The next thing that impressed me was his songwriting. His songs covered a wide array of topics that vividly illustrate a sensitive man and a cowboy poet. He sang of everything from the social pres-sures of choosing his daily wardrobe, to his affinity for cowboys, horses, moun-tains and birds (a chickadee to be ex-act). I hadn’t realized that he penned the famous Jerry Jeff Walker bar room anthem, Cadillac Cowboy. Every song was a keeper. And finally, I was impressed by his storytelling. Billed as the Zen Cowboy, Pyle has a soothing inner peace about him and a keen eye for observation. His stories were both funny and thoughtful. All and all, his show was quite engaging and his music was delightful and lively. Chuck Pyle is one class act and the Third Coast was the perfect listening room for this show.
Jesse Dayton played the Back Porch on October 15th. Photo by Miles Merwin
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