Post #118222 by TheTikiKing on Tue, Oct 5, 2004 6:07 PM

Hello everyone-

I'm new here, but I gotta tell you- you guys have an awesome set-up here!

I have been a professional (working) musician for the past 21 years. Though I left my band in August '03 to move to Hawai'i and pursue other interests. My last band, The Strangers, was formed in 1989, and is still going strong in South Coast area of Orange County California. Over the years I had the good fortune to tour as the opening act for some pretty cool bands: Eddie Money, Jeff Healy, among others. It was a great experience. Some of my musical peers (friends) back home include some cool exotica bands. One of my favorites is the Blue Hawaiians -check them out. The Strangers were primarily a cover band but we wrote music as well and it was good enough to get us the touring gigs with national acts.

Now that I'm away from that scene, I really want to dive into writing and exploring the exotica genre. Before I left, I hooked up with a couple horn players I know, the keyboard player from our band, our guitar player and Lee Rocker from the Stray Cats. We were planning some cool stuff until our schedules tore us in different directions.

Now that I'm comfortable here on the North Shore of O'ahu, I'm really looking forward to doing this(although with local musicians). When I get a CD burned I'll let you good people know about it so you can critique it for me.

Great to meet you all-

Aloha

TTK