Post #140132 by tiki mick on Tue, Feb 8, 2005 3:47 PM

Please don't flame me for this:

I don't believe Carribean can exist with Tiki, but there are other styles like Safari, lounge, space pop and Voodoo that can.

IMHO, tiki is a recreation of 40, 50,60's american style, and very little of that was carribean (Except for the rum, of course)

I agree with Sven: Buffetization helped ruin Tiki, for sure. (and so did the british rock invasion).

There is one great photo (actually, there are 100's of great photos) of a group of partiers in the BOT that pretty much sums up my whole tiki experience. The geek with the blonde hair and glasses reaching down to grab a puu-puu, while in mid-conversation. That image is iconic, in my opinion.

There are no long haired buffet/frat boys/hippies (apologies McDougall!!no insult intended)in the picture, or anywhere in the book, BUT, there are many pictures of women with cool beehives!

Musically though, it can get a little confusing, as a lot of Arthur Lyman and Martin Denny had obvious latin rythems.

and then there is bossa nova music!