Post #197854 by Basement Kahuna on Sun, Nov 13, 2005 5:23 PM

Thanks a million, teakey, but you miss the point. We are all carriers and evolutionists simultaneously. Humu put it best. How many here can honestly say they've ever dug deeply? How many have a true passion for that knowledge of why we are here in the first place? I'm just not seeing it. Where is the true South Pacific influenced art that IS tiki? Where are the true believers? Where are the strains of Eden Abhez and Martin Denny and Robert Drasnin and Arthur Lyman and Les Baxter and Michael Magne? Where are the Leroy Schmaltz's and Barney Wests and Ed Crissmans and Eli Hedleys and Milan Guankos? Where are the Trader Vic Bergerons and Steve Cranes and Donn Beaches and Bob and Joe Thorntons and Ray Buhens and Danny Balzs? Because I suspect that many don't even know who many or any of these people are...and that's a true shame, because these people are why we are here. These people defined the style, along with many others. Tiki is not a style that knows no boundaries; elsewise there would be no tiki style.

[ Edited by: Basement Kahuna 2005-11-14 10:03 ]