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Joined: Oct 25, 2005
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pablus wrote:
On another positive vein - Jake Shimabukuro got on stage
with him a few times and that's nothing but cool.
And Martin Denny, as well. I know JB isn't Exotica (I tend
to call it "beach music") but I like it anyway (and Hawaiian
slack key and lap steel guitar, surf, Caribbean steel drum
band/calypso/reggae/carnival/bumatuk/etc. too), 60's-70's
"pop", soft rock, some hard rock (but little metal/acid
rock), even 50's doo-wop and rockabilly, jazz, blues, adult
contemporary, some new pop, old school rap (but not gangsta/
profane rap or hip-hop), electronica, trance and a few other
genres [just about anything but classical, opera or country
(at least modern country... pre-"Rhinestone Cowboy" CAN be
okay)] and I am a BIG fan of MOST novelty music.
Hell, if I was faced with a roomful of the uninitiated, I
would probably START with Jimmy and work my way BACK to the
Exotica we all love.
Jimmy B.
some version of "The Girl From Ipanema", probably HA&tTB
Beach Boys/Jan & Dean/etc.
MAYBE some SM&B'66/BMB
some EzL (probably HM doing "Peter Gunn")
Dick Dale
Reggae/Calypso (Marley/Belafonte)
Exotica (STARTING with "Quiet Village", of course
(then I might even throw in some Polynesian music to boot)
In other words, I'd slowly work them from what they KNOW to
what they could/should LOVE if they give it a chance. Okay,
you can all toss me into the volcano now. :wink: LIGHTEN UP!
This is SUPPOSED to be FUN! Jimmy tries to be fun "sand
sounds" for the masses. He's not hurtin' anybody except
maybe himself (steppin' on that pop top) and some shrimp.
"It's five o'clock SOMEWHERE!" A toast to anybody who is
helping me forget my job by wafting some soothing sounds
that make the wahines sway their hips with the island
breezes. (Hell, I think the monkey in the fez has had one
too many. He's ogling the parrot with the fin & eyepatch.)
Gawd, this is enough to drive a kane or wahine to drink.
(Thanks for small favors... and I AIN'T talkin' little
parasols here.)
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