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K Kanekila Member Safety Harbor, FL Joined: Aug 07, 2004 Posts: 185	K Kanekila Posted posted on Sat, Jul 14, 2007 9:15 AM On 2007-07-10 18:12, Tikigoob wrote: Ah Waitiki.... We tried so hard with that one... Most of the bands that played Hukilau in 2004 played there on their tiny afterthought of a stage... The first time we played there (in 2004) they were cranking Lynryd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama over the clubs sound system... The whole scene reminded me of the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail... with more surgically altered breasts and noses... The last time we played there we were asked to leave after two sets... The manager apparently thought that Terence Trent D'Arby was more appropriate for a tiki bar than The Intoxicators!... James Teitelbaum put it best in his Tiki Road Trip book... He says that he is hopeful that the squeaky clean corporate feel will dissipate after several layers of dust a few decades of being lived in... Cheers! Brian The Intoxicators!/The Disasternauts Haole Kats tried that place right when it opened that summer (2004). We had the same experience. GORGEOUS decor -- horrible music vibe and the patrons are even worse. Snot-nosed, impudent, obnoxious little rich yuppy kids with too much money, too many implants and not enough brains or manners. I had my steel out for some hapa-haole when I got there, but put it away before we started, because it was very obvious by the music over the sound system that it would have gone over like the proverbial lead balloon. By the end of the night, the place was PACKED like 50 pounds of flour in a 5 pound bag, and the load out was by far the worst I've ever experienced in 30 years of playing. Too bad, because it does have (or should I say 'had') the potential of being a really cool place. The upstairs is kind of the red version of Jetsetter lounge, too. Very nice. That bar needs to be somewhere else, too. That area of downtown O is corporate central. And JT is absolutely correct. Maybe in about 10 years or so it might turn into something. I can't blame the management though. They're making a ton-O-money, so from their vantage point, why change?

On 2007-07-10 18:12, Tikigoob wrote:
Ah Waitiki.... We tried so hard with that one... Most of the bands that played Hukilau in 2004 played there on their tiny afterthought of a stage...
The first time we played there (in 2004) they were cranking Lynryd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama over the clubs sound system... The whole scene reminded me of the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail... with more surgically altered breasts and noses...

The last time we played there we were asked to leave after two sets... The manager apparently thought that Terence Trent D'Arby was more appropriate for a tiki bar than The Intoxicators!...

James Teitelbaum put it best in his Tiki Road Trip book... He says that he is hopeful that the squeaky clean corporate feel will dissipate after several layers of dust a few decades of being lived in...

Cheers!
Brian
The Intoxicators!/The Disasternauts

Haole Kats tried that place right when it opened that summer (2004). We had the same experience. GORGEOUS decor -- horrible music vibe and the patrons are even worse. Snot-nosed, impudent, obnoxious little rich yuppy kids with too much money, too many implants and not enough brains or manners. I had my steel out for some hapa-haole when I got there, but put it away before we started, because it was very obvious by the music over the sound system that it would have gone over like the proverbial lead balloon. By the end of the night, the place was PACKED like 50 pounds of flour in a 5 pound bag, and the load out was by far the worst I've ever experienced in 30 years of playing. Too bad, because it does have (or should I say 'had') the potential of being a really cool place. The upstairs is kind of the red version of Jetsetter lounge, too. Very nice.

That bar needs to be somewhere else, too. That area of downtown O is corporate central. And JT is absolutely correct. Maybe in about 10 years or so it might turn into something. I can't blame the management though. They're making a ton-O-money, so from their vantage point, why change?

Post #318609 by Kanekila on Sat, Jul 14, 2007 9:15 AM