Post #31944 by Sneakytiki on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 12:47 PM

I hadda big tiki party at the house this week for myself and some of my friends who've had birthdays this month. There are plenty of occasions when we've hung out and partied to Buffet, Tom petty and other Country and rock groups, now I've never been much into Country but I figure, majority rules, an now I've gotten to the pt. where I appreciate some of the stuff. I've always appreciated Ol'skool country like Cash, williams etc.. but now I'll tolerate a select few newer groups. That said, and knowing my friends to be a bunch of half breed Injuns from Montana and Idaho, like myself, I held few illusions that they wouldn't try to turn my vintage hawaiian and exotica vinyl albums off and jack up the buffet on the C.D.
A few people listened and appreciated but not many. As the evening wound down ... what to my rum soaked ears did appear but Jimmy Buffet singin' about screwin and beer.
I'm a little cheesed, I've tolerated enough 80's buttrock and twangy pseudo pop country ala Shania Twain from those guys that they owe my tikiness a bit of listening. That said it was fun to get luau party supplies and break out my vintage mug collection, wood tikis, black velvet paintings etc..
Which will be permanently housed in my tiki bar once it's finished. Buffet is alright but I wish his people would give tiki a little elbow room, he's already displaced cuban, brazilian and mexican music as the party music of the Carribean, does he need to associate himself with the pacific too? As a Navy veteran, I've appreciated his sailor songs and associate some of them with good times I had in Curacao, Cartahena, Columbia, Florida and Panama. But there's no logical assoc. with my Hawaiian or Malaysian holidays.
Thats my 2 bits.
Keepin it tiki,
Sneaky..