Post #332409 by tikiyaki on Thu, Sep 13, 2007 11:52 PM

On 2007-09-13 17:49, lucas vigor wrote:
It will be an awesome night indeed, and I am looking forward to it! I have been chomping at the bit to see the Tikiyaki orchestra, and now I will get the chance.

How often does a pure exotica band come around, and with so many professional musicians in it? I mean, you got Squid on drums-that's an "E" ticket just by itself. I hope that a lot of tiki central people in socal make it to this show, because as Paris Hilton says, "that's hot!"

People have to support exotica, and especially well done exotica-this is not just some surf/garage/jam band with a few tikis in thier artwork-this is the real deal. (apologies to Bigtikidude-I know you are a surf king!) Not that I don't like surf music, I actually do-but I prefer exotica and Polynesian bands, because I think there are enough surf rock bands out there. This is something different, and unique, and I am wishing them all the success they deserve. Tikiyaki has quite obviously worked very hard on this project, and I think we are all going to be very pleased with the result! Gambatte!!

As for the menehunes, we play pure hawaiian swing from the old days-nothing fancy-I think it will be a really good complimentary sound-

Now if I can just discover who is posting on talkbass in the rockabilly section-slap bass, is that you?

I'm pretty sure the guy posting on Talkbass is our guy. We were discussing his string setup at rehearsal last week. Flatwound E and A, gut d and g.

He's on here too under the name "slapbass".

I'm looking forward to playing with the menehunes, and many mahalos for the many kind words you've said about the T.O. I quoted you on a poster I did for record stores...hope you don't mind :)

I hope the live version lives up to your expectations. It'll be our first performance, so go easy on us :o

Anyway, this event is gonna be great !