Earliest exposure to Exotica. That I can remember. - Tiki Music

T tikiyaki Tiki Socialite The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA Joined: May 18, 2004 Posts: 2725	T tikiyaki Posted posted on Sat, Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM Hmmm....I really need to clear the cobwebs on this....but here goes. I was born in 63' - TIKI was in full swing, but I was obviously not in any state to comprehend it yet. I have a sister nine years older than me and I used to listen to her 45's...one of which was "wipe out". This is in, like 1967/68 . I've said in here before that Surf is really just the punk rock version of Exotica (in my opinion anyway) . Also, My mom, like everyone else in the 60's had "Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and other delights", and, naturally, I had a experience similar to Sven's with "Primitiva", only I was too young to know what it really was...I still consider the girl on that cover to be my first childhood crush :) Oh, I LOVED the music too. Fast forward to the mid 90's. I'm starting to revisit surf rock, and all things great from the 60's. . I'm in a record store in Long Island. I hear a really amazing, slow, ethereal version of the theme from "Hawaii-Five 0" playing. I ask the clerk who it is (he's wearing a Hawaiian shirt by the way - yea - surf rock geek) and he says "The Blue Hawaiians", a band I'd heard about many times, having been living in LA for the past 2 years. I always meant to see them, but hadn't yet. I don't know if I bought the CD that day of not, but once I did own it, I listened to it everyday for, I don't know....5 years ? (I still listen to it about once a week) The song "Last days of Summer" hit me the most, and probably what led me to "exotica", but also, some people I knew from the powerpop scene in LA in the mid-90's (remember that?) told me about Esquivel, and I got some of that as well. It was those two musical entities that influenced my earliest exotica recordings "Mai Tais on the Moon" and "Exotique", both on the "StereoExotique" CD. After being a devout TIKI NEWS reader since about 96' , and then a TIKI Centralite later, I started discovering Lyman,Denny, and now a host of other obscure Exotica. Now, there's no turning back. [ Edited by: tikiyaki 2007-12-29 09:30 ]

Hmmm....I really need to clear the cobwebs on this....but here goes.

I was born in 63' - TIKI was in full swing, but I was obviously not in any state to comprehend it yet.

I have a sister nine years older than me and I used to listen to her 45's...one of which was "wipe out". This is in, like 1967/68 . I've said in here before that Surf is really just the punk rock version of Exotica (in my opinion anyway) . Also, My mom, like everyone else in the 60's had "Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and other delights", and, naturally, I had a experience similar to Sven's with "Primitiva", only I was too young to know what it really was...I still consider the girl on that cover to be my first childhood crush :) Oh, I LOVED the music too.

Fast forward to the mid 90's. I'm starting to revisit surf rock, and all things great from the 60's. . I'm in a record store in Long Island. I hear a really amazing, slow, ethereal version of the theme from "Hawaii-Five 0" playing. I ask the clerk who it is (he's wearing a Hawaiian shirt by the way - yea - surf rock geek) and he says "The Blue Hawaiians", a band I'd heard about many times, having been living in LA for the past 2 years. I always meant to see them, but hadn't yet.

I don't know if I bought the CD that day of not, but once I did own it, I listened to it everyday for, I don't know....5 years ? (I still listen to it about once a week) The song "Last days of Summer" hit me the most, and probably what led me to "exotica", but also, some people I knew from the powerpop scene in LA in the mid-90's (remember that?) told me about Esquivel, and I got some of that as well. It was those two musical entities that influenced my earliest exotica recordings "Mai Tais on the Moon" and "Exotique", both on the "StereoExotique" CD.

After being a devout TIKI NEWS reader since about 96' , and then a TIKI Centralite later, I started discovering Lyman,Denny, and now a host of other obscure Exotica.

Now, there's no turning back.

[ Edited by: tikiyaki 2007-12-29 09:30 ]

Post #351871 by tikiyaki on Sat, Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM