Post #383069 by tiki mick on Wed, May 28, 2008 3:46 PM

Can you imagine Tikiyaki orchestra performing at Kona's??

I think that would be frickin awesome! The full band, in their natural habitat!

But as I said, the place needs to be packed to keep the ball rolling!

So, if anyone here on this board sees a post that announces the Tikiyaki orchestra performing there live, run! Don't walk! fill the joint up!!

We need to support our local exotica bands fully. Or else suffer from more top-forty blues and classic rock bands, filled with all the guys with skullets that still work at Guitar Center!!

The way I personally feel is that I have had it up to HERE with classic rock and top forty-I am not knocking it completely, it's just that for the past 43 years it's all I have been able to see locally. Gone were the days when really cool bands graced the stages of places like Shelley's manne hole or the Balboa pavillion (stan kenton, etc)

Just think how lucky we are to finally have decent exotica bands playing live, just like they did back in the golden years of tiki.

Jim Tikiyaki should be given major kudos for putting in the time and effort to MAKE it happen, and let me tell you...I have seen "exotica" bands out there who are just ex-punkers or ex-surfer rockers, (I feel the flames coming) they know a few chords and wear a fez...and think that makes it "exotica". It doesn;t. Tradionally, the original exotica musicians were fully skilled and trained jazz musicians, moonlighting with exotica and actually having fun as opposed to being so serious all the time. But skilled they were. Not just garage musicians. Tikiyaki orchestra fits the bill in spades. All of them are highly trained, and highly skilled. And it comforts me to know that this kind of dedication and experience is rewarded by having this music being played over the CD system at Sams, or as in-flight music on an airline.

I am going to make sure that I am there, because I don't want to wish one day that I was!