Post #414991 by tiki mick on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 7:55 AM

On 2008-10-22 23:51, TIKI-RAY wrote:
I saw them the last time they were there and it was great . I recomend the shrimp gumbo but order 2 . One just gets you started . This is so much more intimate of a show than when I saw them play the Staples center .

That was a great gig, Tiki Ray!

KISS was so cool about letting us open for them. Backstage, Gene Simmons and I were trading bass playing tips, and he taught me a bit about platform shoes and firebreathing. It's funny, Paul Stanley told us basically the same thing that Big Tiki Dude did, mainly, that our songs are painfully boring and that we need to liven things up a bit.

Hence, the firebreathing and blood splurting lessons I got from Gene. Though I happen to think that the Hawaiian songs we play are some of the best classics in Hawaiian music from the golden age of tiki, I can see how some people might disagree. But it's going to be hard to talk Pat into playing surf rock, you know? He is kind of set in his ways.