Post #415562 by Brother Jack Musick on Sun, Oct 26, 2008 9:02 PM

I am so looking forward to this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me and my brother and a couple friends will be going to the show.

It's crazy to think, but I've been listening to the Retro Cocktail Hour since like 1996! No s**t!

I don't think that there has ever really been a tiki "event" in Lawrence. I saw Combustible Edison play at the Granada in Lawrence in 1996 or 1997. They opened the show with "Quiet Village".

There is a pseudo tiki bar close to the venue, The Sandbar. The decor is nice, but they don't really have any 'real' tiki drinks. And they have 'the best of Don Ho' CD on the jukebox. That's about it! Heck, I would give them a Martin Denny CD if I thought that they would actually put it in the jukebox!

There have been a ton of really great shows at Liberty Hall over the years. I've seen Sonic Youth, Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood, Morphine, and Prototype 909 play there to name just a few highlights. It's a really great venue!!!

I guess that I should bring my own tiki mugs for my peeps, right? I'll be drinking out of a skull, I guess, because it will be Dias De Los Muertos.

And is it gonna be OK if I record the show? I promise not to post it on you tube or anything. I just see it as my duty as an amateur historian. I have a few audio recordings of people that are not around anymore: Maynard Ferguson at Washburn University, and a couple of Frank Mantooth, for example.

Anyway, I'm counting down the days! Long live the Retro Cocktail Hour!
And, Darrell Brogdon for president!!!

SO SAY WE ALL!!!

ALOHA!!!
-Jack