Post #452075 by Tipsy McStagger on Wed, May 6, 2009 10:49 AM

On 2009-05-06 09:04, lucas vigor wrote:
I have been listening to exotica and lounge music since I was a small child (courtesy of my mom's mid-century record collection) and when stationed in Hawaii as a youth, made friends with older military guys that had seen Arthur Lyman live, and still had the records.

But, I only came to this internet community of tiki about 6 years ago. At the time, the only exotica bands that I knew were Ape, Mai kai gents, Fisherman burlesque, freaky tikis, Thurston Howlies, Project pimiento, waitiki, etc...

I have never heard of Elliot Easton's forays into exotica, except this thread, and I have been here since 2004.

So, in my opinion, they have not made the same impact on the tiki scene that other tiki bands have, and that's why I consider them the "new kids on the block".

I am sure they are going to be great, but they have the added advantage of famous names, whereas our scene is more underground. And our tiki bands have to really work for it.

I just want to see our bands here get their due respect and acknowledgment.

..what do you mean by "making an impact"?....all the bands you have mentioned have already made huge contributions to the tiki scene....it seems to me that your idea of making an impact is somehow making the scene more mainstream acessible....am i understanding you wrong?

be happy our scene is underground..it's right where it needs to be...otherwise it gets overrun and dilluted by trend followers that crap it up and abandon it just as quickly for the next big trend to come along....leaving the rest of wondering what happened...