Post #463994 by tiki mick on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 11:22 AM

Jeff, don't let ANY of these people define what you are doing as not being tiki....who are they, anyway? The arbiters of all things tiki?

I don't particularly like surf music. But I support you 100% and appreciate your support of so many bands on this forum. You come to our band's gigs, and if not for people like you and a few other gracious, friendly, people on this forum, we would have no one coming to see us from here.

This Friday, our band will play again to a fully packed house of people that have nothing to do with tiki central. And that's fine with me. We will be playing vintage hapa haole music, that probably is not tiki enough for people...!! We won't have mugs, or artwork...just solid playing. The older people in the crowd who will be watching us will be the exact people who lived during the real tiki era. I leave it to them to define what tiki is or isn't, since they were there and most of us were mere babes during that time.

So surf rock is not tiki? So what? Low brow art is? Seems like people want to exclude whatever they don't personallylike.

I will say it again: I appreciate anything done well, and with skill and talent. That includes surf rock, low brow art, whatever....if something is good then it is good, and this convention you posted about features some of the very best surf bands around. It's a veritable whose who of surf music!